Look at the sentinel model and try to use similar angles and stuff like that. Don't rely on extrudes and bevels to make it interesting, get a cool overall form for the shape of the object. I think it looks kinda cool as it is now but there's always room for improvement, but personally I'd be more interested getting it ingame and flying around!

An Onyx Sentinel should look like one.
Your model doesn't look much like a Sentinel. Sentinels in Halo should look somewhat similar to each other.
Edited by Dumb AI on Jun 23, 2013 at 03:28 PM

what about this? (i use the "wings" form the original sentinel)

I cared :) and I wasn't able to get screenshots of the dropship you wanted

Maybe you can connect all the parts, instead of having them float near the orb thing.

but in the books the onyx sentinel is described like that, with three crossbars floating around a glowing orb
examples:

When did a Ghosts of Onyx graphic novel adaptation come out?

That looks nothing like a Forerunner-made object.

never, these are fan arts, but follow the description of the book (in my opinion are ugly anyway)
then any other suggestions?

This was my take on it, from a while ago. I took a lot of liberties though.

Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Jun 27, 2013 at 03:41 AM

Is that GS 343's eye?
Edited by Dumb AI on Jun 27, 2013 at 12:13 PM

hi guys, dedust2 incoming for halo custom edition !



work on shader environment, i don't wanna make a perfect map but just a funny map.

maybe i will use kingfish tags and community stuff.

nice work l28 and ally

For srs that would be so much fun to play on with energy swords (no lunge, melee only.) Or better yet, have 2 ships side by side or something.

I really want to play that.

And instead of assault rifles and Magnums, have those old-fashioned, handmade pistols and muskets with bayonets!

Or even make the parrot into a grenade type? :P

someone wanna participate to beta of dedust2 for halo ?
i need players and a dedicated server.







maybe i will submit it to CE3 2013 and i need people for play the beta and make a video.

xfire: spartan22550

Depending on when you're hosting it, I'd be willing to help you beta. And please, join CE3 (if you can make it by July 3)! :D

-My xfire's the same as my name here (surprise!), but you're better of PMing me on here.

Blunderbusses, sabers, and flintlock pistols would be cool. For the pistols, you could have one shot per magazine, six shots in reserve. For the reload animation, have him toss the current pistol and draw another (pirates carried belts of multiple pistols, so as to avoid the lengthy reloads associated with early blackpowder weaponry).

I think swords would be nice too. 3-hit kill maybe?

i will submit dedust beta to ce3 tonight or tomorow, new screen:





tags are from blood creek campus, ivory tower and halomaps, a big thanks to the creator and to all the community of halomaps !
Edited by Dalek on Jun 30, 2013 at 11:08 AM

Nice job DALEK, keep it up the good work bro ! ;)

wow nice cheddars, you will make a scnery with that ?

wip:

Yeah thanks. Btw nice map lol. I still get punished by guys on de dust -.-.

Couldn't resist.

Is that baked?

Nice job dude!

Yeah I used XNormal to bake my high poly to the low poly. For some reason my normal maps n max look terrible lol. Thanks btw.

This is probably better render:

Edited by Cheddars on Jul 1, 2013 at 12:12 AM

xnormal does get the job done(and comes with a dilation filter, to boot) but in terms of accuracy, I find 3dsmax to do better in that department. I dunno why, but normals rendered in 3dsmax tend to look better for me.

3dsmax also doesn't render with artifacts in the normals, so eh.
Edited by master noob on Jul 1, 2013 at 01:20 AM

I would have to agree. Max is my go to for baking normals. I played with xnormal for a while, but I found I had better control in max.

Yeah, 3ds Max is quite accurant and can acustom to alot more options... Besides, you can bake all your other maps in the same application; no need to go to third party tools to get the job done.

Modelling fp sights (with turbo smooth) makes me want to bite my arm off in fustration.

Edited by Cheddars on Jul 4, 2013 at 04:09 AM

I've started to take a liking to FilterForge. their textures work great...

just seeing what goes best for certain situations, I was thinking about modeling a lava cavern ^-^
This stone texture is using a cloud filtered bumpmap for the purpose of making the walls shiny and mineral-like. When I'm not shining my flashlight on these tunnel walls, they're quite reflective and even use cubemap_space to amp their shiny appearance:

Links to tuts where you learned how to do this stuff? :P

Not a fan of the raised "AA-12" on the stock, but other than that, it looks good.

I think you could try engraving the letters into the stock instead of having them stick out from the stock. I think it would look a bit better.
Edited by Dumb AI on Jul 5, 2013 at 01:58 PM

Just one sentence to say, that's epic ! nice job ! :D

Oh and cheddar keep up the good work :)