Completed Fireworks - Randomized and Balanced - Halo CE, will post download link later

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZiswz9xWsQ

After about 75 builds and 20 scripts later, I managed to balance the fireworks so that all particles are visible and that no region/portal gets lag bombed. I was going to make a proximity activated bottle rocket/firecracker/device machine - couldn't get it to work right - woulda been nice - sneakin up on someone and settin off a random proximity firecracker - scare the hec outa you.

Base Beat - Added fog machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxp84JcjZqE

I had to, I just couldn't stand a club without effects

HALOMAPS Download: http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=5742

I did edit the fog machine - looks smooth now.

A Death island varient with a variety of fireworks, Good for all gametypes. Turn on your particles and textures on high and enjoy the fireworks.


Thanks!

Rocket Hog
H3 Mongoose
H3 Hornet
Shade Turret
H3 Warthog
H3 Scoprion

Thanks to Mythril and SlappyThePirate for assistance. Jesse's Hud, CMT and ASP weapons, all others to respective authors. All fireworks designed, tagged and scripted by me as device machines - all tagged into their own folder as to not overwrite others if extracted.

Edited by Slap Happy on Jan 10, 2011 at 02:49 AM
Edited by Slap Happy on Jan 15, 2011 at 01:21 PM

:)

Run
tool lightmaps levels\test\deathisland\deathisland deathisland 0 0.9
to make the bsp match the sky. Any you're done!

Is this going to be sync with all the players in a multiplayer game?

If it is a device machine as he previously stated it won't, however it doesn't matter because it is not integral to game play. It just looks nice.

DOWNLOAD Link in first Post

Base beat is cool.
Also, a smaller delay on the firework sounds would be nice, but why am I complaining? It looks awesome.

Thanks! It is a variant - but I'm sure some will enjoy it. I don't recommend unlimited nades, as the frag also has spawned secondary explosions. I do recommend it for it's hug sky (I removed the vehicle cieling limit) for some hornet dog fights (no rockets on hornet). It's now 125mb unzipped due to all the extra particles and effects.

It's in the FTP queue so it should be available when Dennis has time, but there is a DL link in the first post.

The sync'd lights with music was - fake-sync, the music is 89bpm so I divided that down and got 0.6741 - then set the duration of the effect to that value, voila.

The "delayed" sound isn't delayed - there are 2 primary sounds, the launch, and the detonation (some also have secondary detonation)- so in the video you hear both, but in game, you will see the sound only has a slight delay on detonation shortly after you see the explosion, but by that time, you also get another projectile launched - and the mortar sound only has like 4 permutations.

It was a challenge - I enjoyed it.

Well, the map was about the effects themselves, I don't think the water color really maters in this case... But what can I say, I haven't been able to play anything that's come out sooner than a week and a half ago...

The maps has been released:

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=5742

Feel free to make the fireworks gun yourself - you can extract the projectiles from the map. If you can't do this, I might do it later for you, such as a rocket launcher which fires the projectile - but, the tags all reside in scenery/fireworks - I don't want to have to move them to a different location - there are just too many tags to re-reference.

they are named:

brilliant_red.projectile
brilliant_green.projectile
brilliant_violet.projectile
mortar_large_spawner.projectile

You will need to edit the velocity and damage (I removed the damage) if you want to use as a weapon

Would be cool to see the other kinds of fireworks too.

I have 4 other mortars not included with the map - but - they lag bombed the video render, and so they would cause other particles to not be viewable. Even when I removed them, I still had the issue, which was that each mortar location (almost every race nav point) had all 4 mortars. So - I restricted only a single location in front of each base to have all 4, and other locations to have just one (the popper/spawner)

I have a beautiful bright white finale multi-spawner mortar that shoots out 10 projectiles (with secondary explosions) that had a leaf point physics that looked like gold glitter . . . but it was a lag beast.

As far as I understand it (if I am correct) each portal has a max poly and max render ability - I chose death island for it's hugantic ginormous sky, and well portalled (but not tall enough). And I don't bsp model - so . . . yeah

Once I clean up the tag organization of the other mortars, I will release them - which includes custom sprites for particles.