Yeah, I still have to do the odst hud for you. It's already in the works.

I'm on the scenery shaders and weapons.

Sure when done I'll release in a thread and upload to halo maps but this is about slappys map so I won't discuss it here and I'll let you guys get back on topic

Okay, cool that works. The rifle's shaders are sandtrap 1 without multi, btw.
I also have to put my new fp origins on some stuff... sigh.
A lot of stuff has been taken up, unfortunately...

i love it how everyone's so keen to contribute rather than just sitting back and criticising, it's awesome!
if only halomaps was always like this!

hey, if you need those peli tags ill get them soon. Just having probs making the tag =/

Weird, there's already a pelican in the map?

E: The alpha I mean.
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Apr 16, 2011 at 12:23 PM

hey i have a question and or request of slappy: please change the fov to that of halo 3's like they did in lumoria, i think it was like 75 intread or 60 or something... but that looks A LOT better then the cramped camera view of hce and alot more like the halo 3 view...

Get ToolSharp. I published my version of it for you, personally. Namely the tag backer-upper.

FYI, The view is the same. It's all 70 FOV in halo CE and Halo 3
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Apr 16, 2011 at 03:28 PM

We changed our FOV to 70.

By default, Halo has 70 FOV

So I played the alpha. Sorry it took so long to get back i was on a 1200 mile road trip. Well so i played it. I loved it. It has potential. A lot of the things are very similiar to H3. Some are not exactly ad good.

The one thing i noticed right away, was a MAJOR jump. In the middlile of the map, right were you put the turret. In halo 3 you can make the jump easiert, and the turret is closer to the wall.


jump is number 11
turret is 7

sorry i was obviously misinformed about the fov part but i still think it should be pushed back because this may just be me (and please reply if u have this feeling as well) but i still think that the camera is too ... idk how to say it, "close" (?) to the guns, i feel like in h3 they show more of the gun and arms then they do in these
http://www.xfire.com/video/32fff3/

idk that might just be me. but if ur interrested i suggest trying it with the fov set slightly more back.
next thing is about proportions, its a question: can u drive the warthog through the grav lifts? (not make them fly, i realize how much of a pain that would be and how NOT well that would work online) as in can u drive thru them w a warthog? this is my refferance: (but its from the beta so idk if it stuck thru retail) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Z9NfQT-GY

also will there be things such as: fp legs, backpack weapons?

and random but who's wraith are u using?

I'm working on FP with legs. almost done rigging it and than i need someone to either tell me how or animate it. don't know if slappy wants to use it in his map though :/

I thought i was special :'(

OOO, player is allways in a Vehicle of the Player, (thats how i have noticed FP legs work without gay open sauce)

...Huh?. I'm modeling it and animating it the best i can. Only problem is i can't figure out how to do a crouched\falling\crouch running animations so it will look right. Can anyone tell me through PM.

No. FP legs are not possible with the kind of mp functionality that is needed in this map.
ODSTHUD is offtopic.
You can expect to see backpack weapons in a future version. I need the weapon models to be final before I do that, though.

There are some differences between fullscreen, widescreen, FOV, sp, and halo 3 that you may not understand.
-I believe most users are playing in fullscreen. Halo 3, in fullscreen, uses the animation origins that I have constructed.
-Widescreen in halo ce does not change the horizontal FOV, but narrows the screen vertically.

It is due to this "cutting out" of the bottom and top that these weapons seem accurate to halo 3 on widescreen:

Play on higher resolutions on widescreen, dont play on 800x600.

Slappy, I'm working on the base shaders with Maniac.

Okay so I'm w roviet abt the fov thing but its really a simple fix. Slappy explained it to the letter abd the way u get around it is you change ur resolution to a custom one... make the width like 200 higher or sumthin... beachparty explained this to me a while back but what u do is edit the shortcut and I believe its [example resolution] -nonvideo -vidmode 800,600,60 [length,width,refreshrate] so its up to the player not the map maker

Umm, no. 800x600 is not widescreen.

That's not my point... the point is to realign the fp so it works in all fullscreen ratios. No matter what fullscreen resolution you use, the field of view and view bounds are the same...

How does that work though. If you compare default fullscreen with widescreen, the ratio is different and the weapon alignment is also different.

The weapon alignment only looks different. Widescreen just cuts out parts of the view.

And the hud is stretched, unless you've got yelo battery.

Yes so that means if you reorigin it for default view, then the widescreen will look bad.

It doesn't look too bad, but I see what you mean. One ratio has to be chosen.

Then It would be best to keep the regular one. Also slappy, since you are editing the weapon origins, I think you should move them back a bit (like literally closer to the screen) and increase the FOV to like 75 or something. It would still seem that the weapons haven't been moved, but won't look stupid because of the new FOV.
Edited by jesse on Apr 17, 2011 at 02:10 PM

this is my favourite thread, so much love!

It's kind of hard for me to visualize what you mean, but I'll try it when I have the time to edit those anims.

Well you know how when you increase the FOV, it makes the weapons seem as if they are jutting out forward? If you were to move the origins back, it would get rid of that effect while keeping the higher FOV.

I get it now. But do we want higher FOV?

I don't know about the FOV and I have no opinion on it, but I just wanted to suggest that you do what I said IF you use the higher FOV.

Make it 75 or something.

I agree, if you choose to increase it, make sure it's not horribly noticable.