Did I ever post this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-OUpZrRZUg

That would spoil it : )

OS Basicly opens the door for anyone wanting to mod the code.
firesith toulk advantage of that and put OS to work for him if he didn't we would not eve have post prossesing tags.
korn was very happy to see someone take advantage of OS features.
but what firesith did was really just the tip of the ice.
There is so many different things you could do it's crazy.
You can totally reinvent the way the game is played and displayed.
I would like to see a dynamic font system my self.
I'm honestly sad at the tiny bit of info and development going on with OS.
I wish there was more..................
More custom tag types more developers & more people developing for OS.

Not much right now. Bsp collision is done and all the shaders are just diffuse bitmaps.
No portals or anything like that yet. I'm going to try to port the lightmaps too (If anyone has any info on getting the uvs in max let me know) Yes there's an interior, and yes I have the other bsps for this level in sapien.

I did write a small thing that imports the portals. It kind of worked.


Edited by Banshee64 on Dec 16, 2013 at 05:55 AM

So, whats meant to amaze us about 01a/01b? Entity does have BSP extraction options. Is this meant to be directly converting the H2 file to HCE or something, because I don't really see what your trying to show off at this current point in time. Hmmm... I guess it could be the direct converting, since I do see a bunch of H2's wasted faces; those usually tend to make tool angry, so I always clean those up.


I really need to continue working on my copy of that BSP.... lol, mah shaders...

i have been experimenting with low gravity in maps and it seems to have some issues in multiplayer, it tends to kick all players but the host whenever thrown grenades detonate or when anyone besides the host shoots.

i need people to test this out for me to be doubly sure.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/79by98sm73q8fcq/launch_bay_revamped.zip
(this is jsut a test map for gravity and how it affects gameplay so ignore the inconsistency's in visuals throughout the map.)

So it's not possible to take the uvs from Halo 2's lightmap mesh and apply them to the new bsp's lightmap mesh in ce if I was able to get the uvw's extracted from Halo 2. I'm still not entirely sure how they're stored if it's in the SBSP tag or if it's in the LTMP tag.

So it wouldn't be possible to inject the new mesh directly into the tag? I don't have any experience with lights in max.

<MenuItem Text="Import Structure Lightmap Uv's" Description=" replaces lightmap texture coordinates">
<DirItem Text="Source Obj Directory" Name="ObjSourceDirectory"
Description="location of the source obj, relative to the data directory." />
<DirItem Text="Source Bsp Directory" Name="BspSourceDirectory"
Description="location of the target bsp, relative to the tags directory." />
<ListItem Text="Note" Name="Note" Description="The quality to generate the lightmaps at.">
<LIItem Text="Replaces lightmap texture coordinates with custom ones loaded from a .obj file." Value="0" />
<LIItem Text="The .obj File must have lightmaps grouped by object and in ascending order lightmap_0 to lightmap_n." Value="1" />
<LIItem Text="Best way to ensure this is to export a fresh lightmaps .obj using Aether," Value="1" />
<LIItem Text="Then Import it into a model program then ONLY edit UV's to ensure the model matches the bsp" Value="1" />
<LIItem Text="For the lightmap UV replacement you should wait until you have completely finished your BSP." Value="1" />
<LIItem Text="As tool can create different lightmap surface arrangements each time you run lightmaps." Value="1" />
<LIItem Text="So an obj created with an older bsp might not match a newer one, and you don't want to re-uv the bsp everytime you make a change." Value="1" />
<LIItem Text="Also, you should ONLY change the UV's as changing the mesh can break the surface ordering and will cause problems." Value="1" />
<LIItem Text="The workflow for using this with Aether would be:" Value="1" />
<LIItem Text="1.Finish the BSP completely." Value="1" />
<LIItem Text="2.Export lightmaps with Aether." Value="1" />
<LIItem Text="3.Re-UV the lightmaps and import." Value="1" />
<LIItem Text="4.Recreate your Aether project and export everything again." Value="1" />
<LIItem Text="5.Do your Max/Maya lighting as normal." Value="1" />
<LIItem Text="Please Note You can't guarantee every obj file format will work" Value="1" />
</ListItem>


Edited by jackrabbit on Dec 16, 2013 at 05:12 PM

Not perfect yet.

Ignore the uvs
Edited by Banshee64 on Dec 17, 2013 at 10:48 PM

GTA IV in my Halo?




Edited by Jesse on Dec 19, 2013 at 08:58 PM

Cool stuff.

maybe ??

Due to being a new member, I can only post links to images. (Still have 4 days to post images).

https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/q71/s720x720/1536616_246988862135698_1920156573_n.jpg

https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1/q71/s720x720/1535443_246988858802365_574645559_n.jpg

https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/q71/s720x720/1526233_246988868802364_1576176043_n.jpg

Working on stuffs. Thought I would share.

I like the Pillar of Autumn aesthetic. I look forward to seeing what becomes of this.

Holy crap, that is good... are you sure you're new here? o.o

What are these for, and how'd you make them?

wow

No, I've been a part of this community since '07. I just use to go by the names of 'Da Pimp Pope' and 'KingFisher'.

Here is some of my work:

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=3934

http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=39373

I thought you left to use Unreal or something like that. Glad to see you're back and I'm getting a Black Mesa type feel with those images.

I actually still messing around with UDK and Cryengine. But I still like to mess around with Halo CE still.

I never played Black Mesa, I'll take a look at it.

Hello guys.

I have worked on some stuff this time, and I did some cool things (I think)

The floods remakes (we need a new name, if you have any ideas, don't miss to inform us) is still alive, we work on a fully custom level. They are some screenshots of our works (little part so) :

Doors concept (little, medium, big is in progress) :



A part from the custom bsp (still in developement) :




Some of our tags :

Covenant turret (with new projectil) :




Warthog (70% done) :



Scorpion (50% done) :



Banshee (90% done, need little improvements on shaders and new lights) :



What do you think guys about all of that ?

I think the scorpion looks too bright and desaturated green. Other than that, the vehicles are looking really nice (loving those shee shaders).

Bsp seems to be doing ok I suppose, its not really enough to make proper judgment on

nice touch on the spartan, looks like they've actually fought a war now.

Thank you guys :) Yes, I have the same idea about the scorpion, he is too bright. About the bsp, yes, it is just the start, tomorow I will post some new screenshots about it.

Here's my final update about the scorpion, with a new thing :)



And that's the final warthog :

That looks pretty good but I think warthog tires are a bit too bright

Tank looks kinda cool with the camo, but the camo should be increased some imo.

The warthog looks a bit strange with the gunmetal detail map, and is also a bit too green.

I don't believe I've ever posted this here, but if you've ever wondered what Lumoria could have looked like, heres some pictures:






There was also a couple other BSP's, unfortunately I don't have them or pictures of them anymore :\

Please also note this was way before ep1 was released and thought of, but encounters like ValleyBattle were definitely considered.

That gun is going to exist.

i believe it is intended to be the elite spec ops unit from headhunters (with artistic liberties) however i note a distinct lack of "modified carbine", neat concept though.

It's just epic ! Some part are from the old multiplayer maps no ? (I don't remember the name tought x) )

I worked on spartans to fix them (multipurpose, desatured CC, cubemaps and some little things).





And today, I fixed some parts of the warthog, it is better ?



Edited by darksoldier on Dec 25, 2013 at 07:47 PM

that camo overlay is way too strong still. Lower the opacity of that

A vertex disaster!

I used the plasma repeater as a starting point since it does resemble it.
Might just make it from scratch.

definitely, i'd a say make it more subtle (like dano's textures for example) also, after closer inspection of those mp spartans i'm not really a fan of the way it was retextured and the model was edited to look like the CEA spartan. i like the grungy look and the desaturation (try maybe some slight splotches or burns perhaps), but i never liked the 343i's mark v.