Everyone portrays things differently. As it has already been stated most of the books break canon, so technically you could give leniency when someone portray's a thing in a book, without picutres I might add, differently than you.

Anyways, progress?

Forgot to post a while ago..

The ridge on the right makes me Sadface. Could you add stuff to it so its not Grey->Green?

Other than that, very purty

I agree. It is way too unnatural. Have a bit of transition, like moss growing on the cliff face. In fact, grey cliffs don't really go with grungy green anyway. Change the cliff texture to something more common in a coniferous forest, like dark brown.

i think its a good contrast, but yeah, there should be moss and small shrubs that transition grass into cliffs.

Those can both be added as decals and scenery.

or put the blend in the texture like Bungie does, for example, cliff ice:

See the top, how it looks like ice hanging over, with a little shadow, and also the bottom, blending with snow? You could do something like that, but with roots/moss, and grass/dirt instead.
Edited by bobbysoon on May 10, 2009 at 08:53 PM

But for beople like Karrde and I who have craptastic graphics cards that don't support decals, it still won't look very good. (Not that anything looks good on our computer, but still.)

Surely if you turn off decals, you'll just get the normal picture?

"Surely if you turn off decals, you'll just get the normal picture?"

depends on what you think is normal, if we check all the boxes like the good ol'
"Gameplay element, do not optimize" then everything is going to be in no matter what, there are enough workarounds, but then we face the same problem again:"
not everyone got a decent gfx card.

the question is, do we want to take that into consideration when making this?
awnser: aslong as our gfx cards can handle it.

no i don't think you should think too much about optimizing it for performance, we're not going to make lods etc, that would take too much time. you can think of not making somethingt to optimize, but it would help just to ignore the optimizing and gfx cards untill we got everything done, THEN you have time to optimize. Sure, the fog for example is a gameplay element, and you have lots of methods to work around the problem, like making a fog screen in the FP model, let's try keeping things in instead of out

about breaking plots and the fictional logic of our beloved halo, yes the books are contradicting each other, and the sequal games too, but you know why?
we want to have fun.
why did they chose a ring? why is halo's gravity reversed of earth? why does halo 3 got a halo ring in perspective while it's a Horizon? because it looks good, it plays good, and it's fun
surely, if halo wars didn't have those mystic flood units that couldn't exist, even though the flood doesn't exist at all anyways, then a flood faction wouldn't be fun to play against and it ends up in a boring RTS game, wich lone already have seen and for lots of reasons one more obvious than the other.
if you can make a nice backstory, then do it, and hope people read it (most people here don't) then you can try adding things in wich could be more fun rather than sticking to the already-so-fragile logic of halo. this is the campaign of halo 1 in the perspective of the flood, but it would be cheesy to use the original tags, so yes, the whole campaign is based on backstories to keep it running, there is hardly any chance something could break canon if you can make up a good story

but anyways, nice to see the BSP of the bonus level progress, if you need any textures then just ask
for the vegetation... surely everything on halo is artificial, but if we try sticking to the plants we know, then i can provide you with the nature in scenery format, though you might get some lag since i'm using high poly stuff and things people here don't appreciate, like Bloom and DOF
i'm saying this because i already have the stuff, and as i said in the very start, i'm just providing the campaign with my tags if they have a use for it too other than my machinima's

pic of ferns and water...




surely people are going to quote my pics with [digusting stuff] [overkill of bloom] or whatever, other than childish i'm going to add that it's just an example and pics are living the topic up, and keep in mind i'm making stuff for the machinima with an aim on visual that the flood campaign can use

bleh, done with the post, there is no button to delete accounts so i had some time left during the hours off, i'll send lone a map with scenery, the models, the textures, and the Flood Hud V3, yea V2 was an insiders beta so that didn't and won't see the daylight

oh and lone, any updates on the scripts? i could use some nice flood infection form waves for the heck of it, makes some nice footage

/boredom

E1: wow, you guys are such a d!rtbags, and can't even recognize what's mine and what's converted from other games hahahahha
well that means i'm doing it very well, EVEYTHING YOU SEE IS MINE except for the bipeds wich i have PERMISSION from the original authors of the game from SCS to use their BETA bipeds, so you can't even find it in the final
funny people here post pure BS about games that i didn't even used, Farcry? LOL you're the dumbest fack around to believe that, farcry is low quality and mine surely isn't.
the ferns? wow, you know, it's actually made by me, grab a fern, put it on the scanner, make about 50 poly's and use an alpha channel to cut the rest out.
water? made by me, textures? MADE BY ME! hud? placeholder, noone told you it's going to be used, go use your sh!tty h1 hud because you simply can't make one yourselfes hahahaha, i laugh at every phail post you guys make.
the jeep is made by me, caboose and cheerio, we're making an awesome team, and it's good to know you can't see that it's not ripped from the new gen games but made by us 3 guys, thanks for the compliment you accidentally have given me. makes me want to make more custom content that you'll never get.

yea i edited this post because you guys are not worth it making a new one

i surely hope you idiots get banned for such stupidity
Edited by BeachParty clan on May 14, 2009 at 03:58 AM

Oh god I thought we got rid of you.

Go away.

Lololololol :D

EDIT: I just realised - BP you post some pretty offtopic stuff...
Edited by k9colin on May 11, 2009 at 07:11 AM

Not really offtopic, he is showing those stuff to ask whether they want to use those tags

So your saying that he wants the campaign to use a modern weapon in Halo?

Oh god I thought the flaming was over.

Go away.

And at least he doesn't post spam that is of entirely no use to the current topic, and if you actually bothered reading his post you would have noticed this.



Yes, the bitmaps he is showing......



.....and not the modern combat weapons.

I am sick of this crap your putting BP through, dont like him? Well put up with it, theres lots of people your not going to like in life.

And for the last bloody time: "If its fun who cares?"

Also, good to see you posting again BP.
Edited by Lone Warrior on May 11, 2009 at 09:44 AM

Welcome to an internet forum. People we don't like can get banned here.

they need to break the rules to get banned.......

So wait, your telling me that if you dont like someone they can get banned? Oh really, because I was under the impression they had to break the rules to get banned. See, this is why I prefer a moderator who is impartial. Nugget, there was absolutely no reason for you to post in this thread in the first place, as far as I'm concerned you jsut wanted to be the first person to flame BP again.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: Grow up.

@ggl: Exactly, they have to break the rules to get banned.

Look at you, look how owned you are.

I honestly give up with you guys. I'm requesting a lock of this thread, another thread will be made once we have more stuff to show and the tagset is complete.

That breaks a few rules, i believe, and totally off-topic. You yourself fail.
Edited by Koo294 on May 11, 2009 at 11:32 AM

Oh, if you request a lock of this thread than I request a ban of BP.

And if you request a ban of BP I request monkeys to fly out of my ass. Seriously guys, give it up, let BP do what he wants. If you don't agree with it, get over it and ignore him.

^ This

Dont worry about his HUD for sandtrap, I am almost done with mines. I am just adjusting bitmap placement.

Really?, you are all some of the most dumbest people. At least Uneven said something smart. If you don't like BP then just don't pay attention when he posts. It's hard to believe that Dennis hasn't banned most of you guys yet. Probaby the reason he hasn't is because he'll lose like half the members for chirst's sake.
E1: BP was only showing plants and stuff unless you REALLY think that Lone would let him put modern weapons and boom and all that stuff into the campaign.
Edited by SegwayMaster1324 on May 11, 2009 at 04:54 PM

If he wanted to show off the plants, he could have rendered them in 3ds max. Or used devmode to go into devcam or remove the hud and weapons. And that he didnt make that visor, as the bitmaps are from Halo 2.

Sandtrap talk is for the Sandtrap thread, take it there or stop posting. Hell, just stop posting altogether, you'd be doing us all a favor...........



A ban for BP, for what? He hasn't done anything in these forums, you yourselves are to blaim for following up on the whole flaming argument. Now, would you kindly get the hell out of my thread before I do request a lock.

@Uneven: Thank you.



Or maybe, just maybe, he thought he'd show them in-game so we could see what there like in-game, and expanding on that, maybe he was just too lazy to use devcam =o

Seriously, anyone who comes into this thread with the sole intent to show their dis-like or hatred to BP should get out NOW.
Edited by Lone Warrior on May 11, 2009 at 06:00 PM

Edited by CrossFade on May 12, 2009 at 05:15 PM

Not exactly his own... remember?

looks like beach party has been playing farcry 2. iv gotta at least give him some respect for that