those textures are going to look awesome with your structure!!

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Edited by Bobblehob on May 8, 2012 at 04:32 AM

Try to focus on the terrain itself too, I say this because I thought your last map could have used a bit more in the "wavy terrain with natural slopes" department :)

Cool textures btw

Love those textures, and that forerunner structure looks pretty awesome.

TBH i feel the same way, it's just that i didn't want to use the same forest concept that i used in my previous map, so i used this, but yeah i will change it BUT... i want some ppl to tell me which one i use:
forest
jungle
snowy
blood gulch like
combination of some of them
let me know guys
oh and maybe you mean the texture not the arid environment but well, believe me, it's not easy to put a lot of details in ONE texture even if it's big, that's the only problem i have when i use uvw unwrap, maybe i'll have no choice but to stick to the classic uvw mapping

@Lodex: Yeah you're right, in fact i'll add more details to the terrain as well, i'm still far from being done with the bsp, everything and i mean it EVERYTHING need improvement ;-)
Edited by ChBgt909 on May 8, 2012 at 03:13 PM

How about a volcano, hellish enviorment or somekind a portal facility on a moon?

you could make it as a weather generator, such as half of the map is snowy and it blends to the other half being a forest, that would definitely make for a unique map.

Maybe it'll look different when he unwraps the forerunner structure?

Nope, you don't see those brownish "dead" colors beside forerunner structures. It's usually the forerunner structures in snowy areas or lush beautiful landscape with green.

An observation that I never caught.

I've seen forerunner in desert-dry type enviroments. (A few CE maps and possibly a few reach ones o_o)

E.
Extinction
Tempest
Epitaph
Sandbox
Sandtrap
Edited by ODST_Nick on May 8, 2012 at 10:33 PM

Sandbox and Sandtrap structures are not related to these forerunner structures that are shining grey and silver. I don't recall any forerunner structures in extinction.

Tempest had light yellow-brown colors for the ground along with grey rocks and green trees.

Epitaph is an indoor forerunner structure based on a desert location, however you cannot actually see the exterior of the structure from afar.

what about a jungle or snowy forest environment? I was actually going to do that but then i was like "meh.. too mainstream" lol xD


i like the ideas from the previous post, (volcano, 2 different weathers) but i'd use it for another map like...
HALF MAGMA, HALF ICE!! :D

Forest maybe , but i think it's better if you add animals you know.


I got all models but idk how to import them into Halo.


Can i PM you perhaps?
Edited by sshers1 on May 9, 2012 at 03:48 AM

yeah go ahead, and thx :)

I have PM you go download them

But you have to decide it could be jungle snow or anything before you have those in the map
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EDIT: if your going to put volcano then put dinosaure in the map because it suits perfectly and i send you the trex model as well.
Edited by sshers1 on May 9, 2012 at 06:20 PM
Edited by sshers1 on May 9, 2012 at 06:22 PM
Edited by sshers1 on May 9, 2012 at 06:27 PM

hmm... half ice and half magma for your next project? MAKE IT AN ISLAND PLZ!!

Make sure to have plenty of water in between.

Well if he is going to add water then i should give u fish model then....

You are really coming along! This is on par with, or even exceeds things like Project Lumoria and possibly the great SPv2 bsps!

Keep at it!

I don't know why everyone is complaining about the cliff textures, I think it looks awesome the way it is now.

i made some improvements to the structure, i'll post the pics as soon as i get home (i slept at my gf's house, im using my ipod atm lol) and i decided to use an snowy forest theme instead, it'll look better that way and well, the animals... what i rly want to add are birds.

yay snowy forest! want to see some pics soon!

Is it the bird model i gave you?

the bird and butterfly ;D

you can extract the butterfly biped from Lumoria, i'm pretty sure TM Updates will let you use them

~UPDATES~

more pics i still have to add the snow... (and needs more work obviously)

looks awesome keep going

on another note how do you get the grass to blend into the cliff like that, is it done in photoshop or is it a texture paint?

i just unwrap the model, render a template and send it to photoshop
glad you like it :D

What's the poly count? \:|

pretty much the same for 3ds max versions.
http://noeliadelgado.com/files/How_to_create_a_texture_coordinates_template_in_3ds_Max_9.pdf

btw nice work :)

thanks for the tutorial, but i think ill stick to blenders texture painting. just grab some textures make a uv map then paint the image all in blender. plus i only have paint .net and i really haven't bothered to try to learn how to use it.:P

also you should use the stock ce weapons with some open-sauce thrown in.
Edited by killzone64 on May 10, 2012 at 11:06 PM

terrain: 2558 faces
structure: 4110 faces (needs optimization so the number may be reduced by 20 - 30%)

@ally: yeah that's exactly what i did but i also used pelt mapping tool :) and thx
Edited by ChBgt909 on May 10, 2012 at 11:18 PM
Edited by ChBgt909 on May 15, 2012 at 01:33 PM

Do you have another bitmap or something for the blended part between the ground and the cliff?

well, i still have to add the snow if that's what you mean