I think you should use smoothing groups on those cliffs.

How do I go about doing that? I think I know how, but I'm not sure. This map is my first attempt at terrain modelling in Halo, also.
Edited by Fulsam on Nov 20, 2013 at 02:35 PM

For your first attempt its fairly good (apposed to my 100% box map)

For smoothing groups, select all of the cliffs (you can do this easily in max by selecting by material, and selecting that whole material). Under where you can select by material, there are a bunch of numbers. You can choose whichever you like, but keep in mind that the ground should be something else... By experimenting with them you will eventually see how they differ.

Thank you, sir! I'll get on that in a bit.

Not too sure about the Friday release date. Lightmaps and Radiosity take quite some time, and I'm debating on adding more variety to the ground below the bridge.

Once this map is out, I'd certainly also like to learn how to use Aether for lightmaps, rather than the old fashioned way. As long as it's faster.

Edit: Actually, if anyone is willing to alpha-test my map and give feedback, I'll put together a quick build for you.
Edited by Fulsam on Nov 20, 2013 at 03:43 PM

Tactical.


Plasma.

I like your ideas. Now, anything for this chap?

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If it's supposed to be using standard ammunition, like the magazine suggests, than how is it supposed to chamber the rounds? There is no slide on the top, like most pistols would have. So by my guess it's designed to be some type of energy pistol. Other small details i noticed were things like trigger, safety, mag release, ect ect. Just a few suggestions that i think would make the weapon a bit more detailed and polished.

@Fulsam, is that the gephy bridge on a custom terrain? It really looks like it to me. Regardless i think you might want to add doors to the ends of the bridge similar to how the bridges in b40 are. Generally speaking as well, you wouldn't want to have a visible ground if it's going to be inaccessible or intended to get to. If you plan on allowing players down there, mess around with making dirt trails or iced areas. Maybe add a frozen waterfall for effect.

@Storm, try adding some areas for lights inset into the gun as well as a safety or on switch. Perhaps add something that signifies who's the user

Fulsam check ur PM's

Okay, that explains a lot of it. In that case, not bad. But you'll still want to add a mag release so that it's possible to get the mag with no more liquid iron out and replace it with a full one. Since liquid iron has a red-ish orange color\glow you could add some places where that shows through, maybe? Also, it has to cool the iron somehow, right? maybe some kind of device in that angled piece above the handle where a nitrogen casing fits in, or something like that. Kinda like a blue-ish c02 canister. And when you reload, the animation could drop out the mag and canister and he could quickly slip in another mag and reload the tank of nitrogen or w\e.
Edited by grunt_eater on Nov 21, 2013 at 01:50 PM

During the early development of this map, I originally was going to reuse the Gephy bridge, but I decided I didn't like how the bridge looked, and that I could do better. The bridge in this map is all new architecture made from heavily modified b40 and a30 elements.

As it stands now, there already are doors at the end of the bridges that lead through a corridor, and into a pulse generator room with the generator replaced with a flag pad for CTF. On either side of the outer hallway of that chamber, there are little rooms with portals in them, that work kind of like Death Island's teleporters. One leading to one of those plaforms built into the cliffs, and another leading to a sidewinder base at the edge of the canyon.

Also, If you look all the way to the far right of the last picture I posted, I already made a frozen waterfall.

A small update. I've added a scope and magazine.

Me gusta

I'd say to make the scope go up a bit higher and perhaps use Grunt Eater's idea for the Magazine. The scope also seems a tad bit bland imo, but im sure that its still a WIP along with the mag.

Also, a small front sight may make the gun look a tad bit better.

Just for reference...

What I made


Reference

It's extremely boxy, much like the rest of the models you made so far of guns.

Try taking a look at some high poly modeling tutorials and try it again.

Theres also some things like the rails that just don't look right, wierd angles and just more overall boxiness.

I think the overall idea of the weapon here IS to be angular and boxy. The rails do look odd but I personally believe that its supposed to be a lot more spread out, thus why they look odd. The magazine also is directly behind the handle (looks like it'd fire .22s or something out of such a small magazine) which seems to make the gun feel a lot more compact.

Its a very mixed review here at the moment, only because the modeling phase went out decently as opposed to the reference, which I personally believe may be lacking

If Halo could support bump-mapping on the vanilla engine

A30 would look a little like this

Looks okay.

its just the vanilla Map with a tiling bump. Would look better if they made dedicated bump per shader

It'll work, but your shadows wont interact with the FP stuff/models I don't think.
Edited by Higuy on Nov 26, 2013 at 09:13 PM

Should work fine if you make a bsp underneath the scenery with shadows from the same direction as the one used to bake the lighting into the diffuse.

Its the vanilla a30 msp.. No shaders modified lol. L2read

I didnt even take the map into guerilla lol. This is the a30 map dowloaded from Halomaps. I did a little experiment with some rasterizer commands in console. I thought some people would be interested in what a30 would actually looks like if bump maps actually worked w/o cubemaps out of the box.

normals are enough for me, though i'd prefer to have tessellation, parallax, and the ability to swap post shaders real time (it may have the last one though, kirby would know).

Thought I should share this. Based off a true dance.

http://youtu.be/ccVfK0Od9_c

heempy made this, I just decided to record it and upload it. Just a reference to one of our old friends.

well thats my yearly post

Gonna work on my H4 magnum. Anyone have max rigged H4 arms?
Edited by Jesse on Dec 4, 2013 at 03:18 AM

Gosh, I dunno why it took me over a year to realize this, but Halo 4's magnum is reaaaally bland. Like, super bland and boring and looks like a piece of cement.

Needs more yellow stripe.

Maybe that could be fixed by making the texture cleaner and less worn.

ftfy

I c wut u did thar

Logically, that would not make much sense, since you'd want to keep it in good condition.

You'd want to keep it functional, sure, but war is not conducive to keeping something in good condition, especially when you're using a weapon that's been in the UNSC inventory since 2526.