If the ship crashed, I'm sure it's MAC cannon would be buried or destroyed.

Besides, even if the Halcyon's MAC wasnt destroyed, the MAC wouldn't be pointing towards tha battle. Halcyons are giant space guns basically. To aim the MAC in a space battle would involve turning the whole ship. You can't turn the ship if it's crashed in the ground.

do you know how damn big a mac cannon is? play halo 2 on the 2nd cutscene level. the armory one, and look out. see that biiiiiig tall building thing? thats a mac gun.

Qwepir is right, and even if you could turn the ship the MAC round would destroy the planet.
Donut, you're wrong. That is a Super MAC it is much bigger than the ones used on ships.
Edited by RougeSpartan414 on Sep 1, 2008 at 11:21 PM

you mean like this one

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l191/fallen_zero0033/21123681-Full.jpg

hey egg, do think you can try making one of these turrets?

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l191/fallen_zero0033/HighGround11.jpg

1st pic is the covenant gun tower, which there already is one in extinction. and the second pic is just lame missiles

Odd. How come the ones in the Metroid TallonIV rc1 work so flawlessly?

No the scarab shouts that when you charge its laser.

A mac round can't destroy a planet.

A NOVA can.

Also, I don't know how to model. I mean, what, do I make it all from one box, or more boxes? Or do i have to use a plane? :S

:U still in the MAC family

The current gun towers are fine.

No more vehicle addition discussion. If you want to talk about the vehicles, talk about how they can be modified.

Now, current vehicle types:

Covenant gun tower.
Wraith tank.
Scorpion tank.
Scarab tank.
Gauss warthog.
Stingray.
Longsword.
Brute ghost.
Spectre.
Seraph.
Coldsnap\extinction pelicans.

Pending vehicles:
Fuel rod ghost.
Kraken fighter.
Missile hog.
Rocket hog.

More may be added depending on neccesity. Covenant\human balance is very difficult in this scenario. The humans have a nice, enclosed area along with a base camp outside, while the covenant are more spread out. I am trying to compress the covenant area, but I still want a use for the open space.

I am going over many different layouts in my head. The human base is pretty well set as is. I will most likely add more teleporters leading to the human base, for camping reasons...

I am really trying to keep that great feel that the original extinction has, of a big battleground filled with opportunities for battle. The human base I have perfect. It is very good, how ender designed the area...

...but the covenant base, as stated above, will require much layout editions.

I am going to add the Kraken in the map. The covenant need an edge here, and the kraken will be perfect for adding variety and helping to keep the feel I am going for.

BSP changes:

Bridge editing.
Cliff behind halcyon.

Everything else seems to be ok with me. Bobbysoon and Chocolatenugget will help in this area.

Finally, yes, the Phantom has yet to be adjusted. I used TheGhost's Gbxmodel converter to edit the Phantom. It won't compile into a Gbxmodel, however.

Recalling a PM from jargon...TheGhost's model importer doesn't get the nodes and markers right. This is most likely the cause. He has a solution.
Soon the new phantom will be complete, and then I'll do some guerilla editing, and boom, a new secondary phantom trigger.

That is all for now.

There's an update for ya!

;D

Hm...

Well, I procrastinate. I am doing my himework and am on the forum at the same time :D

Oshi, it is past ten!

H2 hud r teh epic win...maybe.

If you're just adding a marker, you don't need to export it. You can manually add a marker in Guerilla. Use what you imported into max to figure out the position and rotation, relative to the parenting node
in max's lower left corner is the mini-listener. Paste these commands into it:

(in coordsys parent $.pos)/100
in coordsys parent $.rotation

There's your new marker's position and quaternion rotation

Hm...so, I use that to find the location and rotation of the markers, then I manually add them in guerilla using those settings? Sounds quite simple...

Thanks bobby. Hm...I'm pondering what the secondary trigger should be...wraith shots? fuel rods?

Good night!
Edited by Officer egg on Sep 2, 2008 at 11:16 PM

I forgot to mention, select the marker, then enter the commands
$ is another word for selection

1-as far as the covie side goes... the hanger and grav lift room layout that bobbysoon made was a great idea(less camping options for people coming from the human side and compacts the covie vehicles0
2- the other day i was playing the first extinction(with 5 people including myself) and found that if vehicles don't respawn the battles become drawn out and more exciting cause everyones in a mad rush for vehicles[something to consider]
3- the phantoms secondary fire should be something along the lines of a wraith mortar[its really covenant like and somewhat matches the banshee's fuelrod]
4- seriously... the hogs need enough speed to hit a hill on the human side, clear the canyon, and make a smooth landing on the covie side[the speed is balanced out by the fact that not many gunners can aim at high speeds so no speed camping ^_^]
5- we need a tele to the ammo drops near the drop pod across the way from the main pelican crash site [unless you completely removed that in which case don't worry about it ^_^]
6- the vehicle teles need to be adjusted to accept covie ghosts, spectres, and human hogs with gunners[for some odd reason the teles won't accept anything with a gunner or anything covie]

Bobbysoon made the scarab crouch at start :D

That just leaves...

1) Finishing layout.
2) BSP editing.
3) Finishing the phantom.

I still say have a bridge automate when someone walks up to it.
Edited by Dwood on Sep 3, 2008 at 04:41 PM

make halo 3 peli add more rooms too the covi ship so it harder to find the flag room
put a hanger in the covi ship and put some flood ai in the cave and put in 1 sniper ai that atacks if u shoot him/her

hey are you still going to make the phantom white?
or did you decide not to?

Doubt it. I will if I feel like it.

Check the front page for updates! I changed some things...
http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=18755&start=1
Edited by Officer egg on Sep 3, 2008 at 08:19 PM

1-i have this nice ice texture that you could use for the phantome if you want it
2- for all you who hate these type posts :P
3- warthogs at highspeeds turn fine without flipping[it just takes skill lots of skill... same with driving any vehicle with boost]
4- which wraith did you finally decide on?[the downflow one or just a modifyed normal one?]
5- Pending vehicles:
Fuel rod ghost. [they are irritating and nearly useless due to slow speeds]
Kraken fighter. [if the masses wish it, so it shall be...]
Missile hog. [needs work on missile detonation distance and speed]
Rocket hog. [i hope you are refering to the ones with the super fast rockets... otherwise this is also useless]
6- did you ever place trees for decent cover?
7- if you need space for scenery or vehicles you can remove some of the crashed stuff[mainly the lifepods on the far right of the halcion (if you are coming out of the hanger)]
8- please add fog... if at all possible ^_^

Fog is there.

Also, I am currently working on something else. just abig break.

All the changes you have seen will be done.

where is the fog placed?
everywhere? or in the trench.

Both.

Also,jazz, I am going to enter the contest, but I need a mod first; I'll make one...

:O

k...

Do you know what forgetting means? No you don't.

No.

Who the h3ll is bobbysoon and also i was just sugesting ideas

currently he(egg) is working on nothing(for this project anyway) so we are leaving him alone [hint hint]
what still needs to be done has been assigned to those who can get it done [in other words; vehicle tweaks are with taggers, bsp issues are being addressed by modelers, weapons tweaks are going to taggers, etc.]
though, screenshots of certain fixes or tweaks would be nice...[hint hint egg and bobbysoon... you two have the most recent updates]...mainly what has been removed (bridge's, lifepods, etc) ty ^_^

an idea struck me just now... how bout an "Angry Pelican"? see link...
http://groups.msn.com/HaloUnlimitedRPG/angrypellican.msnw
this will definitely get the job done [armaments can be tweaked as needed]

Is it possible to make the Banshee's and Seraphs have alternate fire like.. Halo 3 style?
Egg should put Banshees back in it, make them a lot faster and have stronger guns.
I mean i'd love for the Banshee to be in it because it actually looks the most aircraft like and completely fits it's animation unlike say the Jet or Seraph which use the Banshee's movement. You could have like people in Banshees swooping in on Pelicans all the time with better controls than the other aircraft.