I love the forerunner textures, just make them simplified by blurring out some of the more detailed lines and such, and maybe lightnening the color overqall to go with the shinyness.
But looks great! There's no way I would be able to accomplish something like this.

I like the forerunner textures personally. I don't know why you guys want simplicity. Forerunner textures are supposed to be complicated and confusing. Forerunner structures are built by an ancient and mysterious race, so it makes sense that their painters would make everything confusing. :P

better

Yes. Keep them simple and shiny. The ones shown above recently sure are different, but you're right, they are too busy. A shiny upgrade for the original textures, perhaps with some color change and minor design work, is the way to go.
I'd like to reference Halo 3's Valhalla map shaders in this case. It seems you can achieve that kind of glare, forerunner pattern, and such.

I disagree, I hated Valhalla's forunner structures, they were TOO simple and seemed human, not acient and epic
Edited by Delicon20 on Dec 2, 2010 at 07:02 PM

Because sometimes simplicity is the most beautiful.

I think I have found a nice solution to some of the more complicated textures, I'll have some screenshots tomorrow night or early saturday along with some video of the textures in gameplay. Time for bed though Zzzz

The forerunner textures aren't bad per say, its just the way your using them.

For example, you have wierd looking lines from the texture on your big a30 beam structure. In my opinion, that looks pretty bad and very distracting. Also most forerunner are shades of light and dark gray, mixed with blue or yellow. Sometimes brown from dirt for exterior structures, or white for snow etc.

The lines thing seems to be on quite a few textures too.

Another thing is that some of your textures that are inside look extremely beat up as if they would be outside.

I love the Forerunner Textures. there different. and isn't that What CE is for? Making things differnt. So yea I love it. Keep em they look good and it looks like you put alot of work into it so yea keep them.

Just becuase things are different doesn't always mean there good.

It looks good though, it looks advanced, and thats what the forerunners were advanced beings. So this looks really good. It looks a bit beat up cause Halo is like over a million years old. so yea i love it.

I like the forerunner textures, well, all of them except for the ones on the beam structure.

Thanks guys, I thought I would get more work done in the project this weekend, but life got in the way blah. Anyways I did get more textures done and changed the intensity and pretty much entire design of a few textures.

As to a few of you who want more simplicity I can understand that, this is a big departure from halos original bland design of the Forerunner textures. I'm steering my design more towards what is seen in halo reach. Currently I'm wrestling with keeping things a bit more simpler while still having the detail in there that I want.

Here are some current work in progress shots, crits are more than welcome as I'm trying to make the textures the best they can possibly be.

Thanks again for keeping me motivated :)




























Sorry no video as planned, be back soon with more :D

Graphically awesome.
The beam emitter panels in the design still look out of place, but they look way better than they did before.

Would love you to keep it like that :D.

Wow this whole project is making me love halo and this community even more.

looks good, love the 3x better ar textures. they cant make up for the awful model tho

The flower bitmap looks nice. It blends in enough where it isn't too distracting.

Like it, but something about the textures on the outside of the structure is bugging me. They seem like you put large panels on it and plated it like that.

dat needler needs a better detail map too :)

Would you mind showing the bump and diffuse for the metal? There's something really awful looking with the metal ATM and I believe it's the bump. Metal should be fairly smooth, right now it looks more like rock than it does metal.

And this is me trying to help, I love everything I've seen so far.

Also can you apply an image for Specular in Halo? I haven't worked with the shaders in a long time.
Edited by YakZSmelk on Dec 6, 2010 at 07:40 PM
Edited by YakZSmelk on Dec 6, 2010 at 07:42 PM

The bump is very very detailed. I kinda made that choice, I could easily go back and change the bumps to be extremely smooth with just the cross sections receiving the bump but I didn't want it to be "metal". I wanted to have a weird alien bump effect as well, it looked good to me in game... but maybe I have been staring at the project to long and need to take a step back.

I would say try bumping only geometry changes. If you want me to help with any of the texture feel free to PM me.
Edited by YakZSmelk on Dec 9, 2010 at 12:43 AM

Got a little bit of time and worked a little on some more textures.

Looking fantastic, keep it up man.

Dude, that skybox is making me orgasm.

Wow, when was this going to be released again? It's just amazing.

Wow! This needs to be stickied or something. This may be the Best thing to happen to halo even maybe over Lumoria.

Not over lumoria...
But awesome nonetheless!

This is amazing. Combine it with bloom and h3/hr/cmt weapons and it'll look like Halo 3/Reach. Almost...
Any release date?

Thanks, I'm trying to release it within the next few weeks, hopefully around Christmas time, if not early next year.



+1

I'm working hard on this, but Lumoria is pretty damn awesome.
Edited by SorrySoldOut on Dec 12, 2010 at 07:31 PM

Well, that will make my Christmas.

will you be doing this to the stock multiplayer maps?? :D

id like to see lod3x do it himself

^This