Tethered would actually be pretty cool, like having the actual mountain tethered to a giant forerunner facility in the sky. Epicness.

i will think about it

~UPDATES~

Sorry for not giving any news yesterday, i was busy.

i fixed some problems with the terrain texture, looks better now:


adding textures to the structure:


Edited by ChBgt909 on Jan 25, 2012 at 10:51 PM

HOLY [Insert severe swear here.]

Best looking forerunner structures I've seen in a while. Thata nd the environment.

Join a team. NOW!

you like the structure? i though the textures were awful lol
glad you like it
Edited by ChBgt909 on Jan 25, 2012 at 11:02 PM

Well, not a massive fan of the textures.

But they the only flaw, dude. ONLY FLAW.

i already had this part ingame to see how it'd look like, as you can see the interior has textures, i had the model done, but 3ds max crashed and i lost the file so i have to map the interiors again ._.

Hmm... Hopefully it can haz better textures.

So far, NEAR PERFECT.

I WON'T CHANGE THE TEXTURES!!!
LOL JK!!!

i will, i knew they were bad from the beginning. heh

Very nice!
Textures need a bit of a flaring up to them though. :)

Can't wait to see what it looks like in the final.

Looking awesome, here's hoping you eventually make SP maps :O

thx

btw can somebody help me? OS makes the colors too bright, for example look at the clouds in my previous pics, they look too bright, how do i fix that.

Might want to try reducing the bloom, not sure how to do that as I uninstalled OS already..

Thx, about making SP maps, well i know some scripting, how to add and configure ai (not pro tho), cutscenes and that but an SP map is too much for me, perhaps i can give it a try, and hopefully i can get some help



thx


Edited by ChBgt909 on Jan 26, 2012 at 01:25 AM

If you want a small basic guide to get started with SP related things check out Gamma's thread on technical discussion, or you can wait on the big tutorial me and Higuy plan to do after Lumoria 2 :O

Oh and if you ever have questions or need some help you can always ask, I love helping out when I can :-)
Edited by TM_updates on Jan 26, 2012 at 01:34 AM

Thank you and btw i loved Lumoria, it's rly beautiful

oh and btw, since everyone ignored this before i'll repost it

should i use this structure in the middle of the map?

Yes.

Now.

Go for it, HOWEVER I would personally not place 2 banshees in this building. If one team holds that position long enough to get the banshees then I'd imagine the other team to get taken in the behind rather brutally :(

Turrets near bases usually fix the problems with a team having all the banshees.

Looking really good, I'd be glad to contribute :)

sweet

Looks nice but remember to add stip textures! It helps break up the texturing and creates a nice even flow visually.

eg:





(images taken from hourences.com, udk tutorial website)

like this?


and about the banshees i'm not rly sure if i should add them, i want to but idk what u think, i have a stationary human turret that could deal with the banshees

Yes exactly like that.

Also, I dont think the banshee's should be added. In total, the map is honestly kinda small from what you can see in the pictures. What there should be in the middle is a ghost, and each base gets a warthog. Also on the opposite side of the ghost can be a small stationary c_gun_turret.

@HiGuy: well, unless someone disagrees, i think i'm not gonna add banshess, (*cough*don't have to make player clip again*cough* )
i want to use these h2 textures but the problem is that bump maps were not included, i'll have to find them or make the shaders w/o bump maps...


Edited by ChBgt909 on Jan 26, 2012 at 05:42 PM

You can always open up a Halo 2 extractor to get the original bitmaps and bump maps.

you're right

u mean those turrets that use the sentinel model?

well i got the bump maps oh and i wanted to know if the texture can work as bump map w/o having to convert the normal map back to bump (greyscale), so i compiled one of those textures, added teh height map properties, added it to a map shader and tested it and yeah looks good..



i tested it in an old map i had, as u can see this map inspired me to make installation 04 (still trying to choose the new name)

Man you should release that old map, even though its an old attempt it still looks awesome!!!!

i'm done with the mapping the structure it now looks even better than before as i used H2 textures i won't upload pics just yet though but remember when i said that i was gonna make a different structure as red base, well here it is:
(it needs more details, specially inside)
(and sry if it looks too simple i couldn't think of anything good)






~moar updates~

well i made a new skybox, the map is not gonna be on halo anymore, needs more editing:
(since my map is not available atm because i deleted the old metal shaders, i'm gonna post pics of tags or anything else i want to put in my map in this sandbox)

need to fix cubemaps and i want to add an island and one structure:


that cloud looks too bright because of OS :/

Edited by ChBgt909 on Jan 27, 2012 at 04:07 PM

Nice sky! I want it :)

Those planets look epic.

How come, you, being a newbie to this, are so awesome?

It defies logic. In a cool way.

You should join CMT or TM.

Add a fogband to the skybox to cut off the water from just clipping out. It will look a ton better with that.

If you look at his original post, you'll know that he said that he's new to the forum, but is experienced in map making/modeling.

Ohh.

Still epic. He should definitely join CMT or TM.

OR, just make some epic forerunner structures and give them to both teams. SPV2 and Lumoria had some shared Forerunner structures in my memory. Do it again!

Or he could stick to multiplayer and not force us all to play singleplayer for the next few years of Halo's lifespan. -.-