Quote: --- Original message by: Advancebo
Ship models we are using.

Covenant Battle Cruiser, ripped from halo 2, put ingame by advancebo.
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc292/Advancebo/battlecruiser.png

Covenant Capital Ship, ripped from halo 2, put ingame by advancebo.
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc292/Advancebo/capitalship.png

UNSC Frigate, In Amber Clad ship, ripped from halo 2, put ingame by advancebo.
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc292/Advancebo/frigate.png

Quote: --- Original message by: Advancebo
The ship in the original campaign doesnt have a top.

Also I believe the Battle Cruiser is the same ship.

Quote: --- Original message by: Venom1660

like colin said, "Using new models will just leak away all the fun of being an elite - keep it as the Halo 1 model.".

I say you should keep everything Halo 1. That includes the original sword and how that works...if you changed it the way it functions then I wouldn't feel like I'm playing Halo 1 on the Covenant side, which is what this project is all about. That sword in the picture is okay, but why does it look white and not blue? Where is the outline of the shape of the sword? I'd still prefer the regular sword. So nothing new should be included.
Edited by Venom1660 on Jan 20, 2009 at 05:13 PM

Ardee[BP]Caboose [Semper Fi.] says (12:06 AM):
 here's a plot idea
Ardee[BP]Caboose [Semper Fi.] says (12:08 AM):
 how about a covie unit an elite and grunts that was thrown off their circulation, therefore having to explore halo themselves, they apparently get off halo, and joins the heretic group seen on h2
[c=14][B[/c=7][c=7]P][/c=14] [c=4]Sarge[/c=7] says (12:09 AM):
 the idea is nice, i'll make one myself, (god i liked the models from the heretics on h2) but they want the covenant side of the campaign, so you see MC and ur just too late, like in the regular campaign, sorta like gman idea, MC is outta ur reach
 an exact copy, but from a different point of view
Ardee[BP]Caboose [Semper Fi.] says (12:10 AM):
 lol, yeah but you're not taking orders from some elite j erk, you lead yourself, making the grunts unkillable, hehe
[c=14][B[/c=7][c=7]P][/c=14] [c=4]Sarge[/c=7] says (12:10 AM):
 rofl
 true, i'll post that too

Quote: --- Original message by: k9colin
Here's a little story that you can follow if you want.

Character: Zuka Zamamee
Rank: Specs Ops Officer

Level 1 - Pillar of Autumn:
Cutscene begins with boarding craft attaching to PoA (you can use the boarding craft model in Halo 2 on the level Cairo). The game begins with you in the lifepod bay along with three spec op elites and three spec op grunts. They are armed with plasma rifles and needlers. Your first objective is to head to the bridge to rendezvous with the Ossoona and capture Captain Keyes and his crew. Upon getting there, you kill the marine guards and find some of the bridge crew there. A checkpoint passes and two trios of elites enter and hold the crew hostage, leaving you to embark on your next objective.

Your next objective is to head to the Cryo Chamber to eliminate the Master Chief. When you get there, you find him in the suspended room above behind the glass windows.. After, you rush to the lifepod bays and find the chief, who is already commencing his animation of holding his gun in one hand and entering the last pod. The chief escapes, so you end the level returning to your boarding craft. The final cutscene could just be Zuka's boarding craft departing and heading to the nearest cruiser.

Level 2 - Truth and Reconciliation (Cutscene Level Only)
Cutscene begins with Zuka discussing something with the Shipmaster. He asks for permission to hunt down the Chief, but it is denied. He then goes to the Brig to talk with the captured Captain Keyes. Finally, he is in the docking bay and departs in a Spirit Dropship. As he departs, you suddenly see an explosion at one of the doors at the lower level - its the Master Chief. The chief rushes in with a fireteam, and they massacre the unsuspecting guards. The scene ends here, as the player already knows what happens next. Hours later, the camera goes through a corridor of dead elites and grunts, and then switches back to the Control Room where Zuka is again with the Shipmaster. This time, his request is approved.

Level 3 - Silent Cartographer
Cutscene begins with marines on the beach talking and resting at the rocky area where they stay after the initial attack. A Spirit dropship swoops in and drops a lance of grunts led by a Spec Ops Grunt, and Zuka 'Zamamee. Gameplay begins as your squad eliminates the marines here. After they all die, parallel to the pelicans, two or three spirits come down and drop empty ghosts, about 6 in total. All the grunts and you then enter it and head to the area where the chief fights the hunter for the first time. For some reason or another, you will find squads of humans on the way with dead covenant nearby.

When you get there, a spirit comes and drops of the two hunters while you go inside and activate the islands security systems. After that, you hear grunts screaming and bullets fire. You come outside and find them dead as well with one hunter. Around the corner on the cliff, you see another hunter fighting a figure, but the hunter is defeated. It is the chief, and a cutscene ensues. The chief enters the structure while Zuka hides behind a weapon crate who himself finds the Spec Ops Grunt, Yayap, there hiding too. A pelican flies near the area, but Yayap picks up a fuel rod cannon and shoots it down, then returns to hiding. The chief is then seen exiting and driving off the cliff to salvage some ammo. The level ends with Zuka entering a dropship with Yayap, and later, he is warned in the Control Room again by the Shipmaster.


I guess you can make a plan for the next three maps with help from here:
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Zuka_%27Zamamee

Next three levels:
Level 4 - Alpha Base
Level 5 - Keyes
Level 6 - The Maw
Final Cutscene

P.S.
This was a biatch to write up.

Quote: --- Original message by: vmt
the ships will be in game. Um, The sword you saw was the h1 sword I didn't show any halo 1 sword yet venom and the animations will be like h2 for elites? wtf?or there would be no point cause im not going to run up to someone and run intro them to kill them rofl actually that's the point of a sword lol otherwise it'd be a gun, right?

edit: our other animator is The Dark Ally luckely we don't need any animations yet, first some results before we request him yet again an animation that takes a month to make
Edited by vmt on Jan 20, 2009 at 06:36 PM

Quote: --- Original message by: Scrables_the_DeathDealer
Because from what I can see it is not an official language.

Quote: --- Original message by: Gamma927
Oh really? You don't want us to contradict the story? Well, in Halo 1, every energy sword had a failsafe. Once you die, the sword dies. I'm assuming you want that. Also, those two pictures have nothing to do with anything.

Quote: --- Original message by: Venom1660

hey...can we get back onto topic.

VMT, running into someone to kill them IS what the sword if for. So you don't get to press the B button, big deal? The sword from Halo 2 functions stupidly. If we're going to make this game in 3rd person as it should be, the sword swinging animations from Halo 1 are ideal. Have you ever watched another player swing the sword in Halo 2? It's not very satisfying, and the lunge attack is just completely out of place. I'm glad we're on the same page about the lunge attack. No one answered my last post about if you could make it so its the same sword swinging and everything for the original sword but you just have to press B instead of run into them?

My reason for stressing about the sword is that I don't want to have the Halo 2 sword in Halo 1, I want the Halo 1 sword in Halo 1. And it should be used like the Halo 1 sword...otherwise why not just update all of the graphics and turn everything into Halo 2...because that's not the point of this project. The graphics on all of the models look fine...We're making a mod of Halo 1 not Halo 1 with Halo 2 stuff thrown in.
Edited by Venom1660 on Jan 21, 2009 at 03:25 PM

Quote: --- Original message by: Venom1660
no don't pull out...do whatever you can do, I'll take anything over nothing!

Quote: --- Original message by: Venom1660

ok so here is my idea for the level "The Pillar of Autumn". I'm not exactly sure the extent of modding abilities but here it goes.

ok look at this video scroll to 6:35...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSP9RBHc3vI&feature=related

that covenant boarding chamber there is where you would start the level. Right next to those over shield pickups. I guess if you could make the first cut scene show a covenant boarding craft boarding the pillar of autumn if thats possible.

You start there with a team of grunts and jackals, and the first objective would be to find that cryochamber room where you start the actual campaign as chief. I say this because I recall when you are in the room above the cryochamber room in the real campaign Cortana says something like "looks like they were trying to kill you while you were sleeping" or something along those lines. So when you get to that room, killing humans along the way, you find out that Master Chief is already gone, so the new objective would be to find him and the construct(Cortana)...

so the level continues as normal and just as you turn the corner where the life pods are you see Master Chief entering the lifepod in the game but you can't stop him. I guess the level could end there or the level could end with you trying to escape the autumn the way you came in. That's my idea for the first level of the Covenant side of the war. If this idea sounds good than I'll get more into detail about it.
Edited by Venom1660 on Jan 18, 2009 at 07:00 PM

Quote: --- Original message by: sierra117
to do this make a ingame recorded animation and add a cinematic_start command when the player reaches the grenades(from the campaign when ur chief) and so you can only look and continue through the level....etc.