more round, more detail, more shape, less boxy.

That's because it is a work in progress.

First person to suggest TurboSmooth get's killed.

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Needs turbosmooth, give it three iterations, that should be good... Four if it doesn't hit 100,000 polys. Also, chamfer every poly to make it less boxy, then use another 3 iters for maximun win. then use the optimize modifier and put it so it remove as many polys as possible, then use another 5 1/2 iters, then render with 15 iters, then post render.

Nope. Time for you to die.

Well good news! My map is finished texture-wise and there doesn't seem to be any issues with the boundary lines (where the map ends). Unfortunately, I'm running into a handful of tedious errors, and it'll take a bit before it's ready for Guerilla and Sapien. :(

Basing it mostly off of this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1455347/Map%20Renders/favela.jpg

Doing a low poly model of Favela from MW2. I like the layout and gameplay of the map so I'm going to see how well it does in Halo before I even think of adding more detail.
Edited by chrisk123999 on Jun 1, 2011 at 05:55 PM

good luck

I'm interested to see what small details like drop pod/lifepod bays, hangars, transparent windows, turrets, bombs, shield generators, life support, engines etc. You're going to put on the Harbringer. I really think it would be nice to have a fully functional ship, not just loads of unusable scenery crap, for once. The only thing that wouldn't be possible is driving it, 'cos that would mean both serious lag and serious crap for everything inside it too.

Also, I suggest turbosmooth. (XD)
Edited by Petera275 on Jun 2, 2011 at 07:00 AM

TurboSmooth is only good for creating highpoly objects for use in calculating surface angle data when generating normal maps. You could use it to generate a smooth edge and then optimize it, but it's much easier to just use chamfer or manually place the edge.

TurboSmooth splits a face into 4, so it adds and edge through the middle vertically and horizontally. And then calculates the position to create the verts by averaging out the surrounding verts. The more iterations you add to it then the more the faces are split - Help's to know what it does :)

Here is an example I just made:

Edited by anonymous_2009 on Jun 2, 2011 at 07:36 AM

I ain't using turbosmooth on it. And yeah I knew what it did.

For detail's I am working on a bridge the ground pounder bay an ODST bay and possibly some maintenance areas and the hangers.. The ship will NOT be a vehicle. It will be a BSP and a higher detailed version will be used for animation's and sch in MAX and will include the main cannon and several other areas.

Moving along...

IMPOSSIBRU

xD what the hell is that?

optical illusion. :o

You, sir, have my respect.

me too.

It's the perspective. It's probably not really connected.

I could do something like that using the cut thing. It just take's time to line up correctly. I could do it if ya want. IN his case it's probably an optical illusion or something.

Sure, go ahead, if your ego really demands that you match someone else's efforts to look somewhat competent.

I wasn't saying--... wait wait wait... what? I was just saying that it isn't too hard to do.

Part A:
http://www.xfire.com/video/47edaa/

Part B:
http://www.xfire.com/video/47edbc/

As you can see, Part B is easily still a WIP because the AI only runs the command list %50 of the time. What's worse is the driver of the Rocket Hog is a wimp compared to the driver of the LAAG Hog, which I'll have to figure out how to fix (I may use my old computer to do this since my CE is laggy and stuff for this computer, plus part of my tagset doesn't allow Sapien to open. Wonderful right?!

Textured the COD4 fp arms to resemble my fingerless (scissor-cut) gloves from real life.

Wooooaaaahh (Toy Story Aliens voice)

Or you can make that shape and just flip those faces.

Sure, go ahead, if your ego really demands that you match someone else's efforts to look somewhat competent.

sup bro.

I struggle to see where "ego" comes into this...

I don't like them, they're too detailed compared to everything else in that scene and draw your attention away from things that matter.

practise

im not to good at forerunner so crit pl0x. anyone know where i got the inspiration? :P im thinking of remodeling a specific map over time cause im pro like that...lol accualy i just got nothing better to do :D
Edited by antiblood on Jun 7, 2011 at 03:10 PM

I'm not sure how I want to do the street on the left side of the map...
Edited by chrisk123999 on Jun 9, 2011 at 09:50 PM
Edited by chrisk123999 on Jun 9, 2011 at 10:37 PM
Edited by chrisk123999 on Jun 9, 2011 at 10:37 PM

I quickly threw this together, might help idk. What you made isn't really all that forerunner looking, the top bits should be distinctly seperate pieces of metal, and overall it's just sorta boring looking.





At the very least, use a skylight + raytracer when rendering, it's very hard to distinguish anything in there without some lighting.