Might want to go back to your "ultimate Bloodgulch" mod and redo/revise a few things on that before you start "remastering" the other stock maps.

I've been working on a new competitive 2v2 map, Overflow. Originally the map completely replicated the look of damnation, but I redid most of the geometry to try and get away from looking identical to it by trying to go for a covie/swamp atmosphere.

Basically I want to stay away from that and make geometry more logic and acurrate, besides that abomination of bsp was made in 2015, I dont even know why I release it.

I really like the 2nd layer of Cliffs :)

I updated it to support Shader_Models as well, but yes those were the Hub World shaders from ODST.

I like the classic look of it, but I definitely had to look twice to see the difference between it and Damnation. The third picture really threw me for a loop for a second.

I definitely like where it's going though.

Love those shaders for the buildings/urban landscape. It's too bad there's no multiplayer city maps on Halomaps with more contemporary (post 2004) textures. Would love to see you or someone else release a multiplayer Mombasa or city map with an Halo 3: ODST or Reach type urban vibe.
Edited by HandofGod on Jun 10, 2017 at 03:38 PM

Cool.

Ahem.

http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=47728&start=246

More Updates to DC remastered

Change Interior ilumnitation,





I get rid of the f3424ing arcs and added huge Forerunner background structures

I really love those forerunner buildings :3
Edited by lolslayer on Jun 17, 2017 at 03:08 PM

Significantly better. Good job

Ya it does look better. What are you going to do about the big covenant crate scenery and field generator in pic 2? Looks like you're using the stock scenery and then some reach covenant scenery tags for some of the crates..

Good forerunner. Good improvements.

Tried to make a first-time character for cryengine 5. Got mad after two days of trial and error.



A biped.

Got it in halo in like 2 minutes. WITH multiple custom animations.

Meanwhile, cryengine5 can't even import a simple 5-bone character with properly configured physicalization and materials.





All of this advanced crap with really easy layer setups, and collision, and render targets all being their own easy to edit tag, and yet cryengine still manages to be piss hard about how you import things to it and always whining about dumb little vertex//linker mismatches :shrug:(edited)

Heck, I even have a custom gesture linked to FlashLight and Crouch.


I don't wanna manually code in a physicalized-cloth//capes feature just to use changyou or UE4 . . . .
Edited by OrangeJuice on Jun 29, 2017 at 04:29 AM

Your first mistake was not using UE4 or Unity.

I'm having a ton of fun making skeletons for nonhuman characters and stuff that I find online :D

Lots of practice, plus no animations, so I have to animate them as well
I don't plan on rigging any of them to existing halo animation_graphs. That's boring ! make it from scratch :D
Got carried away with the big rabbit ninja thing with axe hands so it kinda has too many bones in it for the HEK right now, so I'll probably resave it and make an HEK-compatible version tomorrow. I just wanna frikkin in-game all this stuff xD



Edited by OrangeJuice on Jun 30, 2017 at 06:06 AM

Compare that creatures structure to your own, or that of any animal. You have two bones each for the thigh and shins, i think i see four bones per arm. Thats not how biology works, and youre making it difficult for you to rig after. Bones go from joint to joint; shoulder to elbow to wrist. So, unless your creature bends his biceps his elbows and his forearms, theres no need for there to be two bones there.

Done. Rigged it. (trolololololololol ! ! ! ! )



cartoon bendy'ness

Everything is faster with drawing tablets, screw all them dang 'ol conventions that only apply to realism. :P
Edited by OrangeJuice on Jun 30, 2017 at 10:33 AM

Where are your control objects? Are you animating it by just rotating the bones??? Ouch

I only need the lookat point, double clicking to select gives me local-only object YPRs for parent>child so arms all get rotated as themselves instead of ' parent-only '

Save dem weird helpers for something that can't do cartoon smear-frame movements, I need bendy limbs :)
Edited by OrangeJuice on Jun 30, 2017 at 06:21 PM

Guess who is back

I remember that project, it was really cool :)

WHOOOOOOOOO! Glad you brought it back from the grave!

doing some shader work


Edited by MEGA_VKNG on Jul 2, 2017 at 09:01 PM

The outside structures are magnificent, really cool!



However I prefer Gearbox's original interior lighting, it's darker and has more colour and atmosphere. The new one is just dull.

Some tests I did today. My human and elite blood decals use subtract and are inverted to simulate multiply... this way I can make blood disappear slowly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVVkq-s7P4E&feature=youtu.be

My decals vanish more rapidly like the modern halo's, i did this to optimize and use efficiently the halo ce engine... and to avoid the overload glitch. (I did something similar for my particles and effects to)

some parts of Spv3 and The MCC versions of halo overload and the game doesn't want to spawn more particles, effects, decals and even projectiles.

I believe I have seen guided rockets before. The "follow me" feature is a true 10/10 addition though.