I'll just leave this here, if you don't mind :P
Blargh!

I thought it was an "A" model...

yea the B2 and B52's are just giant flying bombs this thing is an interceptor thats also made to move
Edited by G TheFlea on Nov 3, 2010 at 05:54 PM

How are you going to get it into Halo? Last time I checked, you can't export it to .GMAX, .3DS, or .MAX.

OBJ exporter.

An interceptor is a plane made for attacking and destroying larger aircraft. That aircraft is in fact a fighter bomber, as in, it fights and it bombs. It's not as effective in either role as a dedicated aircraft, but it's more versatile.

FYI, B52 is one of the most economic and effective bombers in the world today, and the B2 was the most advanced bomber for it's time. They aren't giant flying bombs.

So it IS an "A" model? OK.

Ripped the H3 model for the covenant capital ship, working on fixing it up and gonna try to get it in game for my own little project. Rendered with a single skylight, no other lights, catmull-rom filter, and light tracer with a ray traced material applied to the plane.





I might also fix up the textures, they look like crap.
Edited by AGLion on Nov 3, 2010 at 09:26 PM

Can you do a size comparison render with a pelican or warthog?

I can tell you right now that it is off scale. I looked in the properties for it, and it's only about 800 meters compared to the 5,000 meters that its supposed to be. The CCS-class cruiser from Halo 1 when compared, is about 3/4th the size of it.

But here:



Both the Frigate and the Carrier were extracted from Halo 3: ODST. I didn't scale anything up or down in this picture, everything is to scale as they come out of the game. Goes to show how off scale things really are.

But I can't wait to get my hands on the supercarrier from Halo Reach.

Oh, and most of the errors you see in this picture with the model have been fixed. I just need to re-unwrap it and it'll be ready for extracting.
Edited by AGLion on Nov 3, 2010 at 11:44 PM

I was just wondering :) I didn't expect it to be to scale, I was just wondering in case I wanted to put it into a map, how far I would have to mess with it to get the scale to look right.

I wouldn't get your hopes up for the Reach carrier, Im pretty sure that it is scaled down as well. But I would at least try for the Corvette from Long Night of Solace, as it is to scale as far as I can tell.

The way you would probably want to put this in a map is as scenery far away from playable area. Since the model is probably too big for a collision model (probably still big for H3), it would be a waste of time trying to bother with one. It's like the H2 scenery model already on this site, it only has half a collision.

My use for it involves it being animated and being used in a cutscene and then being seen outside a window firing at things. The problem is, I don't think that HCE will like the 25k model.

And yeah, the reach model is probably scaled down, but still looks damn awesome. I want to see how it would look in a nice looking render. I'm actually getting the .map files for Hreach, if there is any chance at all/whatsoever that xtraction would work with it.

Halo Reach uses the same model for the supercarrier and the capital ship.

Would someone please clarify the difference between a supercarrier and a capital ship?. And friggin screw the covie ships, i wanna get my hands on that epic PoA from the last mission lol

A Capital Ship is the Flagship of Covenant Fleets. The Supercarrier is more like a massive freaking transport ship armed with weapons. They're both physically identical, but each have different roles in the Covenant Fleet.

I'll of course try and get the POA, it's just that I reallly wanna see how the supercarrier is different than the capital ship. I'll also try and get the other ships lurking around.

I doubt extraction would work because HReach is a rebuilt engine, however.

seraph scenery wip complete with (crappy) collision.



Will be used for roughly the same purpose as my carrier. I just need to figure out how to compile the damn bitmaps. tool bitmaps scenery\seraph doesn't work.
Edited by AGLion on Nov 4, 2010 at 07:04 PM

It should be tool bitmaps scenery\seraph\bitmaps
for you gotta have the \bitmaps in there or else it won't work.

Alright, that worked, but is the game automatically gonna detect the bitmaps or am I going to have to specify that somewhere? I can't find an option for bitmaps in guerilla...

I am working on a fighter ship.
http://img243.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=mineship1.png
Poly count: 21k

I can lower it a lot if needed.


-Skidrow.com

Skidrow-thats the most amazing model i have ever seen. KEEP IT UP.

Why thank you. If you aren't kidding. That took about an hour in all. Still working on the textures. Also when looking at the front the little thingie there is a MC model. If I put it in-game it will be much smaller. Actually it's about the size of a warthog I just scaled down an MC for some scale for another project I am going to do. Also I am going to make an inside but not for in-game.


-Space ships
Edited by Skidrow925 on Nov 4, 2010 at 08:49 PM

Hows it looking? poly count is 1,798 :D

I don't like how the sides of the cockpit and the front are jagged.

Looks kinda.... strange.

lol, thats due to my lack of usage for smooth groups :P. if i knew how to make it so that they didn't make my models and fuglified i might use them lol

Oh man, I needa teach you how to do renders properly.

haha, what i don't want to do renders properly?

no iiii need to teach you how to do renders properly ;)



Skidrow did i give you that rocket??

ooooorrrrrr, i could just google how to render properly :P

Yes you did but if you don't want me to use it I can make a new one.

Also: Special thanks to AGLion for the textures. Only problem is that one scene has been rendering for over like 10 minutes and there are about 120 frames.

So yeah.


-Skidrow
Edited by Skidrow925 on Nov 4, 2010 at 09:33 PM

no idc i was just wondering :P

ALSO AGLion when im posting stuff on halomaps to get peoples opinion i just make a while plane under my model, create a skylight, my default renderer is Mental Ray cuz its sooooo good, open render frame window and make sure Final Gather is at high and it will give you some lovely shading under the model and in crevasses and stuff


oh and dude i dunno what your computer is like but on my last one i had 5 second renders (150 frames) go for like 6 hours :/ are you using any kinda of special effects or particles??
Edited by G TheFlea on Nov 4, 2010 at 09:37 PM

I gotta try that method.

I do a plane under the model, and apply my handcrafted (lol) reflect raytraced material to it just for a bit of showoffness. I use the default renderer (mental ray takes too long with my settings) with a catmull-rom antialiasing filter and light tracer rendering property. I usually keep a single skylight, but if it's for FP origins/anims, I add a couple Omni lights in good positions. I usually keep a HDTV 1280x720 render.

It makes the detail beautifully show up, and gives depth to even the flattest of models. I use those settings all the time, and keep a seperate file for the render scene.

Wait, what textures did I give you skidrow? I don't have good memory....
Edited by AGLion on Nov 4, 2010 at 09:44 PM

yea seriously just try using all the defaults for antialiasing (or maybe a little higher) on the mental ray renderer, one skylight, and to make the skylight work properly set the final gather to high

this is the result you'l get and not sure about you but on my system this was a 7 second render


Edited by G TheFlea on Nov 4, 2010 at 09:47 PM

Hows that?