Awesome.

Just thinking, if you guys were waiting on Grunt Eater with nothing to do, would you consider Elite and Spartan permutations?

http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=32883&start=1
Slappy did release a proof of concept that works.

speaking of spartans, those guys still look really matte, needs moar specular

When you have OS, there's really no need. This spartan elite concept by slappy uses two permutations on one biped - so that means there's only one bone structure. I believe slappy was using the spartan bone structure with some elite bones imported, he had to rerig stuff. It was messy and he didn't want to work on it anymore.

Spartan Elite you say?





I find it ironic that I got a beta because I use to leak things
Edited by MatthewDratt on Mar 22, 2013 at 11:34 PM

haloceripper

good times :)

anyway

when will da map be out now that there is pretty trailer
Edited by MatthewDratt on Mar 23, 2013 at 01:35 AM

cool nice work and i hope you awesome modders can help me on Project Lumoria Episode 2.

You just gotta mirror those changes and the modeling will be set.

We'll revisit the BSP and scenery shaders soon I suppose.

The main thing we need now is the lighting, which will hopefully work (I've seen promising results)

i think it is best for dual wield weapon pickups like from H2 Zanzibar style with the dual SMG's.

does foundry support all the gametypes? king of the hill is quite good on that map, as is oddball, although bubble shields are an important component of oddball playing strategy.

Here is how currert physics look like (collision is hidden)

There is no way to animate physics and only way to make it lift things would be attaching other vehicle with a script which wouldn't sync well online.

Isn't that all scenery? :p

Will there be a blank lightmap rendered along the final release so if people wanna modify the map they can just drop in the blank lighting?
Edited by MatthewDratt on Mar 24, 2013 at 01:37 AM

Looks really good guys, trailer reminded me a lot of Halo 3 in the beginning.

I'm almost certain that the lightmaps for one instance will have 3 1024 x 1024 bitmap pages. We might strain the tagspace with ONE lightmapped version, two would probably be impossible, although we can release a plain structre_bsp with bitmaps on the thread.

You guys are awesome c:

^^^^ true that!

and congrats on this! if you (who worked on this) can recreate something as good (or even better) that a group as big as BUNGIE can do, I'd say you could easily make it into the development industry. :D

I see shadows on stairs and some crates ? arent those sceneries ? In that case shadows won't happen :3

Zteam members are hyprocrit we all know that.

I like how the map looks right now. Good lightmap, good bsp, nice tags, good team, good port. Oh simply, it's awesome !

Edited by darksoldier on Mar 24, 2013 at 08:18 AM

Ztea is dead. CAD was very cool and not arrogant at all, not sure about the other guys.

Before this turns into a hate/love thing, foundry is progressing!

Yes i know CAD helped much the community in the past. I don't speak about a specific guy. I speak about the Zteam in general. :)

Which is why I don't post updates for the jail anymore

if ye send me the weapon bitmaps(preferably .png/tga/tif) I can rework them to better fit halo's engine.

For the AR? I'm not sure how they need optimizing, elaborate :o

The lighting is very sharp and chrisp, but I have to say I liked the older lighting. This just seems to scream for attention and overshadows everything else in the pictures. This is just super contrasty in an unrealistic way.

i can tone it down if the consensus wants that (or if jesse wants it)

I'm no lighting expert, but in a realistic sense, the light that spills in would soften the shadows. we don't have light that is so polarizing in real life.

If you diffuse it much more than this then you wont see the crosses
Edited by Maniac1000 on Mar 25, 2013 at 11:55 PM

Hnnnnn

Revamped spartan shaders again, and new PR shaders (eh eh?)

Now these... are some awesome spartans.

all weapons; I can bake overhead lighting into the specular/diffuse(seen in the h1 AR, Magnum, Plasma Rifle, etc) and work the normal map into it to fit in better, and a bunch of other small adjustments.

Did you take my suggestion to increase the saturation on the color change?
These guys seem a bit darker than the one you showed us a few pages back.

And before I forget...chest lights please?

The chest piece doesn't seem to have any lights.