Since I haven't touched halo in few years since I left it, I'm out of the loop for this kind of stuff.

-snip- Oops, this is a shader_environment map, not a BSP map xD


EDIT: NEW QUESTION. How do I mimic Halo's " double/biased multiply " blending mode in other programs so that I can paint textures more easily without having to spam tool AND SAPIEN for small changes? ?
Edited by OrangeJuice on Apr 20, 2016 at 06:25 PM
Edited by OrangeJuice on Apr 20, 2016 at 06:28 PM

Halo's shader environments don't use multiply or overlay by default. They use "double bias/ multiply" with looks different from any of the hundreds of blend modes supplied by corel, photoshop, krita, gimp, or paintNet. Unless there's a program or plugins that I'm overlooking that allow you to create your own color math .. :/

Perhaps it is specific to BLAM.

Try not to use double bias/multiply as it seems to have an adverse affect to the display of particles in the scene. What I believe it does is similar to what is called split primaries. It will take your bitmap and split it into two permutations while Halo is running. One warmer and one cooler. Halo then will multiply the result together to create your resulting visual.

It is said that OpenSauce can let you create custom tags.

Is this true? To the point where I could program my own shader? ---(NON-Halo terminology.)

And if it is true, is it entirely usable for tagging or is it limited to PostProcess shaders that affect the entire screen?? :/
Edited by OrangeJuice on May 6, 2016 at 08:05 PM