how is looking my concrete with lines painted?

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edit: sorry i forgot the bumps here the updated pics:



Edited by Zigadirasu on Jul 7, 2011 at 04:52 AM

That looks nice!! Looks like metal now... Accept the front part of the Mancannon looks nowhere near the metal patterns that are in Halo 3.
Edited by 1bobsam1 on Jul 7, 2011 at 04:14 AM

Nice work zig

the bumps are sticking out to much in my opinion

looks alot better than what it previously was, but like hydrogen said, the bumps are bit to noticeable.

oh btw slappy, for future reference don't turbo smooth parts on your terrain

Edited by Higuy on Jul 7, 2011 at 08:20 AM

Zig: I though qwerty was doing shaders?
Higuy: True that you don't need to touch the forerunner model.

Yeah, I'm working on them right now.

Boy oh boy that looks sexy now! I approve! Is it just ME or do I see see a newly worked on shinny Covenant wall! Also here's a video that can be pretty nice reference footage for what ever you guys may need it for. I want to make sure you guys get ALL weapon placement correct, anyway I can help?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvOx9VhLd5w&feature=fvwrel

Edited by 1bobsam1 on Jul 7, 2011 at 11:26 AM

As far as I understand, Zigadirasu is editing the map, something I said not to do when I gave him the alpha. The shaders don't look that good, anyway, just ubershiny and uberbumped. Mine look almost like that at a certain angle, anyway.

The bases look tons better, but as Higuy said, the bumps are a bit too noticeable.

Sorry to butt in here a little, but I actually have the entire updated/fixed pack that I released in .tga format instead of an Unreal package like the original, including the full sized version of Panels-3 (assuming you haven't just extracted it from UE3 already for your map).

You can download the pack here: http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?19579-Forerunner-Asset-Pack-WIP&p=587195#post587195

You're free to use whatever you need or haven't been able to get from the Halo 3 files (in fact, anyone on this site is free to). Just keep in mind that these speculars and normals were made with Unreal engine in mind, so you might want to alter them to your liking for CE.

i was a little worried to comment yesterday Zigadirasu lol but now i think it looks stunning even when you see a lot of pixels up close
Edited by Wesker on Jul 7, 2011 at 07:07 PM

i am not editing the map i just saw alot of people complain about the base shaders, so edited the shader of metals to try help
(I continue with my promise)[and i don't like do mp maps i even can play it online because of sucks bandwith]

The Beta's weapon placement is the closest to CE-capable. The only things that aren't CE plausible are Dual-Wielded weapons, Trip Mine, and Bubble Shield (though I'm just saying that because equipment is quirky in CE).

Trip mines are possible. I have found a way to make the plasma grenades stop bouncing off the ground. They'll just stay there until some poor sap runs into them causing a huge chain reaction that trips the other plasma grenades.

There was even a similar tag on halomaps but it uses a different method.

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4795

...and while we're at it

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4608
-Zekilk

Bubble shields ALWAYS work 100% so far that I have seen on every map that I have played on that has them.

I think mechanics can be put in even if they are not 100% reliable. I recall the original stationary shields in stock maps don't sync completely either? But that rarely ever causes a large problem, and I doubt the bubble shield would be much worse, it should be fine to implement it.

I've made a tripmine, there are pics somewhere earlier in the topic. The shader/bitmap needs work, since it's just a strait rip, and I need to add health to the collision so it destroys itself. I think I could replace the regenerator that's supposed to be in there with the tripmine. TOher equipment I'm not so sure about.

work it slappy, worrrrrk it!

I don't recall using a bubbleshield in valhalla.

bubble shields are useless online, you cant see through them very well.

Naw. bubbleshields are verry effective.

They NEVER work 100%. Here, I'll outline the two problems with bubble shields in CE:

1- Clients will drop 2 of them at the same time, though I'm sure someone fixed this or maybe no one has
2- Grenade explosions go through the bubble shield, to a point you'd have to either reduce the grenade's damage radius or make the bubble shield's radius bigger

speaking of explosions and shields, would some one explain to me why you don't get damaged when you hide in the teleporter on bloodgulch, but if you create a exact scenery tag you do?

Well obviously rocket explosions are the same as grenade explosions in terms of how the engine sees them, so by saying what I did I meant that too.

Also I've never seen one that fails to work, they would just always drop 2.

Well that's a crappy map with tags thrown into it so obviously it's going to be buggy. Be interesting to see what the shield itself looks like and I could probably locate it's origin.

Playtesting will be held when, if, and only when/if one is needed. Most likely it will be private.

Just announced at CE3:


Play a Halo CE version of grifball.
Play by scoring the bomb into to other team's goal. Whoever hold the ball turns orange and becomes Grif. First team to 5 points wins the match.
Weapon set is energy swords and gravity hammers.
Features a working and syncing scoreboard.


Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?9hn1et0w4d076fu
Game types: Capture the Flag, using any player modifications you want, or Team Slayer for scrambled spawn points.

youguys anna have a game?

Are you? I was thinking about hosting prescheduled grifball events every once in a while.
EDIT: I actually can't play right now. You guys can play, but I'll have to do this some other time.
Edited by SlappyThePirate on Jul 8, 2011 at 09:09 PM

we need a server.
109 or 100
ill make a normal one
not ded.

Okay, good. My servers tend to not work.

ill put up a server on 109 for grifball in 5 minutes. everybnody in.