The gap is fixed, if you mean where the bipeds used to be. Could add a doorway into the ship there now possibly.
I'm gonna add a respawn box for those bipeds, completely isolated from the play area

I'll divide up the terrain better before the final export. Whatever error you see is probably because there's just a couple huge triangles between the tunnels



It's still snow themed. The sun's color is tinting it. Same sky from the methane-enriched Balaho. Easily fixed in the sky tag


The covie ship will have at least one hanger in the classic location, partially buried. I'm also "digging out" some escape pod ports and/or another hanger under the poa, which will provide ground level access. Maybe some wasp launch bays? Or a similar compact fighter type thing.

did i read it right theres going to be some escape pods yay

if the vehicles were all fliped it would take awhile to unflip them i once spent 5 minutes trying to unflip a pelican.

1- if egg goes through with his 'evil plan' (love saying that) which he said he would, and puts more pelicans in the hanger but on racks, he could have a few "dead" pelicans hanging around sparking and stuff ^_^
2- the dead bipeds idea sounds awesome... since they arent ai and it is possible to rig dead bodies as 3d decals... could you put some in?
3- if the escape pods are pointed towards the ground will that mean that some of the pod sceneries would have to be moved closer to make it look like they fell out the side of the halcion?
4- if there are hallways with hogs and stuff... does that mean you connected the hanger to the hog bay... cause thats the makings for an epic hog jump!
5- can you please put a big hole in the side or top of the covie cruiser so there is more than one way to get in it?

just remember, scenery objects are always rendered, but you can change their LoD; if you make alot of scenery objects try to make a lower LoD

some of the pods could be out and crashed(ones that the covenant will use to get in the ship by jumping on them to get in)and some pilotable so if they have the flag and there vehicle respawned (common problem) then they can use that to leave with the flag and the covenant boarding crafts you can do the same idea just reskin the escape pods it would be fun to fly away with the flag in a escape pod/boarding craft.

edit: just think if you went with this plan you will be the first to make a covenant boarding craft.And ive always wanted a map with working escape pods (if you know any maps with working escape pods please tell me)
Edited by jescon on Oct 8, 2008 at 07:18 PM

mario vs starfox is one map with some pilotable escape pods... balaho would have had functional boarding crafts... i have the 3d design... just no model

yeah make the text black or blue or something...

i also think the vehicles in/around the hanger should be all flipped and stuff.... just to emphasize the whole "crashed" thing.... Like the insides got all shaken up, and there should be like ammo weapons and dead bipeds everywhere.....
just to make it realistic.....
^^^you don't have to do that last part.... but it would make it better

how do you do this?

can you tell me some of bahalos maps please

1- Balaho is the map name... it is the other project that i have thus far haulted work on
2- this is the extinction 2 thread... use it as such... btw... egg... how much of the last level of the campaign did you rip and place in the halcion?
3- drivable lifepods would be awesome but somewhat useless because they are unarmed... will there be any in this map or was the idea scrapped?

Are you schizophrenic?
A volcano would be good, in the sky model

i think an odst drop pod would be awsome if it was in a room were you can go in it then under neath it is some telporters that take the pod with you inside it to the other side the you can get out and storm the enemies same goes for the covenent cause there are covenant elite droppods that would make gameplay more fun with odst pods and escape pods would be awsome.

wtf?

its kind of self explanitory

i would love it if halomaps had a rep system. it would keep people in check.
i think you know what i mean, both of you

hey donut do you think odst drop pods would be fun in this map

there ODST "DROP PODS" not "FLY PODS" they only go in one direction

and besides they would need to be dropped from orbit to even work.

How is the coldsnap sniper for a starting weapon?

Try it out for yourself.

The Cold snap sniper is the same one as the Hugeass one isn't it? If so it's okay. I don't have any problem with it myself.

do NOT use the coldsnap sniper its WAYYYYYY to powerfull

its called balance, and we already went through all this

i know the odst/covi pods go in one direction i meant have them in a room hanging over lots of teleporters the the tele takes you in the sky over the enemie side of the canyon and bam you hit the ground pop the door of and shoot at the enemyi presto there you have it and the escape pods could be escape for enemi flag taker if there vehics respawn thats what i was thinking and glad to see youre back egg

no. lag from extra waste of space. and please use better grammar

why would it be a waste of space it would make people have more fun in a map it would to a quate i have from anothe topic as proof the first map with workable escape pods(that arent in campaign) and first workable drop pods and i didnt find mario vs starfox.

It would be a waste of space because, You would have to model in the pod hangar, the space through which it falls. the scripting and tagging to get the drop pods working.

and pics or lies

No drivable lifpods or ODST drop pods.

and destroyer...

New BSP.

awww ok

alot of ppl are going offtopic......... pls stay ON topic so that this doesnt get locked
i cant wait for the full thing its gona be awesome lava does look great and stuff

1- have the reloading issues been adressed for the sniper rifle?(most of the time you can either fire off 6 rounds from an empty clip or it doesn't reload as it should and stays empty until you hit 'r')
2- can you please up the damage effect+ projectile speed+ the distance traveled until autodetonation of projectile on the anti aircraft fuelrods please? (they are slow, do relatively no damage, and they often detonate before hitting the target)
3- can you please adjust the collision geometry on the tactical bomb? (it falls through the floor when dropped and often detonates outside the bsp because of small collision geometry issue)
4- has the issue with the crevace been addressed?(if you get shot down over the crevace, your vehicle falls and stays there because it slides around on the 'barrier'... can you please script the pit to trigger the vehicle respawn please?)

Vehicles don't fall below -256 world units, no matter the setting in the scenario_structure_bsp tag. So I'm gonna raise the bsp, and the vehicles will be able to fall to the lava. Don't worry Egg, I can script a scenario tag manipulator thingy to offset all the Z values to correct for the bsp shift on the Z axis, so your object placements don't have to be redone again.

as for #3, that sounds like it 'overpenetrates'. That would be at the bottom of the projectile tag, in Material Responses, for the ground's material type

someone may or may not have said this yet but the beta link doesn't work.

You lie, I use it a lot =D

buddy, if you dont like it, then dont post. this isnt a post + 1 thread
edit: for the daft, look how he altered jack sparrows message. you see my point
Edited by Donut on Oct 12, 2008 at 11:49 AM