Can you go more in depth about the details?

Would these arms work for a replacement?
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2293




You should mix the names a little. A bunch of American/British names kinda sounds... I don't know, I can't put my finger on it. I suggest maybe mixing culture names. For example: Joe, Juan, and maybe an Australian. Not necessarily THOSE names, but you may want to try mixing their ethnicity.

We can easily make our own ODST FP arms. No worries, I can get it covered, when ever your ready, Ill work on it.

so many ideas but no work....

when are we acctually gonna start on this project?

It's already begun.


School holidays for me

Do we HAVE to make the scarab have AI on it? We could just make it a driver that shoots...unless you plan on something like the boarding in Halo 2 Metropolis.

Are there going to be brutes?

Ay, You probably are gonna post back with some nine page long essay but can you please change your avatar and quote back to normal. It's really immature and getting horribly annoying.

k, thanks

and once again, I thought you were donut, and thought "wtf, when did you send me odsts?"
lol

I will do my best >:O

im not sure what the time tables are here, but if this post happened before you xfired me, then disregard the following. if not, regard the following
scrabbles and i are buddies. while im not entirely sure why he has annexed my avatar, i dont have an issue with it. i appreciate you sticking up for me, buts its ok

I really wasn't trying to come off as a prick, sorry if I did though. I'm so used to it, it just started confusing me. If you wanna keep it fine. It bothered me and I tried to ask you to take it off, that's all.

when i finish the script
*facepalm*
i explained this all over xfire.

1) I will finish script of what will happen in campaign.
2) Me, Mythril, and Exception can split modelling the BSP around the script.
3) We will work on all the tagging. (i.e. scenery, weapons, vehicles, etc.)
4) Someone can populate in Sapien, set up cutscenes and scripts.
5) Beta testing will go info effect.
6) Refine anything which needs refining.
7) Release the campaign.

Music? Prepare to Drop from the h3r trailer has been released :D

Otherwise, I suppose default music?

Try using some Halo 3 or Halo 2 music if you want.

^^
exactly.
I don't want to go to the trouble of converting all the music when they have all the music already. I do like the Prepare To Drop theme and I want to use that.

Quick side note. I have a three day weekend this weekend and will probably be free all weekend. Although after that it is finals week so the project will kinda taking a back seat to finals.

There might be some real music because i dont want the music to just be limited to only halo.

hm, good idea aslong as its not like just random music, has to do something with this .......

hey? weres this music going anyway

whats all this about trouble with the scarab? there are several ways to do it:

1. make it an AI controlled vehicle that follows a command list, with the turrets wither attached as separate vehicles, or have them as weapon attachments with independent AI gunners.

2. Make it an AI controlled vehicle moving on its own with the above ideas for turrets, which would provide for flexible and interesting gameplay, but might make trouble in certain areas. However, there would be no problem with bumping into walls.

3. Make an animated scenery/device machine, that has vehicles/device machines attached to it for turrets.

Also, I think that splitting up the BSP into sections of the level for separate people to make is a good idea.

good idea with the scarab :)

hey i believe i have found a way to put the AI on the scarab. since you can only have one gunner, make special actor files which have a special gun (like a turret) and then have the AI only get in passenger seats, which would allow the AI to use weapons (like the warthog passenger seat) and then place seat markers all over the scarab so that the AI would get in and fire like turrets or if the turets would be too powerful then just keep the regular weapons and they can still get in the seats.

it would be like the scarab is a vehicle. first all of the passengers get in and then the driver would spawn and begin driving. I am not sure if this is possible to do through scripting, but if it is then i think this is a good idea.

EDIT:

didnt see the posts above me. i think headhunters first idea would be alot simpler.
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Jan 16, 2009 at 06:31 PM
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Jan 16, 2009 at 06:32 PM

we always can try,

and i thaught llike in that pro map chrynopolis i think :| how there city is just boxes with texturs, we could do something like that for the un detailed models, then the interror 1s and the 1s involved in the gameplay could be modeled more detaild

thats kinda what i was thinking too

yeah, its not so much a bad idea, itl be faster and itl keep the polys down

yeah so i just thought i would tell you guys that i will be working nonstop on the script in an effort to get it done by the end of my 3 day weekend. i have already started. :)

oh quick poll:
should there be swearing in the campaign?
or would dennis reject it for obscene content?
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Jan 16, 2009 at 06:45 PM

well iv seen a map wherer ther was really horrable music, altho in the description they had saying that it had stong cause language,

so if u have in the readme something saying that there is a bit of swaring, then it should be fine

My team's new map, Mission Rio, will have Scarab AI. I can send you them if DarkZealot gives permisssion (they're his)

on topic: So, you're going to create a totaly new campaign?

Yes we are, we are going to try atleast I am going to deal with all of the music and it will not be copyrighted and most of it will not be halo music.

That makes me :(

That makes me :(

It all goes down to preference. I think Halo has a very nice soundtrack.
Edited by Mythril on Jan 16, 2009 at 10:46 PM

Well i might put a mix of halo music in with some good music but in the end its the group's decision.

Hey, update. pwner5889, AKA Elite1337, came up with an idea which i think would be really cool.

So before the opening cutscene of the maps we have a cutscene. The cutscene is this room, and on the walls is writing that shows the credits (ex. UnevenElefant: BSP's) and the camera would just move slowly around looking at each person in turn.

So what do you guys think?
I think its pretty cool :D

nothing stupid please if you decide to do that. some language is acceptable, such as what is heard in the normal campaign, but tbh i dont want to hear f-bombs while playing halo campaign. thats why i have gears 2 lol

Have it showing the whole city and scenery of text of whatever whatever that get created and deleted in turn. Then have it end where the beginning cutscene starts. So it all flows :)

Or we could do it at the end...

thats what i was thinking. nothing more obscene that what is already in the original halo campaign.

btw the gears comment made me ROFL :P

There will be SOME swearing but nothing racist or derogatory.
I was thinking on doing a UI for the campaign also.
I was planning on having a room hidden in one of the buildings so that the walls would show the text for the credits and i was also planning on having it before the opening scene and i was also planning on having it in the end also.

i think we should put it in the beginning and make it not skippable, but also put it at the end and make it skippable so people will have to watch our name :P