That's quite similar to what I initially planned to do for my supports in the tunnels.
lol. I see you do your edges and shadows the same way I do them. Let me guess, select all panels, invert selection full white fil,l invert selection, blur tool, invert selection, delete full fill, small white edge is left for perfect edge reflection adjust layer opacity until desired affect. and you do the exact opposite with black for the shadows.

This also works, you should put glass on an inseted part of each "rectangle" on all 3 pieces as well. Under it you could put something similar to Halo 1's tech panels.

oh so it's like not all one huge panel but rater 3 strips? That might be cool

Are you meaning like this?
Or should i do the outer strips only and leave the inner strip for the middle strip I intended to do and just do that the whole way unwrapping it the way you described previously to keep the distortion out.


this


or this


Edited by eliteslasher on Jun 15, 2012 at 04:21 PM
Edited by eliteslasher on Jun 15, 2012 at 04:24 PM

Actually no, I render out my UV template. Create a layer with a darker metal texture, create another layer and use the polygon lasso tool to outline the UV shape, and then use the lasso tool once again to cut out the desired lines/patterns. After that, I apply a layer style (Outer glow and Inner Glow). Outer glow uses the burn tool for darker edges, and Inner Glow uses the dodge tool for lighter edges.

Why the hell did I never think of that! I have used that tool before too for other stuff not Halo. I could have made it a lot easier for myself.

Rofl, I read the book 3D Game Textures to gather some techniques. I can create a tutorial.

It's junk like this why I don't mess with Forerunner anymore.

Finalized the H2 elite HUD colors.



Real Halo 2.



I'll probably do the spartan HUD next, then get the ripped bitmaps in-game for both.
Edited by Jesse on Jun 17, 2012 at 10:44 PM

WHAT'S WRONG?! The actual file has no problems, I STL checked... wait, would it cause errors if there are multiple models, the bsp isn't just one big model?

If you have a world inside a world, that would happen. Like [World[MiniWorld]World]

and if you have planes with symbols added to the material name like bitmaps for lights or decals etc
then they need to be linked to the frame too.

It can if any of those separate pollies are colliding with any other pollies.

Finished up the new HUD colors and slightly modified bitmaps (including the new health meter.)

OLD


NEW

Edited by Jesse on Jun 19, 2012 at 10:46 PM

...you're not still working on that blasted H2 HUD, are you?

Seriously?

._.

Does this mean you're still producing Sandtrap, and finishing the HUD for it?

*Anger hidden in wink*

ODX, I had the same feelings when I started fixing this. I thought it was already perfect, but as I was creating the elite HUD, I noticed that there were some inconsistencies with the colors,(compare the sword icon colors) and some bitmaps could use some work like the health and shield meters which are totally new ones.

It's all done now and I can get back to tagging up all this H2 stuff.


As for Sandcrap, when Slappythepirate left CE, he kinda took the new BSP with him (same with Foundry.)
This doesn't mean the project is dead, but who's willing to fix up that BSP? I've got all the tags still.

And it will be Open Source if it were released.
Edited by Jesse on Jun 20, 2012 at 01:20 PM

Semi means somewhat or partially or half. Semi-Open Source would mean partially open source. However, it would also be partially closed source, and the source code would be closed off.

NO. It means that this thread is showing half or unfinished WORK. I probably shouldn't even explain it since you just created a account today and you already sound under par.
Edited by Choclate Thunda on Jun 20, 2012 at 02:24 PM

NO. It means that this thread isn't really official and isn't fully supported by Dennis as a sticky thread. Finished work can be posted here. This thread was just made because there were no other threads to contain the work that the OP wanted to post so he made this thread unofficially to contain miscellaneous files.

I got my gloves bitmap in-game




I tried to take screenshots that show off the back of the hand, but meh.
Edited by Jesse on Jun 20, 2012 at 03:06 PM

Because there's definitely no chance English is his second language.

Awesome!

Closed:



Open:



Works more-or-less exactly like it's Halo 2 counterpart.

WIP side is more or less how it works. Requires some scripting in order to get the Sentinel to fly out so far due to collision issues. Model too is WIP. CAn't see any issues myself - figured a new pair of eyes might help.

E: Ignore those uv errors on the bsp pl0x :<

Edited by Lone Warrior on Jun 20, 2012 at 06:44 PM

Loljesse, what happened to the radar in teh third pic?

i learned cubemaps in 3ds max, yey!

nvm
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Jun 20, 2012 at 07:58 PM

It's teh UVs on the arm brudda. Sux I know.

SKELETON JACK!!! Oh my gosh it's budyful. Lol, kicks the crap out of the robot FP i'm working on...

Dennis accidentally on purpose deleted the entire official wip thread, so this was made.

This. Add some kind of texture to the black and I think it would look a lot better.

I came.

^

Very nice job as always mister lone warrior ;)

Cool stuff waffles, and now can you make me a cubemap showing the z,-z orientation and same for x and y ?