I figured there'd be a need for this, to cut down on the amount of CMT topics.

Here's to start you off, the new brutes.




Both are WIP, meaning NOT DONE.

or people could always look on the h2vista forums for CMT. http://www.h2vista.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=21

good to see the CMT guys around here. most of the people here dont ever go to h2v, so now well have updates here too. keep up the good work guys.

i agree with ganon, the brutes are coming along very nice

The brutes look nice... I just hope they're animated like brutes... One video I saw of them kinda made them look weird to me...

They almost make it look like they're modeled in details...

Dano did the texturs. Holy Alliance is working on the anims. He's been using a motion capture studio for the brute anims.

Their looking just like Halo 2's.
I can't wait to see them in action.

Ugly looking brutes... Wait, they're supposed to be ugly...

Brutes! Kiwi wants to kill them and eat their face.

The brutes look good except for the model of the face. It looks out of proportion bu other than that I like.

Kiwi can't remember exactly but there is something different about the mouth.

Obviously they still need to texture some parts, and they said (I don't know who) but someone is working on the animations.

Teh Lag--------made the brute models
Dano---------skinning the brutes

Some brutes have light hair while some are dark brown (Kiwi thinks it indicated rank in Halo 2)

I like the one with the head dress version. Makes it look more Halo 3ish.

HELLO! motion capture? as in like a suit that you wear and it save the animations to the computer? elaborate please as i would LOVE to invest in something like that

nice spelling masterz.

but i do like the brutes. dano does good work

He has a Mo-cap studio at his university.

brutes look good I guess.......i thought they were lego-men from the trailer I saw before... but I guess they aren't

Dano needs to learn that though the rough texture works well on guns (the slightly pocketed effect) it doesn't work so well on organic things :/

I DO hope those aren't final textures...

Seriously Jay, did you even read the first post?

Teh Lag's re-animated the old brute twice, It doesn't take long by hand, only a few days for him, but we wanted to try mocap.

i want to try a mo-cap it looks sweet.

yup. iv been on google all day looking for it. and omg, teh lag does an entire set of anims in one day? thats insane. i tried to make brute anims. i made the walk backwards and walk forwards ones. i tried to make sidestepping and i got soo bored that i gave up.... damnit..... i suck.

wow the new pics make me not want to throw up.

Good luck cmt

Yeah, the textures aren't done, Jay. Hence the "WIP" part.

Those OLD pics masterz linked were two days work when I rendered them.

I believe that summarizes my head right there. A circle with nothing in it.

Well, actually, there is something in it, I have heightened smarts and reflexes, but at the cost of strength and common sense. So I do stuff without thinking.
Edited by Jay2645 on Sep 3, 2007 at 05:06 AM

bit of an update.


Unwrapping all those different armour permutations is LIQUIDDEATHSUICIDE
Edited by D4NO on Sep 3, 2007 at 05:24 AM


Btw, you'll notice the bump maps on the left side of the brute are inverted. This is because of mirroring. Game engines are smart though, and don't do this ingame. They flip the normals.

The CE version will be fakebumped, the renders are more close to what would be in H2V.
Edited by D4NO on Sep 3, 2007 at 05:26 AM


Also, this is extremely basic, 4 days work. I'm stil yet to do the hands, finish the inside of the mouth, and touch up detailing the body wiht veins and stuff.

After the brutes body is done, I'll get on to skinning the armour plates.
Edited by D4NO on Sep 3, 2007 at 05:28 AM

Much better.

body bump map so far



body diffuse so far

for an example of the quality of the bitmaps. Again, 4 days work.


also lul at the temporary hair texture :PPPPPPP

was an old woodgrain custom brush pattern I made, just a placeholder for now.
Edited by D4NO on Sep 3, 2007 at 05:35 AM

I was going to say that it looked like wood...
Also, why do you need bump maps, doesn't Halo only allow bump maps for .shader_environments, or did Kornman make something I don't know about?

I make bump maps first always. This gives me things to use for rendering later, and bump maps can be used with PS's lighting effects to fakebump a skin. I also make specular maps and stuff and then convert them to multipurposes. Proper ones.

The real time bump mapped version is saved for rendering and halo 2 vista, and the CE version that will be in SPv2 wil be fakebumped, quite close in quality, just not real time rendered displacement.

Ah, I see. I have Photoshop CS2, and I can't even make a good bitmap with it, and I have no idea how to even do a fake bumpmap or multipurpose, lol.