thank your Maniac i was just saying that it looks good up until you get to the thing holding the guns thats all..

I think that was my 1st post on that model though, so i will also say that i think penguin did a really good job on the 99% of the rest of it.

Yah agreed.

You drunk when you posted that? Seems you are trying to imply that
1. the model is crap
2. penguin can't model so downloads free stuff and steals credit...

gtfo.

First off way to be an immature forum geek who needs a life.

I was stating that it looks good except for the back and i was proving it looks good by stating that it looks like he got it off of Turbosquid cause ive seen some nice helicopters on there so that was a compliment, i was saying that the back looks like he added it to it without really working on it much and putting much detail into it.

Martynball, he already said what he meant by it.
Dont get your knickers in a twist just because he said that parts of your friends model was disgusting (in his opinion).
Go act like that elsewhere.

a good detail map would make it look alot nicer, since i dont know too much about bitmaps, that would be great if someone can help me on it. i tried making a fake bump for it, but some pics from dee's tutorial are gone, so i couldnt complete it
Edited by shadowslayer123 on Apr 5, 2010 at 11:44 AM

I like that high res phantom interior, but the red just seems weird in there. I know it's supposed to be like that, but I think it doesn't fit well with the purple exterior. Also, collision issues on the openings on the side, but you probably already know that.
Edited by Bokito on Apr 5, 2010 at 03:18 PM

Free models from turbosquid aint usually that good... hense why they are free. And Forum geek? How often do I post now?

Usually the forum geeks are the ones that like to start arguments on forums. And I guess it depends on how long you look.

... that petty excuse for forum geek is just your personal opinion...

be quite child.



Edited by anonymous_2009 on Apr 5, 2010 at 03:33 PM

Child? Who is the one acting immature... settle down dude it's just a video game.

Ermm.. not me. And I don't recall not being settled tbqh.

in max maybe, but i recall reading somewhere (i think it was that official HEK document thing) that checking the 2 sided flag for halo ce will result in the game treating the faces where the material is applied as double the triangles, if that makes sense. not really sure how to word that

I seem to remember reading something like that too.
I am almost certain that Donut is correct.

Stop starting arguments over things that have already been settled it's getting to be really annoying.

I am referring to when you use the % material type for building collision models mind you, this isnt about shaders.

you're funny kids. you wish you could do the crap i do. take that for arrogance! aha! and have you seen what the AH-6 little bird looks like? that's literally what it looks like. complain about the design of the helicopter, not my model. that's as close as i could get it, within the poly limit i was given. yes, in the real world you have to work with those believe it or not! had to keep it under 8500 tris and it came in around 8200. currently adding the radar and stuff to it though. and touching a few things up, was certainly not happy with the way the high poly on the ammo belt came out, among other things and i will say the texture on the gun mount is piss poor so i want to fix that. Going to try and sneak a few wires in there to add to the appeal of the gun mount, but with the limit given, its difficult.

Edited by PenGuin1362 on Apr 8, 2010 at 12:45 AM

It really does happen that way in game engines though. They have to render the thing 2x when double sided. Like having two materials on one.

http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19820
Edited by Dwood on Apr 8, 2010 at 08:29 PM

I think the helicopter Penguin posted is pretty damn good, much better than anything I can do. Btw, is it just me or do .jmw animations for vehicles never work -_- I've tried to try animating a pelican for dropping troops off but when I script it to play the custom animation, it teleports to the center of the map (tutorial, probably point 0, 0, 0,) and just sits there until my script tells the game to destroy it. http://www.xfire.com/video/274d40/ This video tells the problem (it's near the end of it). (Also, how do I record higher quality videos?) Help?

Does anyone know how to make physics models for vehicles and is willing to teach me? And I mean the model that compiles into the .physics tag, not the collision model. Reply here, PM me, or add me on xfire (gravemind2401) if you can help.
Edited by Gravemind on Apr 10, 2010 at 07:39 AM

Its exactly the same model used for the collision geometry.

tool physics (LOCATION OF COLLISION GOES HERE [Starting from the data folder])
Edited by Codebrain on Apr 10, 2010 at 03:23 PM

Physics tags dont store collision geometry, it stores mass points. And the mass points can be made by creating spheres of different sizes that intersect each other. And they begin with #

yes, but they're created from the same .JMS

look for rec0's physics importer, that helps a lot when first starting out. you export the physics file from guerrilla and import it to max with the physics points then copy the .physics file and rename it to your new vehicle then when compiling the physics, overwrite the one you renamed.

Doesn't matter, they use different parts of it.

So I just make a normal collision model, with mass points, and the "collision-geometry" command will ignore the mass points and the "physics" command will ignore the geometry?

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=3110

Physics tutorial.

how do you put pics up onto the forum

You find the URL of the pic and then 3 Icons from the Underline option, is the button to add a picture. Then you just paste the URL of the pic in the box that it brings up.

so you cant put then on from your computer

No, many people use a picture host like imageshack or photobucket and upload their pictures there and copy over the URL. Might I add that these are free hosting sites.

Yes, but codebrain never said that physics tags stored collision geometry, just that they use the same folder.

that's kinda what the Gauss is o_0, a miniature MAC.

BTW! I can make one! =D
2 magnets and a paperclip! haha

That would be a miniature miniature MAC