The laptop has great specs, should cost around 1000$ I am assuming. Go for it.

windows 7 dell laptop that can run cryengine 3 on high for 400$ here, find a better deal.

Darn man, that's sad to hear.
I hope you find the guy and get your stuff back.

Darned people these days...

THIS IS REALLY SAD/BAD NEWS!

Dennis, throw your ban hammer at them.

I don't want to. I've been researching computers as well, as i'm looking into getting one for game design, and couldn't find anything with the specs able to do that under $900.

Please tell me your secret, i'm interested.

nice one! looking forward to seeing updates!

Photoshop CS2 is free on their website.

3ds MAX is free on their website if you have a student e-mail and are an active student.

oh thanks! i'm gonna take a look at their website!

~EDIT~
Thanks jesse! i registered in autodesk and i'm downloading 3ds max 2012 now! in 2 hours i'm gonna have everything ready to get started! :D

i already got that photoshop, i had a copy of the installer in my USB so i didn't lose that, i already installed halo custom edition and HEK, i still have to install OS, find the 3ds max scripts to export JMS, import GBXmodels, among many other scripts i had

i have to find again all the halo 2 and halo 3 textures (i had all the set of forerunner metals with their respective shader, from those 2 games), i can use adjutant to recover the halo 3 files... however i don't remember where i got the halo 2 textures, i think i used HEK+ on halo 2 maps(?) not quite sure lol

Edited by ChBgt909 on Sep 10, 2013 at 06:59 PM

Halo 2 Vista came with most if not all all of the H2 Forerunner textures if you installed the H2EK. If im not mistaken, as well, there should be a forerunner texture pack somewhere on these very forums

If you want, I could send you some of the ones I have laying around (gbx importer, jms exporter, emf stuff, animation stuff, etc.)

I KNOW WHAT HAPPEND TO YOU REALLY SUCKS but look at the bright side at least your alright and you can rebuld and you alredy have alot of experiance so things will move faster!

this same thing happed to me one time and it was difficult to rebuld and start over yes but one thing i relized is even if it happend again they could never steal my knowlage/.
& skills

that is something that can never be taken away!

i have had to do recoverys of my tags and data 3 times over the last 10 years and some of my work and i do meen years of work is lost for ever but I am thankful for the backup disks i made.
you can never realy tell when when a storm will take down an online server ither.
i had all my files backed up to a server that was distryed when huricane kitrina hit.
hell i didnt even know the server was located there.
i think its best to make a backup disk every chrismas or so of your data and tags.
best tip i have.
and as for rebulding not only will it be beter built but your not exactly guessing or starting from scratch.
you actuly alredy know what you want to do.
anyway congrats on your new laptop!
and good luck. i defenetly cant wait to see your next amazing great map!
Edited by jackrabbit on Oct 26, 2013 at 07:57 AM

i really liked the h2 forerunner textures. the not so perfectly maintained, but still fairly clean look from subpar standards. i prefered those over h3's c.e.l.l. tiles (because crysis)

Hi I apologize for not revisiting this thread sooner. It seems a lot has happened.

Anyhow. If you require textures I have a boatload of them and are more than happy to share, (I am of course speaking about raw tiff files not .bitmap tags)

I will try my best to organize them for you and upload tomorrow.

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Nobody has yet commented so I guess this edit will have to do chbgt.

https://mega.co.nz/#!IF0EWB4J!IxKmCn-506qBAfJgpaXTCWRtZutjqYScqRRZHMZbNzs

The download is around 845mb. I uploaded this at 835kbps. (No lie)

https://www.facebook.com/sskantus.ssmt.3

Hope this helps you!
Edited by ASCENDANTJUSTICE on Nov 24, 2013 at 11:04 AM

*snagged*

This isn't ALL of Halo 3's forerunner textures is it? Just some of the most common ones?

It appears so. A majority of the halo 3 footage packs 1 - 4. Seems to only include content from the most popular bsp's, which is a shame I guess.

However there are a Freighter load of other stock footage materials you may use to create/edit or enhance your textures, included within the download.

(Like I said within the read me document, all I did was patrol the web for textures to use for my own gain, seeing that chbgt909 needed them I thought I would upload so not only him but others could benefit from my pickings too)

this is terrible. especially the fact that before whatever godforsaken person stalked into your house and stole your stuff, the map looked godly. The map was looking extremely good. and then some stupid idiot who is completely oblivious to the hard work, the effort, the feelings, the lives of other people, has to come in and take not only that masterpiece away, but your school information and who knows what else that was stored on your laptop. things that you may never get back. this is both extremely saddening and infuriating. I hope the police find who is responsible for the thievery of your belongings, ChBgt909. I hope he is given a suitable punishment for what he did.

Think you could remodel that base tower again? Hmmm???
That thing was great!

Without trying to sound remotely sadistic, or mean.

But wouldn't it be dubious if the police found CHBGT's pc and the thieves, and then later on found out that the identity of the parties involved in the theft were actually jealous HEK users?

It seems unlikely but it would be a kind of a good idea for a film of some kind.

Suddenly a new project arises. Cht models the scene, I animate it, slowbullet publicizes it.

What is this project you ask? THEFT AT HALOMAPS: the case of the unnamed map.

(it was Altheros)



IWastryingtobefunnyplzdonthateme

Heheheh. This what I like about Halomaps, despite our many differences we can still band together and make a disheartening situation seem a little lighter.


@: Mootjuh, was your comment directed at me or chngt?


@: All, I get all the profits from the movie earnings, since it was my idea.

that was directed at chbgt, its pretty obvious actually.

Also, that's implying that the story artists get all the money anyways (they don't btw)

It was my Idea though, kind of. Steal it and an expensive lawsuit will be patrolling your way.

@ CHBGT: Any updates?

right now i'm not involved in any video game related stuff... the last couple of months i've been busy with other things, llke life stuff and college but i'll be back by january with some exciting project... i need to think of something to make into a map first lol (yeah... i've never been good with ideas for maps, forerunner structures or map layouts)
Edited by ChBgt909 on Dec 1, 2013 at 04:42 PM

Are you sure you want to do that?

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ANYWAYS... ANY COPYRIGHT ISSUE ON WHATEVER YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT... PLEASE TAKE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE
I NEED THIS THREAD TO STAY UNLOCKED IN CASE I NEED TO POST SOMETHING IMPORTANT... SO YEAH... PLEASE

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Edited by ChBgt909 on Dec 2, 2013 at 05:43 PM

@ All: The lawsuit thing was a joke.......

@ Chbgt: Why don't you stick with your original tempest riff idea? That seemed pretty solid.
And as for needing inspiration, mess around in forge, that does the trick for me.

If you need any idea requests, I would like to see a halo 4 themed map. (I just mean an artists interpretation of any random h4 level, no ripping of any sort.)

....I actually like that idea tbh. It would be cool to see a halomap member's reimagining of a default halo map. I know that Lavvy and EliteSlasher were working on Crimson Valley as a complete redux of Bloodgulch, but it'd be cool to see somebody just take a look at their favorite map and completely redo it as to how they'd like it to be.

How is HALO COMBAT EVOLVED a waste of time when it comes to gameplay?! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING

hahaha well, i'm not a professional so yeah, my next map will be even better than this one i lost, and well sorry for wasting your time lol, but of course if you have any experience or tips you can help me out, i read your post and it seems like you have plenty of knowledge on gameplay and making maps, so yeah help me out if you can :-)
btw it's "your" not "you're" :P
Edited by ChBgt909 on Dec 4, 2013 at 07:12 PM

Directed towards Fossy

I'm looking foward to your work Ch.

@fossy: A complete waste of time? - If you feel so strongly about the degree of game play wasteness In Ch's maps why don't you contribute your ideas in order to make the feel/game play of the map better.

Its no use, sitting there telling some guy/gal that there doing something wrong, when you are not bothered to help them rectify there mistakes.




Repent! and thou shall be saved
Edited by ASCENDANTJUSTICE on Dec 6, 2013 at 05:31 AM