Hey all, I am making a map and I want to know what the roof number for map polys is for Halo 1 so that I don't accidentally add too much detail to the level. Also, whats the roof for Halo 2 Vista?

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Edited by ElijahB1 on Jun 16, 2013 at 09:34 PM

Assuming you're also portaling the level, the max is around 50k for MP levels. SP is a little bit higher. I've personally never gone above that. You will probably run into portal rendering issues either way though once you surpass 30k so make sure you're testing all parts of the levels and that they all render correctly with your portals.

I'm not sure about H2V but I'd assume its a bit higher all around.

Wow, that looks absolutely GORGEOUS
I don't think you need to put street lights as part of the BSP; you can add those in as scenery. Same goes for a lot of your BSP, like small rocks and benches.
Edited by xnx on Jun 16, 2013 at 10:06 PM

If you're making SP maps, is is 50~80k ish per BSP that's loaded, or for the whole level?

Thanks man, I'll keep that in mind, I'll remove those details and add them back in latter. First time making a map for halo, this had been another project for a while but I decided it could be a cool map for CE/H2V



Well, at the moment the model of the map is right at about 22,000. I did not want to get it in game then need to remove stuff because it could not handle it. I am hopeing to eventually bring some sections of New Mombasa into CE/H2V if the game can handle it.

Another pic for interest:

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Edited by ElijahB1 on Jun 16, 2013 at 11:42 PM

nice work keep it up man.

Nice work, keep it up!
The first pic kinda reminded me of part of the halo 3 odst campaign, at least the base did.
Good job!

Its the firefight part of uplift reserve from ODST.

Yep, that's right. I haven't seen any maps of "The Lost Platoon" so I figured I'd give it a shot.

you can add many elements modeled there as objects (scenery) in sapien, it would be more convenient, and lower the risk of errors and phantom BSPs

With OS, you can up the tricount. Or something like that. Anyway, you can have your BSP be as detailed as a H3 one with no portal errors. Check the google code page and it should be in one of the change logs.

I've never hit the engine's limits before, I don't think you will unless you had some overkill computer that simply never starts laggin when you model too much stuff in 3Ds

I have a model that is 600,000+ so I dought I'll get that in game

I abused the heck out of the boolean tool and a TI-nSpire CAS to make the interior and exterior of a pretty good looking cathedral with like 6 rooms, and halo hasn't complained yet :3

EDIT> and a terribly ported gamecube rip with everything being part of the main BSP instead of compartmentalized like any decent modeler should ever do, lol
it's part of a castle not a temple :)

I don't think you'll have a problem getting your 600k model ingame

Edited by OrangeJuice on Jun 18, 2013 at 02:49 PM