How's this?

http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww307/jak5860/carbinecontrail.jpg

Needs more line variance. Make about 2 or 3 other lines. And add other colors.

here's one of my references, what else do i need on there? Well, i think i could make the green beam straighter.

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/a/a3/1659326241_22c84405c2_o.jpg

Add some blue around it to fly with it,its in the pic,circeling the contrail.

http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww307/jak5860/contrail.jpg

I made the green part straighter

It looks good,but i think its a bit too large.i havnt seen it's real size tho.

do u have it working in game yet?

ya, it looks a little big i agree. And yes i do have it in-game i'll try to get a pic.

hmm ok cant wait!

Here's how it looks in-game






Edited by Dennis on Jun 8, 2009 at 05:41 PM

Looks good except the blue needs to be more of an aqua and brighter.

I can see the edges of the bitmap on the sides.

Looks good, a little bit of custom is always needed. Don't make it exactly like the reference.

ya, i know the bitmap edges stick out. i think i need to use a 512x512 bitmap.

doesn't have to be square

Wtf?

He is talking about the bitmap size.

The bitmap size has to be in multiples of 2.
2/4/6/8/10/12...... and so on

Most particle bitmaps are squares.

it looks really good so far, especially far, but close up, i think it will need seperate particles for that, so that it wont look all that blurred so close up, and a tiny bit of rippling in the beam, but it looks good so far.

Any updates of progress on this cause it looked promising?

I'm still working on it. But sadly no new updates.

This looks h3ish to me

thread jack much?

I think Jesse meant it as an example.

If it was an example, he should have said, "It should look a bit like this". or something similar.

He said : " I think this looks H3ish ".
=S Seems like an example to me. Why not ask him?

I think the contrail needs to be about 25-50% the size it is now

I think light-pink and light-blue should be added to that, just to add some cool colours.

Oh and in case nobody knows the little two-contrail trick, create a projectile that travels 1000 wups, and detonates the instant it's fired into two more projectiles, one that has a contrail and impact damage, and another with a contrail but no impact damage. Great for emulating some of the H3 contrails

Jesse, stop please. That does not look anything like H3's. Take a screenshot in Halo3 of one and see the difference.
Edited by DarkHalo003 on Jun 19, 2009 at 03:26 PM

I said it looked h3ish to ME.

no one slams any more. its called bashing