Dang, that ship is HUGE!

P-111X?

Also I think hte distance along it is probably around 50km. Haven't measured yet.
Need to export the second version of the BSP today and compile it and hope it work's this time.


Yup. That's the plan. It was originally just to recreate a Phoenix Class. Then I wanted to out do it. Then I starting taking amazingcuziam's suggestions...

What about MY suggestions?

Wait what? Oh yeah. That was later. I am talking abut before I posted it here.

I don't have burnt nachos, or awesome looking dishes, but I do still have awesome updates! YAY!!!

Any way, sorry I've been gone so long, I sort of had a moment were I just was to lazy to work on anything. But this weekend I got off my but and worked... Lot of soda and pizza...

OK back to schedule:

Here's where I thought to show how far Ive done this, all these pics are my timeline on this HUD from when it was first started to now...

http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/107694150-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/107722510-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/107722766-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/107843396-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/107967929-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/107967933-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/107968021-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/107968027-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/108102795-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/108779467-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/109067093-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/109080135-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/109164211-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/109164484-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/109244306-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/109244334-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/110131567-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/111331041-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/112315514-3.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/114214330-3.jpg

And now, here's a few pics of 2 New weapon HUD's I have done, and how far I am:







COMPARE:




Can you tell the difference? :D


That's all for now, Oh yeah.... I HAVE COMPLETED THE BASE HUD!!!

I meaning the Shields, Health, Grenades, Flashlight, Radar, Ingame Test, etc. ARE FINAL!!!!!!

ENJOY <3 CHOCO XOXOXXO
Edited by Choclate Thunda on May 22, 2011 at 06:49 PM
Edited by Choclate Thunda on May 22, 2011 at 06:56 PM

CHOCO! I'm loving it!!
You are going to release right?

Soon my friends, soon... but I do have one question? You know on the scorpion, banshee and the rocket hog turret, when you fire there huge cannons, missiles or bomb, you know how it tells you it's reloading with the dots/balls underneath the reticule/cross hair? How do you create a bitmap like that? Like its alpha, because I saw it and it made now sense in gurella just by look... If so tell me cause it'll help aid my HUD dearly...

TheGhost made a "custom ammo meters" tutorial, it shows you how to do that.
Basically, you're working in the alpha channel, where you edit the transparency. Black is transparent and white is opaque.

That HUD makes me all :3 inside, like when Reach was first announced.

I get that feeling. :')

New cliff texture I am working on applied to a part of a low poly cliffside.
Working on some generic tiled textures and I may release this one with them.



Edited by eliteslasher on May 24, 2011 at 03:56 AM

looks odd, i dont think ive ever seen a cliff like that. would make for an intresting theme :P

It looks like crumpled paper.... is that good or bad?

It's more of a detail map but yes, that is the style I was sort of going for.
Maybe the bump is too intense, but that is the kind of thing you get especially in areas where rain will cut trenches into the rock over the years as it flows down it.

Those are the cliffs of moher? right.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&xhr=t&q=cliffs+of+moher&cp=11&safe=off&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1920&bih=950

cliffs of moher?

i'am about 99% sure it is.

Looks pretty realistic, it would be awesome if the cliffs of Death Island looked like that.

Yeah I think what I really need to do now is just make the bump a tad bit less and then make a diffuse texture with layers much like those cliffs.


Edit:
Almost there, I think I just need the brownish colors to show more :/


I need to just do this map's cliffs and do some ground textures show I can really show it better to scale.

Edited by eliteslasher on May 24, 2011 at 05:59 PM

OK Slappy, I'm not talking about the ammo meters, I'm talking about the reload meter you know after you fire your banshee bomb, 4 dots appear like:

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See? Those under the Banshee reticule, if you can tell me how to make one of those custom, that would be appreciated....

Slasher, personally it reminds me more of bark than stone. Still, it's a hell of a lot better than I can do haha

I think the cliff bitmaps looks great, although a bit less tiled would be better.

Well keep in mind I only have the diffuse (horizontal lined) texture and one detail (the bumped texture) I got 2 more textures to work with to make it look less tiled once I get it in halo. If it doesn't look good after all that... then I don't know what to do.

The normals will show decent enough with the specular I made for it, it just won't show a whole lot from up close of course as is with all games really.

Aso, there won't be a bottom merge part for the texture. I am using a different method at least for this map.




Green is grass, brown is cliff, the overhung parts will be another shader which is render only and will merge the grass into the cliff so that it's like there is no seam at all. This will help make that seam almost non existent even as far as smoothing goes. Granted the foot of the player may go into the render only area slightly, but it won't be all that far away so it won't be like he's magically stepping a huge ways into the ground.

just do it transitionally.... take the texture, add grass on the top/bottom, create an alpha, unwrap side to side, and the detail maps = rock and grass.

actually, I have to say this, the ground will be more than 2 shaders.
one for grass to transparent transition
one for grass with alpha defining mud for the road area
one for grass with alpha defining in forest area where the texture will include leaves, rocks, and roots.
and MAYBE one with grass that has some extrusions of rock coming out.

The settings for each shader of course have to be the same as far as reflection properties or the ground will look like it is seamed where the shaders change.
All the details I make will have to have good speculars too because I am not bumping the ground maps because it will make seams visible, so the only thing making them have any definition at all will be what is reflected back to the player and that should be enough. Also, I am making LODs for sceneries to go all the way from full poly to non existent so maybe I can put little rock patches and stuff in on paths and areas where the grass changes to rock or dirt or whatever.

I can help you with seam-sealing the cliffs to the grass (or vice versa).

The issue I see with is it's scale, if that texture was scaled up larger it would look better! Could you reUV or post the texture?

Well, IDK if I will need much help on it, I think I pretty much know exactly where I want to take this, but if things aren't working out quite as I expected, maybe I'll consult you. Aren't you doing something like this for valhalla?

@YakZSmelk
Well that isn't even done being uved of course
I mainly threw that on there to just get everything at least fully tiled through twice.
also, the diffuse is only 512 x 256 while the bumped part is a 512 x 512 so when ingame I will have to check to normalize it or I may actually just make the detail the diffuse and make the the diffuse a detail. Basically, though, we can safely say I have a lot of monkeying around to do to find the best way to do this and have it look really good.
Edited by eliteslasher on May 24, 2011 at 11:41 PM

Sorry for the bad quality, but its just to show what is final/pretty much done...

http://www.xfire.com/video/47721b/

nice man!

I like it. Some of the HUD icons are messed up but that's an easy fix... (if you have the right bitmaps)

Give me an example so I can fix, don't forget the vids low graphic...

Like the flamethrower. It shows a turret

Halo Reach doesn't have a flamethrower, its just there to show the turret elements.