Are you going to have it that the team's weapons fire a color of plasma corresponding to their team? ie, Red guns shoot red plasma, blue guns shoot blue, and neutral shoots white? If you made it accurate then this doesn't seem that poor of an idea.

that would be nice but well i think it would have been nice to have some vehicles, i'll wait to see if somethiing happens before the map gets released
nice progress btw

Next project....... LiveLock *raises left eyebrow*

The map looks too small to have vehicles.

Tiel is right, the map is too small for vehicles. The only place a vehicle would really be able to move is the center path, which is just a straight away. We designed the layout for moving on foot.

@madnesspart We will have to take that into consideration.
Edited by jawa on Feb 27, 2012 at 12:13 PM

The projectiles are not going to be plasma exactly (at least not quite like Halo plasma rounds) but yes they will be colored according to their team (like you said: red for red team, blue for blue team, and white for nuetral)

@LMT_Heretic: This map doesn't have any room for vehicles, but hopefully next map that we do will include vehicles.

@madnesspart: lol

I have modeled a few of the buildings for the map. Since this is an outside map only one of these has any interior. Btw these models are not final, there are still some things I need to do.

UPDATE

So... we didn't end up with as much free time as we expected. BUT, the project is not dead. We survived the semester of school, got summer jobs, etc........... and are now back to working on Deadlock.

The BSP is still a work in progress, but all of the major details are there. We have taken several screenshots and made a video "fly through" of the map.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-5hGKpHVWI&feature=youtu.be

We have also made progress on the weapons. The Handgun and the Blue SMG are very close to being finished, all that is left is a little fine tuning and sound FX.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOnxlj1xY-E&feature=youtu.be

LAST BUT NOT LEAST. We have decided to do somthing unprecedented. We have planned out a secret room for the map and intend to include a secret weapon (NOT a super weapon... just a secret weapon). However, we do not plan to design this weapon ourselves

Instead of going to all that effort ourselves.... we plan to let YOU design the secret weapon.

We are going to have a community contest for the Deadlock secret weapon! Anyone who is interested is free to submit their weapon designs. We will then choose one of the designs and I will create the weapon for Halo. This weapon will then be placed in the secret room of the map AND The designer will be given the tags for their weapon to use in their own projects (or not... we don't really care what you do with it).

HOWEVER there are RULES:

1. NO nukes, grenades, RPGs (of any kind), or orbital weapons...

2. No "End Game" weapons (we are not giving ANYONE godlike powers... sry)

3. And (this isn't really a rule so much as an FYI) try to make it fit in with the style of the map. (just not too outlandish please)

4. Submitions will ONLY be accepted in the submition thread linked to below!!! Try to stay on topic please.

http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=41126

If you have questions about the contest please ask them in here... not in the submition thread. And let us know what you think of our progress.

We hope this will be a wonderful oportunity for all of you out there with GREAT ideas and absolutely no skills.




just jking,



Thanks for reading, and good luck with the contest. We hope this will turn out to be a fun idea for everyone.
Edited by Yoda on Jul 2, 2012 at 12:42 AM

I noticed this almost straight away. Your sniper, is the same as the Nerf Longstrike. There is practically no difference. And I mean it. My brother knows it; he looked over my shoulder, and said "Hey, that's a longstrike!"

You should maybe add in a few more weapons. I would love to see a hand-held minigun, like the warthog's turret or the Halo 3 turret. Or the H:Reach turret. Not those weapons, but loosely those. It would fit in the long-area.

wow, that is quite similar. But it actually isn't the same. It will look more different when I make the 3d model.

I think 7 weapons + a secret weapon are enough for this map, It will definately take me a while just to get all of these made. So I don't think we will be adding any more However... If you REALLY want to see a particular gun in this map, than submit a design for the contest. That is what it is meant for.

We have gone ahead a chosen the end date of the contest. The contest will end July 25. We will then review all valid submissions and determine whose weapon submission wins. So get your submissions in while there is still plenty of time.

Looks pretty awesome.

Idk exactly why... When i see the map, i want to watch stargate series lololol :) Very nice job; I pretty like how the model looks. I know it's a wip ^^ but in the futur can you add more textures ? An good sky like lumoria or conscars would be awesome etc... Keep it up !;)

AWESOME!



There is only one placeholder white texture applied to the entire BSP right now. We have not even started creating textures, so don't worry the textures will come later.

Also, we will be working on a custom sky pretty soon. (although I am not NEARLY as good at skys as lumoria, lol)
Edited by Yoda on Jul 5, 2012 at 12:03 PM

Lol me to xD. Can't wait to see update ! :D

ANNOUNCEMENT

Our design contest ended on July 25th and we are now ready to "officially" announce the winner.

We recieved severall good submissions, and after looking through them we narrowed it down to two. The "Impetus" designed by Echo77 and "Grunt Launcher 5000" designed by P3.

because of the gameplay issues of having the Grunt Launcher as a common part of gameplay we were about to pick the Impetus as our winner... but we decided we could not resist making the Grunt Launcher. SO, we are going to make both. The Impetus will be placed in the secret room that we had planned out for the contest weapon, it will be hidden but not so hidden that it is rarely used. The Grunt Launcher on the other hand will be placed in a new, more secure location so that it will be more difficult to find and use too often in gameplay.

Congrats to Echo77 and P3 for winning our contest, I would like to discuss each of your designs with you as I create them to get any ideas/input ya'll have on the way it should work. If you use xfire feel free to add me Yoda73811 If you do not use xfire then I will simply PM you here on halomaps.

We plan to update soon with some map progress as well as a 3d version of at least one of these weapons.

Can't wait to see the grunt launcher mister yoda :D Keep it up ! ;)

UPDATE

We have not really posted much progress lately. Work on the map was slow for a while, but now with the weapons design contest finished work has picked up again.

I have quite a bit of progress to show ya'll this time, so lets start with the skybox. I still have some work to do on it, and I have to decide what all I want to put up there, but the "centerpeice" (or whatever you want to call it) is just about finished.



Next up is scenery. I have been working on some scenery to be placed around the map to make things more interesting and add some cover. The first peice is a roadblock that will be very useful for cover as well as helping us to block off one or two areas that we don't want people going. The next to pictures are two different crates, just to be used as cover and basic clutter for the map.





Last, but certainly not least, I have almost completed the model for one of our design contest winners. Echo77's Impetus.






Stay tuned for more updates in the near future. Jawa is wrapping up some BSP progress and hopefully soon we be showing these new assets in the map along with jawas latest work.

I didn't see this yesterday! :D I WON?! OMG! I would like to thank all the people here today*gasp and sobs* and the people who help me through the harsh and rough times to push me, to get where i am today.... i would also like to thank- Nah jk Lol (XD)

But... I won! :D Yeah!

I really didn't see this yesterday... >.>

*begins screaming incoherently and throwing money at the screen*

Oh my god, i have to tell someone! "Hey guys-!"

I am very glad to see that ya'll seem to be happy with our update :D

@Echo77: Since I am working on your design first I would appreciate any input/feedback you have on the model that I showed, and also any advice as to how the weapon should function. (after you calm down and stop throwing money at your screen of course :D )

Wait a second, quick question for you Yoda, is the grunt launcher a Plasma Cannon that launches grunts like frag grenades?

Thank you. :D

It seems pretty close, as near as I can tell. It just needs the hammer. As far as function goes, I think I summed it up in my initial submission.



Essentially, a fast-firing semi-auto revolver, with the potential to be used as a handheld short-range scattergun, if you feel the need to replace the flashlight with the underbarrel 12 Gauge.

No, it's a grunt on top of a sliding launch pad that launches a grunt at your face. :)

That is a question for P3, not for me as it is his design.

As far as I can tell it functions basically like the nuke launcher in fallout 3. Except it is ejecting a grunt instead of a small nuke. :D

@Echo77: the weapons in this map were intended to use the secondary fire for iron sights, so if you have no objections I would like to use it to look through the holographic sight you have mounted on it. (meaning no underbarrel weapon).

Also, I had a question for you. (do not feel obligated in any way to accept this, its just a thought)

The one thing that bothers me about your design is the idea of using the hammer to release the cylinder. I am a bit of a gun nut, and that just seems wrong to me, lol. So I was wondering if you are familiar with the Smith & Wesson Bodygaurd? It is a modern, hammerless revolver designed for concealed carry. One of the more interesting features of it is the cylinder release. Instead of having it on the side like a traditional revolver, it has a small "slider" (for lack of a better word) where the hammer would generally be. You push the "slider" up to release the cylinder and reload the revolver. Would you be okay with me doing that instead of using the hammer to release the cylinder?

Again, please don't feel compelled to agree to that, I am perfectly willing to do it your way if that is what you want. I just wanted to let you know of a realistic alternative. Just let me know what you decide and I will act accordingly. Thanks.

Yeah, the underbarrel flashlight/shotgun was just something I added to give you an added degree of flexibility with the weapon. Having the red dot be functional would be much cooler, I think.

The hammer = mag release was just a last-minute excuse I came up with, because I'd designed the weapon a long time ago before really thinking about the functionality of it. When I decided it should be Metal Storm, I still had that hammer there. A slider-operated mag release would make much more sense, so I'd be all for that idea.

can be cool with the ronon gun from stargate atlantis, thay have a similar design.

Very nice work yoda, i love the scenery you have made, and the weapons model looks cool :D Can't wait !!!!

Lol XD

I actually made Ronon's gun (which is called a "particle magnum" btw) one time for halo. It was quite a while back though. It would be fun to do it again sometime. But obviously not for Deadlock, I would have to make a stargate atlantis map for that :D

playing with stargate weapons on highground was really cool, my regret was just a stargate map need stargate bsp ^^ sgc, atlantis base, abydos, tchulak, ... stargate is a really cool univers and if u wanna make a SGA map i will be the first to download it :)

good work on deadlock !
Edited by Dalek on Aug 4, 2012 at 11:29 AM

back when jawa and I first began to learn about halo modding we had this grand idea about making a map of the City of Atlantis (not the entire interior, but all the major areas). We had actually modelled huge portions of the city, but eventually learned that our models had far to many errors to be used in-game. The project basically died, but I did begin modelling the exterior of atlantis again later, just for fun... but maybe we will eventually complete the project.

We have always been huge StarGate fans... so maybe we will do another stargate map after this (no promises... but maybe)

\:D So how has this been going?

Hey, sry we have been so silent for so long. Work on the project is progressing steadily, but slowly. Jawa and I are both extremely busy with real life atm, and I am preparing for a big beta in another project (HaloStarWars).

HOWEVER, I intend to update the thread sometime in the next couple of days. I am hoping to have a completed model for the grunt launcher for the update :D as well as some other renders and info on the BSP progress.

So if you don't mind, please respond to this comment so that I can post the update without having to worry about the double post rule, lol.