That's actually a good idea. But give us a hint. Are they gonna be scary? Or just really gross like the original?

E: Shoot... new page. Talking about the flood.
Edited by Spartan314 on Oct 4, 2011 at 02:43 PM

I can tell you are very passionate about this.



Seriously speaking, the Flood levels are at the very back of our minds - we don't really have a concrete plan for them. We'll try to do something good with them.

hi


AR is WIP

Dano : and there are wierd normal mirroring issues with the realtime shader in max
Edited by Masters1337 on Oct 8, 2011 at 01:22 AM

hi

Looks great!
Edited by Pepzee on Oct 8, 2011 at 01:14 AM

ohmygodiwouldmakesweetlovetothatneedler.....
Also the needler has a pokeball :D

I can even see all the scrapes and fingerprints on the AR! :O
And the covenant weapons... so much detail... would it all even get into Halo?

Obviously that is impossible, hence why they are putting it into Halo.
Use your brains...

But yeah, the weapons look fantastic.
Inb4 beta invite

Well I'm just saying. In a nutshell, I can't wait to spv3 to finish. :L

Yeah Choking Victim and Firescythe have been doing an amazing job with OS coding!

OMG !!! That just simply fantastic and awesome, THE REAL CMT IS BACK PEOPLES !!!

0.0

AR looks better, but maybe make the top grey part a little darker?

The yellow stripe is gone (at least, from what Lag has told me) so there's nothing to say about it.


Also I'm coming back from my laziness...let's hope it never returns:


Still a WIP, but I felt it was in a decent enough shape to show you guys. Still gotta add more force to the hit itself. The right hand obviously needs a ton more work as it's having a seizure right now...
Edited by ODX on Oct 8, 2011 at 04:21 PM

It feels way too fast, maybe becuase its a GIF? idk

Looks cool though

.gifs always tend to be either faster/slower than they should be. Speed is one thing I'm still making heavy edits to with this. I'm trying to still make it a faster melee because it's a smaller weapon.

If you watch it for a bit, it settles into a good speed (or for me it does at least).

Shame to see that yellow stripe go due to the opinion of a few kids on modacity.

But but but... I like the stripe. Gives it personality.

Looks dumb imo. A very unnecessary detail that serves no purpose other then aesthetics but for me, good aesthetics are what is real looking and not necessarily what is visually pleasing for some un-explainable reason.
Edited by eliteslasher on Oct 8, 2011 at 05:25 PM

Woah woah, wait a second, how is that aesthetic stripe any different from all the symbols and marks and extra bits on the covenant weapons, they have a hell of alot more purely aesthetic details that no one says anything about :\

Well, kornman says the real military don't use yellow stripes, so of course it had to be removed, no discussion.

Umm... your joking right? The covenant war is all about what?
Religion.
Many peoples even in real life will engrave or mark their weapons in the names of their gods or for a symbolic purpose toward their religion. That is the purpose of the engravings, markings, etc on their weapons.
Honey badg... I mean humans don't give a crap just because they don't so they don't have a reason to mark their weapons.

bro, Im not talking about story line related, Im talking from a purely aesthetic viewpoint here. Are you really going to tell me that you are fine with an ugly detail that might be related to the plot, over a well done detail that is purely aesthetic? Also, Im sorry, but I have never seen anyone carve a cross on a rifle, or write holy jihad on their RPG, so that particular point is extremely debatable.

Also, there are plenty of details on Covenant weapons that have nothing to do with religion or anything else, that are once again, purely aesthetic. Im surprised you guys managed to not notice the yellow stripes on both the Reach AR and Pistol, and yet, no one cares about those, but the CMT rifle cant have one, oh no.



Edited by Bobblehob on Oct 8, 2011 at 06:32 PM

You forgot that Kornman said it couldn't have the yellow stripe! That changes everything dude.

We never said it couldn't I just said I personally find unnecessary details such as a yellow stripe as pointless and would rather have bare metal. I mean think about it. "Okay boys this batch of ARs are ready. Send them down to the stripe painting line to have their pointless painted markings added on."

Also the reason you don't see it now is because people don't really do it now a days because we generally are all about practicality first religion last. Old ancient cultures used to engrave markings and such on their weapons, wear war paint, and have ritualistic ceremonies before battle. Think of the covenant like them but with vastly superior technology.

http://www.google.com/search?gcx=c&q=native+weapons&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1680&bih=925

@Querty
Umm... Genious.... Those are the weapons I am saying I have a problem with. Using them as an example is pretty counter productive. And markings such as 9mm, this way up, yadda yadda serve a purpose. They give information on the weapon so therefore don't show weapons like the rocket launcher because I happen to know that Pretty much EVERY marking on that gives info on the launcher itself.
Edited by eliteslasher on Oct 8, 2011 at 06:51 PM

Yup, to be honest, there is no reason to suddenly hate the CMT rifle there, but be perfectly cool with all of these others, especially the Spartan laser there, because the Red stripe there is the most noticeable of all of them.


@ODX, I wonder if there might be a better way to use the wrists or arm as the impact point, the SMG itself doesnt seem to have any surface that really would be strong enough to be used to hit something, unless you use it like the plasma rifle and just smack them with the whole weapon :P, I know it may be more of an aesthetic choice, but it seems to me that it would be better to use his fist or elbow or something.

To be perfectly honest with you, there is no reason for this outrage. The marking could simply be used to tell the difference between two different makers or something else, but in this case it is an aesthetic detail that serves no practical purpose other than to look good, and no matter how many real guns that you compare it to, that dont have obvious markings on them, it still doesn't make any difference. The argument that it isn't realistic really doesn't apply, considering Realism is not really a factor in this game.

That's what I tried to say at first. It's just my personally feeling on aesthetically pleasing. I was just stating an opinion in which others I know will have differing opinions on. I was more just backing my personal opinion and explaining it's merit. Though I guess I may have sounded a little like a dick when I first made that post up a ways but I was just trying to get across, again IMO, why it's acceptable for Covie, but less acceptable for human.

I'm pretty sure that cmt, or more specifically dano, isn't taking any crit or suggestions on the weapon textures, so your debates are pointless, worthless, and moot so you might as well just stop with the potential quote pyramids
Edited by Delicon20 on Oct 8, 2011 at 08:02 PM

no u too :I

It's called giving feedback. It is never pointless, and anyone, even an artist such as Dano, should be open to it (if even in a limited way).

taken from this thread: http://www.halomods.com/ips/index.php?/topic/351-the-kangadanoroo-lives/

Wow, that's a terrible attitude. Feedback and (weighted) compromise is the way to go...

I feel that the stripe adds a great flair to the ar's dull look. From a practicle game design element, it helps be coherent yet different to the player amongst the other weapons. When a player is running around the yellow stripe is a positive influence in helping the player identify what the gun is. It works well, keep it.

Shut up about the stupid stripe, you guys are pathetic.

@ODX, I wonder if there might be a better way to use the wrists or arm as the impact point, the SMG itself doesnt seem to have any surface that really would be strong enough to be used to hit something, unless you use it like the plasma rifle and just smack them with the whole weapon :P, I know it may be more of an aesthetic choice, but it seems to me that it would be better to use his fist or elbow or something.