yes that is looking very good! just keep in mind were the weapon would get scratches most (edges and so on) but don't go over bored. and also keep in mind light and contrast.

ok man heres whats wrong with the texture, its the wrong color its sapose to be a blueish color and theres more but your only in the beginning stages of the hole weapon which is the base texture so i can't say anything els until your done with the hole weapon.
Edited by spike15 on May 9, 2008 at 05:29 PM

It's 'saposed' to be a bluish color, eh? It's not 'supposed' to be anything. I seriously doubt he wants to remake Halo Three, which for some reason, everybody wants. I like the black color with scratches.

plzz dont throw things like that at me i konw im not the best at spelling at least im trying i didnt say it had to look like halo 3 anywhere in that post. i was just saying that it "sapose" to be blue because it is a brute spiker and i thought he was trying to make it look like one.sorry if i was wrong and i dont even know you so before you shout at me tell me what you can do eh!

soz martynball just though i would get that done and over. plzz dont spam this topic if you want to post back theres this thing called the pm.

hey martyn! sigma is recruiting a skinner :)

check our thread a bit down there

even tho we already got someone on the spiker

no it isnt, check rules

and im just giving advertise of another thread on this forum -.-

quoted for truth, rozar wins a cookie

btw martyn, that color is just right, and for references i would recomend you to use actual h3 screenies, since that pic up there is a very old render from about before the halo3 beta

Leave it like that its awesome, also get in h3mt nao were better than sigma :D

Yeah you ripparz.

yes grunt, and thats why your skinner and animator left you guys

but whatever,

btw marty, as a tip, all the blueish glowing things on the spiker can be simply be colored as white with some gray (like the alpha of many icons and hud things) then in the multi map you color it as green, and then in the tag you set the real color

do not start. you have people like masters, CAD, and some of those other awesome people making things for you. what does sigma have? me, arby, ironclad, and geo are the only ones that do any work. we just got maniac for the spiker skin, but we have no idea how that will turn out. we have gone months without any weapon skinners or bsp guys. geo solved the bsp problem, but still. killa helps us with scripting occasionally. you guys use some ripped models, your testing ground is a ripped halo 2 coagulation, got some (note, SOME, not ALL) of your textures from screen shots, that powerdrain vid on youtube features the hud masters made for you guys, model by exam, skin... modified i think by doan, effects by someone, script by killa, and tagging by doan. dont get me wrong, you guys have done a great job of working through the HEK, and you have some very talented modelers (aklass and chocolate nugget) and iv seen your snowbound map. im impressed. im not going to go on over which team is better, and you bringing it up is immature to a ridiculous level. arby simply asked martynball to join the team so we can get some of our models skinned. is that so much to ask? since UMT went down last like.. august, iv been modeling and in need of a skinner. im impressed with this work here so we would like to see more, if you would consider joining our team

a little but of crit on the actual model, since this has turned into a team vs team topic, those 3 bolts on the blade has 7 sides. its just kinda odd. skin looks good, although i wouldn't know...
Edited by Donut on May 9, 2008 at 10:24 PM

Are you kidding me? half of cmt hates doan and dont mention zteam. Maniac didn't leave us did he? I believe hes still with us. Its alright grunt let hunter go since maniac is gonna teach me and nugget to skin

k...We have zeor ripped content besides the screenie unwraps, and HDoan made that hud k?
And we only test on coag becuase people will ***** about unfinished valhalla.
Also my post was dripping with sarcasm.

k, rule #.... like i dunno... 4 mb? internet sarcasm fails. and i *think* you yourself said that too. doan didn't make the hud grid, and i was referring to the time before you guys let *ahem* nairf back on the team. sorry if doans hud looks alot like the one masters made.... since u know, it has the same meter flaws and so on..... i understand using coagulation as a test map, i was just pointing out one of the many ripped things that i saw DURING that time, since i haven't seen much since then in game. just model renders.
to reiterate what i now claim to be internet rule #4, written sarcasm fails. you can be really rude at times, and those times occur quite often which makes it difficult to tell when you are sarcastic or not, and the attitude you have adopted recently leads me to believe that your "we are better than sigma" was not sarcastic.
the Valhalla thing makes sense though. people have a tendency to ignore the fact that everything is wip
Edited by Donut on May 9, 2008 at 11:53 PM

yes truth doesn't always hurt lol

Maniac never left us, and Iron Clad "helps" us with our animations. Don't say things if you have no idea what's going on.

i was just looking at that skin, it seems really detailed. what is the resolution?

Chill out guys. Theres no reason to continue this childish argument.

chatlogs dont lie

[22:33] =Σ= TheArbiter: did u really completly leave h3mt? xD
[22:33] =Σ= TheArbiter: since u dont have it in ur clans list
[22:33] Mấņįấς: yea

even tho

Mấņįấς: ill maybe do some stuff for them later
Mấņįấς: but i left the clan

also,

ICEE: I animate for aklass and nugget
ICEE: not nessesarily for h3mt


hope that helps :)

now plz get on topic.

EDIT: btw marty, heres another ref pic, ull need to zoom in but it kinda helps

http://images.wikia.com/halo/images/1/18/Spikers.jpg
Edited by _TheArbiter_ on May 10, 2008 at 12:29 AM

I dont think theres blood on the blades in halo 3, only in the beta. i think it looks stupid with it anyways. try making one without blood.

It's going to be more detailed than bungies model... Again.

Looks very awesome. Keep it up!

Martynball, you are a GOD!

Stop using grunge brushes.


Also, your doing it wrong, and slow. The scratches look way too thin and like generic source mod skinners weapon skins. Not everywhere needs a scratch. Include a narrative in the design. Picture a battle in your head, picture every movement of the gun, and picture it scraping up against a wall, being knocked to the ground,and picture where damage would occur logically. Put the nail scratches of a brute who gripped the gun too tightly from anger. These thigns make the texture seem to have more life and soul.

Right now, it looks like "Texture Tutorials 101".


Also, you have alot of fine detail but barely any large or medium detail in the texture. At a first person view, the gun will look severely undetailed and monotoned. You are on a track, not necessarily the right one, but you'll get there if you let yourself get there.

dodge and burn mainly dodge or you can do as some lazzy people do not me "cough"cough" is get a scratch brush. but i hardly ever use it only when i want to show something off quick :P or i use it in tuts :P lol na use a 1px brush with dodge and think of what dano said he knows what his talking about.
Edited by spike15 on May 11, 2008 at 06:41 AM

you need some commonsense? :P and the blade doesn't look bladeish it looks concreteish.

That looks better to me. Kinda worn around the edges gives it a realistic look.

Needs scratches near the handle near the back of the main part of the gun. logically, when a brute is holding it (we'll assume he's right handed" his thumb would be sticking up on the left side and his thumb nail would probably put a lot of scratches right there where the handle starts.

in answer to your topic title

Yes. You goddamn do it good too!

Damn, that looks incredibly accurate! Way to go! :))))))))

I give it a 0 because it is a ripped model and not custom.

I said nothing on the skin, so don't flame me for it. Want to get my rating? Make your own weapon with NO connections to Halo 2 or Halo 3.

Its not ripped dip****, also why the hell should you care? dont go with the typicall bandwagon "ohh we needz more originalz maps Pl0x"

E: DAM YOU HUNTER

Edited by CLS_GRUNT on May 11, 2008 at 02:22 PM

Finally. Someones skinned lights which actually look like lights!

blades still look like concrete but other than that it looks good. and for base texture is that a brushed metal? because it looks like it.
Edited by spike15 on May 11, 2008 at 03:41 PM

lol, i know. i was just giving some advice on how to make it look good.