Can you give me more details on regions, how they work and how to assign them? (sorry for slight threadjack)

Wow looks epic. Could do with better shaders on the metal and if you can make it shiny it would look awesome. Lol if your in need of any assistance some of the guys or even me, could make some shaders for yo.

one step ahead Lol i was going to make some changes to that grey metal, and don't worry i DO know how to make shaders, the map and sky are a good proof of it, but thx anyway
p.s. it actually looks good, the angle of the picture don't show the brightness of the metal, i don't want to make metal shaders too shiny, because, after all, the structures have been exposed to the environment for too long so it would be unrealistic.

Close view of some metal shaders as well as changes
Close views:




Changes:


Hope you like it
Edited by ChBgt909 on Feb 11, 2012 at 03:47 PM

Like this?


or this?

Edited by ChBgt909 on Feb 11, 2012 at 08:59 PM

looks good. the light grey texture looks bad where the entrances are though. but thats just my op.
Edited by Cheddars on Feb 11, 2012 at 09:35 PM

yeah i'll add some more details to it and post more pics

this is how it looks like atm, IMO the specular looks good,

but if you insist


made some changes to red base:



holograms that change their content



Edited by ChBgt909 on Feb 12, 2012 at 01:42 AM

going pretty good here

Cool! Changing Holos!

CHT, check your PM's ;)

Yeah they look nice

Tiel beith right.

Thats why the really awesome teams do SP, so they know their creations will be forervermore remembered.

Mainly, they're remembered cause there ain't many sp maps.

Heh, that's an added bonus. In reality the reason I love to make SP stuff is because it's alot more fun and satisfying to make :-)
And it allows for set-pieces that MP could never offer.

Same reason here. Also, in SP don't have to worry about syncing and BSP size. It makes it much more satisfying on the creative level but MP maps are needed on Halo too so let him make it and instead, when it comes out play it.

Trust me, BSP size is always a hazard that requires careful thought and planning.

Well, pardon my saying, OPSy, if this offends you old chap, the reason bsp size was no problem for you, is, well...

Your maps ARE poor quality in the actual modelling. The design is great, heck, but you don't want to exactly opt for quality and a small map when you are creating roleplay mnaps. large, low quality and well designewd seem to be more popular.

Which is all fine and dandy for me, but when it leaks into SP, old chap, it starts to get.. bleh. Perfect example is RPSP.

While on the other side, we have TM Updates, member of the epic TM team. Lumoria is a perfect example of an sp map: Its beautiful without necessarily having the best graphics, very entertaining gameplay, and the level design just makes you want to faint with joy.

No offense old chap, but stating the truth./


ANYWAY, I love the idea of the changing holograms, and the red base now. Red Base seems a lot nicer, but that probs would be just the textures being added on. I'm not a fan of those middle base textures, mainly because they seem wrong for that particular building. I can't think of anything though.

On the subject of changing holograms, is there any way you can get the holograms to replicate the way the holograms in Halo 3's Epitaph went all staticey when you stood on them? That was a lovely effect, and shows awesome halo can be.

RPSP v2 maybe?
It'd be pretty cool if it works like what I have in mind.

What do you have in mind?
[On topic] This may have been said before but a question to OP: What weapon tagset is there going to be? Classic? Custom?

sry for not giving any updates i've been busy
well the weapon set is gonna be the classic but i added 3 more weapons

energy sword, this is the model, with working hud icon:


brute plasma rifle


ma5k (i think thats the name XD) with working hud icon


classic assault rifle with xbox shaders, it has slower rate of fire but it's more accurate, it's the same one from the map "portent" (the original)


~UPDATES~

well i made some changes to the bsp, (*cough*secret room*cough*)
and well, i think i said this before but here are the shield doors for red base


notice that there are 2 colors, blue and yellow, both colors allow you to walk through, the difference is that the yellow don't let projectiles to get through and the blue does, i did this only because the structure itself exposes red team to enemy attack, (snipers, campers, etc.) so this protects them from that, but it doesn't give them an advantage either (camping inside), i still have to make some changes (color, exposure, effects) as this is a WIP, oh and one more thing this is only for ctf, as other team games spawn players randomly (like team slayer) so the shields are not necessary, so what do you think?

Imo it'd be cool if you used the Shadow instead of the Spectre, I mean the one from Lumoria :-)

Maybe yellow force field for a field that doesn't allow projectiles through, and red base has red field, and blue has a blue? Would be a bit more logical.

Hmph, it's nice to see the classic-style of modding is still around, where people put in a nice hosh-posh of weapons simply because they like the weapons in them. Peopel have been SO serious about balance and practicality that they forget some of the most fun in HCE are the uncanny elements that make up even the most composed maps.

I might have a halo 1 ish ammo meter for the ma5k, + the full lengh reload animation and animated reticle.

well guys, sry for not giving updates, but just to let you know... i'm almost done, i just need to make some small changes with some random stuff (sounds, colors, etc.)
some updates:

i replaced the spectre for the shadow!


The area in front of red base looked a bit empty so i added some rocks:


As a request i changed the multipurpose map of the assault rifle and also made the reticle smaller:


The ma5k already had classic ammo meter:


Ghost's new shaders:


i will finish this map very soon, it's just that i've been busy, sry

just one more thing... what kind of music would fit with this map, just curious
Edited by ChBgt909 on Mar 4, 2012 at 05:04 PM

no need to rush with anything at all, it will be done when you are happy with everything.
as for music, check you tube for audiomachine, they have some nice music.
for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqhPxgQrOao

I'm not sure what it is, but I'm really liking those hills/mountains/cliffs.

Lol I remember making tat ghost texture. It sucks.

Oh, and you should get the updated bitmaps for the Shadow from a TM member.
http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/16/15095/shadow.jpg

Only make the assault rifle reticule smaller if the accuracy is going to be greater.
It wouldn't make much sense to having bullets flying mostly OUTSIDE the circle than INSIDE.
(I just felt the need to use capitals. Don't judge me.)

lol I missed that. Only read the stuff from the post itself. XD

Perhaps some Halo 2 music? They have music that would fit that environment very well, since it is much like a Halo 2 Delta Halo/Regret environment.

well the map is almost done but i got a question... long ago i tried to extract the door tags from the map "revelations" and i noticed that it was protected, but the way they used to protect their map impressed me, same goes for "yoyorast v2" my question is... and plz i would appreciate if you tell me (even in PM if you to want to keep it in secret)
How do you protect a map in the same way, so if you try to open it with HEK+ a "no map loaded" appears and if you try to rips the tags by force it fails?

i want to know because someone managed to rip the tags from one of my maps and i don't that to happen again

If your map is made up of publicly available tags, then you shouldn't protect it because there's no reason too, and someone might want to have a look at it themselves.

well,i want to know because there are times when many stuff like textures, models, sounds and other things are made by me, so i want to protect my maps for those things, not those tags that anyone can get anywhere

besides, in the map revelations for example, the only custom things were, the sky, doors, holos and the h3 metal used, but the rest (weapons, vehicles, textures, etc) were the classic so please i would appreciate it, (i will give you thumbs up lol ) plz.
Oh and if there's a member who helped me (giving ideas, advice, etc) with my map who wants something from my map, he/she can ask for the tags
Edited by ChBgt909 on Mar 10, 2012 at 09:00 PM

We have kinda passed the protecting era, imo.
You can choose to protect if you want, but it will not make your map any more popular. Nor will it actually protect anything in the map because there is always a way to "get the tags".
Protect it or dont, it will be a nice map methinks :)

Hey i don't think it would be good to protect THIS particular map because all the content is from other people.. No point. And also people (like me) would want to add AI Bots into it. (PS. IT LOOKS GREAT!)

Epic suggestion.