I honestly don't remember where that rig even came from. It was sometime back in maybe 2009 or so that someone gave it to me, might've been ICEE actually. And that might've actually been 2008.

...I never touched it since though until I placed it into the release folder lol

I think I see the Ark.

I've gone back and fixed up the fp and 3p sniper rifle (spartan and elite).





Probably going to work on the bullet impact decals and firing effects next (I need to make them myself)

I made some rocks.

very nice, what is the triangle count?

Average is 2.5k triangles. They could be a lot less though. I purposely made the mesh denser than it needs to be so I can manipulate them later on to make different versions.
Edited by Disaster on Sep 24, 2012 at 05:55 PM

you should post those to the High-res map team thread. Those look like they would be very nice assets for cliff maps.

I plan on building my own map using them. I need many more variations to build that map though; tunnel pieces, overhangs, etc.

nice! please make sure there r no invis walls around them

Very nice and realistic. HaloCE needs some new current-gen general assets like this.

You going to make LODs for them? Because IMO, many of these types of assets can be detailed like this and be just fine if you take the proper time to make decent LODs and set the cutoffs right. Portalling helps as well.

Cool rocks man, I think they'd also look nice in an engine such as Cryengine 3 or UDK.

i have to wait 2 more days to post direct pictures so enjoy this link, complements of dennis
http://imageshack.us/a/img546/6559/omgididitagain.jpg

I made another rock.



Sitting at just under 7k triangles.

I like rocks. And trains.

I like that rock, although it seems to have perhaps a bit too many "flabs" on it.
Then again I think I've seen pics of desert rocks similar to that, sandstone, are you going for something like that Disaster?

Yep, I was going for something along these lines with a through pass.

Been working on foundry's shaders.

They were\are crap before, but slowly being replaced.





Specifically the stairs, gate and pipes. DSalimander will be working on the lighting and other BSP shaders.

Simply OMG

styles hrngg

any ideas for the prongs? can't think of a way to implement prongs

The stairs and gate are currently scenery, I know, not good.

Attach to the bsp?

Working on the texture. I've got a bit more work to do but I'm happy with the direction I took.

Very realistic looking, but a tad too much green?

That is just the lighting I used.

Put the piece from the 2dn picture, above and in front of the ammo meter, on the 3rd picture, would make the best option imo.
Oh, and Disaster, i love the rocks and really hope you do make a map :)
Edited by Maniac1000 on Sep 29, 2012 at 11:15 PM

wireframe....

Looks awesome as usual Disaster!

should have taken off the top plate for this, but meh.

That pic just plain rocks man.
Are you using Mudbox to carve yo rocks, and then like making a low poly version of it afterwards?

Looks good apart from the n-gons I see near the grip.

Yep.

dude disaster. make a tutorial. for rocks. or anything. thats really impressive for 7k.

If I find time, I might record myself making one. And to be honest, it could probably be alot lower. I didn't really take a lot of time aiming for a low polygon count when doing the retopo.

Mudbox tut would be nice
Could you make a thread for it ? I have a lot of question I dont want to ask on this thread, and it would be cool to make the answers public. About the way to unwrap and the triangulation etc, I'm getting trouble making nice paints, creates distortions. I know stuff needs to be highpoly etc
Edited by bourrin33 on Sep 30, 2012 at 03:17 PM

The gist of it is to make a few base rock meshes. Any random shape will work. Make sure all of the polygons are of an equal size so they subdivide equally when sculpting. Then, in your modeling program of choice, assemble the base rock meshes into the general shape you would like. They can intersect or not, doesn't matter. Next step is to have at it in your sculpting program. I tend to use the scrape brush with one of the stock stamps. Sculpting comes a lot easier if you have a Wacom to use instead of a mouse. You can get more realistic flowing brush strokes with the tablet. But that is basically it. Just be sure to look at references of rocks or whatever you are making. You want to imitate nature.