If there was such thing as a Covenant AA battery, what would it look like?

Shades don't count because they attack ground too, and AA wraiths don't count because they are mobile.

I'm going to use it in a SP map, where the MC gets host down over a Vietnam-style jungle. It features marines driving warthogs, the flamethrower, and a new AI in your head.

You mean an AI other than Cortana? Good... Also, the Halo 3 Shade turret looks like an AA battery, but you don't want it

It would look liek this:

*slaps in face* omg duh y didnt i think of that lol

What I had in mind was a sort of missile battery, slightly smaller than that, and has an obvious cockpit. But that works too, although it might totally obliterate a pelican...

Thats not Anti Air, its more of Anti Ground

well, like the H1 shade it looks both (but in a different style as H1).

this is off topic, but it looks very 40k Tau-ish.

The Shade is pretty much the AA in Halo 1. Halo 2 had the Fuel Rod Cannon as seen in "The Arbiter". Halo 3 uses the Fuel Rods not only on the Fuel Rod Cannon [Or Flak Cannon] but on the Wraiths.

So your options are limited.

Also, that huge gun is for deflecting Ship Attacks. Its like a Covenant Mac Gun.

You can change the projectiles it fires, and make it shoot at air targets

Why not the Covenant Gun Tower from Halo 2 Beta... I think it's in Extinction (the map).

I was actually thinking of using that, but is it too big? What level of damage would it deal to a pelican?

I thought that was Artillery :| Anyways, that wouldn't be too big if you scaled it down some.

It's more Anti Aircraft. In the Halo 2 Beta it shoots down a Longsword.

how would I scale it down and still have the bitmaps fit?

srry?

i've got a decent human AA...
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=3372

i cant get it ingame. I think it has to do with the camera tracks, cuz i cant get the original working, either.

E: oh wait, it doesn't want to make collision geometry.
Edited by Headhunter09 on Dec 22, 2008 at 05:58 PM

And animations, you need to redo the animations

i just removed the anims for the time being. Is that going to stop it from going ingame?

yes

No, actually, a wounded Sergeant (I think it was Stacker) called in an air strike (before giving you his M7), where a pair of Longswords made a low altitude run (it couldn't of been more than 100 yards above the battery) and take out the thing.

However, i want to mention, that

A) it looks different from the Extinction version (being shorter and larger).
B) It was not purely AA. It was a plasma mortar and it could act as Anti Air as well as Artillery
C) Covenant AA appears to be Red, not Purple. This is demonstrated as such:
CA) The AA Wraith is Red
CB) The Planetary battery was Red

It should be noted that the Planetary Bettery (Giant Red Thing) was firing at the ships in low orbit, most likely. This is plausible as they were being set up around the Ark, where a Low-Level strike was going to be amassed against the ships digging it out.

Another example is that the Halo 2 Scarab was widely theorized to be a non-combat vehicle, and was as such not the covenant military purple of Ground Units and Starships.

If i were doing this, i would make the Human alternantive: Missiles. Either tracking or Dumbfire. Its up to you. As such:

The covenant version could be, Fuel Rods. A larger device could have several Plasma Torpedos. It could also have a plasma mortar, like seen in Extinction

A homing missile equivalent is a fuel rod. In Halo 3, they had slight homing

do I just redo the animations? or can i take a shortcut?

Homing as compared to Slight homing? Thats like comparing a Guided Missile to a Flak Cannon. Hence you require compensation. I believe the Plasma Torpedos were held together by a magnetic field around them, and as such, could be directed. Though they would be large, long distance, powerful shots, primarily against things like dropships; nothing fast.

daaaam u guys are really studying halo my gosh. but on topic u could either scale down the halo 2 beta gun or scale down the halo 3 gun

Daaaaaaaamn, you really need to get your facts straight and learn to spell.

First off, just rip the Halo 2 AA gun from Extinction if you want the older design. Secondly, darkassasin14, how can we scale down the Halo 3 AA gun if nobody has the model? :)

lol make a scaled down version? maybe? lol i wasnt thinking really

How old are you, six?

Did you even bother to read my whole message?

I said, and I quote, "Secondly, darkassasin14, how can we scale down the Halo 3 AA gun if nobody has the model? :)"

I've bolded the important parts for you.

GOOD DAY, SIR!

and now i quote "make a scaled down version"

You really have no idea what's going on.