Im not very sure, H1 was perfert in comparison, i played both of them in Legendary, both of them were frustating since i am not a hardcore player, but was totally frusting. At least in H1 the covy weapons are balanced enough to use them. The BR in H2 was ridicoulsy op in normal and it ws useless in dificult ranks. I think it was a rush game as the same as H4.

H2= Introduction to the End

Just like Matrix 2, You dont miss very much.

I always thought that the BR was just a terrible weapon all around. I've never liked any iteration of it that I've seen yet.

I need to improve the shaders
http://i.imgur.com/ilTLYmc.gifv
Edited by Halonimator on Jul 5, 2016 at 10:56 PM

and your image posting skills

Good door animation.

Funny, I've always hated all Ar's because they are so underpowered.

Ingame pictures.

Kooool door Halonimator. What is the resolution for the textures used on the doors?

256x256

Small door animation


Edited by Halonimator on Jul 6, 2016 at 04:09 PM

Really sexy work there Halonimator :O

Thanks

New shaders

why is your test map a bootlegged periodic table

LOL!

iirc bungie had a similar setup for halo 3.

It's a UV/Texel test texture. It's basically designed to help you fix creasing/folding on your models whilst unwrapping.



Basically a fancier checker map.

This. If you use this texture on all surfaces it allows you to UV map with precision before setting up your materials library and assigning individual materials to different areas of a level. This greatly increases process efficiency.

If you do it right, during the texturing phase of your level creation you will only need to assign material ID's to surfaces. Doing it right can extend to using roughly the same mapping on all surfaces and then changing the UV-scaling on a per-material basis. The upside of this approach is that your UV mapping will be consistent throughout the level. The importance of this is debatable, just like whether or not it's good practice to use grid-snapping when building your level.

Unfortunately my autism prevents me from working in such an ugly scene and I always end up prematurely applying materials and losing time because I have to go back and fix geometry that I've already UV'd.

EDIT: just thought of this now: it would be wise to overlay the grid and coordinates from the placeholder texture of the diffuse maps of any materials you will use in the final level. This would be especially useful for strip textures. As far as I know, Bungie's textures all line up to those placeholder textures - even down to parts in the texture (think strip textures). This means that it's possible to UV map a section with the placeholder texture and know exactly which type of strip will be on that surface after you replace the placeholder material with the real strip texture.
Edited by stunt_man on Jul 8, 2016 at 02:59 PM

People use this for level design?

*shrugs*

I have only ever found it useful for props. With level I'd actually prefer to see how I am editing the co-ordinates for the texture I'm wanting to apply in real time.

As for strip textures I usually create one plane the size of the actual texture sheet.

Then literally cut out all the different parts of the actual texture I need.

From there it is a simple matter of just aligning the cut outs in the specific position which I want.

Good work

Hangar door.

Ouch

Texture I just finished up.


Edited by samnwck on Jul 9, 2016 at 01:46 AM

I always look forward to seeing stuff from you, awesome job as always!

seraph


updated granite rocks




Edited by Halonimator on Jul 9, 2016 at 03:50 PM

i just updated the original granite rock and then make a zbrush high poly one, and
Render to texture to finish... you know the rest.


Edited by Halonimator on Jul 9, 2016 at 04:30 PM



fixed
Edited by Halonimator on Jul 9, 2016 at 04:32 PM

Rocks are still too shiny. You also have far too many polygons for an object which could potentially be duplicated half a dozen times or more across a map.

But the textures and overall look do seem quite decent.

Well done.

better?

Ingame doesnt look this good...ughh.

Lol he sucks


Low poly mesh

Edited by Halonimator on Jul 9, 2016 at 08:01 PM

looks great though. Maybe you can bake the ambient occlusion or skylight shadows with a darker tone to make it look decent in halo

I will try.

Too much HD for my eyes

What is the purpose of doing all these halo 2 scenery stuff, do you have some secret agenda? If you plan on doing the entire Halo 2 campaign.. dont. PS, youre rocks look like plastic. Reference stone shader durp.

Only the arbiter levels, because after CMT finish spv3 they will make chief's sp

Special scenery

Edited by Halonimator on Jul 9, 2016 at 09:55 PM

Tone down the specularity. Rocks aren't shiny like that and they are often a lot more flat (in shinyness).

Other than that it looks alright, maybe more sharp edges would be better then blobyness though.

Rocks: The only time where you can use low poly to your advantage.

If this is going into CE you should at least halve the number of polys.