Use an offset of half the canvas size.
work on the edges/corners (which are now the middle).
Apply offset again.
Done.
http:// http://www.designbash.com/photoshop/photoshop-offset-filter-making-seamless-textures/
Edited by Maniac1000 on Jul 3, 2014 at 02:30 PM

I think by "does not simply mess with corners" he means that even if you make the corners tile appropriately, its going to look fake in most cases, or easy noticeable that it tiles.

I usually do something similar to this, except I couldn't find an offset filter in gimp so I usually just open up a 4096x4096 window, paste the texture four times in each 2048 square, and then go from there. Basically just doing the offset by hand. Doesn't make much difference.

@Yatz,
I'll definitely try that


I decided to try something a little more challenging, and tried to do a complete overhaul of the wide metal decorative strip texture

The original:



Edited version:



I was going for something different than halo 1, maybe a little closer to H3 aesthetically, but overall just something different.

Oh and don't worry I don't plan on spamming this thread with textures. I just thought the tile was a bit to simple for proper criticism and any problems I have with my Gimp skills would be better exposed by a more challenging modification, and you guys could therefore critique me better.

Edited by Delicon20 on Jul 3, 2014 at 04:59 PM

I really like it.

Blowing the texture up like that seems to have created some pixelated edges especially around some of the round parts. I would recommend doing some spot tesselation and then blending if you plan to keep that texture size. Also, after the re-color/re-grunging, it appears some of the shaded areas have become less pronounced and thus look really 2D, even for a base texture. I would recommend going through and picking out the shaded areas in the original and trying to overlay them somehow. Maybe overlay with a greyscale of the original then bring the contrast up a bit until all the flat areas are white and only the edges where the shading is shows as dark, then create a mask and reverse the mask so that only the shaded parts show over top and then play around with layer intensities until you find a level that keeps your updated texture, but also adds in the shading at a good level to make it look 3D.

Looking good, Delicon. I'd suggest putting them ingame and taking a few screenshots. That's something I'd love to see.

Elite, where the ehck have you been? killing Teemos I presume.

More like working on learning the electronic music scene and playing Gary's Mod.

That looks pretty bad.

I actually have a version of the floor tile I made that matches the wide decorative strips color palette. I made like three different variations of the ground plate texture, actually.

Anyway,



Alright, so I've worked on pretty much everything.
-Added more Detail
-Used the bump map as an overlay layer to make all the edges more pronounced
-Spruced up the two left and right borders a little
-Shaded a lot of the edges and inclines of the texture by hand rather than relying on the vanilla texture to do it for me like a pansy
-Added highlights to the edges of the gold metal parts of the texture going by what Yatz suggested.
-Probably screwed up the tilability of the texture in the process of all this, like a pansy. Gonna have to fix that later


Edited by Delicon20 on Jul 4, 2014 at 02:37 AM

Rain, wet rocks, and...stuff?





Just finished the shield and health from scratch. Modeled it after the vids of TSC:E, but obvious differences.
Overall, it's just a slick look that I really liked in the new CMT previews. *shrug*

vid of it, came out super dark though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6wdf9Utv8o

Your post has helped me realize hyper-detailed gloves make me distinctly uncomfortable.

Looks good nice but I like to see ingame.

Ingame footage because my 900 dollar gaming computer can't take screencaps of halo:

https://www.mediafire.com/?x68ofg6jipvdecf

Those damn jackals kept causing a racket in the background. I thought I killed them all

Hey, are you able\willing to share those fp arms? I have a few H4 animations that I made, and I'd probably do a better job if I had the actual H4 arms instead of the H2 ones that I use, I'd make more accurate origins and such. How well are they rigged?

Magnum:

Edited by Jesse on Jul 4, 2014 at 09:50 PM

They are savinpvtmikes fp arms. He took it down cuzz of latino modders not crediting him so you will have to rip it from a latino map.

Cool, they're one of the only assets I was unable to find a creator to credit for!

@ Jesse
Yeah, I've fully redone all the shaders and have a complete re-tag of the fp arms. I wondered the origins, and yeah I had to rip it from ragnarok. The originals looked awful, but I'd be willing to PM you if you'd send me the completed version :P
Edited by NeX on Jul 4, 2014 at 11:50 PM

Such animosity, why?

I never even said it was good. Chill

Lumoria and Threshold are best buddies.


Edited by MoooseGuy on Jul 5, 2014 at 02:24 PM

would threshold be a cool place to have a map?

i forget, does it even have land?

I feel like we could BS a cool mp or even SP map there

The gas mine levels in Halo 2 take place on Threshold.

ewww

so yes, you could easily have a floating station in low orbit

Created new textures for teleport shield (with news shaders). Which one is the best ?

Reduce the grunge. Green is best.

Those look nice. Green and blue are best.

Red looks pretty badass IMO.

EDIT:
New color profile bitmaps are fully implemented in Universal UI's Update 1.



Also, here's a change log of what I've gotten done:
Added Fierce & Nebulaphobia to Firefight menu
Added Halo Slender Swamp and [redacted] to Singleplayer menu
Moved Halo: Covert Ops and Takedown into main Campaign menu
Removed H2SPP and Firefight Amnesia for this update
Added custom intro and looping music
Added custom player profile color images
Added custom multiplayer menu graphics
Optimized interface and decreased startup time
Modified sky gbxmodel to accomodate a smaller Threshold bitmap
Gave the Requiem planet bitmap better depth
Tweaked sunlight lens flare color/brightness
Fixed error box text alignment differences
Cleaned up gametype icons
General cleanup of interface and text
Edited by MoooseGuy on Jul 6, 2014 at 12:52 PM

freakin AWESOME.

Burial Mounds takes place on the surface.

Burial Mounds is a moon orbiting Threshold. The moon's name is Basis and it is told to have had heretics on it...

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Burial_Mounds
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Basis

I'm just gonna drop this...

https://www.mediafire.com/?ajmic67tijc62l6

I am going to make so much profit out of that zip

Someone who reads the terms and conditions :P

Hiralis? You made a video on youtube which covered how to modify your halo loading screen. But it didn't work for me :(

Seems like it would make a great layout for a New Mombasa map.