A map i've been working on for a while now. Added some custom vehicles I made, with help from ledhedgn, Sgt. Botley, and Teh Lag. Working on custom ice weapons and some more scenery. Possibly might make a custom biped for this one. Anyways, here it is in its current state.











Its a perfect blend of custom snow and ice. Bump mapped perfect. This map went through 3dsmax and back into tag format so i could make the shaders fit correctly. Portals were refined to make use of some sounds and weather in a better manner. Ice grenades were added last night. Sometimes suttle changes in maps is better than complete makeovers. I still have my custom snow hog to put in.

Lol cool.

could u add a snowy skin to the mongoose? i think it would make it look better in a snowy map like that, sorta like in avalanche
Edited by Brian on Jun 22, 2008 at 12:36 PM

open sauce? :3

wtf?

Yes, the final M257 proto will have a snow skin.

No Ice skin for mongoose??

I love those Mongeese. Do you plan on releasing them?

Nice one. If Selentic doesn't say it's just a texture mod, then he obviously hates me because this is basically what I did for Snow Valley and he gave me BS.

The ground texture looks bad from far away, but up close with the mongoose lights it looks a lot better. the bump maps look good. overall though its kind of ugly.

i have some idea's because i agree with sel the ground texture docent look nice with the Grey(ice)
and it docent look right with the Grey randomly going into the cliffs and so on.so instead why don't you make it just snow and make the ice like the ice in Sidewinder and also you should also make the howl sea ice!!!! that would be awesome :P
Edited by spike15 on Jun 22, 2008 at 01:31 PM

Like I stated, This is the begining of this map. Please give me sometime guys. btw, thats shaders and textures used from icefields. That would be like saying icefields isnt good either. When your up close it doesnt look grey. It's quite blue.
Edited by Matooba on Jun 22, 2008 at 01:25 PM

omg thats nice :D.

maybe u should maek the water frozen, but when u go to far u hit a death barrier

Hey, great idea Advancebo!! I think I will add that in. Any other ideas besides ground textures.

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Edited by Matooba on Jun 22, 2008 at 01:28 PM

thats my idea!!! :P and ya theres load you could do to the map and as you said your still in the starting stage.and as asked before will this be open sourced?

All my maps are open source. Every tag and map and anything ever made by anyone is technically bungie owned. How will ppl ever learn or have tools (ie..vehicles scenery and etc..) if no one contributes. This is why I'm reopening HPC.

Maybe try the portent ground bitmap instead, see how that looks. Also, make sure you change the cubemap of the water. If you're gonna use the Prime sky, I know for a fact that there's a cubemap for it somewhere.

oh and maybe u should make the external areas of the bases and the turret ledge shinier so it seems like ice is frozen on it. (when i say external, i meant anywhere that has contact with the outside, excluding the areas inside the bases.)

Thanks for the heads-up! Do your mongeese work %100 correct so far?

dude mongooses are on the halomaps vehicles tags section

But they honestly suck. I rather not have to go through using them. They only crash Sapien.

This is true, Ive been deep into the crytek engine and have since grow tired of it. It has a poorly setup multiplayer. I always comeback to Bungies engine for some reason. Myabe its the ease of content or the ability to have a good multiplayer setup.

Yes, the this is being done too.

Thanks for the heads-up! Do your mongeese work %100 correct so far?

How bout a sample video of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtUVhYfhqEY

Beta is a ways to come, like maybe a month or so..

the suspension and general movements of the mongoose are a bit strange, i recommend giving it the ability to turn more sharply to fix that, as for suspension, maybe x1.5-x2.0 more?

Sounds seem a little weak, should make it more strong or something and ull have a pretty cool mongoose imo

Greenland is not a giant ice block. It is a real land mass, like Antarctica.

M257 Proto Mongoose
A new Snow Hog unscene b4
Ledhedgns vehicle surprise

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It looks good. Maybe a change in sound is needed and I think it should be a tiny bit smaller. Other than that, it works very well. Will it have a passenger's seat?

Not at all. It wouldn't take much effort to import the BSP and fix it up.

Please modify the model and layout of the map. All I see right now is Death Island with texture swaps and a couple of custom tags, which isn't all that interesting. Stock Death Island plays poorly, too, so you should put in some effort to change it up some.

The mongoose looks... Big. Make it smaller.

Arteen, Ive gone into max and decided to make changes to the original bsp. I realize what your saying about game play. Thank you for your opinions guys.

I can do a custom ground texture for you if you want. If you look in Sympathy that ground texture was made by me, and it was quite good.

Let me make bsp changes first.