OK, so this is the thread for my Halo 3 map, Last Resort. It wasn't in the internal beta, but it is the Halo 3 version of Zanzibar, with twice as much room.



Let's take a look at the videos, shall we?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUn45x6R4c8
NOTE: If you don't like hearing the same annoying whistle over and over, backed up by musical accompaniment, then turn off your sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WljegcnKrCs&eurl=
I'm using those two videos for reference.

OK, now that you know what it is, let's get down to business:


MAP FEATURES:
Everything in Zanzibar.
2 Halo 3 ATVs on the beachhead.
A secret room.
Updated Power Generator room.
Halo 3 Gadgets.
Halo 3 sounds ripped right from the beta.
Halo 3 MC.
Halo 3 Assault Rifle.
Halo 3 Icons for the weapons.
New Halo 3 armor Permutations.
Whatever else I can think of.


PICS:
Newest at top, oldest at bottom.

My new H3 HUD. It's a cross between the H3 Multiplayer and H3 Singleplayer HUD. I'll be using it for Last Resort.
It's based off of the HUD here:
http://www.h2vista.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2086
I used that as a source template, and severely modified it. I need to rotate the Assault Rifle and Grenades about 1 degree.

Well, I'm starting over on that building. This time, I have far less polys. However, I'm not too far, as I managed to get ten minutes of modeling in.
Here's my progress:

The Building.


A Wireframe of it.


*OUTDATED PICTURE*

Yes, another pic of the building.


*OUTDATED PICTURE*

A wireframe. (I was editing the vertices at the time I took the pic)


*OUTDATED PICTURE*

Yet another pic of the building.


*OUTDATED PICTURE*

An updated pic of the building below.


*OUTDATED PICTURE*

A building from Last Resort.


One of the arches from Last Resort's beach.


The Last Resort Logo.

*OUTDATED PICTURE*

An early render of the Beachhead.

*OUTDATED PICTURE*

A comparison of MC to the walls.


The Loading Screen for Last Resort. I might change the text from "Halo 3 Beta" to "Halo 3 Last Resort".


DOWNLOADS:
Latest Stuff up top, not-so-latest stuff on the bottom.

http://files.filefront.com//;7912974;;/
Here you are, ladies and gentlemen. The H3 Warthogs. I:
Added an improved Warthog horn.
Made the passenger seat 3rd-person.
The changes have been made to the Rocket Hog, Multiplayer Hog, and the Singleplayer hog.

http://files.filefront.com//;7682608;;/
The latest version of the sounds from Halo 3, this time updated and made into .sound tags.
SOUNDS INCLUDE:
Assault Rifle Gunfire
Guy saying "Slayer"
Mongoose Engine
Battle Rifle Pickup
Battle Rifle Reload
Bubble Shield Deployed
Bubble Shield Ambient Noise
Assault Rifle Reload
Entering Water
Guy saying "Double Kill"
Guy Saying "Triple Kill"
Guy saying "Overkill"
Guy Saying "Killing Spree"
Guy Saying "Running Riot"
Loading Screen Animated .gif

http://files.filefront.com//;7519799;;/
The next latest version of the Halo 3 sounds, this one missing the kill names.
SOUNDS INCLUDE:
Assault Rifle Gunfire
Guy saying "Slayer"
Mongoose Engine
Battle Rifle Pickup
Battle Rifle Reload
Bubble Shield Deployed
Bubble Shield Ambient Noise
Assault Rifle Reload
Entering Water
Loading Screen Animated .gif

http://files.filefront.com//;7502809;;/
The earliest version of the sounds.
SOUNDS INCLUDE:
Assault Rifle Gunfire
Guy saying "Slayer"
Mongoose Engine


CURRENTLY WORKING ON:
Model-wise: The Beachhead
Sound-wise: Getting 15 or so more sounds ingame.
Biped-wise: Working on getting 3 H3 Master Chief Permutations modeled, each with backpack weapons.


Frequently Asked Questions:
Q. Why are you doing this map?
A. A: I want to, and B: I like Zanzibar.

Q. What does Zanzibar have to do with this?
A. Last Resort is the Halo 3 name of Zanzibar.

Q. Is there going to be dual wielding?
A. Yes, if someone can make a good script for it.

Q. What weapons do you plan to include?
A. Everything you can see in the video above.

Q. Are the Halo 3 Gadgets going to be in there?
A. Yes. You can use them with the flashlight.

Q. What vehicles will you have?
A. All the vehicles that you can see in the Youtube video.

Q. Are you going to make a custom pickup icon for each weapon?
A. Yes.

Q. Can I help you in any way?
A. Unless you have links to any good content, no.

Q. Are you going to make a Halo 3 HUD?
A. Yes.

Q. Are the different Spartan armor sets going to be in there?
A. Yes.

Q. How will it work?
A. I am going to be using something called a Permutation, which makes it so if you are red, you are the guy with the really big visor, if you're blue, then you are the Stormtrooper-looking guy, if you're green, you're the H3 Master Chief, etc.

Q. Do you have a list of what color equals what MC?
A. Not at this time.

Q. Are the vehicles going to be destructible?
A. Yes.

Q. How are you making the map?
A. I am assembling it in sections, meaning I model a building or something, then I move on to something else. When everything is modeled, I will combine them all in one model, which will be textured and then go ingame.

Q. How far are you on this map?
A. See below.

Q. Are these questions getting annoying?
A. Yes.

Q. I'll stop then.
A. All questions have to be in the form of a question.

Q. Can I stop?
A. Please do.

Q. I'll stop, OK?
A. Go away.


OVERALL MAP STATUS:
Very early modeling.


OVERALL PERCENT FINISHED:
10%

OTHER FORUM TOPICS FOR THIS MAP:
http://www.h2vista.net/forums/showthread.php?p=82195#post82195
http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?p=1244007#post1244007
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=11297366&viewreplies=true
http://umtmapping.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?p=1934#1934
Edited by Jay2645 on Aug 25, 2007 at 06:41 AM

cool.....sounds awesome....hope u can pull it off :)

and someone is alredy working on it.Very old.Concars has been modeling valhalla since the pictuers from the swedish magasin came out.

lilkly.Concars and Cmt helps eachother alredy...And actually think that Concars version will be much better.

Thanks! Be sure you PM it to us, so you can still play the beta and you don't have to cover it up.

Anyway, I normally work alone, but I need the help on this one, so thanks.

I have the gun firing, but I have yet to get the reloading. I'm too lazy to do it now, but here's the gunfire/Guy saying "Slayer"/Mongoose Engine:
http://files.filefront.com//;7502809;;/

Edited by Jay2645 on May 13, 2007 at 07:35 PM

OK, It's up.

PIE!!
It's my Halo name.

OK, some more updates!

I've got a few more sound files, I haven't uploaded them yet, but they include:
Battle Rifle Pickup,
Battle Rifle Reload,
Bubble Shield Deployed,
Bubble Shield Ambient Noise,
Assault Rifle Reload, and
Entering Water.

In addition to the old clips, I'm up to 9 and counting. Keep on leaking betas guys! I still need to know what the energy drainer does and what it sounds like. I saw it picked up in the Last Resort leak, but he never used it. I also need to know what the guy says for all his different sayings.
When they're done, I'll upload each individually to Halomaps, so we can all have H3 Sound Tags.
I'm also not protecting the map, so you guys can rip stuff from it, as long as you give me or whoever made it credit. I'll include a list of people and what they made in the readme.

yea you did a good job on some of them sounds up there, not the new ones up there but the downloadable ones

Yeah, but I was thinking of more of a C4 type thing, where you pick up the pickup like a third gun, and place it somewhere. Give it instant detonation time, so you have a bubble shield, energy drainer, or any other kind of pickup working right after you place it. I also know that you can have multiple powerups because in Extinction, you can have the bomb (I'll call him Andy) and the C4 at the same time, thus giving you 4 weapons.
For the portable gravity lift, I was thinking of spawning a gravity lift scenery object. I have a bad feeling that this won't sync well and cause bad lag issues, so I'm going to make a poll.

Do you want me to put the Portable Gravity Lift in, despite the fact that it lags alot?

Say yes or no at the end of your post.
Edited by Jay2645 on May 14, 2007 at 12:37 PM

I can probly get you one that works alot beter then what your planning lol

Probably. You are one of the most intuitive people here, so I'm not going to doubt it.

I already posted the idea around the physics in another topic, so QUOTE TIME!! lol

just make it fire projectiles upwards, when one of those projectiles hits something, it explodes only hurting the mine, then the mine blows up and kills the people, tada, problem solved.

Yeah, that would work.

I have another question:
Is it possible to make an animated .gif as the loading map screen? I think it should be, but I don't really know. I want to make that little black screen you see on all the leaked beta videos, you know, with the numbers and everything.

Tommorow, you guys can use your Halo 3 beta...

Edited by Jay2645 on May 15, 2007 at 06:22 PM

beta...what?
halo 3 beta??
map beta??
beta WHAT??

oh good luck trying to make Last Resort...(if your talking about the map thats actully gonna be in H3 Last Resort).


oh for anyone who doesn't know what Last resort is, it's the newer version of Zanzibar for Halo 3. It has more rooms, everything now looks like a factory facility, and well, there's new stuff in it.

Fine, I edited it.

Fun ruiner.

Edit: OK, I decided to take what at the time seemed like a ten minute project, but instead took 3 hours, and I don't even know if it will work. 102 frames of animation converted into one convienent .gif, the map loading .gif.



I may edit the "Halo 3 Beta" Part to say "Halo 3 Last Resort Beta", and later "Halo 3 Last Resort".

EDIT (Again): I have made three more sounds, bringing the total up to 12. Here is the sound list:
Assault Rifle
Produce Assault Rifle
Assault Rifle Reload
ATV
Battle Rifle Fire (Yeah, I know it's in Halo 2, but it might be changed in this one)
Battle Rifle Reload (This one is slightly different)
Guy Saying "Double Kill"
Entering Water
Guy Saying "Slayer"
Trip Mine
Bubble Shield Activate
Bubble Shield Ambient Noise

Edited by Jay2645 on May 15, 2007 at 09:26 PM
Edited by Jay2645 on May 15, 2007 at 10:30 PM

The weapons part helped me out, now I know what I need to make. Thanks!
In other news, I have the file with the new sounds and I improved the old sounds (I reduced the volume and improved the quality):
http://files.filefront.com//;7519799;;/

The file also has that animated .gif you saw earlier.
Edited by Jay2645 on May 15, 2007 at 10:39 PM

Woot! Halo 3 comes out on September 25th! I was putting my money of November 7th, with first word of the release date coming out 7/7/07, but I guess not. I'll go put a countdown in my signature.

Anyway, most of the sounds are now in .sound files, but my Sapien hates me right now, so it looks like I'll have to proceed with making the models.

omg...
H3 beta w/ crackdown comes out between 10PM - 1AM eastern
and you can figure it out in your time zone.

or go on www.bungie.net and look for yourself.

Well, not much to report.

It will be a while before I post an update, as my stupid computer's being stupid right now. I'm getting a screen somewhat like the blue screen of death, but I used a little device that repairs errors like that, and that's not the problem. Apparently, I got a virus, and the same company makes something that will let me use my computer again, so now I have to wait for it to arrive in the mail. It said it will be 2-6 weeks for delivery, so I can't make much progress. Right now, I'm on my friend's laptop.

So, other then that, Last Resort is coming along great, I have a beta version of the Assault Rifle, with 32 shots per clip, like Halo 3. I'm working on getting my H3 Warthog to work right now, and then the ATV. I'm going to make the map content first, release my stuff on Halomaps, and then start work on Last Resort.

So, how do you guys like your betas?
Edited by Jay2645 on May 17, 2007 at 03:58 PM

If no one is going to reply, then I'll have to edit this post.

I have made a new animated .gif for the gate device_machine keypad (Known as the Zanzibar Blue Screen of Death), which reads, when finished:

MICROSOFT WINDOWS VERSION 2552

Program: Cmd.exe
Cmd: Open gate
Beginning Command...
Command Finished.

Warning a total HGDRVR (Take a wild guess at who that is) Exception has occured at your location. Error code 155.

Memory Dump Beginning...
...
...
...
Memory Dump Complete.

All System operations have been shut down.
Complete Failure of Major Systems.
Please contact your nearest Bungie Programmer for assistance.
If problem Persists, please scream at top of lungs and pound on keypad.

Additionally, a SVCRE (It's the first exception name's friend) exception has been discovered.
Attempting System Restore...
...
...
...
System Restore failed.

WARNING: MISSING PROGRAM FILES!
TOTAL SYSTEM FAILURE!

All power generator systems are online.
Generators will continue running until game is over.
Edited by Jay2645 on May 23, 2007 at 01:43 PM

HOLY CRAP this topic is OLDE man but i wonder if jay is still doing that map, if you look at this jay teh deep wants to help some kind of way.

It's coming along fine. I have been working on different BSPs, and I get to about the big spinning fan of doom before I decide that it sucks and I start over. This time, though, I like my approach and I'll follow through, more likely then not.
So yes, I am still working on it.
I also have a new H3 HUD to be used, along with a new Assault Rifle, Updated Battle Rifle, and many other new thingys. I don't expect the final to be released anytime soon, probably not until someone releases a H3 ATV (The one I was going to use, from Desolation, bears little resemblence to the H3 Mongeese, and is missing it's model_animations tag), but keep an eye open for the beta version. There's going to be a secret Man Cannon in it that will take you to the secret room of secrecy. I may put a train in there, but it won't be visible from any part of the map besides the secret room because, well, there's no train in Last Resort.
Edited by Jay2645 on May 31, 2007 at 12:30 PM

Yeah, I guess. There probably won't be a train in there, since my secret room will pretty much have a hole for the enterance/exit Man Cannons, and then a cave network thingy.

Sure, why not. I'll take out the secret room in the final so people don't get killed by the Floo... I mean Food! All the delicious, non-Flood-Infection-Form food that's in there.
Edited by Jay2645 on May 31, 2007 at 08:05 PM

The last I heard about that was that it was going to be for Halo 2 Vista only. Then I read in the H2V section of these forums that custom weapons are not possible in H2V.

Anyone know how they intend to add the h3 weapons? Or is it going to be for HALO 1 Custom Edition now?

EDIT: Do you have a spiker and spartan lazer? If not I'm working on them but I need some help to finish them. (I'm talking about them in my post about my h3 map)
Edited by Rhydgaled Publications on Jun 1, 2007 at 05:03 AM

hes not updating it...Also the last resort map is called Zanzibar..If you have seen the video then you know.

Let's see here, based on my reasearch on the video:

The Spartan Laser, Spiker, Portable Gravity Lift, Bubble Shield, Energy Drainer, Mongoose, and H3 Assault Rifle will be in the map.
I am in no way using the BSP from any Zanzibar map, as I have to make some all-new areas.

I don't think that there is anything I missed, but in case there is, I'll probably catch it later, as my goal with this map is to make a perfect Halo CE version of Last Resort.

Nah, I have my info, it's just a matter of making the models.

Right now, I have made a little more of the BSP, I'm going to make the fan Animated scenery. I would show you guys some screenies, but:
1. I'm using boxes as reference points for the scenery, so you'll be looking at a whole bunch of boxes.
2. I'm at school.

Yeah dont you think i realy knew that?..*SIGH*Hmm i guess you all could give an try.But i think that only 1 of 30 will make an sucsesfull one.

Hey Jay, can you send me the newer version of your Last Resort map? I can't get it on your filefront link. Email is snpr_tnt@yahoo.com. Thanks

It wasn't the map, it was the sounds for the map. But sure, I'll do it.

Actually I changed my email address Jay. It's snpr_117@yahoo.com. Send the map to that address. Thanks.

Sure.

Thanks for the image, HALO RULES, that could come in handy.
Also here's the newest incarnation of the sounds. I took the liberty of making them into .sound tags. They are also open source, so you can edit them.
http://files.filefront.com//;7682608;;/

P.S. I did have more kill names (Killtrocity, Killimanjaro, Killionare, etc.) but I figured out that Halo could only support four kill names plus Killing Spree and Running Riot, correct me if I'm wrong.
Edited by Jay2645 on Jun 3, 2007 at 02:26 PM

You might want to save that pic if you need it, because its gonna get deleted, its too big...

Already have.