And yet, you aren't a fan of "naked infection forms"

And you need heavy knowledge of scripting to use the script. This isn't for beginners.

New content, yes.
New videos, up to BP, but he's quite busy now.
The infectiopn scripts are not easy to implement, for it to work in-game it requires a mssive amount of control. They will mainly be shown in cutscenes.

E1: Gamma just about covered the infection script part.
Edited by Lone Warrior on Mar 8, 2009 at 04:56 PM

If we're using the old scripts that Lone Warrior showed me earlier, you will need to create bipeds and set cutscene flags. This will obviously not work online, and it won't work everywhere. Only in areas that are planned out.

Edit: Woah, ninj'd
Edited by Gamma927 on Mar 8, 2009 at 04:58 PM

Well I've had a few theory's abouth flood infecting... i took a look at the available scripts, and saw a few things abouth team changing when dead, spawning AI on dead body's

If put together in the right order it might even work properly, exept for body's staying on the ground.

Wrong. You can't change the team of someone once they're dead, and you can't spawn AI on top of dead bodies. Here's what we do:

Sleep until someone's dead.
Attach a flood biped to the biped.
Destroy the dead biped.
Attach the flood biped to the AI encounter.

Hmm, that would explain the ''certain areas'' part you mentioned before.

Damn perhaps it will be pretty hard letting the flood act like in H3, infecting :S

You wont see the animations where the infection form enters the body. Also that script wont work right.

Well the animations part is clear for me, but the whole idea of H3 would be the new age of CE

Yet it seems unreachable :S

Of course it didn't. This is just the concept that Lone Warrior showed me. I tried it, and it didn't work out well.

I think that he ment my script :P

Wrong.
Right.


I have an alternate method instead of the script, which seems to be a bit more applicable, not to mention easier to implement.

The only comparism being, that it is a bit more of a free-reign, and easier to implement.
Edited by Lone Warrior on Mar 9, 2009 at 01:10 PM

Meh, did you know, there is a tiny little box in the biped tag that says "destroyed on death" wich means it vanishes when it comes to a rest position.

Also, for getting up, you could just make a 'ready' animation and replace it with a new anim where it stands up... it's simple, but primitive, as it has to move out of the anim when done...

well that's my thought, I'm not really interested seeing a good infection, in Halo 2 it just only infects the already infected ones where infection forms re-host the body to make it active again
aslong as I won't see a live infection that mutates it, wich actually takes some time according to the novels, then it would be better to just leave it i think, as a pop-done doesn't seem right in cutscenes to me...

back to a long dead idea, I've read a LONG time ago about being able to use AVI video's as cutscenes, if so, then I could make some renderings of live infections in 3ds max as it can emulate the whole level... just a thought, I've yet to see if that info is true

Also, imported the human flood form, but Flame said he can get me a better model, so I'll just wait till I got that one and see how it comes out

for now I'm going to finish my rigs on several other models, as I've made several textures to check out, aswell as testing, at this very moment, if the armor permutations will work as I planned it would, 'hope' as i need to do the whole thing before i can actually see if it works...

AVI's wont work. You would have to convert it to a Bink video file.

Get on xfire and I'll tell you the idea I have.

For the carrier form, I suggest making it look like the Halo 3 carrier form. Here are a couple of links. (I would post the pics instead of links, but they are fairly large.)

http://images.wikia.com/halo/images/f/f6/H3_Flood_Carrier_Form.jpg

http://www.supercheats.com/xbox360/guides/halo3/images/level8-floodcarrier.jpg

If you don't want to do that, at least remove the grunt arms. The tentacles are supposeed to be arms that were mutated, so having arms and tentacles wouldn't make much sense because grunts do not have four arms. And make the legs more flood-like.

Oh, and I almost forgot: a better name for the first level would be Released or Awakened.
Edited by Karrde on Mar 9, 2009 at 05:13 PM

The Halo 3 Carrier Form wasnt that great, sure its hi res and everything. But it didnt have any of the flood tentacles on the front of it, like every other form.

C-c-c Combo Breaker?

And I agree, having it high res doesn't necessarily mean good fun, and since when were the Flood pretty anyway?

Since Halo 2 and upwards.

Maybe just Halo 2 then.

You mean pretty :)

That's when I stopped reading. You know what? Let's drop this conversation.

Because it's a carrier form. All of the infection forms are inside it.

Oh god no, It's turning into a CMT thread
*runs away screaming*

'Flame' Saved me some time by giving me a human flood form with a higher poly count, so I edited the halo 2 texture, made it twice the res it was, added a few layers, and rigged it, so now it's ingame





It doesn't look pretty, and flood isn't supposed to look pretty.
Edited by BeachParty clan on Mar 10, 2009 at 02:41 AM

Add more green and less red. It looks more zombie than flood.

Thought technically, they're the same thing.

I'm going to reanimate the banshee today seeing as the default don't work. Also, there's might be a way to get the flood pulsing, I'll look into that.

E: http://www.xfire.com/video/89a87/

Stand closing and opening are still not working properly.
Edited by Mythril on Mar 10, 2009 at 03:18 AM

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Your rig is fuxed.

Already said, but more green, less red.

Also, the tentacle/claws on 'its' left arm are weird, they meant to look all stringy?

It isn't the ripping program. It was taken from Entity. It's the rig itself that needs some fixing.

to be real honest i dont like that h2 flood zombie reksin or whatever it is at all

My advice rahter use the h1 flood form then that thing wich you created

it's more flood orange (because it looks really orange/yelllow like) then a human flood

Halo 2 Marines =/= Halo 1 Human Flood

The rig just needs fixing thats all, also get online Bp.

Did he not just say he ripped it using 3DRipperDX? If he did use Entity, nothing would be wrong with the rig. But since he used 3DRDX, its just captured in the animated position. And getting the bones to position the same way is impossible, as you cant really tell how its bent or something.

This then?

Entity > 3dXRipper
Edited by Lone Warrior on Mar 10, 2009 at 05:11 PM

ftfy

And yes.

Meh, I guess you don't read my posts, Flame got me the model, and he only uses Entity, as I said before, I didn't rip the human form I posted the last time, Flame did with entity.