Now THAT is pretty awesome.

Thanks, hey guys I gotta question...

What would you think is better, staright or curved hud?

Let me show you the pros and cons of both.

Pro:
Curved:
Looks like inside the helmet.
Accurate to reach's HUD.

Straight:
All elements are aligned.
I might have a working compass with just HUD elements :D, but It'll be straight. So it'll match with a straight HUD.

Con:
Curved:
All elements will be missmatched.
The compass will be straight, while the meters wont be.

Straight:
Not accurate to reach hud in fps view.

I might just go ahead and do curved, but I want to hear your opinion.

I like better when it's curved but I think you can make both :
If you make first the straight HUD, and aplly it as a texture to a bent group of plane in 3ds max, you can make both quickly. I think. That would need to make a translucent shader with 100% self illum.

I personally prefer straight HUDs since with curved HUDs you get more (noticeable) jaggy edges.

I prefer curved, like you said, it makes it seem like you are looking out of a helmet.

http://www.xfire.com/video/54317e/
too much shine?
too much bump?

Edited by ally on Feb 11, 2012 at 02:13 PM

Both. Turn the shine down to about 75% or 50 % of what it is originally and bump about 80% down

sounds good ty, will do.

Finally got shields & health working right and done:

Looks good, guy from Wipeout.

I used this name way before wipe out....

Any way:


Gotta fix alphas, add the 25m and location crap, then sweeper, and finally radars done. :D
Edited by Choclate Thunda on Feb 12, 2012 at 01:05 AM

One thing I have to ask, is it just normal to add the 25m? I'm not sure it's actually 25m ingame, I think it was nearer 60...!

Edit
Sorry forgot to say - looks really nice. I like how you've got the WARNING to appear at the right time :D Does it only appear when the shields have gone?
Edited by Diaboy on Feb 13, 2012 at 06:49 PM

I thought it was 15 in halo 1?

Actually its 20m I checked in the gurella settings :D

And yes it only goes when shields are down.

Cool, because the bitmap itself shows 15.

cool guns Opsy.
just thought i would throw some update images out.


the images showing the new flags are a little darker after uploading with imageshack
also where the texture lines look blur, that's imageshack, the details are fine ingame.

still lots to be done.

BSP Textures looks kinda weird

yeah it's a bloodgulch mod :)

Ahh, sorry, shoulda been more clear - what I mean by this is if you grab the sniper rifle, get someone to jump about until they are at the edge of the motion tracker, the sniper rifle says, (from what I've found) usually about 60m, a bit less perhaps. At first I thought that maybe the units from the sniper scope were lying (after all, halo's measurement is almost entirely in feet...) but I did some tests with world units - metres in terms of map scale and it all works out. Motion tracker range = about 60m.

I noticed that '20' under motion tracker range, too. I wonder what it means... Might have a play.

Also, opsy, looks awesome. Does this mean you can tie multiple turrets on a vehicle to be fired by one player? Nice.

btw which textures?

To be honest, all of them.

Mainly the wall and the floor, look kinda weird.

the floor i can fix by just removing the cube map i have on it.
the walls i'm sure will stay like this.
Edited by ally on Feb 14, 2012 at 09:22 PM

Yeah, the walls look a bit too compressed you can see the red, green colors on it (means that the bitmap is too plain, add abit of noise or grunge or osmething), whereas the ground looks too bump'd

Yes, in some way. In this case, it's a UNSC frigate turret you control from the bridge. It's for my upcoming map which i'm not quite ready to reveal. I have much more left on it, mostly tags and scripting.

the bitmap is grey with black lines, the green and purple are reflections from the shader setup.
bump is grand on the floor it was the cube map i had
added that was giving that bad look.

Well I'll hope it's a good one ;)

The textures on the wal look kinda weird to me too. To me the black lines connecting each metal slab look to dark and bold. It's like there's an inch of darkness between each pannel. I see thins getting some ground though.

Good luck.

cheers all crit good and bad is welcome :)

Edited by ally on Feb 16, 2012 at 03:43 PM

hahaha


well you're right the Reach model is better than the Halo 3. All this is going in my next RPG map and no I do not have MAC Gun or ARCHER pods on the frigate. Mostly because I don't think I can make satisfying projectiles / firing effects myself at this time.

The BSP started up as one, yes. For now however I'm more interested in releasing more MP material as the RPG map selection on Halo is growing old.

Make the sky animated (or at least it's bitmap) so we feel like falling. Falling ? In the space ?
Yeah you got what I mean

interesting but this is just a small part of the map ^_o. I don't know how to animate the planet to look like it's turning tho, what keyframes and what is the animation name?

just rotate the bitmap it uses
Edited by Maniac1000 on Feb 16, 2012 at 07:28 PM

For some other reasons, I wanted an animated sky Ie have cruisers patrolling in space nearby and such