That's why I post a screenshot before releasing the tag: I need the approval of the comunity.
What about now?

I think it looks pretty good.

Maybe you could make the blade more blue.

yeah, make the blade more blue, and ease up on the effect intensity on the portable shield

Made it a bit more blue, is it enough?

purdy


can CE support the "whisp" effects you see coming off the original? (i.e. the plasma trails)

i dont know why exactly, but i cant really seem to like that bitmap overlaid onto the sword.

If you look at the halo 4 one...


..You'll notice that the electricity flowing is thinner, and not as prominent as yours. Maybe edit the bitmap some

Also, good job on the deployable cover, look significantly better

Oh, don't worry, it's just a problem of my graphic card. On another PC it looks correctly ;)

*trips and bumps* whoops

Any updates SOI? You've been rather quiet here

Sorry guys, I have been really busy during these days. I had tons of Tests at school, and it isn't finished yet :[
I have uploaded the revamped Energy Sword: https://www.dropbox.com/s/547xsqu3ewotrbx/h4_sword_fixed.rar?m
You still need the old files, overwrite them.

R93 Sniper, can you post a screenshot of the Energy Sword with the working electricity? It should look good on your PC...

And about any news, here are some little screenshots of the next tags: Rangers


Got it editing the original Halo CE jackal with helmet

Got it Merging TehLag's Assault Elites with CMT SPv1 Ranger Jetpacks


Got it editing the H3 Grunt model, adding some custom parts. It has a little rigging issue on the pelvis, I'll fix it as soon as possible...
Edited by SOI_7 on Apr 30, 2013 at 01:58 PM

You're missing a point_physics tag called "sparks.point_physics" in your release. I had to temporary replace it with energy smoke, but either way, here's your ingame stuff





Yeah, i still dont like the electricity bitmap

Whoops... here is the tag: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dna1wvtek3m69an/effects.rar?m

About the electricity, there are two possible ways to make it look better:
1) Making a new plasma noise 3D texture, but I have never done it, and since 3D bitmaps don't look correctly on my PC...
2)Using a noise map in the shader_transparent_chicago tag. This, however, would make it only slide horizontaly, like in the MMT Reach Sword...

Honestly I don't know if there are better methods. The point is that in H4 the electricity has a different texture, and unluckily no one ripped it (actually not even from H3 or Reach asd)

...I actually ripped the halo 4 electricity bitmap and used the halo 4 model (Yours is actually really big compared to the real H4 one, Proof)

excellent shtuff man...
any chance of releasing OS'ed versions?

Sorry, but I don't use OS. Maybe if someone will enchance my stuff, but I'm trying to make something accessible for everyone

UPDATE:

After some days, here are finally the tags:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kb0y2qrkitj1cl5/SOI_tags_update.rar?m

This archive contains:
-Revamped Keyes
-H3 Style Deployable Cover
-H4 Style Jackal Ranger
-H4 Style Grunt Ranger
-CMT Style Elite Ranger (you need the original animations)
-H3 Style Jackals

Credits:
-Bungie for the original Keyes, the Deployable Cover and the Jackal
-MMAMONSTERRR-D92209 for the H3 Grunt
-Teh Lag for the Elite
-CMT for the Jetpack
-HDoan for the H2 Jackal

NEXT TAG:
I've decided to make something more original, instead of recreating stuff: a custom set of weapons, using parts from the other Halo games.
Browsing the Internet, I have found some interesting pictures:



Well, I had the idea to make something similiar. Of course not the same weapons, but I think that if we take the best from the saga (For example, with the Carbine we could take the H3 body, the H2 ammo counter and the H4 muzzle, something like this...) we can obtain something epic!
The Carbine will be the first weapon: first of all because I have already some ideas, and most of all because it is my favourite weapon <3

Meanwhile, write here your ideas for the other weapons, following the example i wrote. Do you think the Plasma Pistol would be good with the H4 gauge, the H3 body and the HR textures? Be creative! :D

Im really liking that White Carbine and the Red Shot (the one with the front blade)

Also, why not try to do something like having the brute mauler with two barrels, the brute shot's blade, and the carbine's magazine, except loaded from below

It seems... doable, but I'm not sure if I have understood... can you make a scheme, to be more specific?

I think original means your own idea, not some renders of one of the Crysis halo mods.

edit: whoops, was thinking of the wrong thing.
Edited by master noob on May 17, 2013 at 07:18 PM

as far as I remeber those concepts are out of the cancelled halo MMO

they are, early, early concept art

Don't worry, I have posted those screenshots just to give you an idea of what I'm going to do. The only thing that I could take from those weapons are the lights, but the geometry will be completely different, because, as I've already said, I'm going to combine different parts from the other Halo games.
You know what I mean, just think about your Storm Rifle, that is composed of parts from the H4 Storm Rifle and the HR Plasma Repeater. The concept is basically the same, the only difference is that I'm not going to use parts from different weapons, but using parts from different versions of the same weapon.

Try to recreate one of those weapons first, it might be better for us to actually see what you can do

WARNING: This is not the final model! I just wanted to show the current work:



There are still some skinning and geometry issues, but I like how it is coming out.

Which sound do you prefer? H2, H3, H4 or a mix of them?

Sure

that's interesting

heres a suggestion, maybe you could make a blue variant with green needles sticking out of the four squares behind the magazine? (the squares with the blue dots in the center)

like some sort of needle carbine

Finished! :D



I have started from the H3 Carbine model, and then I've made some custom edits, like the opened back and the lights. I prefered to keep the original geometry, adding just some details, inspiring from the H4 carbine. Finally, I gave it the H4 display, because I think it's pretty cool:



The firing effect is a mix of CMT and Ifaudafi's particles, I'm going to make a custom set of sounds to make it original:



I made also a custom contrail, using some H3 screenshots:



And of course the model is fully functional for AIs:



Now, which weapon would you like to see revamped? I'd prefer a Covenant weapon, they're funnier to edit :P

A revamped Spiker could be interesting, especially if you were able to turn it into a full-length rifle.

What's up with lego floor?

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=5879
To enable the fins, write "23" in the dialogue variant caption, in the biped tag

@Echo77 that's a good idea: I'll revamp the Spiker, maybe taking inspiration from the other Brute weapons, in order to make it full-length, but still one handed

I think it should be a two-handed weapon. If it's full-length, it'll be too cumbersome to weild in one hand. A single bayonet (similar to that found on the front of the Brute Shot), rather than the twin half-moon blades found on the standard Spiker could also be cool.

Edit: I also found some Brute weapon concepts on DeviantArt by "ninboy01"
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/339/6/0/halo___brute_weapons_1_by_ninboy01-d4iar5d.jpg
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/339/8/9/halo___brute_weapons_2_by_ninboy01-d4iargy.jpg
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/339/2/0/halo___brute_weapons_3_by_ninboy01-d4iars4.jpg

The first one even has a Brute rifle concept (although I feel that the Gravity Hammer-like protrustion on top should be removed) and the second one has something akin to the Retro Lancer.
Edited by Echo77 on May 20, 2013 at 04:25 PM

Mmmm... ok, I just have to make the fp animations too, but that's not a problem. Perhaps I could make it similiar to the Retro Lancer in Gears Of War, since I'm going to use a single bayonet. The Retro Lancer is also similiar, in terms of design, to the Brute technology... but this is just an idea

Edit: I'm in love with the first gun in the second picture! :o
Edited by SOI_7 on May 20, 2013 at 04:31 PM

I know your intention but I don't think that's the way to do it...

Right...

"Someone" asked me for a revised version of the H3 Marines available on Halomaps.org...
After some tweaking, I have finally finished them. Now they support head permutations, and have better shaders:

And I have also made a Johnson variant, not the best on the forum, of course, but better than nothing:


Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/slzj4hc52joo06b/halo3_marines_revamped.rar?v=0rc-

And about my Revamped Spiker... that was six years ago:


This... is now!



*Starts the Halo CEA theme...*

P.S. I'm still working on the fp animations, though

do you ever step back, say "god that looks bad" and redo it by hand? it isn't hard.

The arms still look horrible.