Not to thread jack but I have already ported and scripted the majority of the final BSP in Sierra 117 when the BSP extraction was first supported to test out performance in Halo




If you would like the already ported BSP content\instanced geometry it's all yours.

All of that looks like Jesse's part of things, but yeah, send the files over! They'd be useful.

Well then.... :3

Do you have pictures of what the ported BSP for The Covenant looks like so far. You don't have to show if you don't want to, i'm just curious.

Yes! I would love the geometry, please PM it over to me and I'll make good use of it!

Alright, thank you. But, i never heard of "IG", what does that stand for?

instanced geometry

Oh, alright. Thank you for the info.

As far as I'm aware it's a type of scenery designed to be used many, many times throughout a level; kinda the equivalent of a more conservative 3d detail map where the BSP itself would be the diffuse.

The problem comes in not only porting every single bit of it and repositioning them in the correct parts of the level (which no extractor does automatically iirc) but also in implementation - if you just put it in as scenery you end up with performance issues and AI probs.

If I'm mistaken in the above points please correct me for the good of the cause :)

The basis of instanced geometry (in any engine) is allowing that and all the same models in the scene be drawn in the same draw call, rather than multiple instances drawn multiple times

well ***k me lol

H3SPP confirmed

Slapped like the bitch you are.

zomg bypass profanity filter :OOOOO

*hacks detected*
other then that nice concept thank me later for helping you fix jaw data though you dont need to idc


h3spp confirmed

H2SPP confirmed (canceled :( )
H4SPP confirmed
HRSPP confirmed
H3O confirmed
HCEA confirmed


everything is confirmed c':

H4SPP by a chance (or not) might happen but let us stay here on topic.

I have a h4 bsp ingame >.> however its the dumb green circle called forge island so nobody cares :|

Never.

Absolutely the truth.

we have a winner

your reward is halo 3 pc with fully working hek

Yaaaaayyyy....

I liked H4's sp though...

brb gonna make h4spp

I love your work Mattdratt... but...

get out.

H4SPP confirmed and will start wen we got h4 animation tools probably never unless zteam releases them which is never



id rather h3spp the most
Edited by generalhuggems on Jul 24, 2014 at 11:40 PM
Edited by generalhuggems on Jul 24, 2014 at 11:43 PM

k.
Edited by MEGASEAN2812 on Jul 24, 2014 at 11:42 PM

I wont be doing h4spp, but I don't understand the hate towards the SP. Fine, MP was too COD like, but the SP was fine. Compared to the dog pile that was the h2 campaign, it had a really nice flow and story. The only problem I had with it was its numerous "go here and push a button, then do that again" gameplay sections.

I never played h3 and above so what do I know.

I think two of the main problems people have with it are that it doesn't feel like a Halo game, and it doesn't look like a Halo game. The campaign in and of itself isn't terrible, but I feel it would have been better-suited to a different franchise.

Regardless of the quality of the flow and story elements of Halo 2's campaign, Halo 2 looked and felt like a Halo game. It stayed true to what had been previously established by the game that came before it, and it didn't pull anything crazy like UNSC mechs, iguana Jackals, an entire branch of Spartans (with no command structure), or fighting a member of a race that's supposed to be long gone and enigmatic.

I must seriously be the only delusional person that thoroughly enjoyed Halo 2 on this forum.

I loved halo 2 to be honest

bxr was so much fun no matter how broken it was.