Well, today i stayed home with a 101.4 fever, it sucked trust me. Anyway. It gave me some time to mess around a little with the orange box engine. I've tried many times before to convert models from 3ds and put them into hammer, but today something felt different. I decided to give it another try, probably the 4th attempt. I did some searching around and found some cool stuff. I decided to put this little tutorial together for you guys at Halo Maps.

To get started i recommend downloading and installing all of NEM's tools. You can find them at Nem's website, http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/

For this tutorial you will need:
VTFEdit: http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?c=178#p178
SMD Exporter: http://www.wunderboy.org/3dapps.php#max_smd
Ghost's GBXmdl importer: http://ghost.halomaps.org/bluestreak/gbxmodel/GBXModel_Importer_v2-0-0.ms
Halo Bitmap Extractor: http://h2v.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=2148
These Programs: http://ts.wmclan.net/StudioMDLandModelnameqc.zip

Now, watch this video tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3geWVa3hT4&hd=1

Once you have done everything, you should have working models in game! It's really that simple!


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Used E3pO's Uploader http://screenshots.rd.to/
Edited by Fairchild on Nov 16, 2009 at 11:01 PM

Nice work. By the way, 101.4 is nothing. When it's bad you can't be on the computer at all without pain.

Who said i wasn't in pain? Hahaha. Every time i blink it's like an earthquake in my head. lol

You should probably check your temper again... Either that or you have something where the fever is not a very bad part.
I had 103.8 a couple weeks ago. That was hell.

Edited by gruntfromhalo on Nov 16, 2009 at 10:32 PM

Added another image,

http://screenshots.rd.to/sn/25ccd8c3b6907ba9d748487497f0dee6/another.png

Hammy's Model Pack for Gmod has Halo models...

So? Don't you feel better about yourself when you do something, even if someone else has?

Few more screenies... Added the banshee in and got a better graphics card (all the settings are set to maximum).


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Now just needs actual shaders on em.

The Banshee looks nice.

Why does the Halo models look so small?

The scout towers over them insanely o.O

I'm in NOCLIP mode so i can get a good screenshot of them. They are a good size actually.

...
HAX!

no, dis h4x. :D


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Used E3pO's Uploader http://screenshots.rd.to/

Uh, the second pic is just a TF2 map menu screenshot :\

Yea? Your point? :p.

was just showing the solid quality of screenshots.rd.to allows. :)

advertising your "friends" site, eh?

Maybe. :p

Anywayz!!

Working on getting BSP's to convert. tricky stuff!

Source won't do bsp's. Only convex hulls, so any doorways or anything like that will be blocked. I have gotten a bunch of custom stuff in. Most of my objects are dynamic as well so you can move or throw them.

I think if you export the BSP as a .OBJ and import it into a program that can export as a file that Hammer can import then it should be fine!

But for the love of all that is living DON'T CONVERT BLOODGULCH! Do a PC exclusive map or better yet do a custom map like Yoyorast island.