Noted: Anon doesn't like black lines, or evidence of fakebump.

*recolors lines to bright orange, and fuscia, gives shaders to Sphinxbio, arriba!* : )

I started with overly dark, and I have gradually dodged to shape the metal and outlines, so yeah, I want it dirty in the cracks. I do want to eventually get to the end result similar to "The Lost Spartan" (HC3?) which has the appearance of hard (and chipped) resin over metal, like hard candy. The thing I don't like about the lost spartan, is that it has too much color/illumination dodge and light direction effects. I want more of the appearance to be like a hard candy - almost like it's anodized paint over a shaped aircraft aluminum alloy.

I don't want the rubber to look like an inner-tube, nor do I want it chalky, nor do I like the shoulders at the moment (too high-lighted, too biased) but do like the abdomen, I want it to appear like a bit of baby oil was spread over a dirty/rust dusted rubber so it has a bit of shine, but not so much reflection as the appearance of shine, hence the bias-slash fake bump is more of an illumination than bump, its bright white bias against an off-white matte.

The dark lines you see, are not from the illumination/normal bitmap, it is from the darkened diffuse, and for now is intentional, so it could be inaccurately said that I am doing it in-spite of what others like. I'm not doing it just to piss you off or ignore your feedback, I am doing it because I am an ooze of individuality, the essence of custom, which means some of my stuff is crap.

This to me has the MOST "plastic" look armor, but I love the rubber: http://images.wikia.com/halo/images/f/f1/Halo3MC.jpg look at right hip, abdomen and knee, it has a rust/dirty look, now take some baby oil, put on my armor, light some incense, put on some Marvin Gaye, call Mrs. Chief and schwing all night long (or at least 3 minutes)!

Does anyone have a good mirror/visor pattern tiff (for the diffuse and multi) of the visor? (not a hud visor) if I move it a tiny bit, I am screwed, off center, too tall, too wide, I do want to make it custom, and I do not care to stick to halo tradition for mark v vs mark vi helmet/visor pattern (I have re-drawn that thing 90 friggin times, then the bias gets stretched/fubarred)

Yes, I want the entire thing to ooze with shine slight transparency of color, like a jolly rancher that fell out of your mouth and into the dirt *3 second rule!* (Candy looks like plastic too, so I am close on the metal) right now I am working on the visor/mirror bias.

Well actually, now that I think about it, I doubt that we'll still be using metals in the future, however many years Halo is set after this year. Plastics are easier to mold into shapes, and if we ever manage to make a Super-Plastic, it would be ideal for spartan armour, as long as it's stronger than metal.

So, plastic-looking armour's kinda realistic, in a sense.

The spartans looks very great now. And for the visor, try to open your spartans diffuse, and draw on the visor for make it realistic but it's difficult . I tryed to make this a long time ago on the h1 cyborg, and it look good, but if you do that you need to remake the diffuse and the multi lol

Your reply is pathetic and makes no point. "dirt" in the cracks does not mean black lines...

???

Yeah, I dont like those shaders at all IMO. Maybe the visor is good tho

MIKU!!!

Lol, already done this, takes forever to fix animations though...

Btw, what model importer script did you use? The 3ds max one or one for another program?


EDIT: is that the dreamy theater version?
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Feb 4, 2012 at 11:25 PM

updated visor

Miku in Halo. I approve.

Imported into Blender using a plugin, then reexported for 3ds Max.
Yea its the DT version.

Its a re rig, since there were too many bones.

Working on the hair and skirt and other stuff you dont see there.

Ah, is it from MMD? I've gotten a much better MMD animation importer from Cinema4D into 3ds max (thanks to maniac).

Can you link me to your model if it is from MMD?
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Feb 5, 2012 at 01:24 PM

What animation is that?

Oh I see, nice! :)

What's that from?

Bleh, use the hl2 ones.

I like this idea. CE needs more ambient animals. Whadda we have right now, quadwings and butterflies? Where are my blind wolves? Where are my thorn beasts?

Of course, little zombie toad guys would work too.

http://i1028.photobucket.com/albums/y348/Nervebooger/haloce-20120205-010021.png
slap happy, i think them bipeds look great now.

lol yeah i agree with Xlzqwerty1. the top one looks like an anus.

Being ignorant of Half-Life and its assets, these two beings struck me as "little zombie toad guys". I was unaware of Chum-toads, but I had seen the Headcrabs a while back.

I don't think the visor should have 2 shades of color stick with one, really...do what you want but I would prefer 1 shade of color(reflective shine is okay, unless its a whole entire different design but in this case its still a graphics revamped spartan so stay close with the original basic scheme layout
Edited by Wesker on Feb 11, 2012 at 11:16 PM

I had black mesa alpha which had some bullsquid and houndeye models for source engine if i recall. I think you know what Black Mesa Source project is, so no need to point that out.

i know about the poly limit. it just looks gross. port it if yo want and idk btw but its just imo.

Just out of curiosity... Would somebody be willing to share a Reach Biped with me?

Sure. Lets share everything to everyone to be leaked again!

I thought there were at least 3 publicly accessible 3ds max reach bipeds lying around?

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=5987
pow

Derp. Triple pow.

http://www.mediafire.com/?7chm9c1pmvh1ro0
http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=40314
http://www.mediafire.com/?bfxlazaofty6pr1


Edited by Petera275 on Feb 24, 2012 at 04:59 PM

uhhh no, that would actually remove the leaking problem

how, you ask? because if everyone has everything, then what is there to leak? that's right, nothing! one of ce's biggest issues solved.

I was actually thinking of releasing but I would have to get shadowslayers approval before and your gonna get spartan094s, which is better since it has open sauce tags, plus, I dont think you know who he is and why we said that.

Oh I'm well aware of the tylerp14 tag leak fiasco, believe me. I just don't care all that much about it...and I actually use some of the crappy reach weapons as placeholders in my mods

I'm only here to do one final map for CE, Then I leave for Job Corps.

Can you please just make the map then leave? Please?

Though I'm usually quite forgiving, I understand now that YOU will never grow up. So I see no reason for you to stay.

Anyway, only ever send files to people you trust. I never understood why anyone trusted tylerp anyway, considering his attitude and what he'd done in the past.

My "attiutdue" is good, Jaz. And I have grown up, in exactly 6 days I turn 18, and in april I'm going to Job Corps. And I want this map to be really good so I need really good content.

And the past is the past, so leave it in the past.
Edited by tylerp14 on Feb 25, 2012 at 11:34 AM