Good Evening my fellow mappers. As you all know I always do a christmas special in halo, this time something came up that may make it hard for this to happen. I have a hauppauge capture card that I was going to capture my special but, last night it shorted out and now it is just a box of plastic that smells like burnt hair.

Now onto the part that will cause most of you to click out of this thread. I would think that the serious mappers and maybe even old friends of mine would help me do this since....my mapping skills aren't the best in the world.

I need a new map to film on and I have the layout in mind too.



So lets break it down

Grey- The standard snow covering the area

White- I would like for the white to be a hilly area that goes upward. As you can see on the top a small train track running through the area. A train would be cool but unless you have a model save your time

Brown Squares- No color signifigance. JUST building OR houses. Keep in mind I don't care if you rush, just as long as it looks better than my maps. The buildings can be used over and over again I don't care if they look repetitive either.

Black- That would just be the street or an icy road slightly covered in snow.

Sky/Enviornment/Particles/Ect
Sky- Could anyone do a day to night switch? I would like the night sky to be a kind of detailed one. So not JUST black, a few stars? As for the daytime one, a cold snowy look- coldsnaps sky, which is just white.

Particles- I would like for it to be snowing...thats it.

Enviornment- Colorfully lit. The christmas colors emitting off of the buildings and lots of trees.




Now, this sounds like a total pain in the ass. Im not gonna lie or try to make it look easy. If anyone is up for this let me know, or if anyone wants to even help me.

Thanks Guys.
Edited by K_I_D on Dec 5, 2010 at 05:49 PM

Sure. Will give me something to do for like 30 mins...

Holy crap if you'd really do that man that is awesome! Thanks Alot bro. Oh and this sounds really dumb but whats your name? I could use your name as the main characters name too maybe?

You don't want to use my real name. Trust me...

Just use "Slick". 'Tis one of my nicknames.

Also how do you want the buildings?
Quick render:

Also I won't be able to texture this. so you will need to supply texture but I can unwrap it. Sorta...

OMG its kid *_*
Edited by Delicon20 on Dec 5, 2010 at 10:04 PM

I would like for the town to look as if it is in a forest surrounded by high mountains. By the train tracks there should be more trees that stretch onward and kinda dissapate into the fog...if that helps. Now if you cant do it like that fine, but in a forrest

BTw- Thats looking good man but make sure there is more surrounding space. So the hills can gradually rise upwards and also you can make the tracks alot more simple than that. As for the buildings, maybe something really village like? With simple brick/wood textures and a classic triangle slanted roof
Edited by K_I_D on Dec 5, 2010 at 10:15 PM

i might give it shot, i can try to texture but ill probably use multiple materials, not unwraps(just uvw's). wats the tri limit?

I bet i can do better then the guy who attempted...

Did a bit on and off, used my house from my architecture project.

I smell Dennis.

No bevels. Just displaced. lol. I had like 5 mins to do it. Will make it better later.



Better then mine. I bet it took longer then 5 mins though.



The trees will probably be mostly added in sapien.

Anyway I will work on it it my spare time it will probably be bigger then that but as I have said before that is just a quick model.

Want me to model the scene?

Dude, if you would do that YES that would be amazing. Seriously I'd be so appreciative. I guess everyone else who wanted to do it could pitch in too only if they wanted.

Oh crap mythril you already did it! It looks great man! Hunter maybe you could do the house models or modify them? Is there anyway they could be 2 stories to give maybe an apartment look?

BTW- I know I seem picky since you guys are doing this for me but you don't understand how grateful I am. Like....you can tell me stfu anytime you want and be like "Hey man it is what it is" because I don't wanna come off like a little spoiled kid...LOL
Edited by K_I_D on Dec 6, 2010 at 01:14 PM

lol

Well it did occupy me for a little while... lol I think the final will probably look pretty good. If you want me to do environment art then sure. I am pretty good at that stuff.

Do an animated sky - but simple:

Large dome, with a vertical large wheel going below the horizon, but not above the sky box, not to high above the houses, parallel to the street. make the wheel turn slowly (animated).

then make a santa/sleigh /reindeer bitmap with mask, affix bitmap to wheel - bam! you got santa flyin over the sky. Add a marker to the wheel _, create effect tag which drops "presents" - (projectiles) which when they detonate, create a gift box/health pack/vehicle?

^ like where this is going

Thats completely awesome but I don't wanna push it. I'll take what people are willing to make ya digg?

It seems Mythril has it covered actually, I will leave him to it :) If that's alright

Tah :)

anymore progress on this christmas map/idea?

Correction, you would not want a marker on the sky/wheel/santa - it wouldn't work to drop presents from the sky because it is not part of the bsp. This can be achieved easier by script or effect tags with script for proper placement or dropping.

Whats the deal fella's?

i have a spinning sky.
I can adjust it to your needs if you want man.

My guess is to have the wheel (blue) rotating on a horizontal axis that is equal to the horizon line but within the sky. If the wheel then has 2 locations for a single bitmap to be applied upright, as show in the grey areas the affect may be scaleable:



If not scaled right, giant santa and his giant reindeer come poopin out "presents."

but, I think it would be better to have a single horizontal rectangle plane, and a transparent shader could then animate using "slide" to give the effect of santa entering from one east, but 1/3rd left corner to top 1/3rd right, or an over head rectangle plane (strip) to simulate a fly-over head.

or scrap the sky idea and just model santa and reindeer, animate them, then use as animated scenery similar to a pelican fly-over.


Edited by Slap Happy on Dec 9, 2010 at 09:12 PM

that would be a better idea

Any updates?

yeah, any updates?

Yea man, any updates?

Epic bump

But yes....

...us.

As it looks like other people were going to do I pretty much stooped. But I might work on it. Only have 2 days though :(

Seriously?
No one is working on this? :|

Crap, sorry for heaps long delay.
The model has been pissing me off heaps cause of strange open edges that appear on random lines. No, they aren't actually errors.
I think it's something to do with bluestreak or something, because as soon as I used a different exporter, it worked [FUUUUU give me blitzkrieg for 64bit please!].

Going to ingame it by tomorrow, hopefully.

Sorry again for the delay >>

p.s. btw, does it matter if the houses have no collision? Sketchup to 3ds creates all these open edges which I'd rather not expend the time to fix unless necessary.

Myth, I got Blitz working on Win7 64-bit:
http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=33401
I have the solution posted in the first post.

I love you.

[oh and go to sleep >>]