If you make the entire turbine/structure longer and taller, and the base thicker toward the bottom, I think that might help it look larger and more industrial (regardless of whether you want to put that other anchor model in or not).
As impractical as it is, I think it looks pretty cool too :3

Haha I'd second that too, such a funky design hehe

EDIT: Yeah sam indeed it does look very cool, I just have a habit of viewing things from a practical standpoint (glares at h4 weapon design) - even though it's 500 years into the future I'm pretty sure up till the events of Halo 4 the UNSC had some form of Keep It Simple Stupid, don't want to make it have too many bells and whistles even with advances in technology and materials.
Edited by Bottletopman on Dec 28, 2014 at 10:13 PM

Really I imagined it as being extremely high end, like in some rich guy's backyard or in some utopia society where form more than function is the desire.

Here are a few more beauty shots that was reworked.



And a quick vid of it turning, I really should have let it render more passes for each shot on the video and it was intended to be 60 fps but for some reason it didn't render that way. Oh well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPx--9ZHMeY

Btw if you follow the links to shots they're all available in 4k if you wanna see it up close.
Edited by samnwck on Dec 29, 2014 at 11:54 AM
Edited by samnwck on Dec 30, 2014 at 04:07 PM
Edited by samnwck on Dec 30, 2014 at 04:08 PM

Yeah with what you imagined the design to be you really did nail it in the head - it does look very flashy, rather than functional. It's just that I look at pretty much anything from a functional viewpoint heh.

It it looks awesome

I don't remember posting these tags on halomaps before, but this thread needs a little update.

Stuff I've worked on in the past, but are being used for projects of mine:

Battleship Class Vessel:


Frigate Class Vessel:


Cruiser Class Vessel:


Prowler Stealth Class Vessel:


Programmed the battleship to circle around an environment, while I attached a vehicle turret to the top of it to act like air support:





And I have a working Halo Reach pelican, scorpion and Mass Driver cannon ingame. (Thank you kirby & MattDratt for helping me SIGNIFICANTLY to get these to work!!!)

















Mass Driver cannon video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOF1p7sjpQ0

Now, i'm not an expert at shaders, porting models (the vessels are NOT ported, I modeled those from scratch F.Y.I.) or modeling, so if you see something that concerns you or you think you can fix, leave a positive note and pointers of where to improve the tags you see ;)

Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoy!

Are those large ships flyable yet?

The ships fit the UNSC aesthetic pretty well. If you want to add more little details to them, you could add banks of Archer missiles or escape pod bays (six of which can be seen along the side of the Autumn in this picture).

The ports look good enough to me. Would be cool to play with the mass driver.

That pelican is just HHNNGGGG

Hooooooohooohoohohoh. I need a sock.

I'll burn your house if you don't give the mass drive cannon it's due effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCGfq4z-BnQ

Space battles please. 'T'

And that Republic cruiser, hnngh.

Some old SMT scenery ships that where dropped months ago

Is the Covenant destroyer based off an existing Concept? I think the shape is really interesting and has a lot of promise if you scaled it down into a more Scarab-sized craft. It might not even need to be a flyer, you could make it some kind of Covie tank and the flat top carries troops like the Scorpion treads.

Hope that design gets used for something, it's rare we see good Covie stuff around here and even rarer that it gets finished.

They where not going to be drove. Only as scenery and project is not going to be released or worked on. SMT was a troll team meant to spam the forum with projects that will never be released.
Edited by PRPatxi on Jan 14, 2015 at 07:04 AM

Oh, well thank you for sharing them then. REALLY appreciated.

What's with the sarcasm?

Well when you openly admit that SMT was just meant to tease us with stuff that'd never see the light of day...can't blame him for his snide remark :\

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I tried to do something new with old things. Need alot of work with the green part. But for now, I am very happy with the result.

Created 2 custom cubemaps.

He did in another thread...

Update. Texture fixed by Dalek. (we work on new version of the texture, with a better green)

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/456519haloce2015013116182661.png
http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/946056haloce2015013116183866.png
http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/792753haloce2015013116242458.png

Another color perm. Thanks to Dalek for his awesome texture.

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/119982haloce2015013117260129.png
http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/668919haloce2015013117261450.png
http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/456040haloce2015013117263857.png


Edited by darksoldier on Feb 1, 2015 at 10:25 AM

You sir are responsible for my collapsed prostate.

I never knew shaders could be soooo powerful.

Incredible work.

Blue one looks really sweet.

Thank you guys ! We are happy you enjoy it !

About the green, we working on it right now. We will post pics As soon as we can.

The green banshee is finished. Special thanks to DALEK who did impresive job on the texture ! Pics:






This is the final version of the blu perm :







Edited by darksoldier on Jan 31, 2015 at 05:35 PM

Custom banshee: deal with it.

Always a fan of your shaders darksoldier. Good work!

You win the Cool Awards

Thank you guys, we are happy you like it ! :)

i plan for a red version of this texture.

Black and gold?

maybe i will see that next week, i would do other covie vehicle in blue like ghost, seraph, turret, wraith but i havent this on my tagset.
Blue is cool for covie texture:

i did that years ago on an arteen map converted for halo full.
Will work on my stargate bsp today.

Hello guys.

We are here again, and we present our new ghost to you :

New video of our update here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaHUIBmetcc

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/663913haloce2015021420351681.png
http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/442001haloce2015021420393514.png
http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/626268haloce2015021420390897.png
http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/624823haloce2015021420364829.png

It is a little list, of what must be do:

-Fixed all the lights around the ghost (dynamic, radius etc...) Done
-Add illumination texture. Done
-Add the ghost dash meter and ghost dash border. Done
-Custom Collision model. Done
-Add custom animation for the wings.
-Add Lods. Done
-Fix little reflection color in some shaders. Done
Edited by darksoldier on Feb 15, 2015 at 11:59 AM