What kind of gmax tutorials are you looking for. Just general ones for working with gmax or more specific for like animating and such?

When I learned how to model in gmax, I couldn't find many tutorials on gmax, so I used 3ds max ones. They really are similar programs. Gmax just isn't as complex.

I dont' think the ship idea would work. You can't move on a moving vehicle.

As for the shop idea, that is posible. You jsut need to know how to script. Though I am not sure if you can get a menu to work, but you can just have things lined out that say Press "E" to buy ITEM for $_____.

The ship would work as long as your in a SP level and its a scripted device thats animated.

It would be strictly limited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncw3Sck8SfQ

Old video is old, but here's the points system. Though I utilized a pause menu to access purchase options, it isn't that much more difficult to use a device for it. There's also a more effective way to display the number of points, by using cinematic titles instead of a timer.

Not in a multiplayer map

Awesome.
Just BR and Shotgun origins D:

That's why I play in widescreen now.

I believe you would have a headache allowing people to move , because they would be teleported back to where they came from.

I remember FleetAdmiralBacon talking about making the floor a ladder. Idk how it would work out, but you could try it.

If the entire map was the ship, you could just make a sky that animated and loops and that would generate the look of it going forward.

Not in a multiplayer map. The physics engine in halo 1 does not allow it. If you want the ship to appear as if it is moving then create an animated skybox that they see out the windows. Bipeds cannot stand or move on moving objects in a multiplayer map because device machines and animated scenery (the moving object) do not sync in a multiplayer map. Their status and position is not transmitted across the network and bipeds can not stand on vehicles when they are moving.

Can you atach ladders to moving scenery though and make the ladder apart of it?

if so yes this would work.

Have people spawn on the ship.
Make the background move.
Eat more fruits and vegies.
Profit!

the ship would move out from under you until you land.

No, that won't work. You can't stand on moving vehicles without falling out. Ladders won't work either. Why do you want it so badly, won't a moving skybox work? Halo's engine can't handle it (at least not on multiplayer).

Not in a multiplayer map. Vehicles in a multiplayer map must have seats you can not stand on them while they are moving in game. The game engine does not allow it.

unles you could take away the vehicle damage from the player. it may work. idk we should ssrly test this.

We need to make team of halo CE Myth Busters lol

making the floor a ladder would probably work, i dont see why it wouldnt.

I am not sure if you can make a "ladder surface" on device machine and you can't on a vehicle but a device machine would not sync across a network game and a vehicle physics would not allow it.

Device machines don’t sync therefore their collision model won’t either. In Halo 1 you can't stand on a moving vehicle without sustaining damage.

Look, this question has been asked and answered numerous times since 2004 and the answer is still and will remain the same: In Halo CE you can’t make a large ship that moves and have players move around in it. It is a limitation of the game engine.

Yeah, he did that by attaching a device to a vehicle. Even if it did work, it'd be extremely glitchy and laggy, and I doubt it'd work well online.