I'm just wondering.. Does anyone have some updated/better mapping tut's than those posted on TheGhosts site? I can remember trying to learn off of those a few years ago, and it led to a major headache. (Literally) I couldn't figure out what the heck he was trying to do. Needless to say, I gave up. Anyway, I went looking for some tutorials today, not remembering how big of a headache I got years ago, and again, needless to say, after a few hours listening to those same tutorials, I had a huge headache.

The only reason I went on there was because everything else I can find uses Gmax, while I'd rather be using this shiny copy of 3DS I've got sitting here, collecting dust. I was following a headache free tutorial earlier that worked with gmax, but eventually I ran into trouble trying to translate the some stuff from Gmax to 3DS. I'm wondering if anyone has any tutorials not from TheGhost that use 3DS, and that actually make sence.

tl;dr I'm looking for some mapping tutorials that use 3DS which aren't by TheGhost.

I will explain a couple rules that everyone who is modeling for halo ce should know.

1- Bsp's (main level geometry) must be a sealed world, meaning.
If you were to "fill" them with water/compressed air/gas, they would not "leak".
The triangles on the model should not overlap each other.

2- There is nothing physical in this world that consists of only 1 side, everything has volume. You must reflect this with your modeling.

3- All other models need a render model (gbxmodel) and a collision model, the collision must also follow the sealed world rules, but do not need to be the exact same model as the render model.
This tutorial by Martyn Lee Ball/Hunter/Anon2009 explains this quite well.
http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?22321-Noob-Guides




"making" a map by hguru http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2299
That will show you how to get a simple map ingame.


Then go to a site like this to learn exactly how to use the modeling tools properly
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/3DS-MAX/Modeling/1

and
http://www.google.ca/search?q=3ds+max+tutorial&tbo=p&tbm=vid&source=vgc&hl=en&aq=0
Edited by Maniac1000 on Mar 16, 2011 at 11:02 PM

Thanks for the reply.. I'm off for a bit, but I'll be sure to post on here after I read it.

to let you post again

Thanks :P

And now it's 4:30 in the morning

When I get up? :S

I thought sealed world meant no open edges as opposed to the thing being actually sealed in a box?

I never said it must be in a box.

Hey Maniac, thanks for those links. That one mapping tutorial seems to actually make sense, rather than just jumping around. Taking a bit of a break now, and I think I'll go get the trial for PaintShop Pro, just so I can figure out what's going on before I try to do what he's doing in paintshop in Photoshop.

I'll post again with some more progress.
Edited by DieHard Bob on Mar 17, 2011 at 07:05 PM

no problem man.
if you use xfire i could give you some more good hints/tips/help if you wanted.
maniac1000 is my username.

It's been a VERY long time since I've used my xfire, but I'll hit you up. :P

need to be more than diehard if you wanna hit a maniac :P

Are you questioning how hard I die?

Or just how insanely awsome I am in general?

lmao that was a fast response you got super spidy sence aswell?

Actually, I havn't looked at this tab in like.. 6 hours. I just happened to check it before I went to bed.

Still not in bed.

talking of bed...i haven't seen mine for like 20 odd hours,busy busy.
7:19am no point now looks like i'm awake for the rest of today.

A computer crash and 30 minutes later, Still here. D:

I've got to go get SOME sleep at least.. Good luck with staying up all day. :P

just have 3-4 coffees, that usually keeps me up for an our or 2

Alright, me still being awake is a tad rediclous. :P

Not really a coffee person.. Though if I wanted to stay awake, I'd probably grab something else loaded with caffine. (<-- I'm too tired to remember how to spell this correctly)

Unfournatly, I don't want to stay awake. So to anyone reading this, goodnight. :3

alls good.

Tru dat. Heh, was just curious about the filling up the level with water/gas analogy :)