Whaaaaaaaat?...

Wait,....that's YOUR Burial Mounds?
Well I'm sorry! It has no author!

Are you kidding? That map's pretty good.
best SMG melee I've seen. But it shoots to fast and the recoil is too great.

well, i believe we are FULLY intent on putting halo 2/3 content. maybe we should release a classic version too?

Wow, I need to get in touch with dEEp more often. Been busy with Yoyorast's ATV lately, haven't had time to post on forums, go on Xfire, or do much of anything.

Well just to let you guys know that I will be redoing the environment for this map and it's going to look golden. To give you a taste test of what and how it shall look is right here.





The poly count may seem too high but its not that high it just that all the polies are used effactivly and it seems like the ground is smoothed... it is not like again the polies are placed very well. Total faces of 1755, polies 877.5.

Here is something I made the other day that i thoughtI would like to show.

That is awesome you are awesome.

i was under the impression a mapping "team" didnt belong to only one person...i thought that it belonged to anybody who put into it's maps...geez, get over yourself. havent they told you before to stop calling it yours?

i want...TAGS!!!!!!!

Maybe becouse its not Vahalla!

It's just the bases that are Valhalla-ish...Still be cool if you made it a bit like Valhalla and added a Covenant Dropship instead of a pelican...if you were ever going to.
Does this map even have a name yet?

I will take your suggestions, Dennis, to heart, because you give the best ones to be frank :P. As for a name? well thats under wraps, till we get a beta goin, and thanks to ganon, it'll probably be a public one :D, yeah you read right, one of the first betas will be public ones... hopefully. at any rate, I know il duce will pull through, he's remodeling the terrain, we're keeping the bases, and their placement MAY be changed, i still dont know what duce has up his sleeve, but i'm sure its somethin good.

In the alpha build, I encountered very bad FPS problems, i usually get 60 or 70 fps on maps, but on this one, it would dip from 70 to 8, when looking at things in the distance. after troubleshooting, i guess its the custom ripple map i made, in combination with too many lensflares from the lights. so im gonna tone that down on the bases, and work something out as far as FPS friendly, yet visually stunning lighting is concerned. portaling the level helped, quite a bit, but not enough for me to be satisfied, because i know not all people in this community have SLI, dual core processors, and 2 gigs of ram....

EDIT: i think i should post a couple teaser pics b4 i go to bed, so here you go





why not make it 3?



just so you know, those vehicles will most likely not be in there, i just havem for testing playerclip, bsp errors, and stuff like that, hope you like the screens
Edited by M6dEEp on Sep 22, 2007 at 08:30 AM

UGH, not that crap banshee skin....
But that's just placeholders to test BSP and stuff you said. I hope that changes.

Why am I never informed of these betas?

Anyway, looks nice so far, I'll have to get on Xfire with you later.

Don't worry Jay, you're not the only one left outta the loop lol

my mauler. dont give me crap about it.
we are going to have an h3 hud.
i figured out what was wrong with the meters for it (damn alpha blending )
iv been working on some other models too. no details yet as i would like to stay secretive in my department at least.
im doing fp anims for all of my guns, and 3p anims for everything cuz im sick of every custom weapon using the assault rifle reload. well thats all from me for the moment.

id like to inform the team that i may be gone for a few weeks. or maybe ill be back tomorrow... never can tell. ill still be working on the assualt rifle though, just in secret.


and where could the brute mauler POSSIBLY have come from? donut made it. not like we're getting any help from CAD like h3t is.

next person to accuse my of ripping/ stealing is gonna get it. ill make a whole damn video of me re-making it just to prove to you its mine. dont mess with me about my work. if uv got positive criticism then shoot, but if ur gonna be an ass, then leave
edit: by the way, i wasnt yelling at you ironclad, that was just a general statement
edit again: can we not mention h3t? i dont want them storming in here and getting this locked.
Edited by Donut on Sep 22, 2007 at 07:01 PM

well he's gettin "it" everyday all week, that blows anyone's ego outta proportion. But anyhow, where DO you think he got the mauler from then...smartass

or as d4no would say: "you ripped it from halo3!!!, yeah from the beta! even if it wasnt there!"

hey dano think i ripped this?

if you do, BITE ME!! my friends will tell you iv spent the last few days on this. yes it will be in our maps, no its not detachable like in halo 3. its just cool looking.
im only showing one pic but the pic kinda makes it look odd... dont worry, the model looks just fine. a total of 3332 polygons. but if you think about it, thats a hellza lot of detail there.

Edited by Donut on Sep 23, 2007 at 12:15 AM

haha mass we scared him off. thats why he isnt here.... <--- that is gonna come back and bite me in the ass

hey i look good now...

And the model is going well and donut is going to model some more custom stuff so stay tuned.

janep I ask you nicley to stop posting off topic. this is not the place for this so please take this to another forum because we dont need this here.

Kid, just shut up. Please.
Oh, and you suck at Halo 2. I played you on a friend's Xbox live today.

P.S. You sound like a 10-year-old girl on Xbox Voice chat.

Lol i lol at this topic and everyone that fails on flaming.!Lol get ontopic noobos

That's a nice tripod, what color is it gonna be?

Probably the Beta color...though it'd be cool if they put the sigma symbol on it.

ok iv seen some criticism here, im ok with that, can we drop it about dano, and can we not fight over stupid crap. next off topic post will get... er well i dont know since i have no power over that but please dont get this topic locked! iv got more stuff coming that we might announce
also all that random bs on the gun, i wouldn't normally put that on there. i tried to get it pretty much exact to the h3 turret which if you examine closly, has everything i put on. n the same place, including the vent on the back. otherwise though, i totally agree with you mass. it does have non functioning random BS
also

dude i LOVE that idea. when the map comes out, see if you can find it
Edited by Donut on Sep 23, 2007 at 11:05 AM

Please don't make me lock this topic because of the childish bickering.

Now on the topic of the thread:

It you guys do decide to place some custom content like weapons or vehicles into the level be sure that it has strategic value to the gameplay and not because it may be “cool” or what is in other games.

So often I see maps where people load them up with all kinds of H2/H3 styled weapons with no thought whatsoever about balance or how it affects game play. Just look at some of the early Bungie videos about all the weapons they created but never used in the game from chain guns to plasma weapons. But they never used them because they either didn’t fit the look of the game or more often because the game play became unbalanced.

As a player you want the most effective weapon to beat everyone. But as a level designer you need to take into consideration what the game will be like for EVERYONE if someone gets that “super weapon”. Being able to change or alter your perspective to think like that is what separates the map makers from the map hackers.

Thanks!

Dennis thinks too much like Kiwi on this subject.

Did you make a custom HUD? I'm too lazy to look because in those pics, you just have CMT's health bar.

what? theres no cmt healthbar man..... where did you even see a pic of the hud?

No, I meant the one they used for SPV1.
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=2479