looks more like something out of Crysis.

Or Tron. Me like :P
BTW are there any good rigging tutorials out there? I downloaded Jahrain's one but he didn't explain how he set up the model for the actual rigging.

E: Say... what would be the best bone to rig the cape to?
Edited by Spartan314 on Sep 18, 2012 at 06:24 AM

the mandible teeth are messed up and I have no idea how to approach the head texture. does anyone have the H3 elite head texture so I may reference it? i saw one sitting around these forums but can't seem to find it for the life of me.

lol dont use the forerunner tiles too add detail

http://filebeam.com/e0d322bc9fe0d98ff89000dc4e582cb5

Btw also if you want to make it look like reach's hexagon, im pretty sure the detail is not in the diffuse but, in a specular colour map and a specular level (specular) map.

If you don't want make that specular map,you can do it using Halo's own shader system by using multipurpose alpha/alpha inverse.

thanks :)

thoughts thus far?

can you add scale textures to the skin?

also, the helmet skin is really not doing it for me :\

Eye seems a bit too small.

You modeled an Elite.

If he already has a normal or bump map then he wouldnt need to sculpt or retopo.
OS does away with the need to bake normals to the diffuse because the engine uses the data right from the normal map.
Non OS would benefit from the baking of normals to the diffuse, but only slightly. You should properly utilize the multipurpose map and apply the bump through it.
Edited by Maniac1000 on Sep 21, 2012 at 10:08 AM

the mouth has been bugging me and the UVs are still a tad off, but there is no bump map (its all diffuse-specular). will edit post with pictures of edited face (larger eyes, thinner mouth, scales)

EDIT: here's a link to the images, since there are a lot of them. the headband thing is still a heavy WIP.
http://imgur.com/a/LEyQA
Edited by master noob on Sep 21, 2012 at 06:49 PM

Lol congratz. The arbiter is now a fish :P.

Inb4 reptiles have scales too you know.

But try to make the skins detail as a normal map, like the other halos and also try to make it like rubber or a modified version of human skin. But I don't like the current skin and thought the skin before hand was much better IMO.

after posting those images, I realized that scales meant the halo 4 type (protruding lumps instead of actual scales XD) feedback is always appreciated :)
I'm thinking of making the neck look like the h1 and h2 renditions (sort of a neck sleeve with holes every now and then) to give the impression of a space environment suit.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you,
my first ever rigged biped,
put into Halo CE for the first time ever!
NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA BATMAN!!!!

WARNING: No shaders set up.











I am aware of the cape, and I sure will be fixing those odd weights. *gulp*
What I'm not aware of, is tips on how to get this done efficiently. Help?

heh, you seem to have scaled the spine1 before rigging the model, right ? dont do it because if you rig everything... you can't undo it.

THAT'S WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR THE WHOLE TIME. I SWEAR I SAW IT IN JAHRAIN'S VIDEO BUT FORGOT WHAT IT WAS CALLED!

Thanks man, life saver (well regarding 3ds max anyways).

I knew about that a long time ago when i tried rigging a halo reach spartan.

just make sure the mesh with the skin modifier has it's pivot set to the center of the model and the pivot rotation set to (0,0,0), otherwise the mirror will deform. easiest way to do this is make a sphere/box/primitive, convert to edit poly, and attach. this easily resets the pivot without much hassle.
Edited by master noob on Sep 27, 2012 at 12:12 AM

Or in some cases.. a fourth.

Wanted to make my own Halo 2 Grunts and this is what I got

May need to tone down the specular, but the color and normal mapping looks great in my opinion. I also think there might be some smoothing issues with the fingers(?) and no the fingers do not have their own bones; Using most of stock animation graph.

I don't want it to seem like I did nothing but slap a normal map on it, so this grunt is complete with 100% custom grunt weapon set from Halo 2, Full Halo 2 Dialogue featuring multiple dialogue permutations, halo 2 grunt footstep sounds (THIS WAS A PAIN), Original Halo 2 LOD models, Halo 2 Blood Sprites, Custom Collision and modified animation graph with full halo 2 vehicle support.

Criticism is very welcome.
Edited by ptowery on Sep 27, 2012 at 03:43 AM

I actually rigged it accidentally when the model was twice the size of the original masterchief.
So what I did was save envelopes, reset Xform, scale it, and load envelopes.

But seeing how it turned out... I guess I have to rig the whole thing all over again. Right?

oh yay grunts!
Edited by spiral on Sep 27, 2012 at 07:12 PM

I like them.

What should I do next? Not basing on what's "Already done".
Edited by ptowery on Sep 29, 2012 at 12:57 AM

It's getting there, Maybe change the illum tint, fix the uv's on the fronds, lower the bump a bit?

Anyone have any advice on the tentacles' smoothing?

Yes, If i hadn't there wouldn't be any smoothing at all. I think I used auto smooth for this model, but manually gave the tentacles there own group. I might try unifying the smoothing groups to 1.

EDIT: if there were no illums, what was the flood_infection_light texture for? CC?
Edited by ptowery on Sep 29, 2012 at 09:20 PM

Improved it a bit.

can the cape function as an antenna? just set the marker upside-down.

Batman is taller than a Spartan who is taller than a human.



Didn't read properly, my fault. Right now it's using stock flood illum/tint without the cosine; Just as a placeholder.
I don't know if this is a beta shot or some perm, but It looks like it has no normal mapping.

And relies heavily on selfillum? It has about the same tint as the other halo 2 shot, but not as the albedo map.
Edited by ptowery on Sep 30, 2012 at 12:58 PM
Edited by ptowery on Sep 30, 2012 at 12:59 PM


Just realized the other halo 2 shot was from h2v, but the xbox maps have the normals in the map files, maybe it's unused?
Edited by ptowery on Sep 30, 2012 at 01:02 PM

I have been..

Inconclusive.
It also kind of looks like how halo's stock infection form uses cube maps, but there's no cube maps in either h2x or h2v shaders.

Well only when he's upright. The scale is essentially the same.

Batman is tall.

Too buff,LOL.

Suggestion: Make the cape a flag that attaches to two markers, one at each side. And give it physics that don't allow it to pass through models of bipeds\scenery\vehicles\ect, and make it so that it can't pass through structures either. Lol. Anyway, just a suggestion.
Edited by grunt_eater on Oct 1, 2012 at 11:53 PM