looks damn impressive so far jesse

Very promising. Looking great Jesse!

This

here:

^ his project is now 110% better then this;)

What...?

Just kidding, during the whole foundry release, if you were in our game you probably saw me complaining about the missing SMG's the entire time.

A perfectly reasonable complaint. It's not H3 without the SMG.


On that note, will the weapon's damage, aim assist and magnatism/gamepad support be changed for release to better replicate Halo 3's health & damage?
Something along the lines of: http://halo.bungie.net/forums/posts.aspx?postID=18097666

Oh, got ya.





You know... all the tags are ripped from Halo 3, all the stats are the same other than a few adjustments to fit the Halo 1 engine.
Edited by 1bobsam1 on Nov 16, 2013 at 11:08 PM

The tags themselves are not ripped from Halo 3. The assets used in them (models, bitmaps, etc) are from Halo 3 but the tags aren't.

The Blam engine has come a long way since the days of Halo 1. The tags wouldn't be compatible in most cases.
Edited by Dumb AI on Nov 17, 2013 at 01:04 AM

The shotgun probably needs a bit of adjustment as well. A few test-fires from atop the low staircases in Foundry revealed that the pellets could not reach the floor at the bottom of the staircase, giving the gun and effective range of ~5 yards. Halopedia lists its range as being 2-3 times as long as its Halo 2 incarnation, but only slightly shorter than that of the shotgun in Combat Evolved.

Hmm... I remember hearing that the stats were exactly the same during the Foundry project.

Adjutant can "read" the tags in Halo 3 maps, allowing one to see parts of it, like weapon stats and shader settings and values (it's likely that Zteam's extractor had this feature)
Edited by Dumb AI on Nov 17, 2013 at 01:37 PM

I tested the shotgun range in H3 with a second player. Assuming I finished (I don't remember if I did) then the range in Foundry should be the same as in H3.

I didn't necessarily go by numbers in this case, I did real world testing. In halo 3, I backed up while shooting another player until I got to the point where the bullets would have zero effect, and I copied that range into Foundry.

[18:57] Jesse: can you bump my Pit thread?

Progress has been made!

I've gotten many of the bullet panels in-game with the BSP (as BSP of course)











boolean for the win

You are making good progress!

What still needs to be done?
Edited by Dumb AI on Nov 18, 2013 at 10:11 PM

Yeah... let's not turn it into this...

This is going to be the next foundry in terms of how big of a project this is.

I have a lot less content to create than I did with foundry. Don't forget that I had made all the HUD elements, collision, LODs, and some custom models.

Oh, and I unwrapped the thing from zero.

This time, I have a proven tagset, so I can focus on BSP and scenery creation. Lighting might not come easily, and as a side note, current lighting is NOT final, nowhere near it.

Killzone and I were originally going to work on The_Pit, but he decided mine would have a little more dedication put to it and he went on to begin his Rats Nest map.






Fencing is all BSP :0

Edited by Jesse on Nov 19, 2013 at 03:30 AM

looks very nice jesse, i wish i could be this far along with rats nest :p

i decided it would be redundant to have two versions of the pit being made at the same time so i went to go work on my favorite halo 3 map.

@underoath i would say that it is about equivelent between me and jesse (if anything it leans more towards jesse as he has had prior experience). the major differance is that we prioritise differently, i like to get the bsp 100% finished before throwing on textures and fine details where jesse does things his own way (another reason im not farther is that i am a bit too much of a perfectionist :P It must be perfect!!!!)

Pls beta the weapons for balancing in a scrap BSP before you release this way you don't have to release like 5 versions in the same day.

ooooooooo can i lighting.

Looking good so far Jesse, keep up the good work. Maybe one day you will create your own custom map with these skills :)

looks fantastic jesse!

@killzone- great to hear that rats nest is in the works, love that map

Indeed, copying a BSP is one thing, but designing and creating a custom one is another.

Why not collab on one?

It wouldn't work. The reason why Foundry took so long was that DSalimander and I lived in different time zones, and it was a pain for us to sync up and send each other files.

Besides, I think I work a bit too fast on The Pit for someone else to join in, my models are usually outdated the second I open 3ds.

Unless of course you meant a whole different map altogether, but the issues would be the same.

Currently, I am modeling, unwrapping, shadering (as if it's a verb), lighting, and fixing the map, and I'd rather do it myself (for the speed reason).

Yeah, time is definitely an issue.

I don't even know if hobbet is still around (he lives in Australia, I think)

._.
Edited by Dumb AI on Nov 19, 2013 at 08:39 PM

SVN is the solution to any collaboration project. I really wish I had used it when we worked on Lumoria. Working on projects now is so easy, no need to give files manually, everyone is always up to date.

You gonna use Conscar's sky?

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=5082

of course, but I'm not at the point where I can really show off too much yet, not until I create the tarmac.

hmm i might use that method for rats nest.



i am definitely doing this, cept on a flat white finished bsp with no uv's. i'm going to send it out to storm first then after a few fixes ill have everyone else test it.

Since I added the fences, I noticed some collision gaps right in front of them. Want to take a look?

Yes they are indeed. I'll upload the files and a video showing the error and PM them to you.