Blood gulch mod (.map replacement)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE7rPlS2FPE
Edited by Kinnet on May 24, 2015 at 02:59 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcCw1ggftuQ

Haven't modeled in like half a year

what I was going for (supposed to be an alien, go figure)

https://imageshack.com/i/p3vyX5sSp
https://imageshack.com/i/eyCi3DPFj

what I got





I peaked a while ago when it comes to this and now I'm seriously rusty. My topology here is pretty damn bad, I know, but is there anything I could do at this point to improve what's there so far?

What I'm really worried about is the head. I don't think I have enough polies set up at present to really do much with the eyes...I can always tessellate and cut some the detail I need in, but from what I remember that's a bad modelling practice. Something about smoothing, yes?

Maybe I should just start over lol, the way my joints are set up they're going to be FUBAR when animated.
Edited by BKTiel on May 24, 2015 at 04:05 PM

I recommend you to search about spline modeling, you will get good results fastly for organic shapes

AWESOME

I stopped posting here awhile ago, but I came back because I was checking out the CMT Evolved tags release. I don't want to say who I was before because its kind of embarrasing, I said a lot of things I regret. But that's all in the past now, I just want to make cool maps, with cool tags.

So I put the TSC Evolved tags in Snow grove, because I love how balanced they are and I think they could be really fun in MP. I know there are already a million Snow grove varients uploaded... so I redid all the lighting to make it look like the SPv3 Truth and Reconciliation demo!

Before (old and washed out): http://i.imgur.com/mjp4m1m.jpg
After (new and improved): http://i.imgur.com/b8fpkUg.jpg
Before (where am I?): http://i.imgur.com/dUKD3VB.jpg
After (like Christmas): http://i.imgur.com/MbZoeM5.jpg

Pretty cool, right? But wait, there's more: I also got it working as a .map file!! So now everyone can enjoy ^^

I dont know when I'll release, I still have to tweek the lighting some more so its not too dark in a few places. And my internet conecction sux so I can't host a beta or anything. But everything's going great, it shouldn't take more than a couple more days.

Also since I got Snow grove working, I can probably port the fixed tags to any other Halo CE MP map really fast, if anybody's interested in .map files with TSC Evolved tags. Maybe I'll do campaign maps next :P I don't know anything about making my own BSP's so that's all I can do.

are you using DLMs on those maps or just standard lightmaps?

That looks pretty good really.
Also are the forerunner structures going to change aswell?
Edited by SilentBlade on May 25, 2015 at 05:11 PM

No DLM's, I want this to be a .map that anyone can play. I had to cut down a lot of textures's resolutions to fit under the map size limit, there's no way I could fit DLM's in. It's at 127.62 megabytes already, I can only go up to 128. And even if I could fit them, I wouldn't know how to do them anyway.

I don't know how to do any BSP work, so I can't really do anything to the structures, sorry. I did replace all the rocks scenery with the SPv3 Truth and Reconciliation rocks though. The TSC Evolved tags also look really good even without OS.

Such SPV3 style, looks so cool

multiplayer flags need to be fixed now that I think about it. Look at how it almost overlaps the weapon part of the HUD. look into that?

PM me. All of the maps in my project are 180MB+, no exceptions/errors to date. Can't discuss it here because Dennis and lots of general butthurt. Suffice to say the stock tool's 128MB limit is not a hard limit at all as defined in what the engine can pull in and handle. It was good and needed in 2003, not so much now.

This has all you need:
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2479

If he offers you Tool_Pro, don't take it. Its really bad overall, just sayin'

Been working on a 2d game. Its a bit tactical and Dungeon Crawler/RPG styled 2.5d top down game.

Heres some gifs and pics. Working on a demo I'll eventually release as a prototype to a full game.







for more updates in the future feel free to follow me on twitter @lucasgovatos
Edited by Higuy on May 30, 2015 at 10:50 PM

tools?

Currently just using good ol photoshop and a program called GameMaker Studio.

Bro, Kickstart this.

As soon as I can finish up the prototype to include most of the features I'd like to see in the final game (albiet, basic), I probably would. A lot of the art is also a bit placeholderish too and need to spruce some stuff up eventually

bro this isn't halo ce

sorry to burst ur bubble but welcome to halomaps

Wire in a playable spartan and you should be good to go.

uuugh? Higuy? Did you literally recreate Hyperlight Drifter?

Was waiting for someone to say this :)

It was my initial inspiration but the only thing similar at the moment is art. I plan to change around some of that too down the line (still wanna keep the pixely colorful style though ofc), as like I said some if its placeholder (eg, the character, very similar). The gameplay is different and more tactical rather then just running through dungeons and slicing stuff up with a sword, and instead to use mainly just your done to select enemies (sort of like Fallout) and other smaller tech to get rid of enemies. I'm glad someone pointed this out though, Hyper Light is one of my most anticipated games at the moment and can't wait to play it.

Game maker... I was using that when I was like 10 or 11, and a thing called RPG toolkit if my memories are right , I didn't know that still exists . Keep it up !

You know what they say, imitation is the highest form of flattery :p
Anyways if you wanted more games with great art and combat for inspiration I suggest checking out Cross Code (with a playable demo!)

How does lode feel about this lol

I will buy it if it goes to steam :D

What do you mean?

3D Imitation of DELL Alienware 18, Model uses 20,000k triangles W/4K Normal,Spec,gloss,emmisive and diffuse maps.

Highpoly model created in gmax.


Crit plse.

The stone building tileset things look kind of weird. You should work on shading a bit perhaps? It looks flat as it is. More complex shadows could help resolve this. Adding another shade or two as well would help distinguish stuff probably. Specific things: the tops of the rectangular stick-out things on the wall and randomly in the grass are almost the same color as the floor, add more tones to that. Also the stairs are way too simple. Overall it looks good though
Edited by gruntfromhalo on Jun 1, 2015 at 07:13 PM

https://youtu.be/acH9q_mEUNY

apparently setting it to "face whatever direction is convenient" was the wrong choice

Maybe add some ropes along the cliff so it looks like they are down climbing...

Yeah, all of this is placeholder :) alot of room for improvement, currently trying to focus a bit more on functionality before returning fully to art and sprucing that up. Thanks for the crit though! I also plan on adding a lighting system to help create some variation and better shadows etc...

Saved the video to my hard drive. That is hilarious.