http://lmgtfy.com/?q=custom+built+laptops

Thanks waffles.

As far as PC or Desktop...

I'm running CE on an iMac 27" at 2560x1440 resolution with OS in a VM and my performance is great. Not to mention the game looks absolutely insane. Next machine I get will be a customly configured 15" Retina Macbook Pro, with specs that kill this current low end iMac.

Now I know who's gonna be taking screenshots for me...
Edited by Jesse on Dec 7, 2012 at 08:22 PM

I will challenge your 2560x1440 resolution monitor with a 2880x1800 display

:o

Dang. All I have is a 1080p monitor as my primary and a 1680x1050 secondary monitor. That must have been expensive, but well worth it.

Please no PC/MAC/Tablet wars in this forum. Please return the the topic of the thread.

Is this going to be limited to only the regular Halo 2 BSPs, or is there going to be a few custom BSPs? It would be cool to have a few small extra BSPs/encounters for something like this.

As of now, all stock. In the future I'd like to make to make the Covenant ship level, Forerunner tank, or the final forerunner ship mission that would have taken place after the Arbiters last mission.

Lookin' pretty legit mister gauffre.

Quite possibly the coolest matte paintings in the entire Halo series.

That looks great. We'll need to throw some DOBCs on that soon.

The next update will be released whenever worthy progress has been made. Sometimes it might not even be worthy (Giant brute head on spartan body, for instance).

This looks amazing! Good job guys!

With semester over I hope to get the entire level playable in at least a crude form by friday. I spent most of today polishing existing encounters and prepping new areas for population.

We've decided to do a banshee section at the second gondola, simply because banshees are awesome, and the first gondola has been a pain in the ass in so many ways, and we think a banshee run will be more interesting than another so-so gondola section.

The basic idea is that when you clear the area for the last gondola, you will have a banshee available to jump in. The gondola will be near the center of the lake, and will have a shield generator on it that is creating a barrier around Regret's temple. You have to fly through the 4 banshees (2 on offense, 2 on defense) that are defending it, take out the turrets, and fuel rod the shield generator in order to gain access to the temple. As you approach the temple, 2 banshees will take off from there and try to intercept you, after you kill them you will clear a landing zone so you can land your Banshee and make your way into the temple to fight Regret.

but what about the marines that escort you? they won't get banshees, and they were the best cannon fodder for the elite honor guards!

They hop on the top of the banshee with you.

Wow, looks great! Can't wait till it's released.

Those could easily be scripted to hop in extra banshees. The banshee idea is a good alternative incase masterz can't get the gondola working. Even though it's entirely possible to do decently, even without OS enhancements.

OS is not a requirement to play these maps. Only the CMT variant.

I have the gondola working fine, it's the fact that AI does not operate on them, so the enemy gondola is full of stationary units, and your marines would be stationary as well. I'm sure something could be rigged up with command lists or RA's, but that's not how an encounter should be done.

I am currently working on remedying said situation.

Is it possible to have turrets attached to the gondola's? My thinking is, the marines could board the gondola and use turrets whilst the player operates a banshee, so as to make them not-useless

http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?22942-Large-Scaled-Device-Vehicles
This might be worth looking into, Masterz.

Porting maps is also not something that should be done.
The encounter can be emulated completely fine (and easy) with command lists, that is if you know what you are doing. Then again, you were the one who said that AI driven warthogs via command list should also not be done. Oh how wrong you were, and how wrong you are now. Please, leave this kind of work to people who know what they're doing, for the sake of the project...

when will the campahn be released

no crap but is there a set date for it to be finished and relased and if not is there an ETA

That's a negative, Ghost Rider.

The CMT version will be released after B30:Evolved and the next set of SPV3 maps. The public classic beta will be released when we feel the scripts and encounters have been completed to a point where we need community input to make them perfect.

Your eyes will get cavities.

I can't even imagine what that would look like....

Level is now playable start to finish. And by level, I mean both Delta Halo and Regret.

great, that's some nice progress you are making, what's the secret? :P

So... what's the catch?

The catch is that it's impossible to make a decently playable level in such a short time.
It's probably all véry rough and rather poorly done. Playable from start to finish means you can walk through the entire thing, shoot some stuff here and there, and trigger some form of end cinematic.

Lodex is correct, it now needs to go through several iterative phases, and the BSPs need to have their errors fixed to allow proper ai pathfinding and movement, not to mention proper rendering.

What's important is that we have a level to work with now and make fun and improve.