What you should do is have the spec map take the roughness map and set metalness to 1, and specular to ~0.4 ideally. Detail Texturing is also your friend

That's something I can't find much about in UE4 Documentation. How does one accomplish Detail Texturing in UE4?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Rendering/Materials/Functions/Reference/Texturing/index.html#detailtexturing

hopefully this helps

Edited by SciFi on Mar 28, 2015 at 03:13 AM

Beg Kirby to get you the halo 3 plus amim tools end story.

Could be the smoothing groups/normals

actually in unreal that's probably a fault of you not building your lighting or setting it up. Be sure to make sure your SwarmConnection works properly and try to build the lighting. Also check up how to use LightmassImportanceVolumes in your level. Otherwise, keep the default lighting setup to test it out, then try to place point and spot lights around. Since you don't generally want them to be dynamic, set them to static and then build lighting. You should get the results you want

any plans for halo cea model extraction yet?

no.

This coming from the guy (possibly troll) who lied about a fake private version that supports animation viewing. Seen here:






savinpvtmike, I would suggest waiting to hear officially from ElijahB1 about Halo CEA model extraction. As they are the Original Poster and know what is and is not in the works for Adjutant.

Edited by SciFi on Mar 28, 2015 at 03:16 AM

what map is that? it looks very eerily familiar

Edited by SciFi on Mar 28, 2015 at 03:18 AM

That's what map I thought it was. However, the map looks too bright and sunny to fit the feeling of the original feel in Halo 3. I would suggest toning down the lighting intensity so that you get the darker sort of grim feel that the original had.

Unless however you are trying to give the map a brighter look, and in that case it looks good.

Edited by SciFi on Mar 28, 2015 at 03:20 AM

i'll try my hand at that too, see if I can help you out

I would try to help more, but right now I am having trouble myself with trying to get a RTS project working on UE4. I am co-leading a team that is using Unity, however Unity mainly works around the central idea that you have a couple of computer coders. Which we don't.

So right now I am juggling the idea of "trying" to build and create the game in UE4. Not sure if we have any active coders on Halomaps anymore, but if there are and they know C# or Javascript then they might want to take a look at this.

http://www.moddb.com/games/elysian-fields-game

Anyways, here's a screenshot of the "Firing" room on the last level of Halo 3. I still feel that you lighting SciFi, is too bright. Again though, that is up to you on how bright it should be.

I'm familiar with the C languages. What exactly do you have done so far? PM me if need be.


e:also whoever drafted your mod page sounds like a less-than-intelligent individual.
Edited by BKTiel on Feb 6, 2015 at 06:49 PM

Edited by SciFi on Mar 28, 2015 at 03:33 AM

What are you doing with that BSP?

We currently have a RTS style camera set up. We also have part of a UI/GUI setup as well for the menus. As to you last part of your post, can you please elaborate?

Edited by SciFi on Mar 28, 2015 at 03:35 AM

from what I gather, what you want to do is use a blend_overlay or blend_multiply shader, then use a color output value as an overlay.

As for specular, you usually end up tying your diffuse map's alpha to the roughness slot, then give metalness a constant value of 1 and specular a scalar value of .35 as this gives the most consistent results

Hmm, not bad. For a sec I thought you were attacking Dratts H3 port! :)

Edited by SciFi on Mar 28, 2015 at 03:03 AM

you're doing roughness wrong. take the alpha (Spec) of the diffuse and put it into roughness. for metalness you just drag out (or create) a "constant" node and give it a value of 1. For specular you can do the same thing but scalar tends to work nicely because you can do realtime edits via material instancing.

Here's what I did for one of the emissive materials on Guardian.



Now take into account that having emmisives take in slot A of alpha while color in B is VERY important. switching those can cause color bleed in wrong areas.

Now here's what Master Noob did.



And that carries through to all materials. How you may ask? Simple: Material Instancing. I'll refer him here and he can clear it up but I think if I do I might end up making it worse.

All info can be found in the documentation.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Rendering/Materials/PhysicallyBased/index.html
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Rendering/Materials/index.html

when did ue turn into google chrome?

Edited by SciFi on Mar 28, 2015 at 03:04 AM

So did anyone successfully extracted one of those dialogs, coz I'm still trying with no success. What I need are the Intro Victory and Defeat one's of the Covenant and Spartans

People have been able to extract those tags for almost 4 months now. I tested the first few on that list and they are working for me. If you have a specific tag that is not working, post it's tag name here.

Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_cv_defeat
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_cv_ph1_defeat
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_cv_ph1_intro
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_cv_ph1_victory
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_cv_ph2_defeat
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_cv_ph2_intro
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_cv_ph2_victory
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_cv_ph3_victory
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_cv_victory
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_sp_defeat
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_sp_ph1_intro
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_sp_ph1_victory
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_sp_ph2_intro
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_sp_ph_victory
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_sp_ph3_defeat
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_sp_ph3_intro
Sound\dialog\invasion\bone_sp_ph3_victory
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_cv_defeat
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_cv_ph1_intro
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_cv_ph1_victory
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_cv_ph2_intro
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_cv_ph2_victory
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_cv_ph3_defeat
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_cv_ph3_intro
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_cv_ph3_victory
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_sp_defeat
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_sp_ph1_defeat
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_sp_ph1_extra
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_sp_ph1_intro
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_sp_ph1_victory
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_sp_ph2_defeat
Sound\dialog\invasion\isle_sp_ph2_victory

Those are the tags

Not going to test them all, but I know the first few work.

actually, I just tried those too, they don't seem to work for me which is weird as hell. I can extract other sound files but those specifically don't seem to work for me

yeah same here, I tried them aswell but doesnt work, something with value cant be NULL.

@ElijahB1 which .map did you tried/tested it on to extract them ? I have tried forge_halo Boneyard, Island and another map.