Hi, I'm new here and would like to share something with halomaps community. In fact I'm trying to build MY 1'st map for Halo CE. Through many trials and errors, I'm stacked to something that I'll like to fix. Some textures problem: I've skined a warthog and in sapiens the texture looks nice and sharp, but in game it looks bad, if they are too small in resolution and blury.

Here are some screenshots of my map:








screenshot for the texture in Sapien:


screenshot for the texture in Game after compile: All other textures, the clifs ect tend to be a litle blury in game.


I want all my textures to look like in Sapien. Is there amy way to fix this, or am I missing any step when skining!

Edited by goku on Sep 1, 2007 at 06:51 PM

None of those image links work, Goku. Posting images here works different then on most other forums. Try posting code for email, those are just plain direct links. If you want to show the picture here instead of a link try:

[img*]directlinkhere[/img*]

but without the asterisks.
Edited by SGWraith on Sep 1, 2007 at 06:44 PM

In Halo, go into Settings, Video, then turn the Texture Quality to "high".

Also, cool map and hog.

Hi SGWraith, and thank you for the help man.

Aaaah that stupid video setting there! Thanks Nugga117. Fixed it, now it's all right!



Hi, teh ganon. That text mesage there is nothing. I post a lot of works around CG forums where the copyright is an important element. And for exporting I used the same Photoshop action I've made time ago for other works. Anyway thank you for replying to my post.

love that track up above the map.. really cool. awesome work

awwww someone stole my avatar..... i think id be a better goku. ive got the hair already.

but he has the name for it, so you should pick a different avatar lol.

interesting map design i like it so far.

Looks somewhat like what Blood Gulch and Yoyorast Island's child would look like if they were to get married and have a baby.

Also, you don't have to Bold everyone's names, we recognize each other Just fine.

Hi guys and thanks for all your replyes. The map is going fine till now. I'll have a couple isues still inresolved, and maybe I'll post them in another thread. Anyway, here are some new screenshots:

Where are the vertical stanchions (columns) holding up the roadway?

yes but i do believe i was here first. dennis can you upload another picture of goku? then we'll all be happy.

Hi, actually I'm trying to mod the warthogs. Wwill like to make some other vehicles, but dont know if I'll find the right time for these.









hi Sgt Screwup: if it'll come up nice, why not?
Edited by goku on Sep 3, 2007 at 06:02 PM

Thats looking really good, Goku, keep up the good work.

Do we really need to have another discussion on copyright? There was enough of that in one of the other threads.

The floating roadways look unnatural and amateurish. You really need to model stanchions (support columns) for them.

yes i does look nice but realistically roads and bases do not float in mid-air bye themselves.


Change your avatar!

I think some suspension of disbelief is order here, come on.

you lost me at "I"

actually i dont think they will care...they are too happy with halo3 lol

yes technically its property of bungie but i doubt theyre gonna take your map and put in halo 3 or something. although it would be cool if they had a contest for the best 10 custom multiplayer maps and made like a custom halo map multiplayer only game. that would be interesting. but it would never happen.

LOL - I am not sure if you intended the pun or not but it sure made me laugh.



For those who don't get the pun, most elevated roadways are either held by stanchions or suspensions. "I think some suspension of disbelief" normally construed as just accept it even if it's not real could also in this case have the contrary meaning of there is disbelief for no suspensions. Which now ruins the pun... sorry.

It's ok Dennis! :)
Alright, get back to topic..funny...the guy who tells us to stay ON topic slightly went off...dare I say that again? I'm afraid... Alright, I like how the hogs are different colors! Finally! I can tell who's in it now!

Ya, I have my moments, though this one was unintentional. Glad you liked it. :)

Hi guys, I'm back again. I've been very bussy at work and not well because of an influenca. But now I'm fine. It's been a couple of days now that my frends and I play my new map at work. There is a lot of fan there, but it's not finished yet.

Hi Dennis: Yes I know it may look unnatural roadway without the columns, but I wanted to test the 3d mesh at that stage and I'm happy it worked (this is my first map). I'll be hapy to build the columns, but I'm afraid it would be too heavy at the end. Just want to inform that only at this stage it's 71MB .map file. I model it using the minimum polygons posible to make it lighter in game. Is there a way or technique to optimize it further, to make it smaller in size? There are a lot of maps in HaloCE that are biger than mine and they are just 12-16MB. My map has the Bloodgoulch proportions. Any way to optimize it?

Hi Tarzan: I don't think the road needs banking through the turns, because I've tested the turns with full speed + some nice drifting and I ensure you can stay on the road after any turn if you can drive well. I think a little bit of risk at the turns make it more exiting!

I want to thank you for all the replyies and sugestions.
Edited by goku on Sep 7, 2007 at 06:39 AM

WTF! it happened again. if you can, ifyoucan. fyouc? idk.

Also, i think this guy is a bungie ninja.....

lol yeah hes kinda a bungie ninja

Sorry guys, am I missing something? What is this bungie ninja stuff? Can U speak more clearly please?

Hi tripl3x and thanks for the sugestions. If I'll find how to compile the map, so it can be lighter that's now, maybe I can continue modeling it further. The maps that are shared here are 16-20MB, while mine is 71MB. I have to find the way to compile it in more lighter way, maybe there is a step I'm missing!