Quote: --- Original message by: Higuy


Thanks man! How have you been?

I've got a special something:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TravAXZ2C1A

Essentially caustics working in CE. Didn't take a whole lot of effort and I actually tried this a while ago for Lumoria but never got the results I wanted, but some extra thinking always does wonders! As you can see its fully animated and everything. Needs some polish, but it does the job done right.

For anyone who wants to know how its done:

I essentially made a cubemap consisting of the same caustics texture on all 6 sides, then used two light (.light tag) animated in different ways (You add the cube + animation in the gel section). You also have to make sure its pretty big, is dynamic, and both cutoff angles are 180 (Not exactly sure, but this is how the b30 gel is set up.)

If you notice under the gel section in the light there is two cubemaps you can add. For whatever reason, you can't have both at the same time and is pretty much essential to get what you want. So thats why you gotta use both, and just attach both to a scenery file. If you want to look for more reference look up the b30 folder levels\b30\devices\interior-tech-objects\holo control room display.

Quote: --- Original message by: ASCENDANTJUSTICE
@Chbgt: Thanks for the info, but I don't really like lenovo they have a bad rep here.

@Waffles: I've been encouraged to go for i5 or i7 or something AMD. Are the new batch of i3's any good? Compared to the old batch of i5's?

Oh and I really just want the pc for use with the HEK, and max. (But I would really hate to get any more of those bluescreen errors)


Program type requirments.

HEK

Adobe after effects.

Adobe photoshop

Adobe premiere pro

Cinema 4d Lr

Hitfilm VFX ultimate 2.

Fxhome vision lab pro 1.5

3dsmax 2013

3dsmaya

Marmoset tool bag

Blender3d

Zbrush

Mudbox

Nuke

And maybe cry engine and unity - (Don't really need those two just interested)

Basically I need a future proof pc, which will be able to install and run most of these programs without any under graded specification errors, by future proof I mean be able to keep up with the ever changing face of technology for about a year and a half.

Quote: --- Original message by: ASCENDANTJUSTICE
@ ChBgt: Ah I follow, "variety is the spice of life" 10G

Please remember to back up your files once a week or whenever you have surpassed a significant milestone.

Unless you have stapled your new pc to your chest :D

Btw how is your new pc any good? I'm looking for an upgrade.


To thieve is to be overwhelmed by greed

Quote: --- Original message by: ASCENDANTJUSTICE
@ Chbgt: What was wrong with this texture pack?

It contains quite a few halo 3 metal textures? Unless you need more.

https://mega.co.nz/#!IF0EWB4J!IxKmCn-506qBAfJgpaXTCWRtZutjqYScqRRZHMZbNzs

Quote: --- Original message by: Dennis

The reason is that I am away caring for a family member and can not approve and upload maps remotely.
yea... don't do that.

Quote: --- Original message by: A Juicy Frank

Scenery objects don't despawn in multiplayer games is why, I'll assume; and it will take just a bit more work than that, JR.


Start by importing the grunt's .gbxmodel into gmax with the gbxmodel importer. Next use the animation importer to import a death animation. All you want is the last frame (when he's on the floor), so go to it in the timeline and now export the model as a .jms. Compile the model with tool, and do as jackrabbit suggested: create a new .scenery tag and use your newly created .gbxmodel as the model.


Just know though, that using a biped would have its own benefit. Dead bipeds collision still react to projectiles and explosions, while allowing the player(s) to step through them, whereas collision on a scenery object would not let the player pass over them without jumping or something. You know those games that have an invisible box around a plant preventing you from moving through it.


Tools for Gmax:
http://ghost.halomaps.org/bluestreak/
Edited by A Juicy Frank on Dec 15, 2013 at 01:50 PM

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All of you're custom maps look good with screenshots but when it comes to gameplay it's totally waste of time. Make sure don't fail this one.

Quote: --- Original message by: jackrabbit

I KNOW WHAT HAPPEND TO YOU REALLY SUCKS but look at the bright side at least your alright and you can rebuld and you alredy have alot of experiance so things will move faster!

this same thing happed to me one time and it was difficult to rebuld and start over yes but one thing i relized is even if it happend again they could never steal my knowlage/.
& skills

that is something that can never be taken away!

i have had to do recoverys of my tags and data 3 times over the last 10 years and some of my work and i do meen years of work is lost for ever but I am thankful for the backup disks i made.
you can never realy tell when when a storm will take down an online server ither.
i had all my files backed up to a server that was distryed when huricane kitrina hit.
hell i didnt even know the server was located there.
i think its best to make a backup disk every chrismas or so of your data and tags.
best tip i have.
and as for rebulding not only will it be beter built but your not exactly guessing or starting from scratch.
you actuly alredy know what you want to do.
anyway congrats on your new laptop!
and good luck. i defenetly cant wait to see your next amazing great map!
Edited by jackrabbit on Oct 26, 2013 at 07:57 AM

Quote: --- Original message by: Jesse


Photoshop CS2 is free on their website.

3ds MAX is free on their website if you have a student e-mail and are an active student.

Quote: --- Original message by: Ki11erFTW
You can get way better performance with a desktop, as well as saving money.