Oh yeah, its just a placeholder...

Are you serious? Dang, Flamethrower was one of my favorites. :(

do you think you could make a reach hud for halo 3 weapons too?

cuz ya no, halo 3 huds don't have health meters so it'd be kinda cool to have a reach hud to use with h3 mods

why is the fuel rod a placeholder for the spartan laser if there is a fuel rod in reach?

Probably because there is no stock spartan laser.

ya i know, but wouldn't he just use the fuel rod for the fuel rod instead, since it's there?

that's like having a chair to sit on, but sitting on a rock instead.

Oh yeah, I see. I thought you saw something the other way around.

05.28.11 14:53:40 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
05.28.11 14:53:40 reference function: _write_to_error_file
05.28.11 14:53:40 reference address: 401b13
05.28.11 14:53:40 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
05.28.11 14:53:41 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
05.28.11 14:53:41 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
05.28.11 14:53:41 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
05.28.11 14:53:42 EAX: 0x00000000
05.28.11 14:53:42 EBX: 0x00000101
05.28.11 14:53:42 ECX: 0x00000000
05.28.11 14:53:42 EDX: 0x00000000
05.28.11 14:53:42 EDI: 0x0018E3D0
05.28.11 14:53:42 ESI: 0x00000000
05.28.11 14:53:42 EBP: 0x0018E2A8
05.28.11 14:53:42 ESP: 0x0018E298
05.28.11 14:53:42 EIP: 0x77A00BD2, 83 C4 04 C2 ?????
05.28.11 14:53:42 EXCEPTION halt in \halopc\haloce\source\tag_files\tag_groups.c,#3157: #-1 is not a valid object_function_block index in [#0,#4)

What does this mean? How do I fix this?
Edited by DarkHalo003 on May 28, 2011 at 03:16 PM

I think you've screwed up a list somewhere in guerilla. Check the functions of whatever tag you've changed around, or find the messed up tag through process of elimination.

Not to be crass, but that does not help me at all. Could you be more specific? What kind of tags is this prone to occur with?

Something that you can press i a guessing. DO you have a scorpion tank in there? Because I know that mine give that error when I place them in sapien. Then you would just out somethign else in sapien and change to tank before compiling map.

Hope that help's.

Darkhalo, basically, you know those lists in guerilla? Well if you delete one of the entries sometimes it can mess up. Like, if you remove a sound perm and save the sound, or if you remove a shader reference from a gbxmodel. I'm not quite sure what you deleted that is messing it up, but that's all I can really tell from the error.

It should help. Elefant explains the screwed up list thing better than I do, but you're going to have to find out what tag it is first.
Functions have to do with many kinds of tags, from bipeds/vehicles to weapons to shaders.

Well it's done now and what's worse is that Sapien has this odd glitch to the graphics where the bitmaps look like they're static.

Hi just showing what else is done:



That's right! WAY POINTS!!!

Edit:

Hey guys I noticed the numbers on the way point were to big, and I didn't know how to edit there size in gerulla, so I made the number bitmaps smaller, so the regular numbers are low res too :C, oh well it ain't that much difference, just a little blurry...



XC
Edited by Choclate Thunda on May 29, 2011 at 01:24 AM

Someone said it was in the weapon FP, but that would mean you would have to change every single weapon.

I think that it was the secondary weapon icon that goes in the fp iirc.

Replace your scorpion tags with ones you should dload from the site.
Extracting scorpion from stock maps almost always results in this error.
If you are ripping an entire map, you should deselect the scorpion.

Looking super nice!

Some progress with my Forerunner map. There's more that's been done too, with the outer areas being textured, the doorways are textured, and the the interior upper levels are textured. The interior and outer walls are the only thing NOT textured next to the incomplete sections (the ceiling and the non-gameplay part of the BSP). I have already made the ceiling different, but if you have any suggestions please tell me. The sooner the ceiling is done, the sooner I can work on the non-gameplay part of the BSP.

is that epitath from halo 3?

Heavily inspired from Epitaph, but more built to cater to some Halo CE gameplay; it's far more simplistic.

Looks good. Yeah, very obvious that it was inspired from it. You should do some more outside hallways so it plays a bit more like Epitaph. Also, are you going to do something with the ceiling? I know you are going for simplistic, but that may be a bit on the too simplistic side.

Haha, I was just gonna say it reminds me of epitaph.
I do think you need something to break up the floor, since it is entirely flat.

The ceiling is being worked on as I post this. I think it's really starting to look nice now, but it's probably one of the toughest parts of this entire map. The ceiling will look simplistic, but yet retain a sense of Forerunner and not just flat surface.


That's the point of the raised circle in the middle. You also have the exterior walkways that change pace quite a bit. It'll play a lot like Epitaph, only there are more direct routes than detours. The main floor is like that on purpose because there is so much variance on the outer walkways.

Darkhalo when rendering go in the material editor and make sure you set bitmap alpha to none/opaque.

How do I do that exactly? I'm looking through the options and I'm not seeing anything that might suggest what you're asking....

I was thinking about coming back to the community after a long hiatus (2-3 years?) by making a sequel to Lobby Classic PB1.






Just a few teasers for now, map is portaled, UV'd, error free and ready to go. If I get enough positive feedback then I'll go about releasing. FYI I used mental ray for the renders.

The light on the last 3 images are too intense. Reduce the intensity of the light because that's pure white right there (Which is never good for lightmapping).

At first I thought those were in-game. Still really cool though. Should release.

Very nice looking. Have you thought about exporting to Halo 2?





Everything is now modeled except for the exterior non-gameplay part of the BSP. I can't get a good picture in Max, but I'm hoping I can get a good picture in-game. I have a question for you guys though; what do you all think of the current textures I have in-place for my map? What texture do you think I should use for the blank parts on the ceiling?


Edited by DarkHalo003 on May 31, 2011 at 11:26 AM

That looks pretty cool deep much better looking than the first... Although, it is still lacking some detail in a few areas, especially in a couple of those last pictures. Otherwise, nice! Nice to see some old people from my age still doing stuff.

Yeah not enough of us old dogs are around these days lol. I've moved on to DirectX programming and Unreal Development kit mostly nowadays, and I couldn't help but notice this thing chillin' on my hard drive along with a few other maps I promised to release back in the day (Water Chapel anyone?)



You telling me about lightmapping, lol

Got a little somethin.

The dropship class for the Harbinger:


Loosly based off the Pelican and some dropship from the movie Alien.


Suggestion's?