Map Name: Pandora Swamp
Map Size: Medium
Author: Slap Happy/NerveBooger

A C10 Swamp varient with a variety of luminescent plants. Good for all gametypes for up to 16 players. Play as a variety of Elites.

Edit: Preview Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h0UplL5fYw








Features:

visible lightning storms
Awesome thunder
Aurora Borealis Sky, animated
luminescent plants (Gaigher, and TM Mapping team, and Bungie, all retextured)
H3 Brute Chopper (Thanks to Advancebo for the base model, Bourrin for Alternating fire, Spartan094 for marker edit)
H2 Ghost (green/lime textures)
H2 Warthog (edited textures)
H3 Mongoose (Thanks to Gaigher)
Covenant Shade Turret (by Advancebo, edited with alternating fire)
H3 Elite (Thanks to Teh Lag) with custom rainbow cubemap by me to match the map colors
CMT Hud & Weapons, fp anim's by Teh Lag
Cheddars for Sentinel Beam (edited by me)
Banshee Flyover (thanks to UnevenElephant)

Weapons (mostly CMT):

Assault Rifle
Brute Shot
Carbine
Flame Thrower
Blue Needler (edited)
Oddball (edited to make it look fresh out of the skull)
Plasma Pistol
Plasma Rifle
Plasma Cannon
Rocket Launcher
SMG
Sniper Rifle V2
Spiker
Sentinel Beam (Cheddars)
H1 Shotgun
Pistol

Thanks!
I Hope it is enjoyed!

Additional thanks to Allied Racing and Merchant of Death racing clans for server beta testing, and to beta testers.

Thanks also to Bourrin for Alternating Fire animation for the chopper, it really made the Chopper vehicle unique.

Download: http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6122


Edited by Slap Happy on Oct 6, 2011 at 10:55 PM

Downloading now, this looks effin' amazing.

Looks fun, downloading c:

This calls for a gamenight. I'll get the crit-a-cola.
-Zekilk

I've said it before, but this is a creative take on this BSP with some very nice and flashy looking custom scenery.

Awesome, man! Someone should "avatarize" the map Ewok... :)

Added preview video to first post: Preview Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h0UplL5fYw

Awesome.

Fudge yes!

You want me to host this map on my server for you? Then PM me dude, and i'll have it up.

this is a fantastic map, nice carbine, spiker, snipes, rox, charge-up plasma pistol, nade effects, shotty n snipes, the elites look great and the chopper and scenery is awesome!
congrats slap happy and thank you!!

very impressed with this map
Edited by Ubergoober on Sep 23, 2011 at 06:38 PM

Making a game night for this @ 8 pm EST (1/2 hr)

1.09.
Be there or be square.

Server up yet?

Yeah. Posted thread.
JOIN NAO

looks excellent. a job very well done :D. im just sorry i cant play halo because of a suspected virus from tool pro

Played it both by myself (foreveralone.jpg) and with some others. Great map, eye-candy is superb and gameplay is good too. My only major gripes are the weapon placement, which doesn't seem to have any attempt at a logical order, so I'm really just running around in the dark hoping for a "Hold e" message to appear, and the somewhat inbalanced state of the vehicles. The Chopper's collision is glitchy, which isn't a huge problem, but it does interfere with gameplay at times. The amount of damage taken while in different vehicles also seems a little off, though I haven't thoroughly tested them individually.

the only thing im worried about is that its too easy to get out of the map, this is really going to have a detrimental effect on the gameplay, once people work out how to get out of the map, the gameplay will b ruined.
i hope this can b fixed with an invisible wall or maybe some kind of turrets situated up on the cliffs that shoot u down if u go up there.

http://www.xfire.com/video/4e13da/

the colission of the chopper needs work

look at this video i uploaded.

http://www.xfire.com/video/4e16fe/

i can do that with scenerys too..

ask MartynLeeBall for the model colission he made for Deus Ex chopper... (idk if he still got it), but that colission model was perfect..

Go develop a sense of colour theory and then try again.

The point is that it's got neon plants, Sel.

Radiation.
Ftw.

yeah, I tried like hell on the collision issue, with improvement, but not fixed in all aspects. I had the other chopper from Mangenkyo - before my comp crashed, but - no more. I will see if I can get it again before I release the chopper separately.

Note to others extracting the chopper, the chopper in game is for the elite and has customizing factors specific to that elite, and to that map, the one I will release next week will have both elite and cyborg markers - and hopefully the improved collision.

well... i am Mangenkyo.. and thats not really my chopper.. is from Deus Ex.. the Colission model was made by MartinLeeBall and compiled by deus ex..

It doesn't help when you have a video of how to do it on your Xfire :O

its pretty easy to find, i think everyone would've found it sooner or later

How did you get a banshee fly over? I've always wanted to do that but the elites always wind up going kamikaze into some ground units.

the banshees are .scenery

Edited by spiral on Sep 25, 2011 at 03:05 PM

Or a plane with a banshee profile animated to fly around the .sky

the obvious and some feedback:
the msg's muzzle flash looks nice only if the gun was in front of it

correct me if im wrong the spiker has a shotgun icon, its confusing when you believe you stumble across a shotty

the chopper doesnt really have collision, something that slaps and zelik noticed when we were playing

the hud was pretty cool i like how the name appears under the health bar

the plants are fun to hide in if you know your biped color

the map's environment is fun

just to be curious are you going for a halo anniversary feel?

I got the feeling that there were too many vehicles. There is one part where if you walk there is a mongoose two seconds away from a mongoose two seconds away from another mongoose two seconds away from a chopper. For a small map, this is a little overkill.

Also, I was happy that I was able to knock all four bipeds off of their perch on the tower without using devmode... shortly before I was disappointed by the fact that I couldn't kill them

halomaps: http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6122

I will be releasing my test map, in which hopefully I will have improved the collisions for the chopper (I might need help). It will also have my cyborg varient with hardcandy shaders and dual visor flashlights:



Note to those who wish to rip the chopper, instead of waiting for the release, change the seat of the driver to G-Driver, but you will still need to add 4 IK points in the cyborg player anims under the G-Driver unit to force both feet and hands to the correct marker positions:

Marker: right hand
Attach to marker: right hand wheel grip

Marker: left hand
Attach to marker: left hand wheel grip

Marker: left foot
Attach to marker: left foot

Marker: right foot
Attach to marker: right foot

(The units are only poses/postures, the IK points help to modify the pose for the vehicle/unit)

omg i've wanted those hardcandy shaders for so long now, can't wait to get ahold of em

Same... :L

Wow really like the spartan. nice. :)

lol that's the point.