I cant make mp maps now, i dont have any related mp-(vanilla tags) installed on my pc. (only some ui tags). What its inside my directory (except some custtom maps) is: http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=50037

Heres the data and tags files:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/8day0sdzhubkpsd/Beavercreek.rar

-NO ERRORS WHEN COMPILLING.
-Updated BSP model
- still unfinished because of: uncomplete shaders, no light planes, custom sky , terrain portals, lack of effects and bitmaps.

Edited by Halonimator on Feb 16, 2017 at 10:39 PM

I thought I was going to be the only person to sea this. Humer in the weirdest of ways!

I'm still waiting.

"Upgrades"
That is some disgusting tiling, have you thought about using a bitmap bigger than 256*256?
Edited by SBB_Michelle on Feb 17, 2017 at 04:13 PM

I'm gonna have to agree that is a lot of tiling. Needs way more breakup.

After a fairly long hiatus from modeling, I finally picked up my old project (which I should've finished ages ago) and finally knocked it out to a point where it's starting to look good. I think I posted the old WIP images in here a while back. Anyways:

That is an awesome character.

You people are the ones who should be working at 343i, not those crysis subcontracted pseudo-artists

You act like if the people making the assets at 343 are the ones in charge of the designs lol

Depends on how fast they work or how proficient they are with their toolset,

Some people are very proficient with complicated tools. Then you get all of the youtube animators that take like two or three hours to make one or two seconds of animation..... with AUTOMATED VECTOR TOOLS .... AND AUTOMATIC TWEENS...

why? its like 5-6 pages of mathematic formulas and my own interpretation of Halo CE + many months of testing. but will give you some basics. Since almost none of the original and tsce variables (damage_values,collisions,materials,projectiles...) are left on my modified tagset... except astethics and some effects. i use many mathematical formulas to calculate the ttk, range, bullet damage, vitality... then i test it, then i tweak the variables............ I will not explain it because is hard. Plasma weapons are good against shields and human weapons against flesh. the point is that this mod isnt just a normal noobified tagset came from a tard like masterz1337.



Every single Campaign map of any 343i game is #hit, specially the third act. midnight from halo 4 is the worst.
Edited by Halonimator on Feb 17, 2017 at 09:11 PM
Edited by Halonimator on Feb 17, 2017 at 09:15 PM

Masters is right, very often the person that models is not the same as the person that design the design. And generally most designs tend to get tweaked a lot via a committee of the Art directors and senior artists before the designs are even approved to be produced in 3D.

Though I appreciate the compliment, but I do accept that I'm still very much an amateur in comparison with most people that work in the industry. And even if I don't think the character designs are the best (seriously Prometheans? yawn) but nonetheless the character models are still produced at a very high level.

As always, I enjoy seeing new content from you, excellent job Sam!

5-6 pages? I assume that means you've already written it out.
Upload it. I want to look it over.

Bro. A lot of what you said *sounds* intelligent, but what the actual $&@% are you talking about?

It seems his mathematical calculations didn't help with creating proper hit boxes.

Just about finished texturing this guy. Also whipped together a very rough pose. I'm thinking I'll have him have some prey trapped between a rock and his hand. For the background gonna have some cave walls made up of a megascan rock wall.

Getting a real M.U.T.O /riddick swamp creature/pitch black vibe.

Although the pot belly is throwing me off a little and the glow spread from the eyes feels too generic for my tastes.

Absolutely love that character, sam.

Getting some huge Metroid Prime vibes from it, could work very well in a Science Fiction setting.

Also, megascans is awesome, looking forward to trying it out myself soon.

Thanks for the crit, pot belly was mostly how I interpreted the concept:


However, I will concede I took the belly a little bit more extreme than I should've which I might still be able to fix to some extent.

As far as the eyes, would the foggy orange fire eyes that I had up above in the earlier WIP shot work if I did it to this new shot? Or do you think it'd be better if I just toned down the bloom a bit?



Thanks dude, appreciate it.
Edited by samnwck on Feb 20, 2017 at 04:34 PM

I think having just blank white eyes would look better tbh, the skin color could also be more beige compared to the orangish yellow presented in your interpretation.

I tried the more paper-y color scheme and I just didn't feel like it looked very natural/ felt less like what I was going imagining for it.

As for the yellow eyes, I imagined something like this: https://youtu.be/ccWrbGEFgI8?t=45s

Where pretty much just the yellow eyes are the only sources of illumination, with the light just playing off the shiny areas like teeth and gums in the darkness for another beauty shot.
Edited by samnwck on Feb 20, 2017 at 04:44 PM

Just some architecture, nothing special.

I think the only real issue with the character right now is the texture. I'm noticing that the concept uses a lot of soft colors with smaller details around the creases. Maybe if you went for the more pinkish-brown color instead of the drab gold you've got going on right now, and added some of those details (subsurface might help?), it'll help convey the idea more.

Also the connection between the horns and the head seem very...welded. The concept seems to have it more rocklike but that's on your interpretation i'd assume.

Always a fan of your stuff

A quick map i made for ai battles. I want to make some ai firefights like those from Gamecheat13.



Masterz1337 sucks
Edited by Halonimator on Feb 20, 2017 at 11:39 PM

Looks neat, it could be fun to see a variant of the map in the videos where there is more use of cover, so this map for more open battles and a variant with a lot of covenant crates and such things for tactical battles

I'm calling this guy done, mainly because if I don't I'm just gonna run out of steam on him hahaha. Anyways, here's the final showpiece of him eating a giant eel that resides in one of the many lakes of the caverns where he resides.

Edited by samnwck on Feb 21, 2017 at 04:57 PM

That eel looks tasty.

How are you going to film AI battles with a roof so low.....

How useful would you say Megascans is for something like environment art in Unity? I definitely will be using it for terrain textures because those look amazing.

With a scripted camera. And the roof is 18 units tall.

If you're using it for a portfolio piece and you're an environment artist, I'd say that's a no-no since you should make your own textures. However if you're just using it for a mod or whatever I'd say they'll get you there really quick.

Reminds me of something out of doom. Great job!