Every now and then Rad looks out of his window, looks at the sky, and thinks: That sky looks like its from the beytah!

@DuneJumper

2 ай бұрын

If only all our lives could be so dark and griddy

@thedoomguy66

2 ай бұрын

Lol same

@sarminder4357

2 ай бұрын

If you live in the UK it's dark and giddy every day

@ScratchedDVDhelp

2 ай бұрын

all half life fans do that

@ballcap89

2 ай бұрын

totally doesnt sound like family guy cutaway gag

Radhaz milking that dark and gritty beta content - I love it.

1:23 As a developer I instantly recognized this one! shadertest is the basis of the default fallback cubemap for reflective/specular materials in basically every Source game. It's found in "materials/ENGINE/defaultcubemap.vtf" Kinda surreal seeing it as an actual skybox.

That wasteland02 skybox is used in almost every HL:Source outdoors level, like in the surface tension cliff

@mr_casualuser

2 ай бұрын

this is why i hate half-life source. not because the bugs, not because the chrome textures, not because of the nuclear explosion in residue processing conveyor belts, the skyboxes just ruin the aesthetic

@pr3ssstart

8 күн бұрын

The only time they didnt use it outdoors, was the level where you launch the rocket, it used sky_01_09

when the sky is a very darkish blue-turqouise leaning color 😍

@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708

2 ай бұрын

Goated color fr

@lenship2

2 ай бұрын

dark and gritty color 💅💔💔

@slackingstacker

2 ай бұрын

Rainy morning at 6 AM

Dark and griddy circle-jerking aside, i love the beta skyboxes fr

@tetonis2452

2 ай бұрын

griddy?

@yourfatboy5359

2 ай бұрын

@@tetonis2452 a mockery of gritty

@Miss.Circleeeeeeeeee

Ай бұрын

Dark and Gritty 😎

3:53 Sky_c17_03 actually leaked with the Repo dump, but from what I observed, all the textures are completely transparent.

Skyboxes always gives me a nostalgia feeling, i love it.

@fantastikboom1094

2 ай бұрын

Especially the orange one used in the end of canals. +The lighting Valvo picked

@mr_casualuser

2 ай бұрын

@@fantastikboom1094 going to the cool sad place and relaxing is always fun

sky_quarry01 goes so insanely hard. we need more pretty sunrises or sunsets in Half Life

FUN FACT!!!!!!! most of beta maps has fog digits in map properties, in c17_01_17 it looks great and fits yellow-ish sky_urb01 Airex has 1 too So yeah, in new megapatch Vitoy will add almost all of them

@kkarhiiv95

2 ай бұрын

When will megapatch 5 release you think?

@tdfhd

2 ай бұрын

oh Hai

Time to wait another month for a RadHaz stream.... truly dark times we live in. This must be what Mitchell Shephard felt like at the end of HDTF.

@RadiationHazardYT

2 ай бұрын

Truly 😔😔

9:59 why that made me laugh lol

@15braincellsremaining

2 ай бұрын

Because it was funny Like your videos

@NoVIcE_Source

2 ай бұрын

@@15braincellsremaining lol

@SofaKing2001

2 ай бұрын

Mod done?

@NoVIcE_Source

2 ай бұрын

@@SofaKing2001 nah

Kingpin has similar skyboxes. Thanks to Victor Antonov again.

The moment has come, Skybox Hazard.

KZread's compression really did a number on the darker skyboxes with all the banding and artifacts what a shame, but this was a really interesting video, it's crazy how much info we can infer from just skyboxes and how desperate the HL2 community is for any crumb of HL2 history or trivia that we can even spend all day looking at skyboxes lol I love it.

Something about old skyboxes just emit nostalgia, especially mario64 ones, old Roblox ones, and these ones.

@DreamVikings

2 ай бұрын

My obsession with skyboxes started with Doom 1 when I was 6.

Hunt down the Skyboxman. On a serious note tho Skyboxes are very good at setting tones for the maps. Not just in HL2 but in many third party mods people add custom skyboxes to the maps and some can be really beautiful while some can just be some shades of grey.

Skyboxes and the sky in general has always been such a fascination for me, glad to see someone else shares that. Ambience and atmosphere are very important. Great video! 05_older and Spire does feel reminiscent of GoldSource. Minor nitpick of mine but compression or a lack of colour depth really detracts from my enjoyment of skyboxes to be honest. 10/10 texturing on the showcase map.

Man yells at clouds due to them not being dark gwitty enough

dark and gritty clouds

Everyone talks how beta was dark and gritty, but everyone forgets sky_white :(

Rad Haz beta video with nostalgic music always makes my day so much better. I love these beta skyboxes, they are so atmospheric. Also, Walter White jumpscare!

That's pretty good to give some love to the skyboxes, very dark and gritty from Rad Haz

I like the part when you sayed"this is a skybox" bravo haz!!

Thanks for that fix of "Dark n' Gritty" Rad, really needed it. ❤

I love the Air Exchange, Borealis, and c17_05_older ones! Where I live I often think about how pretty it would be if I turned some of the horizons into skyboxes. Might have to do it one day!

The skyboxes look sick and they are so atmospheric and fit their respective areas perfectly.

It’s crazy how Valve even in 2001, made skyboxes like these even exist cause they just look amazing .w.

I love this channel so much his videos are absolute source engine comfort food

These skyboxes reminds me that I need put my gas mask on to see them.

Radhaz, just wanted to let you know I'm going at a comics fair all dressed up in a Soviet hazard suit while listening full volume to your music

@RadiationHazardYT

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely based

I think I should include that you forgot to mention the recently leaked "wastelands001" texture, which was used sparingly in the WC mappack but prevalent in a number of concept arts (like that well-known depiction of the Wastelands with the Airex in the background.)

I was hoping youd eventually cover these theyre so gorgeous

1:35 wait hl2 has bloom????

@hazzmati

2 ай бұрын

bruh

Dude I forgot about this channel for 2 months. Good to discover a lot of videos at once. Nice to hear you and your music again. Nice vid btw, but would be better if you also changed sun angle and spread.

boxes in the sky :DDDDDDDDD

the dark and gritty sky 😍

love the content mr radiation, keep it up

Apparently, one guy Chief Smokey managed to recreate some of the missing beta skyboxes, sky_urb01 included. A package with those can be downloaded from HL2 Beta forums (Chief Smokey's lost skyboxes remakes). Sky_urb01 looks very climatic and reminds me of "city" skybox from GoldSrc, with similiar brownish palette of colors.

@boyzback1618

2 ай бұрын

Decapitated Large Cameraman head. I know it is actually the cinematic camera from gmod, or the debug camera from hl2

Man, you're going crazy! Lay off the nostalgia dust, for THE NAME OF SCIE

It is interesting to see how much a level changes just from changing the skybox.

I'm surprised by how very dark and gritty those clouds are (All jokes aside I love skyboxes. I'm always staring at them in HL2 and ME)

When the skyboxes start to feel like friends, you know it's time to quit.

I live in eastern europe and we see beta skyboxes everyday

another day, another dark and gritty video

Say what you want but Half life or source skyboxes are nostalgic and best feelings it feels like I'm back to 1990, 2000's and Early 2010's

6:51 HE SAID THE LINE!!!

A good skybox can do alot for a game's atmosphere. From Doom to Duke Nukem 3D to Quake 2 and beyond.

I love the sky boxes because they look oddly beautiful

Skyboxes always makes me go yes, they add so much but barely anybody notice them when playing

You know Rad run out of idea went you see this.

Most gark and dritty skyboxes. Love your videos❤

I wish test map was different. Using E3_Coast would be better. Water would reflect the skybox's light and depict all the way to the horizon. Perhaps an idea for a later remake of the video?

@RadiationHazardYT

2 ай бұрын

Good idea. Maybe when I get back to this topic, down the line.

happy bday man

HALF LIFE 2 BETA VIDEO LESSSS GOOO

did you know that the entirety of our universe was inspired by the half life 2 beta?

I think I've seen the shadertest skybox texture in Portal 2, like when after restarting the game, you test play one of your custom levels without rebuilding it, and textures with cubemaps revert to a default cubemap that uses the shadertest skybox texture.

Cant wait for the all beta water textures vid!

I wanna see teh Betah skys Because they're so dark and oscure

Man I love skyboxes, I'd fuck a skybox if I had the chance. Anyways, if anything, skyboxes are the goat for setting up the mood within a map, and I love to see those skyboxes.

The Air Exchange skybox looks intimidating, it's damn good

These skyboxes are ON FIRE!

i love your videos dude

Time to update the VCC Skybox page

Another W for us Skyboxers

lmao i love that thumbnail

Holy shit there is now way is that my favorite g mod KZreadr radiation hazard.

I love your beta content

HE IS BACK WITH THE VIDEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

You should take a look at some of Black Mesa's pre-2012/trailer skyboxes, the surface tension day one is pretty interesting. It's only featured in the early trailer.

Finally! So exited

the old crusty low quality textures but the skyboxes are beautiful

happy birthday!

most of these skyboxes i first encountered in no more room in hell and safe to say they r amazing :3

One thing that was never finished in HL2 Beta were the randomly generated rocks/tuft grasses, just like the 2D grass you would get on displacements. All of them are either errors or missing textures, I make maps for GMod so I was really disappointed when I learned that. I pitched a fix for it on Github in hopes that it may be fixed someday, rip Edit: The dev on GMod completely fixed everything wrong with it!

HELL YES. I LOVE SKYBOXES

If I had a nickel for every time my fav Half Life KZreadr posted a video about Valve game's skyboxes, I'd have two nickels...which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice!

this really grittied my dark

Ngl I did spend a week getting all the beta skys I could and mod them into Gmod. Seeing which one would work better with beta textures for hl2

every time it's cloudly, it reminds me of teh beytah

Classic thumbnail, well done

Outcast 1999 probably has the best skyboxes ever. Each continent has their own which blew you away.

I love the beta skyboxes

6 pictures with attitude ! (Probably made in Terragen v0.9.43)

@ninaler8497

2 ай бұрын

Terragen ?!

@MasterChiefJohn-117

2 ай бұрын

@@ninaler8497 Terragen v0.9.43 is an old version of an 3D environment rendering software use by Valve since Half-Life 1 (1998) to CS:S and even in CS:GO, it become obsolete with the introduction of 3D Skyboxes in Source.

@ninaler8497

2 ай бұрын

@@MasterChiefJohn-117 Link ?

Hey Radiation Hazard I always wondered how you create your music, and how your soo darn good at it. Sorry if this is annoying question.

This is so dark and griddy that i started being a true citizen

Raz I’m going to make my own HL2 beta just so you can keep making more HL2 Beta videos, and I am not joking.

Skyboxes are badass

sky_palace01 is the one I love the most. It has a weird mixture of "apocalyptic" and "early evening summertime storm" vibes. Very nostalgic to me for some reason.

Radiation Hazard, a highly respected Half-Life expert, found solace on a serene beach as he gazed up at the expansive sky. His mind wandered back to his favorite game, reminiscing about the various skyboxes throughout its different stages. He fondly remembered the beta version's unique skybox, which brought a sense of nostalgia. The current Half-Life skybox, with its breathtaking visuals, brought him joy. However, he couldn't help but feel a tinge of sadness when reflecting on the indoor skyboxes, wishing they could capture the same beauty as their outdoor counterparts.

@RadiationHazardYT

2 ай бұрын

😔

finally more dark and griddy

Scatole del cielo della beta di Emività 2

The thumbnail hilariously sounds like a newspaper headline

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

It has come! The promised video! I think it is about time I became a benefactor.

Dark and gritty😊

Damn, what are the chances of you stumbling upon skyboxes topic, great vid and thanks for the shout out 😎

@RadiationHazardYT

2 ай бұрын

Hey! Thanks for posting that list of skyboxes! It helped a lot in making this video!

@YaTebyaNashel

2 ай бұрын

​@@RadiationHazardYT glad it was useful for you, Butou made me finish this topic a long time ago, so I probably should say thanks to him he-he

The hl2 beta made me enjoy the sky more

This is a really good video. but I think the map you used with all the building structures kind of obstructs the actual view of the skybox.

Another W Rad Upload!