Nope

I used to love playing those scarab missions over and over on Halo 2. I much prefer the Halo 3 model, however. What with the shininess, the turrets and the massive "head".

Hmm... I like both the Halo 2 and 3 scarabs. The Halo 2 Scarab to me is much more monstrous, with a stronger cannon and all. And the silver reminded me of the covenant starships, which really showed it was powerful..cause, y'know, covenant ships are powerful.

However, the Halo 3 scarab is much more suited to closed in areas. It isn't as big, isn't as powerful, but it's a hell of a lot more agile, but a bit easier to take down. I think they are both great scarabs.


Plus...

I WOULD FRIGGIN LOVE A SCARAB BOARDING MISSION! However, not just a simple 'board the scarab' mission. Maybe just before the scarab bit, you'll have to board a phantom and ram the scarab so you can hop on.

How about you steal a phantom, infiltrate a covie command base, fake a distress signal from the covies via a terminal in the control room, causing the scarab to come back, board it while it docks to prepare to fight off hostiles, then use it to take down other covie heavy vehicles?

(tongue hangs out, slobbers like dog.) QUICK! SOMEBODY, GET THIS MAN DOWN ON YOUR DAILY PLANNER, PROVIDED YOU'RE CMT OR TM, OR ANY GOOD CLAN, OR ANY GOOD MAP MAKER.

You need him for some more plot.

I pity you, qwertyuiop15.For the caps stuck down is a horrible curse, and I would not wish it on anyone except for those COD heathens at school.

Please don't start a war over my comment. If you do, you are a heretic. And the heretics get purged by the arbiter.

So, any approximate release date so I cna look foward to maps with this in it?

Any updates??

I'd like to see the scarab moving around and the giant beam that comes to pawn you LOL :P

Well, actually, the Halo 3 scarab's beam doesn't pwn u instantly like in Halo 2. It lasts about... a sec. But it's enough time to get the hell outta the way. Btw, I saw Marrtyn Lee Ball's scarab model, AND ITS UP FOR DOWNLOAD! I know you prob don't wanna use it, but seriously, it's some pretty sweet stuff.

http://martynleeball.blogspot.com/2008/12/halo-3-scarab.html

nevermind. for some reason the collision is way off ingame and it keeps giving me exceptions when i touch it
Edited by shadowslayer123 on Oct 5, 2011 at 07:59 PM

For collision model your only scarab.. a terrible terrible model... And the legs should be straight box.. it exceptions because the h3 rip is bad. Unless you fix the mode 100% it won't work. This is what I did to fix my ce scarab.. later on, I found very non visible minuscule errors for my scarab..

No ShadowSlayer's collision geometry he mad always made the game exception,so now he's letting DarkLord0912 make the collision mesh and effects for the H3 scarab.


The Above^^ is alittle confusing.

i tried it myself because i believe i solved all the errors, cause i was bored and i needed some practice, but after i tested it, it was horrible and it kept giving me exceptions so i called it off and let darklord work on it

LOL ShadowSlayer123

I got the main Hull and inside almost done,I would have been finished but to no surprise I have a 6 day work week im off tuesday I'll try to have it done by then.

shaders are looking much better, right now im slowly animating it, the crouch animation is finished. as soon as i get the fixed collision, ill start the rest of the animations and work on the turret biped

Sup Hiralis.

Seriously, people will wonder who you're talking about.

Pics please? I would love to see progress on the shaders. I absolutely love someting with good shaders on a good bsp.

Updates?

Wow This Project has gone downhill...

yeah it is isn't it...
Edited by spiral on Dec 7, 2011 at 11:33 PM

i believe i saw this scarab model in some other thread for an sp campaign wip

i dont know what or where it went anymore

Actually it wouldn't take anything to finish,I still have the collsion mesh I believe.

If shadowslayer still needs it,I will finish it.Not sure if he is still working on the project.

Is there a way to make the players stick to the Scarab while it's moving? Or is Halo's physics too stubborn?

There is an OS script command to specify how close a unit is to an object. You could make the scarab stop moving so it doesn't kill the player.

Except there's no public OS released, so that's a rather worthless solution.
Not to mention that simply wouldn't work. You'd need more than just a script that returns the distance between two objects. But you'd know that if you had scripting experience beyond copy pasting existing ones.

But there will be a release of OS, and they can always use a beta build to see if it's indeed possible with this method.

Once you can detect that the player is near the core of the scarab, you could use script commands to make it stop. Or if you can't, you could always look into having a new command added to fill the functions that you need.

That's not a practical solution at all. First of all you would require the distance between the player model and the scarab's collision model, which is more complex than just the distance between the core of each model. And even if you could get a good number for the distance, telling it to stop whenever you get too close would make for a very boring scarab functionality.

You'll simply need a new physics system or some other crazy trick.

That said, even if OS could make such a thing possible, you'd require every player to use OS. Can't see most of the player base getting OS just to get some specific functions working.

Conclusion: it cannot be done practically.

I was merely telling them how they could make it stop when the player gets on it. I don't know where you got the idea I was talking about new physics systems or anything.

Any scarab is going to very limited in what it can do in this game, I don't disagree. But they now have a way to make it stop when a player is on/near it. Which they could have never done before.

So we are agreed your suggestion was pretty worthless to make a Scarab function in a somewhat interesting way in Halo CE. Alright then.

i would like to finish it if anyone would give it to me

I'm pretty sure that Kornmann made it clear that OS can't change the netcode or physics engine unless someone obtains the source code. That basically means no ragdolls, synced AI or vehicle surfing.

Something so big like the scarab shouldn't really be driveable anyway. Change it into a device powered train.
-Zekilk

What's happened?! D:

This would have been a nice Christmas present.

Agreed

are you even working on this anymore?