Anyone got any general quidelines/tips/advice for me on modelling covenant style? I know to keep it curvy and organic, but what else besides that?

Well everybody I talk to says it's really hard, so there must be SOME trick to it right?

Look at a lot of references of covenant structures.
Rip a50 and look at how the interior is modeled.
Base your designs off of what bungie did.

I'd suggest ripping High Charity or Gemini rather than a50, Halo 1 Covie stuff doesn't really look as good as Halo 2.

Meshsmooth isn't good if you plan for in-game. Unless it smooths it without adding a ton of polys, or the map is small enough that it doesn't matter.
However, I'd also like to know some Covenant modeling tips.

When you create covy it just isn't fancy curves. It has lots of straight edges in it too. I also recommend just going into Halo 2, sitting down and study the level "Gravemind" which is set on High Charity. Look how the architecture is built, and practice it.

Nothing to add but this golden nugget of advice

Purple. Lots and lots of purple.

(Obivious statment FTW. crap the dictionary's broke again)

That's texturing, not modeling.

turbosmooth/anyothermodifyerlikethat=fail in a jar.

Only turbo on terrain and cliffs.

Does working from geospheres work well for Covenant?

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Anyway, for Covenant Modelling I always thought like cylindrical, smooth objects with grooves in them were the way to go? Is this right?

Are there any good Covenant/organic modeling tutorials on Modacity or something?

Covenant can be purple, red, blue, green, yellow, or any color.

No not really. Starting with half cylinders (no top or bottom either) sometimes works, but I start off alot of times with just a vertex.

Explain please :D

Create a box.
Editable mesh/poly
Create vertex
Move it to 0,0,0
Delete the faces of the box.

You can also start of with splines too but I haven't messed with that much.
Edited by Higuy on May 27, 2009 at 07:42 PM

Covenant is not organic modeling. Organic modeling would be terrain or a biped with flesh.

I wouldnt call covenant style "organic"

More organic than Human stuff.

If you start out with one vertex, and make a bunch more to outline a mesh, how do you connect them all? "Connect Vertices" never works for me when the two verts aren't on the same plane.
Edited by electricSquid on May 28, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Edited by electricSquid on May 28, 2009 at 11:43 AM

You connect them by making triangles, I may make a tutorial on some covy modeling if you want me to...

It would be the first if you do. Unless I'm missing a tutorial on covie modelling somewhere...

I would love you forever.

Look at the basess in Twist beta those are a good example of covenant styled building/structures.

That would be awesome. :D