Iirc, the h4 magnum is the M6E, which was put into service around 2550. That being said, I think the magnum should be upscaled slightly. If not, bring the gun up and slightly closer to the screen

Halopedia says the M6H is the model featured in Halo 4, with officers' models in service as early as 2526.

i dunno about u guys, but i like to see the use i put into my equipment, cracks and creases in mah leather, scratches and nicks in the metal, fraying and holes in the fabric, (and in halo the occasional plasma burn). btw worn in gear can be maintained well and function more reliably than new gear, plus its broken in :D .

yes, let's display the neatness and professionalism of our marines and spartans by showing how much they throw their equipment around. at most, the equipment should have minor scratches from bumping other weapons during shipping and chipped edges from occasional dropping. if your gear gets heavily damaged due to being on the field, then you may as well produce another gun because the damage done to the equipment most likely killed the user and anyone else in the vicinity while the invading forces took over, making retrieval a pointless venture anyways.

i didn't mean TONS of damage, i mean something like Leyr's textures in skyrim. obviously a gun that is utterly wrecked won't shoot properly, i mostly meant elite soldier armor showing damage and wear in this case, and about Dano's type scratching and dirt on weapons.

also i'm learning hlsl slowly, and while lots of it is advanced, u can find many people who's work looks simply gorgeous, and learn from their work. (like Kyo for example) also yes i know halo runs in dx9, i'm very hopeful that inferno's 12d will support dx11
Edited by greg079 on Dec 5, 2013 at 08:52 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong but don't the games take place in some giant dome?

I remember seeing a OS video made by (who I think was) either FireScythe or Kornman00 showing that there's a way to do this already. The camera took a dip in water and when it came out, the water slowly fell off the screen (Similar to how it does in some more modern games)

Dunno if you read the books, but every arena is still inside of a dome shaped area.

In the second book, it talks about Haymitch's experience with the border of the arena and how he used it to win. Some dude even made a movie out of it, which you can watch here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mUjssn86h4

Dynamic Crosshairs Demonstration #2




Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZDfknuUK-k&feature=youtu.be

Posted here because I know the other thread will die.

Made an animation.
http://youtu.be/cSk3AyDXdvk
Edited by spiral on Dec 8, 2013 at 01:27 AM

All I want is a 1-hour version.

and the Award for post of the year goes to...

Should have been this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_DV9b0x7v4

still funny though

i like how throughout the time ive been on this site i just see more and more anime start to flood the forums

more and more people have terrible kawaii-as-crap avatars as if they weren't even 8 years old

this is why i don't do stuff for halo anymore, what community do i have to show it off to other than a bunch of weaboos and bronies

Do stuff because you like doing stuff, don't do stuff just for the sake of showing off.

Yeah man, people aren't here because they like Halo at all.

Also, people shouldn't have different tastes in things than you, thats just plain dumb.

I don't like anime and I think ponys are dumb, but I don't yell at others because of it.

I made my animation for fun.
I don't think there is anything wrong with that.
This doesn't mean i'm gonna go around making these and stop all progress to modding.
besides, this helps improve my animating skills.

I don't like anime and I think ponys are dumb, but I don't yell at others because of it.

Edited by spiral on Dec 9, 2013 at 10:31 PM

Its actually Polish. The show however is Anime so whatever.

CULTURAL DIVERSITY PEOPLE! IF YOU CANT LIVE WITH THAT, GO DIE IN A DITCH BECAUSE NOBODY LIKES YOU

H3 AR



Magnum:



Reach AR:




Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPxxsy36brk&feature=youtu.be
Edited by Jesse on Dec 11, 2013 at 01:08 AM

good luck finding anyone with hlsl knowledge actually willing to mod for a 12-year-old game engine rather than for what they learned hlsl to begin with.

especially considering the community they would have to cater to :U
Edited by master noob on Dec 12, 2013 at 07:34 PM

That would be great. Good luck finding someone.

I have done my fare share of studying post processing lately due to master releasing the visr and other CMT tags for post processing initialy he left out 3 shader's so I went digging. spent about a week researching the wiki & the modasity forums and came across the initial thread where firesith developed the whole post processing system I believe it was first introduced in os 2.5. He posted a user tool much like os_tool that allowed for making custom shader types. He even made a new bitmap type called os_bitmap that compiled a bunch of bitmaps in to one file. I thought the whole thing was pretty cool. I have not attempted to use the tool's but I did read the whole thread. And all the shader definitions. I found some pretty amazing content and id collect some of it. But I have not really had a chance to review it. It might just be useless or it might not or it might be for os_2.5 and then you will need to make some edits to get some of this stuff working in 3.1.0 but this is what firesith used to develop the post processing system. and Eventually after some issues where fixed korn put it in OS. Well some of it anyway. I have prepared a pack for you with all source files needed to build new tag types and new shader types or even new types of water and glass shaders. Although IM not expert of post processing. This pack may or may not work for you but it might help. if you want more I propose you dig though firesith's skydrive. although this is pretty much all that's good on there if you look all you will probably find is even older versions than this but it's worth a shot. I'm trying to develop rampancy & Promethean vision my self I don't fully understand what your trying to fix but anyways good luck with this...
I think you will find the decompiled CE shader's in there! =) or at least something useful. I hope!

Download fire_pack!
http://www.mediafire.com/download/qo9s2r57fwsiqy7/fire_pak.zip
Edited by jackrabbit on Dec 14, 2013 at 12:35 AM

that was a massive post for saying the same sentence with different words a bunch of times.

well, if you've ever used java, hlsl is remarkably similar... except you have no idea what you're you're looking at even though u made all it. there are a few utilities u can use to help u with hlsl but it'd be nice if i could remember at least one of them right now. good luck guys (no way i'm doin' this).

I just found one thing extremely annoying about spec maps.
I was working on porting over the halo 4 storm_plasma_grenade
& I came to find this bitmap called...
storm_plasma_default_detail_spec
as I'm looking at my reference picture I am thinking to my self just how much I wish I could set the spec off by scaleing it the same as the detail map I just made.
but I cant =(

The cov_energy barrier I worked on yesterday ended up looking pretty good when I made these bitmap's because they where the same size And the detail maps I made really set the specular off.


But then today I work on the storm_plasma and no matter what I do I cant get the same effect because the bitmaps are totally different sizes.



to make a long story short. I wish I could scale the specular map! to match my detail map.

I think this function would serve extremely useful.

well then how did cmt make visr shader without cloning OS(or did korn just add that one in?)?
Edited by greg079 on Dec 15, 2013 at 11:08 AM

Firesith made the visor shader with his OS clone he also made the post processing tag type & even other tag types that didn't become official.
at first it was not used because they could not figure out how to apply the effect after the hud. but then they figured out how to squese it in between the hud and enviorment.
Then Kornman00 first put some of FireSith's work in OS 2.5
And cmt/kirby put refrence & script to it in there sp pause menu so you could activate and deactivate it in spv3.

He also made other shaders like Pen & Ink


& I forgot the name of this one.


Edited by jackrabbit on Dec 15, 2013 at 01:12 PM

looks like screen-space distortion.

Yeah that pic was taken before they figured out how to apply it past the hud.
although I think it would be perfect for rampancy the way it is by simply switching the bimap.

There are other effects shaders to. All In the download I posted.
Hope someone can me use of them.
Edited by jackrabbit on Dec 15, 2013 at 01:20 PM

There was an OS version where they had a shader replacement and you could write your own shaders, put me in a folder and it would automatically change the shader for you. It was p. sweet but I was the only one who used it. :(

Theres a difference between a post process and a shader. Sure, you can write a bunch of data overtop of whats rendering, but to actually add more bitmaps slots to a shader, or change the shaders general behavior, that would be the same as the shader_model upgrades which are actual changes in the OS code (go read the OS source code, you'll find files on shader upgrades). the VISR, and other post processes, on the other hand, are as their name states, post processing. Post processing, you should actually be able to get the parallax mapping going if its just looking for all bump/normal maps, and then just warping the screen based off that, but your not gonna get a new shader type for it, it will just base it off what its able to find.

Sure, both have their vertex and pixel shaders, but one is halos actual shader system, and the other is post processing.

I thought kornman00 already fixed that?

so you're saying you'd rather have an OS clone to fix the broken shaders and add the sword one, rather than post-process the sword? well i certainly wouldn't oppose adding parallax shaders and such too (i just hate when people add parallax, but the heightmap is almost flat). my concern is what happens when somebody else wants to integrate a shader? it would suck to have 50 different incompatible generic OS clones.

So, please explain how you intend to take the screen view of the game, and write the additional data over top of the sword, just using a post process. First of all, how do you intend to identify the sword compared to any other particular item on screen? You're going to make it a pure color or something, and hope that nothing else ever reaches that pure color (Well, at least the gbugger include file has a gettype command, so you only have to worry about other weapons matching the scheme your looking for)? Sure, I believe you can get the angle at that point so you could try and math your new crap over top of it, but do you really want to mathematically try to fit whatever to the sword correctly?

Sure, if you want to find a way to identify the sword correctly to draw over it, go for it *shrug*

I guess you could technically just include no FP, and try to completely draw the FP in as a post process, that you only activate when the sword is the held weapon, but whatever makes you happy.

i figure something along the lines of post rendering, yeah. but i already said i don't want any part in that, i'm not quite good enough to do that yet if i could ever find the want/will to do it anyhow. i'd just prefer to have one version of each OS beta releases. though now that i think about it, i doubt korn would be against adding in someone's already completed code to OS, since it wouldn't be too much trouble.