The Halo Engine

Well after taking a trip to compiling-for-CSS-land, i've gotten to know more about gaming engines and such.

I was wondering, how good is Halo's gaming engine? A lot of models i've noticed are in the 1-3K range, which is actually a really small amount. Is it because Halo's engine is so obsolete that it blows over when there's two many polies? A lot of models i've worked with in CSS were in the high 5-10K poly range.

Of course, it's not all about polies, but i think i've got a little going. what do you guys think D:

It'll take up to 6k fine, higher on characters and vehicles. Res on textures goes up to 2048x2048.

Draw distance is what, about 3-4km? Half to two-thirds of Hugeass? Sounds about right...

Compared to the engines of todays games HALO's SUCKS , that is all. :lol:

...Thank you for that insightful and HIGHLY constructive post.

Tell its true.. even halo 2's engine , and definatly halo 3 , and all the other next gen game engines will own halo over , it would be sweet if they made one last awsome update for halo and halo ce.. just to statistfy the fans :p

Yeah, but the point of the thread is to post its capabilities, not whether you think it sucks or not.

what kinda compatibilites? you plan on making hogs rideable without falling off? :eyesroll:

I plan on smacking you upside the head if you continue to post utter nonsense.

The Halo engine is pretty outdated, compared to engines such as the Source engine.. though it is still pretty usefull, which is why alot of people still make mods with it. H2V will get the same treatment IMO.

As for its capabilities, more and more are being discovered over time; take the portal gun for example.

Given enough time and smarts, we'd eventually be able to bend the thing to our will, I reckon. I've been around since the early days of modding when people were still discovering things left, right, and centre, and back then we knew almost nothing, yet the smart people with lots of patience and spare time discovered not only all manners of useful info, but then made programs so us regular types could mod the game ourselves without wetting our pants at the mere sight of several thousand lines of hex.

The Halo engine is outdated, but still does some pretty cool stuff. Who knows, one day we might even get to the point where we can go in and make it do whatever we want it to.

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Originally Posted by Sgt Stacker

Compared to the engines of todays games HALO's SUCKS , that is all. :lol:

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Wrong. Really, many games TODAY don't even have engines as good as the Blam! engine. They have just began picking up speed with the Next-Gen consoles. Seriously, don't look at all of the games which are coming out, but the ones which came out in the first half of 2006 and earlier. Source, Jupiter, and CryEngine are the only ones which stand out in my mind as being on par or above Halo's.

One thing that no game I have seen has been able to beat Halo in yet is the map loading time. Halo takes SECONDS to load, usually half a second. Other games, like the Source games for example, take a year to load.

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Originally Posted by Sgt Stacker

Tell its true.. even halo 2's engine , and definatly halo 3 , and all the other next gen game engines will own halo over , it would be sweet if they made one last awsome update for halo and halo ce.. just to statistfy the fans :p

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You do realize that the entire Halo series has been developed on the same engine? Bungie has worked with the Blam! engine from the beginning of Halo's development. The lead engine programmers have just been modifying the engine to keep it up to date with everything else out there.