All we need is H3's seam-sealing decals, and we're done.
If this gets released, I'm using it for CE and never going back.

I lost CE with my computer.

So i heard you may be releasing soon. Sounds cool...

oh who am i kdding i cant keep this botled in! This is the most amzing coolest thing ever done in reach. you sir are the best. Textures have been my thing for quite some time now so when i see this in my halo I will be as happy as a 5 year old on Christmas day! :D

How many of the bitmaps in Lumoria are stock?
I think they would auto apply to Lumoria if they are the stock ones that he edited.

OMG DO IT!!! See what changes.

I'd like it if he did lumoria, because my campaign uses a lot of bitmaps from that and I wanted my mod to look good on its own but also be compatible with his texture pack

I'm so selfish hurf durf

they are fine, but they could be better

I agree, Forerunner structures are supposed to be ALIEN and ADVANCED, else it just looks like some plain human architecture with lots of sharp edges. Though I think the texture itself could use some work; I like it, but from what I have seen I think it could do with some more intricacy and detail.

I have a name :)

Quite frankly alot of the custom textures used in Lumoria were edited Valhalla bitmaps from H3.

Noticed that, forgot because I was playing the level. That was a good job.

So all this talk about the main Forerunner texture on the Beam emitter as well as on a few other surfaces being too busy finally hit home. I was looking at it the other night and it just felt "off". I dunno I really liked the feel and grittyness to the texture but it felt like too much was going on. I got some free time tonight to work on a few more textures and decided to go back and try to fix it.

Better, worse? let me know, I can't trust myself anymore lol








Next up I'm going to try to fix the grass. I really like the deep green tones within the texture, but right now it barely looks natural or anything like grass.
Edited by SorrySoldOut on Dec 15, 2010 at 06:14 PM

Looking mainly at the third picture I'm having a bit of a dilemma...I really like the grass (or at least the general color palette you've used) but the trees don't fit. However, both of them individual fit together well with the Forerunner structure....

It seems like the grass is too bright in some places... looks really funky.

I think it looks perfect as a whole. Great beam structure textures!

I think your textures don't line up in the first picture on the forerunner structure.

No matter what I do they never will. I'm working with Bungie's original texture wrap on that model.

Anyways, I went back to the drawing board with Halo's ground textures to make it look less like throwup. I tried to preserve the original color schemes of where dirt and grass were and work from there. Here are some WIP shots












Its funny that I changed that, and now the flowers look out of place. I'll be changing those too as well.
Edited by SorrySoldOut on Dec 15, 2010 at 09:58 PM

Ground for the last shot looks nice, but the other ones look like they have too much fake bumping (or just really bad bump mapping/etc).

Looks like ground is made of sponge. =/ I preferred the older ones.

Hmm those look better.. But the thing about the bright ones is that the bright ground made everything so much more bloomy and pretty.. :O

I have the old textures backed up, I'm just trying something new. I'll keep working on em.

i like the graininess, but the cliff-like texture type of feel on the ground seems a little out of place for a place that is supposed to be lush and fertile looking when it comes to everywhere else

I think I fixed the problem and found a nice middle ground. The issue was with the detail map mostly (it was too greyed out) I'll post a quick video of it in motion and more screen shot's when I can.

Messed around with the detail map some. I added some color to try to work in the effect of dirt in the ground. I also changed up the main color map a bit. Still very much a work in progress.











Edited by SorrySoldOut on Dec 16, 2010 at 09:46 PM

*head is still a mop*

you're world will burn until it's surface is but grass! :D

grass looks like rock imo

Btw will the texmod affect weapons, bipeds and vehicles too?

I know everyone will hate on me, but I like the rocky-looking grass. Halo 1's grass lacked depth and roughness.
Perhaps if there was more grass detail, though?

Im wondering too...

2nd last pick, looks like mashed avocado...

Actually, now that you mention it, the grass texture looks like scaled up avocado skin layered next to each other, slightly overlapping.

I'm gunnah go out on a limb here and figure people don't like the direction I want to go with it. I was just tired of the flat green grass. Taking a break from it for a few days to clear my head of it, come back with a fresh eye.

but i like avocado! D:!