Maybe becuase we actually want people to be surprised when they play our mod. ;)

Okar's just trying to get us to post an update, thanks for loving our work enough to want updates!

Yeah, your stuff is great but it is kinda of annoying the lack of updates but Higuy dose have a point because it is really surprising when you see anything it's just seeing that walkthrough on ce3 just left me hanging for more but I guess I'll have to wait.

Also with the new needler effects is there going to be a new super combine particle affect or is that still the same?
Edited by General Okar on Sep 29, 2011 at 04:25 PM

Hey, want to see something cool?



(Arms are in a perpetual state of WIP, don't worry about their shininess)

More hot pix at this new thread at HM/CMT

That is Awesome! looks really good when it's combined with the effects, now is it just me or does that look like a halo reach plasma pistol?
Edited by General Okar on Sep 29, 2011 at 09:26 PM

*post deleted by admin for rules violation
READ THE RULES:
http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=2979

quoted profanity
Edited by Dennis on Sep 29, 2011 at 07:10 PM

e: ^ whoopsie

(this post contained a response to the quoted one that this is indeed a custom model/skin, it will indeed be appearing in spv3, and that I personally haven't done much animating recently so there isn't much news on that front)
Edited by teh lag on Sep 29, 2011 at 07:17 PM

it's hilarious how much of a difference adding normals to weapon models can make.

this engine may actually start looking reasonably current gen if people start taking advantage of sculpts and hi-poly.

Looks nice, now you just need to make every single other asset the same quality. Have fun.

That is just awesome.

Just more inspiration for me to make my campaign as great as possible. Wish I could have shaders like yours :(

This isn't something we are keeping private, you will all be able to make shaders like that.

Update on HUD

Nah I actually really like it I don't think it dosn't fit in mabye if you just see it in game it might be better and I like it to 'cause it reminds me of the bubble forerunner thing in halo wars. Really good job guys I think thats what all needed to be drastically changed and you did it YAY!

Guess we'll just have to wait :)

Also just curious what's this little do-hicky
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/842/67994694.png/
Edited by General Okar on Sep 29, 2011 at 09:58 PM

Yeah, but what do you do instructions please 'cause when I hit the pic symbol it asks for URL and this thing is on my computer as a file.
Edited by General Okar on Sep 29, 2011 at 09:50 PM

upload it to imageshack.us, then go to the image and under it it should say something like img url for forum or something, use that.
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Sep 29, 2011 at 09:54 PM

Thank You QWERTZ, LOL

Any way I was wondering what this little doo-hicky is?
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/842/67994694.png/
Edited by General Okar on Sep 29, 2011 at 09:58 PM

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Everything looks so much better, except keep the old Healthbar from the previous page. Seriously this new large healthbar looks worse.

Yeah now that I compare the two of them in my opinion I like the bendy segments more then the straight rounded edge segments but I honestly don't think it matters because they're both good health meters.

Obviously porn was involved.



That's it for HUD for tonight, hopefully we can start in gaming it in the next few days, and we will open source everything from the SPV2 HUD.

I personally liked the hexagons, put em back. Why make everything plain jane cream o nothin perfect? Ad some style, flair . . . 17 pieces of flair to be exact! XD - but honestly, reduce the size of the hexgons in the radar slightly, or increase the opacity, or put a bias relief on the circle similar to the weapon/ammo to give it a raised effect - or give the radar/sweeper a hex shape to fit (since bias on a circle wouldn't look as sharp) with a hexagon gradient for the sweeper.
Edited by Slap Happy on Sep 30, 2011 at 01:49 AM

Health and shield meters look nice now. I still feel the top-left and top-right portion of the HUD look a bit cluttered however. Most notably the "bullet-meter" thingy, just looks very busy. And that hand on the top-left could reallly just be removed and contracted by moving up the grenades themselves.

HEXAGONS HEXAGONS!

Also, you know how bungie LOVES to put '7' references? Well, why don't you try that? It'd be fun


Also, if you can do things like this, why not a grav hammer? A grav hammer would be a great addition, making the brutes seem tougher to take out.
Edited by LegionofShadows on Sep 30, 2011 at 09:38 AM

Because they are

CUSTOM
mapping team.
Not REACH mapping team.

If they are Custom Mapping Team, then why the hell are they making reachy looky thingys?

I'll tell you why: Because they look good. Like they did for SpV2, they made the AR Halo 3ey.

Wait, most of that was custom then...

I wonder how many reach looking things are there...

Hammers suck swords rule.

Hmm. I used the hammer most on halo 3. In my opinion, it is better.

How about both? How about knives?

HOW ABOUT A FISTFIGHT WITH CABOOSE! THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!

What happen to updates being only available on Halomods? You guys actually made me press the unsubscribe button! Resubscribe.
-Zekilk
Edited by cyboryxmen on Sep 30, 2011 at 10:33 AM

I know, but what I'm saying is I can't make them, and I don't have anyone to make them for me either.

Someone told me
/what/ it is that enables thos shaders

But how they make it work in CE is unknown.

You could ask around.

Not exactly.
id tell but im not sure if Im supposed too.

But the thing thats used to make it look like this, aside from Specular and Normal is something else.
God damn it, I wanna spill it out but dont wanna get killed over it.l
Hint: Its widely used in source.

add me on xfire ill tell you

( SComm279 )

It's just a new specular reflection system for shader_models based on the phong algorithm (or similar - only Firescythe knows exactly how he implemented it), why are you making a big deal out of this??
Edited by teh lag on Sep 30, 2011 at 07:18 PM