Retina - by Dano and Legionaire45

[legionaire45]

Hey everyone! We've been keeping this secret for a good amount of time now but it's finally time to spill the beans. A few months ago Dane and myself started talking about his map Retina and I offered to help him get it in game. It's been a hell of a learning experience for me and Dane but the map is finally done and ready to be sent out for beta testing.

I'm afraid that at the moment I can't post any in game screen shots since they come out with tons of graphical artifacts but we can give you some of the older renders that Dane made for the map:

http://xs229.xs.to/xs229/08281/retina_render_1819.jpg
http://xs229.xs.to/xs229/08281/retina_render_5580.jpg

Hopefully within a few hours Dane will post some new ingame screenshots. We highly recommend that you use the bloom mod with this map. For such high res textures I am actually surprised that it runs so well.

I've tested the gameplay with some friends from school and with the weapons set up in their current configuration they really liked it. The map is small and simple and they said that it played a lot like Wizard from Halo PC. However, you guys are the final judges of the map. What we would like from you guys is just some comments about gameplay because the shaders and such are still fairly rough at the moment. This may be a public beta but it still is fairly rough and needs quite a bit of work before release.

DL:
Filefront (http://files.filefront.com/retina+pub+beta1map/;10966912;/fileinfo.html)
Halomaps (coming soon!)

Credits:
Modeling/Texturing - Dano
Compilation - Legionnaire45
Testing - Legionnaire45, Dane, Froogle_King, Glitchz13, CrimsonFist89 and many others.

I'd really like to thank all the people out there who made such great tutorials - without them this masterpiece would have never been made. <3. However, I would especially like to thank Dane for all the hard work, time and effort he put into this map - thanks buddy :3.

[DaneO'Roo]

It's been a long time coming, but it's finally done, thanks to my old friend Legionaire :)

Enjoy!

[Geo]

Holy shit! Finally. Im downloading right now :)



Edit: Awesome map, new favorite. :D

[LlamaMaster]

'bout freaking time!

[Gwunty]

This map is win +rep

[legionaire45]

Oh, I forgot to post it up there, but if anyone wants to give me any direct feed back, go ahead and talk to me on xfire. I'll be on until about 11:00ish.

[Masterz1337]

I love these textures. This is one of the best looking maps yet. Everyone should download!

[Evil_Monkey]

Definitely worth the download, the detail you got into it is awesome.

[Syuusuke]

Will try with and without bloom mod =D

[Roostervier]

This map is fucking awesome! :awesome:

Great job guys.

[Disaster]

^Bout time. Ownage. Set up some dedi's guys we can play all night. :awesome:

[Syuusuke]

It exceptions randomly =(

[HDoan]

One of the best maps ever

[DaneO'Roo]

It exceptions randomly =(

Dammit, looks like we'll be releasing another version soon then, once we figure out whats wrong with it.

[Disaster]

^... Massive lolz

[legionaire45]

Hmm, now that certainly is wierd, wonder what could be causing that :confused2:. Sorry about that, I'll work on fixing it. Can you guys give me information about your setups/what mods (if any) you are using? Eg. OS, Video Card, Sound Card, etc.? We want to nail this down ASAP because this map is really important to us, especially since we plan on releasing PB2 soon...

[Disaster]

... I lol'd hard.

[Roostervier]

What's so funny? I'd like the problem fixed. <_<

[Rentafence]

Wow, the map was a lot better that I expected. Too bad I can't rep you again. You sure didn't let us down. If you turn around and throw some awesomeness at us again, I might have to hurt you. ;)

[ExAm]

So apparently I missed the real beta map? I lol'd at the one that's up now XD

EDIT: All that way for a rickroll with no surprise behind it :mad:

[SMASH]

You know the rules and so do I. This map is amazing. The textures, especially the animated ones will never turn around and hurt you.

[StankBacon]

going up on the HIVE server shortly, come on in once its up.


-edit-///


wtf, got me all excited for nothing.

[Ki11a_FTW]

i got some ingame pics

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/3116/danesrickrollda3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Apoc4lypse]

This is awesome... 2 maps released in one day. Hopefully we will be getting more maps now that its summer.

E: oh ok.. yeah, never again please, keep that ugly sob out of my maps, I had to burn that file. :mad:

[Syuusuke]

Hmm, now that certainly is wierd, wonder what could be causing that :confused2:. Sorry about that, I'll work on fixing it. Can you guys give me information about your setups/what mods (if any) you are using? Eg. OS, Video Card, Sound Card, etc.? We want to nail this down ASAP because this map is really important to us, especially since we plan on releasing PB2 soon...

It's in my computer specs,

I was running the halocedev (the one bittressbanana made) but thats about it. I'm going to run it on one core just to check.

[SMASH]

So... is the real level still in development or no?

[Hotrod]

This is the best map ever, and yes, I am aware that it's a Rickroll, I'm saying that it's the best Rickroll ever created.

[Invader Veex]

You had me for a while. But then I noticed those grass and rocks by dano are unprotected :o

[Heathen]

dling now
Edit when I get it.

[DaneO'Roo]

p.s.
http://photo.gangus.com/d/26788-2/ackbar.jpg

[Rook]

I was tricked into uploading it on the xG~ server. lolol

[Heathen]

Ah.

[jngrow]

gotted owned hard. Great rick roll.

[Heathen]

Looks Fantastic :awesome:

[Pooky]

It's been a long time coming, but it's finally done, thanks to my old friend Legionaire :)

Enjoy!
lol

That's harsh, you know I've been looking forward to this since you first told me about it D:

I was even going to get on fucking CE to play it.

[Kalub]

moar pics plz

[NullZero]

<3 Danooo

Maps looking great from the screenshots, can't wait to get it ingame!

[beele]

Nice looking map, will download when I'm no longer on smallband.

[ultama121]

How didn't I notice this. :o

[Rosco]

Coo, I think striders made better box maps than this.

[Limited]

<space>

[DaneO'Roo]

Haha people are still getting owned by this.


Wow.

[Hunter]

Soz Dane, It won't allow me to +rep you as well. Because i've given you a load Lol.

[sdavis117]

I still +rep'd this guy for tricking me.

"Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down..."

[Rosco]

Haha people are still getting owned by this.


Wow.
Yeah it was pretty bland
downs

[legionaire45]

Coo, I think striders made better box maps than this.
I don't understand, I personally thought that this was one of the best maps ever made for Halo CE. Period. I put months of hard work into this and you give me the most brutal insult that you could ever give someone. That is heartless. YOU'RE A BAD MAN. A VERY BAD MAN.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/It%27s_A_Good_Life.JPG

[Heathen]

Did it have the song? I have music muted...

[Rosco]

I don't understand, I personally thought that this was one of the best maps ever made for Halo CE. Period. I put months of hard work into this and you give me the most brutal insult that you could ever give someone. That is heartless. YOU'RE A BAD MAN. A VERY BAD MAN.



Don't take my crit that harshly, I mean all you need to do is add some flashing lights and you're there. :downs:

[StankBacon]

YOU'RE A BAD MAN. A VERY BAD MAN.


NO U

http://www.hivclan.net/hivshack/images/194855baboo.gif

:XD:

[Apoc4lypse]

tbh... I think you broked the television... XD

The size is messed up, and its not scrolling quickly enough to create the illuuusion.

[Sel]

Best map ever.

[PenGuin1362]

so i downloaded the map when the post was first made, paid no attention it or this thread. just opened it a few hours ago and i laughed my ass off. Best rick roll ever, well maybe tied with CAD's max script.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

sorry for being offtopic, (but this isnt really serious though)
but does hce support surroundsound?

[Rosco]

Yeah I think of serious cat, whenever I come back to this thread. :downs:

[Hunter]

Lmao. I just went on the map after downloading it ages ago. I didn't read any of these comments before though.

I was like wtf...Did I spawn outside the map?Lol

Still have +rep anyway. And how did you make that slide show image thing?

[Inferno]

Lmao. I just went on the map after downloading it ages ago. I didn't read any of these comments before though.

I was like wtf...Did I spawn outside the map?Lol

Still have +rep anyway. And how did you make that slide show image thing?

He used a shader_chicago (i believe) and set the up the UVW animation periods to slide across..

[legionaire45]

He used a shader_chicago (i believe) and set the up the UVW animation periods to slide across..
Close. It's just a single 1024 x 256 pixel (or something like that) shader_environment with u-animation function set to slide and the period and scale both set to 1. I left v-animation alone.

sorry for being offtopic, (but this isnt really serious though)
but does hce support surroundsound?
Yes, Halo supports EAX and environmental audio as long as you have a sound card that supports that feature and you aren't running Vista.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Thanks, I was just running it with only two speakers though, and some sounds seemed like they where being cut off, is it because of lack of more speakers, or the sound card?
Also, How many speakers does it require for EAX to work properly, and how many does it support in total?

[legionaire45]

Thanks, I was just running it with only two speakers though, and some sounds seemed like they where being cut off, is it because of lack of more speakers, or the sound card?
Also, How many speakers does it require for EAX to work properly, and how many does it support in total?
If you don't already have one I'd recommend that you get at least a set of 2.1 speakers. You can get decent sets for $30 if you don't want to spend very much. Make sure that you have the correct number of speakers set in the windows sound properties area, otherwise sound isn't going to be outputed to those missing speaker thingies.

EAX doesn't have a speaker requirement, just a sound card requirement.

[ExAm]

EAX and hardware acceleration blow in Halo anyway. Some sounds become washed out, and the only thing that's actually improved is that Marines' voices echo in caves.

[NullZero]

EAX and hardware acceleration blow in Halo anyway. Some sounds become washed out, and the only thing that's actually improved is that Marines' voices echo in caves.

I agree. The software acceleration (I think it is?) sounds more spatial than the hardware acceleration.

[Sel]

Its grayed out for me anyway D:

[Heathen]

I say we start a petition to get this map released as a H3 version with the next map pack.

[Sel]

tbh this is the only map I would want to play with the EAX shit enabled.

[Inferno]

I say we start a petition to get this map released as a H3 version with the next map pack.

I agree we could rick roll the entire XBL community. That would be... Epic.

[Longshot]

that.was.awesome. Gave me a laugh!

Really wish I had of read the thread before I downloaded it, though.

[cUbY]

wheres the linking post

[Heathen]

oh boy.

[007useless]

Lmao I when I opened this map and heard the song I was like "Oooo Rick Roll"....I looked around to try to find the door or a hill or something, and than I looked up. Lol I was laughing for about 3 min. Gj guys great map!

[Donut]

so hey, a while back somebody decided to say "look i has h3mt beta" and sent me the map titled "retina_beta_1" via and truly thought i had forgotten how amazing this map is. needless to say, i have shown this to at least 5 of my friends and only one of them understood why its funny. :fail:

[legionaire45]

xD, this is still generating lulz.

Best Halo map I ever made.

[ultama121]

The best part is that people aren't taking the time to read the numerous posts that tell exactly what this map is. :fail:

[mcwesalot]

I kinda wish the real thing was made it looked really cool.

[anonymous]

AUSUMe MAP M8

[Heathen]

Fantastic map guys, I still play it all the time.

[t3h m00kz]

I can has a link? OP link is down

[legionaire45]

I don't have the map anymore - I'll look through some backups but I'm pretty sure I don't have it. If someone else has it, I'll rep them if they upload it somewhere or give me a copy.

Lol, whilst searching I found this: dærp (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2137)

[StankBacon]

i deleted all my ce maps :/

[Rook]

i deleted all my ce maps :/

o____o

[Sever]

i deleted all my ce :/

[Pooky]

I deleted all :\

[legionaire45]

I deleted :|

[ExAm]

I :/

what is wrong with you people.

[Donut]

i have it. who wants it?

[Alwin Roth]

Is this the rick-roll map?

[legionaire45]

i have it. who wants it?
I'll take it :P.

Is this the rick-roll map?
Perhaps.

[Donut]

http://www.filefront.com/15228539/retina_pub_beta1.map
this is the link to the map on my filefront

[supersniper]

yeah for ricky :D

[Alwin Roth]

I'll take it :P.

Perhaps.

God damn it, when this thread was made, I was so excited...
and it looked mega legit as well :(

[EX12693]

I saw the rick-roll from the very beginning. You sir, must increase your rickroll sensing skills.

E: So this post is really bad?

[legionaire45]

I saw the rick-roll from the very beginning. You sir, must increase your rickroll sensing skills.

When this level was first released, no one saw shit coming.

Dane and I made some lulz. Mostly Dane.

[Cortexian]

I saw the rick-roll from the very beginning. You sir, must increase your rickroll sensing skills.
Note when this was originally posted...

[Alwin Roth]

How the hell did this get bumped?