HL HD v HL Source

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Half Life with High Definition pack installed looks better (to me) than
Half Life: Source.

Are there any advantages to playing HL Source that I'm missing?

(NB: This is about Half Life, *NOT* HL 2 question.)

Cheers
--
Neale Hind
Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children

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"GFree" <neon@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Neale D. Hind wrote:
>> Half Life with High Definition pack installed looks better (to me) than
>> Half Life: Source.
>>
>> Are there any advantages to playing HL Source that I'm missing?
>>
>> (NB: This is about Half Life, *NOT* HL 2 question.)
>>
>> Cheers
>
> Physics (limited; corpses can bounce from explosions, but crates cannot be
> manipulated like HL2), all textures have an extra gain added to them
> making them artifically more detailed without any real artistic work being
> done to improve them, lighting technology is better, shadows, better
> texture filtering, etc, etc.
>
> If you're looking at raw polygon counts, then of course HL with the HD
> pack will look better, but of course: graphics is definately not all about
> polycounts these days...

Is there anyway to get the HD pack working with source?