I can teach you how to properly read if you want. (And then teach you how to dance with deadly lasers around you)

M16 assault's put in more work in this community then your mom has on the block so a little respect :P


is sdsmt officially dead now
Edited by antiblood on Nov 25, 2014 at 08:22 PM

man SDSMT been dead for forever. you can come on xfire sometime anyways, I have stuff to discuss with you

Why do your tutorials black out all of a sudden midway between a pivotal point of a pivotal point in the tutorial?

I'm still trying to figure out if it's because of Fraps or if its because of Sony Vegas. I'll try to fix them and probably record with better audio, but for now you can ask me any questions you have about the empty spaces so I can fill in the blanks.

Try using this:

http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html

Camtasia is gross plzno

Edit: I'm starting to move all my releases to an easier source to download from. My files should remain intact unlike the other sources, so ideally everything will work fine from here.

https://mega.co.nz/#F!eEVx0JRR!21nbWurub0k6rA_I4X8g7w
have fun
Edited by R93_Sniper on Dec 1, 2014 at 05:06 PM

Patxi back me up!

Camtasia is the bomb!

Perhaps you've had a prior engagement with an earlier software version?

Let me assure you it works flawlessly with me and 12,333 other people in the world.

So, talking to one of my friends, and he handed me a random OBJ file with a bunch of textures and said to put it in 3DS Max. After learning what it was, I had to make a scene out of it



I question how its only been about 3 days and people are already ripping from evolve but hey now I'm in possession of what is quite possibly the best weapon in the game visually

Ripping from EVOLVE?!? WAT!

its surprising isn't it? My issue however is that the stupid normal maps, especially for third person, don't really work well. It's really confusing

I always enjoy Turtle Rocks weapon designs.
Also that's a really quick turn around from release to rip.

It's not a bad-looking rifle by any stretch of the imagination, but its aesthetic doesn't really blow me away. Abe's revolving shotgun, on the other hand...

ingame pls?

personally I don't really like abe's shotgun visually too much. Its nice I guess but not amazing either

Seeing as how evovle is on cryengine, it couldn't have taken long at all. Or I'm an idiot and don't know what I'm saying.

PAK decryption is ridiculously difficult it seems

Edited by SciFi on Mar 28, 2015 at 02:27 AM

I only really made animations with the models that I rigged myself (like that H4 MC from forever ago and the Promethean Knight). Otherwise I really just mess around with the stuff. If you really wanted to pull off some good animations, go take the Z-Team stuff and just port those animations over. Mind you, there's a high chance that you'll need to scale everything up (I scaled everything up to 311.7 in Max generic units as it got the H3 MC to his exact canonical height) in order to make it not loltiny.

If you scale it all up and rebuild the bones, you can actually use Ghost's animation tools to import the animations, and then subsequently export them into UE4 just like that.

Unless you actually meant UDK, to which I have to say you're on your own because I don't know how to use UDK

Edited by SciFi on Mar 28, 2015 at 02:33 AM

actually, if by default you're at 100, I set it to 311.7
This gets MC to his canonical height, not the same height as the UE4 Character (it's actually much larger). I scaled everything else to the same point.

Also do you happen to have Skype or Xfire? If you do PM me your username for either or, I might have stuff for you

Edited by SciFi on Mar 28, 2015 at 02:34 AM

so by request of Sshers4 (I cant believe I actually did it too) I made a tutorial (wait what). Whole premise of the tutorial is bring Halo 1 maps to UE4 (And as a warning, you cant distribute your work if you do that, that's a breach of Microsoft's Game Content Usage rules and you could get sued for it. Seriously, Spare yourself the legal trouble, use this as a learning experience on how to do basic level integration if anything).

Im not 100% sure of Dennis would allow this tutorial, but technically speaking, what a good portion of the modding community does and posts here is more or less in the same legal grey/gray area, so I guess it's ok?

Tutorial is self explanatory. If you have questions ask at the end

WARNING PICTURE HEAVY AS HELL




























Ideally that should be it. As I said, if you have any questions, ask me.

Good of you to do this. Thanks.

Perfect now I need to start looking at this tutorial. Thank you for doing this.

Edited by SciFi on Mar 28, 2015 at 02:26 AM

Very nice.

I'm struggling with blend maps. Your tutorials whilst excellent don't provide ME with the insight to extract the diffuse map channel from the entire blend map.

I made a video tutorial for that I thought

All I see in your channel are the setting halo reach and halo 4 bipeds materials up to show nice in a render. And performing a 1 point or two point colour change on a halo 4 mp biped using cc maps.

Blend maps are entirely different.

I'll pm examples to you when I can.

green channel.

oh wait are you talking about the blend maps that are used on maps? I know how you set those up but that's really complicated to do. Its a lot of masking

Yeah I am. :)

Hopefully you can enlighten me.

Although the concept is similar to the way I did CC maps, it requires more thorough use of the color correction node. Anyways i'll see if at some point soon I can make the tutorial but i'll need to figure if its gonna be video or pictures

As long as it demonstrates the procedure of combining a blend maps and all the subsequent maps which are used in the blend operation into 1 diffuse map texture for use in halo. I really don't mind.

ty.

I don't think it'd work in halo unless H1 innately supports the blend maps. The way I'd show you is how to set it up in 3DS max

But the thing is, halo 3 and 4 both use blends and then tiling diffuse maps. Can you still do that same thing in ce