Thanks :) Work has been slow on it the past few days because actual work is kicking my arse. Anyways got to work on a few more textures tonight. With any luck I will be able to post these directly into the thread.

that floor is getting a bit repetitive, possibly add in color variations, such as yellow, like in Halo 3.

I'll see what I can do to break it up a bit, maybe adding some color to the end clamps on the floor texture.

Perhaps add some ventilation duct like textures here and there. I like those you have right now.

You need to add alpha channels in your textures. They control shine, and as of right now, your textures are very shiny.

Well, it is a ship that can fly extremely fast through space, and can defend itself from covenant lasers. It probably would have very expensive, shiny, metal. Surely scientists would find a way to make their super metals shiny. Remember, Halo is set in the future.

uh... Its still metal. Metal is shiny when it starts out, but think about it. This metal has paint, and has been in wear and tear for a long while. The POA is a old ship that was just refitted before the Covenant attacked Reach.

HOMO!

I know they control the shine, I have been specifically trying to take screenshots to show off the shine and bump etc. walking around normally they aren't that shiny and you can barely make out the shine. Granted I think I need to turn down the shine on the floor and a few other textures, but I kinda wanted a bit of glare from the floor. Also, I'm not basing this off reality.. I was kinda inspired by Halo reach to start this out and a lot of reach's textures are very very shiny when light is cast upon them. I'll make a video soon to show how these current textures look like in motion.


Also, I'm not sure if people realize this or not but I'm not editing anything at all with this mod beside the textures, at least to start out. So I can't "add" in grates etc because I wanted this mod to work straight with Halo PC as well as Halo CE. The original floor tile was repeated just like you see there so I'm stuck within the confines of halo's original texture mapping layout.
Edited by SorrySoldOut on Oct 23, 2010 at 11:56 AM
Edited by SorrySoldOut on Oct 23, 2010 at 12:26 PM

Obviously you're a level artist and I'm an animator and our opinions differ, but I think what I've said over and over can still apply to both of us: aesthetics over realism.

In this case I think leaving them as shiny as they are adds a nice aesthetic feel to it, we shouldn't limit him to "making it fit in with Halo's story" because honestly that's getting really boring and having some new things that break cannon so as to be more fun (at least for me) should be highly praised upon.

It's kind of what Halo is [partially] known for anyway, the specularity and stuff I mean. Just as Unreal is known for putting grime on everything...

That's the plan right now

I really dont think the diamond plating should go on tables, really.

blame bungie for making floor tile textures apply to cafeteria tables, guess they wnted marines to be hardy and eat off the floor :/

yea, I put more detail in the blood textures, fire textures and explosion marks left on the floor

OMG. Take those textures, make flickery dim lights, get some cool zombie bipeds and corpse scenery, and voila! Amazingness!

this can be truly used for a zombies SP or firefight map or mod.

ok please please release the a10 textures u did in a .tif

just get them in the full release,its for halo pc too so he wont protect.

he's not putting them in a map he's using texmod

This is super cool man! I love textures and this is not just textures. this is godly!

Thanks guys, but this is only texture work I plan on doing/have done so far. My first page explains what exactly I'm doing and how I'm going about it, I'm not editing any map files.

Where there's a file compression format for a mod which is compiled by people for modding purposes, there's probably a way to open that file compression format and extract the textures. Then it's a simple matter of compiling them and referencing them into shaders for each level. You're a ripper. You should be able to do this :P
Edited by Gamma927 on Oct 25, 2010 at 07:14 PM

Question is... Can he model? :o

I don't know how to rip :/


......wait u mockin me?

Yes He can. I use 3ds max and zbrush extensively. So far this is just a Texture mod though :P

any kinda timeline as to when you could have this finished?

I've been really bust lately, I'm doing as much as I can in the little time I have. Maybe a month till its done? I dunno I'll really try for that.

Anyways here is a link to a new video I made with the textures I've made so far.

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

Here are some new Screens








Be back soon with more updates

Lookin sexy man, a30 is mai fav

The new a30 sky edit looks amazing. Nice job man.

Do you mind sharing the bitmaps for the bitmap for the flowers?

makes halo graphics look about 3 times better. nice job man.

There we go :) (To those guys who are going to say "Bungie did a good job too" just my opinion)

Thanks guys, as for the flowers I need to go through my files and find it. Its pretty easy though, just took some reference photo's and changed the alpha a bit to compensate for the new image.

New pictures look great.

i keep trying to amke it work with my other dx3d games but none accept it :P. would AlterIW work with this?

Awesome. I'll get this for my next play through.