I like the lower left PR one. Reminds me of one of the covenant ships.

The Plasma Rifle is designated as such due to how it tends to be utilized, rather than its physical characteristics. Technically it wouldn't be a rifle at all, regardless of size, because it lacks a rifled barrel.

Well originally the PP model was the PR, the PR was the one with single shots and the overcharge. thats why it has the gap between the teeth.

Not really a WIP per se, but I did manage to stare right at this guy for about 30 seconds.

A Slender Man spinoff?
Now that is cool. Grass looks nice too.

is that...a werewolf?

or a crazed bipedal mouse?

Nice Grass.

Lol that picture's not from Halo guiz.

its a shopped photo guys, do you really think halo CE could handle that kind of grass poly count?

Now UNITY (slender is made in) can, but whenever i tried incorporating unity+halo, you guys all curb stomped me. D:

Yes,I do believe it can.

well try it, be my guest.

I suppose i should have said "Do you really think halo can handle that level of grass polies without causing severe framerate issue on basic PCs running halo at medium settings"
Edited by abkarch on Feb 10, 2013 at 11:57 PM

I dont get how it looks, it looks like it's entirely bland. Video maybe ?

You would be a bit too specific.

It's like OS with enhancements.

Maybe I should've said that the situation would be the same for both things.

Halo was the crysis of it time, right?
The people suffering low framerates would be used to that kinda thing. I still am. Hell I still stock up on replacement PS1 parts

finally, learning how .bitmaps work, so I'm having fun making bump maps:

You should note that none of these framerate drops should happen with modern cards. You're under the assumption that all Halo players still have decade old computers. This has become less and less true recently.

I was pretty sure RTR was unique in that it was handled by the CPU and not the GPU. Not that it makes sense, but I recall there be 0 impact on performance when we first investigated using it in our MP maps (of course that was like 6 years ago).

RTR is a neat small feature to incorporate in your map when you can. However you can only have it on a completely flat area with the same axis, otherwise it gets messed up if i remember correctly. You can't have mirrors that are in an angle to reflect each other in Halo. However if OS could get past this, i'd abuse the feature.
Edited by Ki11erFTW on Feb 14, 2013 at 03:51 PM

What kind of PC's are you guys running? I played Halo for years on a Pre-build Dell Pentium 4 and had no issues at all other then some FPS lag here and there in the SP. That was gone after I got my new ATI at the time. Never had any visual issues, except for a couple ever since I bought my Nvidia GTX 260. But thats Nvidia.

I maed unit counter :D sceny placed it in game.
if anyone wants it, just ask me. more to come later...

nobody's updating the weapons thread, so I'm just going to post this here.
http://p3d.in/pZM5q

That P3D site is a great alternative to screenshots

I can never see textures. Is there some kind of toggle for that? It's just a silhouette.

something about your card not supporting some sort of web plugin. try updating your drivers. there is a FAQ about it, but you should still be able to view the clean and x-ray variants.

The assault rifle looks awesome, I just think the screen is a bit tight to fit the numbers in, you should scale it a bit...
I hope I will get to animate it when it's done :)
I did some animations for your stormrifle but they didnt look good in the end sadly, and I had trouble with the spinning barrel anims and the scaling of the objects, but I got it in game.
If someone haves decent anims for it I'd gladly tag it.

Playing around with base maps' alpha channels:

BEFORE:
These textures were ordinary jpegs from an online texture farm, ocarina(and the christmas alpha_oot) used simple diffuse+bump textures.



AFTER:
I started editing these base maps with the now-free Photoshop CS2(free CS2 !!) to have alpha channels.
I also gave their shader_environments some primary detail maps and tweaked the bump bitmaps a little :)



Oh! oh!! I also made all of the tags self-contained so that rippers could have fun by not ruining their tags folders :)

vv--(These aren't using textures form the AFTER shots, this is an earlier build with edited lighting just to show off..)


^ EDIT: That dropgate at the end is just a placeholder bitmap(with working collision), plan on modelling the real thing later.


FINALLY textured the swordbase:
EDIT: This thing has one segment from EACH tier textured, and then they were attached to a block that I simply rotated to create the other segments, each spike sticking out is one segment.. hopefully this is a good idea for older-weaker GPUs.

Edited by OrangeJuice on Feb 16, 2013 at 04:30 PM

EDIT: Why the arches, columns, and swordbase are scenery instead of BSP
Edited by OrangeJuice on Feb 16, 2013 at 04:32 PM
Edited by OrangeJuice on Feb 16, 2013 at 04:36 PM

Good luck getting rid of that, I just downloaded it

Good job, that actually made lol.

Also, how is the old hyrule market finished if I never finished it?

Hmm. It's nice, but it needs some DX11 tessellation.

finally finished texturing this thing. it is one dirty assault rifle. a major improvement from the storm rifle/aggressor from a while ago :U

You are indeed a master noob. Great work!:)

That said, I think your last two renders need to be done better. They're way too dark and you can't see as much as you'd want to. I suppose the point is to know what they'd look like in the dark, but it's normally better to render anything in lighting where the shapes can be identified.
Edited by DarkHalo003 on Feb 18, 2013 at 02:41 PM

This assault rifle deserves approval.

I think they were to show off the glow from the screen... i think...