Wow, those textures look amazing. I'm loving how it looks.

Thanks guys, you are really inspiring me to keep working.


I have run into a slight problem though while working on this project. Every time I go back into the game to check on how a texture looks, I end up playing for 20-30 minutes because its so damn fun. I forgot how fun the original halo was! I'll try to have a video up later or at least more screen shots. I'm currently reworking the pillar of autumn level with entirely brand new textures.

Edited by SorrySoldOut on Oct 17, 2010 at 06:43 PM

my advice, film that 20 - 30 minutes you play :p

also, are you changing the skyboxes? cause the one in those screens look so awesome...

so wait, one thing I don't get is, if you choose a texture pack does it replace all ingame textures with those? or what? confusing...

Ya when you load up Texmod you can chose which Texture pack to load in. Once you have chosen and start the game Texmod piggybacks on top of Halo:pc or Halo:ce and intercepts the textures I changed to load in from the texture pack rather than the game directory. Right now I'm creating one big one, but you could say focus on one small thing and make a very small texture pack to load in when you start the game up. Its actually really fun, and really easy to use.
Edited by SorrySoldOut on Oct 17, 2010 at 09:21 PM

Dude I love this.
HURRY UP :D

so that would mean a lot of custom content that doesn't use those textures or isn't compatible with them would be left unchanged, right? It wouldn't try to put textures on a weapon that make it look completely screwed up?

Yup, this mod changes only the original textures.

Btw, I just filmed a few minutes of me playing through the Pillar of Autumn. Watch it HD if you can. I took off Enb Series for the recording just because I know most people will probably end up not even having it. Also this has the updated PoA textures I updated and/or completely changed around. I tried to make it feel more "ship like" if thats even possible.

Check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx9WtsJuy0M

Edited by SorrySoldOut on Oct 18, 2010 at 10:05 AM

Also I just took a few screen shots of the textures I worked on so far

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/mm394/Smashlt/Halo%20Texmod/PoAWIP1.jpg

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/mm394/Smashlt/Halo%20Texmod/PoAWIP2.jpg

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/mm394/Smashlt/Halo%20Texmod/PoAWIP3.jpg

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/mm394/Smashlt/Halo%20Texmod/PoAWIP4.jpg

Sorry I still can't post pictures.
Edited by SorrySoldOut on Oct 18, 2010 at 10:45 AM

EPIC! When will this be released?

i cant get texmod to work lol. no matter what i do it just sits there like a dump on a log.....i checked the wiki adn followed instructions.

I watched a tutorial but am still a little confuzzled.
You piggyback the exe, open and select the texture you want to change/edit.
Edit the texture then make a package or w/e it was called.
Open the game with texmod.
Is that correct?

Now what confuses me is, what about shader properties?
Bump maps, multi maps, cube maps, emitted light, would they also not need changing?

where are teh crosshairs :/

also with this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLZxz3bH5gs&feature=related

dano's forunner textures would probably be better for the project but idk I don't think it really matters

lookin good, keep it up, finally textures that make the newer custom content fit in with the old halo, can't wait to see halo 3 grunts runnin around in that environment :p

also does it recognize bitmaps by name?
Edited by Delicon20 on Oct 18, 2010 at 04:14 PM

The crosshairs are removed by a completely seperate mod, so I wouldn't worry about that. I just took them off to show the screen a bit better.

Also, that video is a few weeks old and I have redone most if not all of those textures shown in the 2nd level.

I still have a bunch more textures fo go on the first level and also on the 2nd, I'll update soon with new pics and videos.



Exactly, so far what I have changed in the game are mainly the diffuse maps (which hold the specular info in the alpha channel) and the matching bump map to go along with those.
Edited by SorrySoldOut on Oct 18, 2010 at 05:57 PM

this r gon be amazin, and are you going to do the whole campaign or just the first two levels?

I plan on doing the whole game, which shouldn't be too bad.... I'm thinking because a lot of the textures are recycled from level to level

You do great work.
Some people should consider delaying their projects so they can use your textures.

or leave textures default so they can have the texture pack used on them

I didn't get that much time to work on it yesterday, I updated the floor texture to a really cool floor grate I saw in the Glacier firefight map in halo reach. I tried to copy the look of that texture the best I could.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/mm394/Smashlt/Halo%20Texmod/NewFloor.jpg
Edited by SorrySoldOut on Oct 20, 2010 at 11:09 AM

BEAST

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Edited by Tuaha on Oct 20, 2010 at 12:35 PM

Thats really cool. Maybe somebody could use these textures and good looking weapons and make a complete campaign upgrade?

That's exactly what I'm trying to do.

Will you ever incorporate these textures into the halo game, without texmod? Like modding a10 with these textures. Of course, I guess we can do it too.

I guess I could, but using texmod at the moment allows me to cut straight to the texture making. Also, using it benefits both Halo pc and Halo ce as well as custom maps with original textures. The only downside to using texmod right now are the long initial load up time for the game. probably anywhere to 1-2 minutes to load in larger files by the time I'm finished.
Edited by SorrySoldOut on Oct 20, 2010 at 07:18 PM

just release the textures when ur done too so we can add them to ce or use ur method

Hmm I guess I could do that as well, make mini texture packs to keep the size down or maybe as I finish levels. I never really thought of it that way. you think people would be interested in say like a "Pillar of Autumn Texture pack" etc etc as I finish the levels? The Texmod wouldn't be done but people could play around with the textures and have fun.

That'd be nice.
You could then put it as a mega texture pack after everything's done.

By the way, I don't really care much for the grated floor texture. I think it's too much of a change from the feel of the ship, tbqh.

dun b dissin teh grate, it r sexy

I think it's fine as it is.

I like this idea, as some people may wish to use just PoA textures in their map.

I like this idea. I'd certainly be grateful for it, because I'm trying to find high quality textures for my rpg beta 6.2 retexture mod. And I'm planning to go on to retexturing blood gulch afterwards.

Do more than just BSPs and I will be even moreso pleased.

Let him just take one step at a time. In this case, that step is solely the BSPs.

wow. all i can say is; "Oh my God!"