i just used the reflect/refract material, with the 6 individual sides of the "cyborg reflection armor" cubemap. used eschaton to save me time and grab the sides. and the reflect/refract material is rgb multiplied with the specular maps.

this might actually work for environment maps, havent tried yet.

I saw.

I conquered. Julius Caesar

That looks cool lone! Are they destructible too, like in Halo 2?

ftfy

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I like the creativity.... But it's just too boxy still for my liking :/. It looks like you started with an actual box and went forth from that.
Edited by Dennis on Jun 22, 2012 at 11:30 AM

Gonna make a destroyed model and add it in, don't see why it wouldn't work personally. Will probably release this and the scripts needed to use it independantly. Although, just to note, you need a custom level to use this, so you 'probably' wont' see this in many modded maps unless they make some changes to the bsp.

Chamfer the edges on those extruded, trinagular indents. That will make it better.

Step 1: Start out with a simple plane



Step 2: Add a vert to the middle of the bottom line and connect two lines from corner to corner



Step 3: Select all polygons and inset by individual polygons instead of group.



Step 4:Chamfer and line up the edges. Weld the extra verts to optimize the model.



Step 5: Extrude the polygons to create the following:


Edited by KingFisher on Jun 22, 2012 at 04:28 PM

No, no you didn't. You rather broke that for him.
Also, lone is a liar.

@KingFisher: that is a right messy mesh... horrid way to make that shape...

Hunter do you mind teaching us how to do it more effectively?

yeah I looked at that myself and found no better way to optimize it. You could not reduce polies in that instance in any way from what I see.

If you look closely. He's being sarcastic.

lol i see now
...

Well, I hope he's being sarcastic. lol.

http://www.xfire.com/video/5848f8/

Simple stuff, but something I always wanted Halo 1 to have.

Pics for those too lazy to see the video.



Edited by Jesse on Jun 23, 2012 at 08:30 PM

Looks interesting so far! Keep up the good work. I suggest using the cut tool to cut details into the bsp, and also to add more dynamic looking upper areas as they are relatively flat. It might also be a good idea to make the canyon walls a bit larger, as they seem pretty small right now and easy to climb. You might want to overall just enlarge the whole thing too, since you have multiple vehicles driving around.

Wow, I really like that classic look you're giving it!

Added a few more minor structures and started the interior using the hallways shown earlier (slightly modified but still no small supports in those as yet ) Please don't point out obvious things such as the obvious failures to smooth certain things. I am sure there are TONS of those errors so far especially with smoothing in the hallways, but at this point they are more just a "miss" or "failure to get to yet" rather than an error since my primary goal is to get the structures simply completed. I have yet to put much detail into the bland areas yet too. If you want to make a suggestion for anything go right ahead, just again, please don't try to point out errors.

I recommend viewing in new tab to see full size if you want to recommend details or critique structures.

Also, YES I am taking structure ideas for certain things from halo 4 in case people happen to notice that. Also, please note that I have a lot of unnoticeable trims already in place. Hopefully they will give certain seemingly un-detailed areas some breakup. I'll post a wireframe later when I feel I am getting closer to what I want the final structure to be.






Edited by eliteslasher on Jun 26, 2012 at 01:16 AM

Impressive

Wow! Very awesome.

Thank you. I still need to figure out what I am going to do for an underside support. Somehow I think a big flat underside would just not quite look realistic.

Also, I am not sure how to go about making this balanced for CTF. As of now the one side has a huge advantage with more points of attacking the other. Maybe I can replace the CTF gametype with a invasion gametype of sorts and just make whichever side is hardest to get to be the side with the flag or capture point/s.

My gawd gaiz!!! A 4 winged pelican!!!



You all shall be forever jealous of my awesome ideazzz!!!111one

NAO U R READY TO ASSAULT TEH DE4TH STARZ!

A small step for me...


You'll soon know EVERYTHING :)

You dont need the blue 1pixel border on your cubemaps,

The tempalte I'm doing works anyway sooo

Cubemaps are easily made if you are going for light reflections with Genetica. It also has a thing to help with wrap arounds wide view pictures, but I haven't quite figured it out myself yet.

i always use the horizontal cross format for making cubemaps in hce, at least then i can tell what the end result will look like, while im working on it. i had no idea you could do cubemaps in strip format for hce...

This is the common horizontal cross cubemap.


This is the format that halo uses.

Edited by Maniac1000 on Jun 27, 2012 at 09:37 PM

Thanks for the bottom format picture. Can you also translate the format from tool-precompiled cubemap bitmaps like the one bourrin is using?

I ran that one through one through tool and this is what came out.

I spend some time finding the good rotations for the things in 3ds max.
But if you want to bake directly a cubemap using the automatic cubemap creator, I made a referenco object you can use as middle for your future cubemap. It's very good to make custom cube for each BSP, i'll release a tutorial soon :)

Oh nvm.
Edited by P3 on Jun 28, 2012 at 02:17 PM

I was just watching some SGA and it hit me.
HOLY CRAP!
Look at Ancient tech and structures
Look at Forerunner tech and structures

I wonder where he's gone.