im pretty sure there were a few covenant storage containers... :P

gota agree with L0d3x; that makes me so envious. Seriously, take up some tagspace and put trees and rocks and such. You couldnt have taken all your tagspace with the .actor_variants :\

Beautiful, beautiful camera movement there in the beginning. Also, beautiful island, not a tree or rock in sight, I might move there.

I agree. All I saw though was the player spawning after a camera clips through the island and then fighting non-stop AI.

Nothing says awesome like senselessly large encounters. nevertheless the map seems pretty fun.

I know eh guys? Best Map Evar! No, but seriously, that was earlier. Some of those things I've fixed. The camera clipping, the no-scenery thing.. and I'm workin on the AI. Although this is my first ever Singleplayer project..
Edited by deadlyfighter1000 on Apr 18, 2010 at 06:23 PM

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

However, its probably even harder when this contest -----------> DOESN'T USE CUSTOM BSPS <------

Uhh read some posts. You can clearly use custom bsps- you just have to have 1 based in Silent Cartog bsps.

Thanks, for saying that I have absolutely no future with this. I enjoy your constructive criticism, and will improve from your helpful advice.
/sarcasm, did I touch a nerve in the other topic?

Ok, how did you get that out of "might as well give up forever, you clearly have no future in the ai-encounters business."? You must be good at deciphering Lodex speak.

This. Focus on placing firing positions and scenery for tactical locations of you and the AI. Also, I'd suggest cleaning up the Marines vs. Elites segment during the video.

Even when that's there, it becomes extremely limited. You should just make a single player contenst where the player has to focus on creating a single player mission that includes, like:

-Custom animations
-Custom Dialouge
-At least 2 CUSTOM bsps.
-BSP planning
-Encounter planning
-Scripts (story, simple level layout, etc)

Things like that. Not only would it probably be more creative, it would allow people to see how to properly make things in terms of SP. Not to mention if they would follow a decent workflow with those guidelines, we would have some decent single player maps to play. The work would have to be shown in the end, like there script (not the script that writes the game, I mean like, planning wise), there bsp plans, the sorts. The Judges could vote on how well it was made, how good the gameplay was, looks, story, etc. I think it'd be rather fun.

I'm pretty sure you and I already talked about this once before.

not to hurt anybodies feelins I was looking forward to these (I was also looking forward to entering be sapien hates me) but I gotta ask, are we rating these for weapons and creativity and such, because a lot of these are going to prolly be peli drop in beach battles, crashing pelis, and drivin around in hogs, which is going to get really boring

theyre's nothing new, nothing original, same concept, same older halo weapons and ai, same halo 1 is best stuffz and halo 3 haz nuthin on meez cuz halo1z is wat i expect to see cuz halo1 waz first so it will alwazzz be number 1s, and plain old same old

sure, the beach battle is cool for about five seconds and 1 playthrough but...well then it gets old fast

get creative guys, you got all these h2 biped tags, area 51-54 ai tags, cmt tags (which comes with the geist which is a new fighting ai to mix up the fight), kinfish's modern weapon tags, all sorts of different scenery

make your maps unique, so we can vote for different entries not identical ones

Would it work if I had a five second glimpse of b30, and then went to another map? :D

Would it work if I had a plane textured with a bitmap of b30, but as soon as you walk past it is a different map?

OMG L0d3x stop posting if you have no constructive criticism to say! You're just making pointless, baseless remarks and not telling him what to improve on at all! You're not, in any way, hinting that he should put better scenery and encounters!

That's the lodex we know.

I've been thinking about lately on creating a video tutorial on some minor Single player things. It would include everything from making a simple bsp to adding in those small details. These things aren't hard at all. I haven't been making working with single player even more then half a year, and I already know alot things that most people dont, and everything that I had posted above. Sure, they may take a bit to make, but thats what comes with great things. Its not hard to learn anyway.
Edited by Higuy on Apr 20, 2010 at 06:57 PM

All you need to know to make a custom SP is how to model decently (meaning you can model as well as the cliffs in Halo1) and how to implement AI encounters (both vehicle and infantry), cutscenes, and animations into those cutscenes. If you can do that, you can let your imagination fly loose and create whatever you want. Higuy, it would be cool, but please stop spamming my thread with remarks about how this contest supposedly sucks due to it not primarily focusing on Custom BSPs.

The rules are CLEAR on the front page. If the rules say something can't happen, then it can't. The fact remains that YOU MUST USE THE B30 BSPs. But what does this mean exactly? I'll tell you:

-You must use the B30 BSPs and have them ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTE to your SP. Read the title. THIS IS A CONTEST FOR THE SILENT CARTOGRAPHER SINGLE PLAYER LEVEL.

-I am ALLOWING the use of other BSPs as long as AT LEAST ONE of the B30 BSPs are used in some contributing way. What does this mean? Just having a five second filming of the island of the Silent Cartographer does not cut it. YOU HAVE TO SET FOOT ON THE ISLAND and continue on from there.

-If the rules do not cover a subject and you are concerned about it to your fullest intentions, then either express your concern IN A WELL MANNERED AND WRITTEN way. If you cannot in the thread, then please Private Message me about your concerns.

I never said that I didn't know what this contest was for, dont make me look like a fool. What I'm pretty much saying that you should take a different direction and allow the.. competitors, more creativity by allowing them to do whatever.
Edited by Higuy on Apr 20, 2010 at 08:47 PM

As long as its from the time you import the peli into max to the time you play it ingame. ive been tryin for ages on c dropship, and it wont cooperate.
Edited by Dwood on Apr 20, 2010 at 08:53 PM

Maybe your problem is the node checksum list? L0d3x told me that the node checksum list from the .gbxmodel of your vehicle must equal the node checksum list in the animation you created. That is assuming yours is a .jmw animation. This applies to characters as well. For example, http://www.xfire.com/video/282ec0/. I made some animations :P.

EDIT: Is there any good video recorder I could use? I'm thinking about making a tutorial about making custom animations from scratch and getting them in game.
Edited by shadowce9 on Apr 24, 2010 at 06:04 PM

I remember why I did, now. Every time I turn around a certain corner once i get into the underground bsp, I get an exception error. I've always had this problem when using b30.

anyways, made a new c30. with a new beginning. :3

http://www.xfire.com/video/2906fa/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kZjYJe60E0

Submit it to the contest!

Also, how would y'all like it if I extended the date a bit?

I'd love it if you extended the date.

The Date to the Silent Cartographer has been changed to be completed in July. I have to resolve a lot of issues regarding my tagset and an annoying Exception, not to mention everyone is asking for an extension of the Contest day. More Info regarding my problems and more at my Blog.

I am entering now but not with the snow b30 as i am having problems with it. sence the date is now july ill do it. but im doing orignal b30 with more encounters then before. example wraiths on the beach banshees overhead etc

It's very simple to learn how. You just need a few of the tutorials about Trigger Volumes and Cutscenes and the Scripting Bible all found on this site to script half-decently.

(script startup addAI
(sleep_until (volume_test_objects tvol (players)) 15)
(ai_place ai)
)


theres an easy ai script :D replace ai with the encounter name put players at 0 i think and addAI is script name.



thank you gamma for script
Edited by Hydrogen on May 5, 2010 at 06:07 PM

Same here.

b40 contest next please ^_^

No.

lol failpost