Restriction
http://www.nexushalo.tk/

I started making this map a long time ago back when I was only able to box model and let's just say I'm happy I stopped. I started forging this map in Halo 3 until I ran out of budget so I decided to model it. You will see a lot of scenery for H3F and I might release them separately. Keep in mind there was a problem and Sapien didn't put the right textures in the right place, and only put in one texture everywhere. Also I already know about the missing texture on the face in the render, it's already been fixed. Please leave any Ideas or Respectable Criticism.







Edited by Nexus Halo on Sep 3, 2009 at 07:40 PM

Looks good in term of gameplay. Though you could have used "metal plate floor" for the ground floor. And a ground map.

Needs a little something. Right now the map looks too bland.

It's going to be a delta map so I'll just be using edited Halo 2 Delta textures. I will also be adding snow that you'll be able to walk through like H Guru did in EMT Inferno, Snow and some scenery. It won't look bland when I'm finished with it.

hey Nexus what's your xfire, i can give you some good Delta textures.

Looks good, also reminds me of lockout.

Looks decent enough

"nexushalo"

Also I'm not completely done with the bsp. There is going to be some things added. I'd like to have a private beta to see how the map plays and see if anyone has any problems with the jump distances.

use b40 sky, make pit longer, otherwise, looking great so far.

I was thinkin bout doing that and I'll check out that sky. Thanks.

Next time, use textures...

Seriously, kind of bland to be honest. I hope this is just a test in game...

Ugh

Use some textures

Make some UVs

Model some new cliffs

I suck at modeling cliffs but I'll try again.

Add a fog plane on the bottom and add a trigger zone that kills you once you fall.
Edited by jesse on Sep 3, 2009 at 11:13 PM

meh, just throw a teleport from down there and mark it with a medpack lol

This map looks nice, but you'll need better textures.

l2read people

Okay, well I started to make some adjustments to the model and now when I'm trying to export it causes an error and 3ds Max closes. Anyone know why? If not it might take me a while to figure out.

What do you mean you can walk through snow?

There will be non-collidable geometry shaped like mounds of snow to give the appearance that the players' feet sink slightly into the snow piles.

Oh, I thought he meant like walls of snow that you could run through...

And made an exception for the cliffs?

Yeah bullocks.

No really, this isn't the first time this has happened to me. In the scenario_structure under collision materials it only displays 3 types instead of all of them. If I add one with the unlocked guerilla it creates an exception. This happened to me on Deadlock also.



The 3 materials in there are the snow, cliff and test. I've created the shaders and everything your suppose to do but it still doesn't work. I tried saving the model and export it as different names but now when I attempt to export it says there has been an error and will now have to close. Why would I lye about something so meaningless like not adding textures in a Halo map? So next time instead of calling BS you should think of ways this error could have actually happened.
Edited by Nexus Halo on Sep 6, 2009 at 08:55 PM

If you say so, but that's still a lot more than one texture duder.

K?

So be more accurate in your postin.

Will do, I fixed the error so I'll post a new render when I finish texturing.

it looks to blank. not that many exciting textures.

*facepalm*

So what I did was merge the file from the original model into a new scene in max then re-exported and it now shows the textures in sapien but when I go to compile I get this error.

09.06.09 22:30:10 tool pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
09.06.09 22:30:10 reference function: _write_to_error_file
09.06.09 22:30:10 reference address: 42ca20
09.06.09 22:30:10 Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
09.06.09 22:30:11 WARNING: 1 clusters in structure_bsp levels\restriction\restriction_alpha have no background sound or sound environment.
09.06.09 22:30:11 Tried to add bitmap from group with no bitmaps(levels\restriction\bitmaps\restriction_snow).

All of my textures are there. Even in the tags.

EDIT: I fixed them. I'll post a recent screenshot soon.
Edited by Nexus Halo on Sep 7, 2009 at 01:48 AM

What happened was that I didn't notice that my snow bitmaps weren't to the power of 2. So after I fixed that it can compile and I ran through the map. I'll post a screen shot when I texture the entire map.

Edit:

I haven't finish texture the entire map but here's what I would have shown you earlier if the shaders worked before.



The Delta textures are edited Halo 2 textures. I made them a little icy with some snow on top. Pretty basic editing. I don't really like them that much but if anyone is willing to make some or donate some good ones I would appreciate it.
Edited by Nexus Halo on Sep 7, 2009 at 02:11 AM

Not gonna lie, it's nothing special visual wise, and it doesn't look like it'll be anything special gameplay wise either.

I know it's not the best looking map and I haven't beta tested it yet but I think it will play pretty good.

The gameplay will be by no means bad, but it'll be basic, and relatively boring. There just isn't a whole lot to it, or the map. Try a bigger project and you might get better results, because one room with a few platforms can be replaced by loads of other maps stock, and custom, none of which were particularly fun :\