Who is with me on this? Whenever I see someones model, take yoyorastv2 for example, it looks infinitely better than it would in game. Maybe I am wrong, I don't know but, it seems when anyone puts it in game the whole model is ruined by the texture used on it.

Anyone else seem to see this issue?

It's really a matter of what textures and shaders are applied to it and if the person knows what there doing. Halo CE is also and older engine, and dosen't have many... good looking assests in the engine to help maps look good as a render in 3dsmax or Unreal.

See, I would rather play Extinction, Death Island, Blood Gulch, YoYorast, and CMT PBV2 with no added textures, just gray. I would like everything just gray.

trust me, no you wouldn't.

Are you sure?

I would think about that again !

My eyes burned D:

I actually think that looks better than a stretched picture of grass, dirt, and sand

Higuy you need my ma5k meter fast!

wat

i dont even know what to say about this thread, but im posting anyway so everyone understands how wtf this thread really is.

Halo engine isn't as appealing as it used to be for me, textures look horrid in it for me.

When ever I play a map I look and see how stretched the grass is. A blade of grass shouldn't be 3 feet thick. This thread kinda shows my hate for it.

we in the 3d world call that a stretched UV. that's not halos fault

The game is 10 years old, that happens.

get over it. or go away.

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also anisotropic filtering or whatever its called. enable it.

Hi
I like pretty maps.
Don't you?
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=3650
and
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=3135

Those are some of the best looking maps in Halo I've ever really seen. If you've seen something alot better looking show me.

Sexiest maps ever, its like, like, like, something that will get me banned.
Edited by Igotaname13_ on Aug 17, 2009 at 10:36 PM

oh and btw if you are playing halo on anything but max settings, your complaints are totally nullified.

Things in 3ds max WILL look 10 times better than they would in game engines. As long as the 3ds max render is setup the same as the games is, like the lighting and everything.

1. Because game engines compress textures.
2. rendering applications are more poweful than game engines because game engines have to render real time, 3ds max doesn't.

Also, the reason grass blades are so big is because the person who made the map is a tard and doesn't know what grass looks like. Its not Halo, its the map maker.

I can run Team Fortress 2 at max setting at 1024x768. So my complaints are now totally unnullified.

BTW Tf2 has more requirements than Halo
Res:1024x768
RR: 75hz
No Vsync
Specular- Yes
Shadow- Yes
Decals- Yes
Particles- High
Texture- High

If that helps you understand...
Edited by Igotaname13_ on Aug 17, 2009 at 10:43 PM

Yeah, they just take detail_grass and slap it on a shader without making a proper bitmap with a proper shader.
Btw, Donut said HALO not TF2
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Aug 17, 2009 at 10:38 PM

ok i get it, youre using team fortress 2 as a benchmark of how good your computer is. thats great, now enable anisotropic filtering for halo and read up on 3dsmax so you understand what UV stretching is.
(hint: look for deehunter's topic named "Anisotropic Filtering")

Problem is that the CE community seems to have waaay more people who can model than it does people who can texture, so a lot of maps just get default textures slapped on and look horrible.

this. this many times. we need more texture ers

I would learn how to do it but I am terrible with photoshop :\

If you don't like it, move onto a new game.

also enable "DisableAlphaRenderTargets"

If you are complaining about the graphics on a game like this, then you should srsly gtfo, go play crysis if you want some good graphics, instead of crying about it on here.

notice the warnings..."you must have NASA computer for map to work" LOL


aww...my computer sucks :/

whats "DisableAlphaRenderTargets" ?