I'm a In Game Photographer, it's kinda rare finding more people who dose that.

It's been a long time since I took Photo's of Halo's Environments and cause i'm back on Deviant Art i'm back to Taking Photo's of Halo and other games I play.

So dose anyone know any good maps I can look around and take Photo's of, just post the names of them and i'll get right on it. *Unless the maps crashes...*

I already took Photo's of the Normal maps we all had our Fun times on since Halo's been out if you like to see them, yes i'm using bloom Effect.
http://halo-photographer.deviantart.com/gallery/29701961

So far I took Photo's of BloodGulch2, Extinction, NightGulch, mmm I think Fox Island tho I haven't added them on DA yet. *Somethings wrong with Fox Island Btw*

So yeah, any maps, any at all you would like a Photo's of for your Desktop just name the maps.

Completed

With Whiteness
WM-Combo
Floodgulch - The Map with Bloodgulch in Water not Fightig the Flood
Extinction
All Normal Halo Maps
Big Thing
Blood Island
Night Camp
Rainy National Park
Nightgulch
Ooecookie
Rainbow Road
SG Hidden Control
BloodGulch 2
Riverside
Forsaken
Conflict Canyon
Advantage Point West
Luigi Raceway
Cubemap
Broken Bridge Alpha
Edited by Mushi on Aug 5, 2013 at 05:46 PM

H3 Foundry that bsp is sexy.

Try digging through this old thread: http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=38878

Also try the Halo CE Art seccion: http://art.halomaps.org/

Good job so far, i think the bloom is a bit too much and the environment feels a little too plain in some of them especially the bloodgulch pictures (try a view from the ground to the sky somehow, maybe it's look more scenic or something). Maybe also try placing more scenery and better skies with the map editor

I wonder why Dennis stopped working on that it was really good.



Thanks! I do a little ground scenery sometimes but I deleted all of my Old Halo Photo's on them in my DA cause the Wallpaper size was Windows 98 Size, back then I didn know that size mattered :p It's all 1600 now.

I did try doing it without the Bloom Effect but it seemed too plain like you said. I might use the Map Editor to make more maps seem a live but man....it's been way to long when I last done all that, I can't even remember how to compile maps with Tool anymore so I can go in and Photo them...

If you'd like to wait around for a little bit, CMT's Silent Cartographer Evolved (requires Open Sauce!) and Altis' Bigass might be great places to start!

Besides that and the Halo CE Art website (Precipice, Revelation, Mystic and Hydrolysis are amazing!), Gaigher's With Whiteness and Requiem are artistically amazing.
I honestly wish more servers would play on those maps...

If only halo had a better netcode.

Tone down the bloom, use photo editing to make up for the bareness of normal Halo.
Open Sauce FXAA is useful too for closeups.
Experiment with lighting, DOF and color variance.

Some aesthetic maps are:
Mystic
Precipe
Chronopolis

FXAA, the one that makes your screen look Darker? Tried searching that up, hard found any videos or topics on that at all.

Edit* I fail at spell checking.
Edited by Halosnake on Jul 30, 2013 at 08:38 AM

SweetFX has good anti aliasing and some other nice effects.

YES.

FXAA is antialiasing... It's for smoothing out jaggies... FXAA makes your screen more blurry as well.

Is there some extension to CE that provides/simulates AA? (Can't use OS post-processing effects, so OS isn't an option)

OS is the only CE extension that allows any sort of AA as far as I know. And if your resolution is set to be high it won't make the screen as burry, I've never had an issue with FXAA.

Bacause my post is invisible.

Yeah, that's always a good one. FYI boxxy is in the map, DSalimander included it because he loves her so much.

Alright ill get right on them thanks all, still tho Keep posing if you have more maps for me to check out.

What I should have said at first was post the links of the maps, so I know which i'm downloading.

From Interesting to Popular to Beautiful, so on.

Here's a few I remember
Church
Tower
Any of the TLMP maps

I didn't know os had anti-aliasing, how do you make it work it?
also wm_combo

pp_fxaa_enabled 1

While talking photos of the maps.

With Whiteness is some kinda problem.

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/5254/95se.png

Wartorn Cove

Grove Final

Casualty Isle

The Narrows

No worry's about Casualty Isle and Wartorn, been got them, just lazy to upload lol :/

The Narrows.....that's the leaked Halo 3 map people was working on right? Guy raged about it for a while.

*Searches*

Do you use HAC 2? That could fix it.

Use HAC2 to get rid of the clipping problem (there're too many polygons for the game to display on its own in that screenshot; HAC will increase the max polygon limit), and Photoshop/Gimp/whatever to recreate the fade/bloom effect.

No, the narrows is a ce classic...

forest temple map kakariko alpha. map TallonIV Overworld RC1.map
Edited by DOOM899 on Aug 6, 2013 at 06:01 AM

Ah, alright i'll search it up.

@wolf

Yeah I searched it lol my bad @.@

Don't worry about the Bloom effect I know it's to bright i'll Photoshop it when i'm done.

Here's 2 Photo's of WM combo and FloorGulch
http://halo-photographer.deviantart.com/art/WM-Combo-390919998
http://halo-photographer.deviantart.com/art/FloodGulch-390750888?q=gallery%3AHalo-Photographer%2F29701961&qo=6

I really liked FloodGulch, People should have played that more.