I don't like it either, I tried copying a color off of a picture of the suit (mind you I don't own halo 4)



The lighting is probably the cause of that. Too bright and I think I may have made the spec too high



Agreed, but I wanted to show him that there was a lot of missing detail, and that some things he made were too shiny
Edited by R93_Sniper on Mar 1, 2014 at 11:02 PM

I shall send them back to the graveyard.

How? You don't have an... "ActivatedTrapCard" - LOL. U c wat i did there? l:3

Yep, you have activated my trap card!

Uh... If you didn't see what i did there, i was referencing to the one dude here on halomaps called ActivatedTrapCard, but ok. I'll go with it... "Oh no! Gaaah! My super soldiers! I had to sacrifice 300 virgins to summon them all onto the field! Luckily i have a revers trap card! Ha-ha!"

R93, sorry if I'm derailing the thread... :3

I did see it.

We're done, R39. Just having a little fun.

Edited by Dumb AI on Mar 2, 2014 at 11:51 AM

firstly, its R93, not R39

Secondly, Unbenounced to all of you, MY Trap card activated when I special summoned the Nanosuit to the Field!

TAKE THAT!

Oh yeah? Well little do all of you know, i had a spell card this whole time! I activate it and bring back my 300 virgins from my graveyard and take up all the field slots! Ha-HA! I WIN! TAKE-THAT! HAAAA! *Flips over table, and leaves victoriously out of the thread after kicking dust behind.*

Since I'm a sore loser, I play my spell card, the Loser's Nuke.
None shall live!
I typed my post really fast. Sorry for switching the numbers.


Edited by Dumb AI on Mar 2, 2014 at 06:46 PM

Nonononononono. No. Nope. No. Nopenopenope.You can't do that. You can't do that. Everything's on the floor already. Nah-uh, nope. We already started a new game. It's sort of like 52 pickup. Except you have to pick up all of our cards too. >:3

Screw the rules, I have an apple!

Yeah? And I have a pear! And now I'm going to shake it in the air like I just don't care!

HA! I just threw a grape at your face! How does that make you feel apple boy?!
You know what rhymes with grape? Pineapple! And rainbow triplecorns farting nyan cats from their lucky charms!

It makes me feel that we should stop derailing this thread. xD

Yeah, I thought we should stop too. I just wanted to tell you about my gorgeous rainbow triplecorn...

So R93, you got anything interesting? :3

I generally want to ask, is there anybody here who really cares about Halo 4's models? I recently found a way to make it so that you can properly use the color change maps so that you can render them in max, but I don't know if any of you actually care enough for me to put a tutorial on how to do it

I would appreciate it very much if you made a tutorial telling us how to do this.

I care. :3

alright so I've kinda been doing something offhand out of boredom (and to keep a promise), so here's what I've been doing

If any of you (and I assume like 99% of you have) have played coldsnap. You would all remember the absolutely ridiculous sniper rifle. Works like a charm, but looks disgusting. So I got Tiamat on Skype and decided to edit the model so it doesn't look like total trash and then animate it so its a lot more visually appealing. That being said, here's what I got




and ingame...







its nothing impressive. but I thought it'd be nice to make it look somewhat nicer. The only thing now is that I need somebody to give it a texture. It's all unwrapped but ionno who could/would give it a texture. Any takers? please?

Sad to hear this.

I'm not gonna bother with the bolt one. I personally think I cant fix the design lol. You're free to do that one, but if you can help me with the textures please do!

I'd very much like to see a revision of that massive, bolt-action monstrosity from Extinction, but I can't think of any aesthetically similar realworld weapons that could be used as a reference point for someone who would be willing to make such a revision.

This reminds me that I have an unfinished model of a redone MA2B (that old modified assault rifle). I'm going to go finish that now.

What about the Armalite AR-50?It's a single-shot .50 BMG bolt action, and given that the extinction sniper fires explosive rounds, this fits the bill quite nicely :D

Alternatively a bolt-action variant of the H3 sniper could be made,

A while back I drew concept art of a rifle (it's not actually bolt action though, just bullpup) intended to replace the extinction one on paper, I've recreated it in paint:

The scope is meant to be very similar to the extinction sniper's one, but a little less tacky (i.e. not so blocky and sharp-edged), along with a knob or two for optics adjustment just above the eyepiece. It's also meant to be mounted off center, towards the left, similar to scoped Garand rifles, and if I recall correctly, it's the same with the extinction sniper as well. I actually intended it to be a 3-round semi-auto sniper but thinking about it now it's just your run of the mill halo 3 sniper in bullpup configuration and with bells and whistles.
Edited by Bottletopman on Apr 15, 2014 at 01:48 PM

Hey R93 Sniper! I've seen your work and i am impressed! I was just wondering if it was possible for you to get like a rigged model of a halo reach hunter. Let me know if you can! Greatly appreciated!

I wish, but i don't know how to do that :(

ill get it and i'll see what I can do. shouldn't be difficult

Greatly appreciated man!

I'd guess that the anti-armor rifle from Extinction is at least 20mm, because the default Halo sniper rifle is .57 caliber (14.5mm). AR-50 is not big enough. O:<

Yeah, the default Sniper IS indeed 14.5mm...

...but the penetrator is of around the 7.62mm caliber, and because it's designed to penetrate armour and disable or destroy hardware it would actually have less of an effect on living targets. Basically, you'd be badly injured, but because the round would pass straight through you, you'd have a better chance of survival if you got hit by this instead of an actual Assault Rifle bullet.

Also, it doesn't have to be exactly the same - just use the basic design of the AR-50, then upsize its caliber to 14.5 or 20mm rounds. Then again, the Extinction sniper is a blocky piece of plastic, so the barrel could probably hide its true bullet diameter.
Edited by Bottletopman on Apr 21, 2014 at 01:37 AM

The Halo sniper fires a Anti-Material Fin-Stabalized Self-Discarding Cartridge, which if I recall correctly is only found in tank rounds here in the 21st century. along with the .57 Caliber round, you'd literally be blown apart when you get impacted with that. So take that and then also remember that Spartans can absorb 2 direct shots to the body.

It's "Armor-Piercing, Fin-Stabilized, Discarding Sabot". That terminology is only used when referring to certain types of tank rounds, today; referring to small arms cartridges, they're often called "flechettes". That's what the rifle in Combat Evolved uses. Essentially, the projectile itself is a sub-caliber dart encased inside of a break-away housing (or "sabot") that comes apart after leaving the barrel. The long, narrow projectile grants high accuracy, and as Bottletopman said, is intended for armor penetration rather than flesh damage. In Halo: Reach, conventional, full-caliber bullets are used instead of flechettes, which wouldn't have quite the same degree of accuracy, velocity, or armor penetration, but would leave bigger holes in soft targets.

Wait, what? Reach's sniper rifle uses conventional bullets? Where'd you find that out?

Also R93, the thing with APFSDS rounds is that they have a sub-caliber penetrator, which is the word I was looking for before, and because it's designed for materiel and not people, it'll actually do less damage to living targets as it just passes right through them and doesn't fragment, causing minimal damage. If you take a gander at the round used in the Halo snipers, you can see the actual bullet itself is narrower than a centimetre (the bottom picture has a box that's 1 cm tall for scale). It definitely won't blow someone apart, that's for sure.

I think Spartans taking two torso hits is just a gameplay mechanic and less of an actual lore thing though. I don't remember the books going into Spartans getting shot at with human sniper rifles so I don't know for sure, although in the books everything is a lot more dangerous.

By the way, the only man-portable rifle that I know of that may have a chance of ripping your arms off would be the Anzio 20mm anti materiel rifle - especially because 20mm explosive rounds are available.
Edited by Bottletopman on Apr 21, 2014 at 10:38 PM

http://www.halopedia.org/14.5x114mm#HVAP

Edit: I may have found potential references for a revision to the oversized bolt-action anti-armor rifle from Extinction:
•NTW-20: High caliber, relatively blocky frame. Could be stripped down somewhat to better fit the profile of the Extinction rifle.
•P90 stock: Seems similar to the grip layout used by the Extinction rifle.
Edited by Echo77 on Apr 21, 2014 at 11:04 PM

The NTW-20 is what inspired the Halo sniper rifles though, and the P-90 style grips would be very impractical on a weapon that chambers a round with that much recoil, but this is all based on what would happen in real life.

This is Halo, a game set 500 years in the future where an Assault Rifle can hold 60 rounds in a very small magazine, so let's just stuff realism for now haha.