Delta Halo (Working title) SP Map

So here i have a video of some cool things i scripted into my map, heres the linky



I had to lock fraps at 15 fps otherwise it refused to record.... ( i usually get around 95) so some sounds might sound inaccurate, and all the other stuff that happens when you get 15 fps. Trust me it will look a lot smoother in person. Especially the drop pods, in the vid they look like they just appear :fail:, when i fix this gay fraps issue ill be sure to show a more smoother version.

BUGS: Cruiser's sound needs to be louder
One crewman i forgot to script into an ai

First part of the video is a cruiser flying by dropping many droppods. (You have to get to that cruiser later in the level)
Second part is me meleeing a crewman, and watching everyone fight. (Echo 419 lands shortly after the video ends, sorry)
Any further updates will be posted here.

Credits are at the end of the video

EDIT: also bsp IS NOT final

Will this come with the Delta Halo UI...[some random hurry up finish it hint]

Looks nice. Will it be based off the delta halo sp map in Halo 2??

Yep. The bsps are... 8 months old, so once all the scripting and gameplay is worked out, im going to go back into the max files, and work on the surrounding details. As you can see, many thing are way to boxy and plain atm :-/

Yeh as you said, the BSP isnt pretty :|

But I like how the covenent ship flew over, and I see potential here, I might donate some forerunner structures that might be useful, I just have to make them sometime after exam week.

Either way may not look sexed up yet, but either way It shows great potential and I hope you see it through to the end.

eh, i think ill make one more video to show, then no more vids for a while

aside from looking like crap, this has some potential. i like the cruiser flying over head. keep it up :)

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7...gescortbz0.jpg

^ hog escort ( follows a specific path, doesnt crash)

EDIT: i could really use help with the textures, some that make it really look delta haloish, right now it kind of ruins it

Lol ask Arteen. I know he did textures in his Delta ruined map. Or you can ask Dano.

You going to use one of the many Halo 2 bipeds out there and maybe animate the SMG to be a little less jerky? Also, are you trying to make it more like Halo 2? Because those Battle Rifle animations are :\. But still, I agree it has potential, only because it has Halo 2 music :)
Edit: OH SNAP! That was you who had the successful ghost boarding! Will that be in this also?

I could rip you the h2 ones, or i could attempt at making a DH Forrruner skin, or you could change the gray forruner stuff to tan

The BR was from like July, so yeah, the anims are bad.
Im going to try to make it look as much as halo 2 as possible, if better.
Vehicle boarding will be included if i have enough tag space left over, in the current builds it is not included because im going for the main things right now that make a map play good.:)

And for those of you who havent seen my ghost boarding yet, here is a short preview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nI8cWoVKyI

And if i do include it, the boarding animation will be improved and wraiths and banshees will be able to be boarded ( i already have a shit version of the banshee made)
(lol that bsp is actually the test map for this level)

EDIT: lone wolf that wont be needed. I like making the bsps custom.

Also Killa, by ripping i ment ripping the Halo 2 Delta Halo textures. Or i could try to create some myself, as i said

the only things i will have ripped in here is some vehicles\weapons\bipeds, which i am also thinking of replacing with custom content. And if i wanted to rip anything, i have all the halo 2 map files anyway.

Oh okay good luck with this project!

we need moar decent sp maps.
keep up the good work :)

(dialogs seemed a bit out of place tbh)

Ahh so thats the SP you were telling me about, nice covey cruiser and drop pods :D

Remind me to send you my h2 bipeds next time your online.

Edit: Awesome boarding too.

I love the boarding idea. pick up the speed and it will be awswome.

It's decent. I demand cutscenes!

Wow this looks really good, i like the boarding animation :D

Boarding animation made me laugh at how the MC moves so slowly. But it looks cool.

Oh that video was from awhile back...I remember that.

If you weren't looking up when the cruiser flew over, you'd probably miss it. Maybe make it fly parallel to you?

Yeah i made cortana say "Look!" Right before it comes, you could still miss it if you dont know where to look, id have to think of a way around that. I also need to keep it in that direction because you have to go to that cruiser in the 3rd bsp

make it come when you're going up a ramp and you're looking upwards

Or you could make it fly alot slower. that way it could even drop some tanks while its at it...

Or a scarab (no jk.)

Has lots of potential, looks like it plays great, but animations are blagh and the bsp and such is blagh.

wait fuck disregard that fucking parrot act nvm.

animations are hella old, from july

your encounters need a LOT of work :/

Is this going to be in Campaigne or in Lan?

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Is this going to be in Campaigne or in Lan?

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Single player, I would hope.

Oh, thanks. Lets just wait and see what he says

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your encounters need a LOT of work :/

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actuallly the one you see in the video is the worst. Trust me the rest are not like that. I was messing with those encounters before that, i got to add brute cover and add more grunts and jackals. Marines do follow you throughout the map.

The elite droppod one is fine at the moment, though i am modeling some more structures for that area, so it wont be as open.

And snaff i modeled new cliffs, running lightmaps

This map is not lan, its single player

so you've fixed the one from the first video where they all just appear out of nowhere after the fly-over, right?

Its not actually like that, fraps was lagging the game, and i had to lock it at 15 fps for it to actually record :mad:, without fraps i get from 150-250 fps usually around in there. If anyone knows another recording program i could show it better

maybe to make people notice/look at the Cruiser have it cast some kind of shadow ? (IDK anything about making maps so ..actually IDK what word I wanted to add here)

^ gonna try to do that, and also going to add markers to show the flames coming out of the back of it.

EDIT:looks like lightmaps are going to take all night, ive made some major changes since last pics, so ill try to get some new pics tomorrow.

So lightmaps finished...
small update
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7333/updategg8.jpg

dont worry im working on those cliff shaders

and also modifyed my marines abit

EDIT: i decided to modify those cliffs a bit

also anyone have good cliff detail maps like the cliff detail on delta halo?

im going to make you a crticicism sandwich:

+ random mp maps < Decent singleplayer levels
- ground textures look bleh. wtf is wrong with the hud
+ looks like its going to be fun to play

:)

the hud will be fixed later, im thinking of using polar bears hud and modifying it

Also phantom chaceing you on the gondola is scary :X

Ah, singleplayer, thanks.
Looking good so far. :D

Is that lake supposed to be that shallow, or am I mistaken by the perspective?

fixed that last night and added fog
Observe:

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7...0034321ci9.png

Its looking better, but you should make a new gondola current one has no cover.

oh yeah, forgot, credit goes to conscars for making a new cliff bitmap for the map

Much, much better. It's starting to shapen up.

I think the cruiser should be a little higher to be honest. I've never seen a capital ship fly at tree top level.

Tsavo highway :rolleyes:

Map looks like it'll be a blast once it's done, lots of work to be done as the other members have pointed out, though.

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Tsavo highway :rolleyes:

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That sequence is sweet, I'm planning on doing something like it for my project as well. Hopefully before it becomes an altogether common thing :p

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Tsavo highway :rolleyes:

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Yeah that cruiser was alot higher than yours. :I

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Yeah that cruiser was alot higher than yours. :I

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Well, to be fair, it looked like it was nearly grazing some cliffs when it first appears.

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Well, to be fair, it looked like it was nearly grazing some cliffs when it first appears.

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Yeah, I agree.

&#236;'ve ignored this thread for a while, but in my opinion, you can't make a map with 200 polygons.

it's horrible.
bai.

:lol:

The bsp i am using now is from JULY so yeah it IS horrible right now, and i AM making new ones

Still, if they are so old and bad, why show them off to us? Why didn't you wait until you finished the newer ones so we wouldn't complain about the shitty old ones?

i wasnt really aiming to show off the bsp when i posted this, but the bsp is getting better, i work on it on and off.

Will Gauss hog be in it?

Gauss hog is on mb, theres a chaingun hog in the beggining, but you have a chance of getting pwned, so i might swap it to gauss, it might appear towards the end aswell

I just want to see if the skull will be there...

:lol: actually there is a skull on the last sp map i released (madness p6) and it does something to when you get it

I like covie ship fly-by bit. Made me lul at the halo 1 engine :downs:

Agreed, really shows how different the engines are. I'm hoping the finished map will have more debris and stuff than that's showing right now.
BTW I thought it was a phantom that dropped the pods, not a cruiser.

I think its both...i think

im thinking of ways to make the cruiser more pretty looking when it flys by, already added the plasma coming out the back, now some more things im gonna do to it.

Add particles ( Bird feathers, that kind of stuff.) flying onto the side of the cruiser?

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Add particles ( Bird feathers, that kind of stuff.) flying onto the side of the cruiser?

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Some dust and camera shaking, maybe random objects getting blow away?(If its that close..)

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I think the cruiser should be a little higher to be honest. I've never seen a capital ship fly at tree top level.

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not to mention never really seeing it ever do that...

I think it would be a much nicer sequence if instead of doing that you had a sequence similar to the e3 h2 video drop pods sequence occur.. The one where the drop pods fall down to earth would be nice looking.

Maybe if you insist on having a covie cruiser fly over, have that happen, but a lot higher up. Then have a few streaks through the sky or a bunch of em, indicating drop pods falling down, and then have some land near the chief.

Also, I'd make the whole thing fully cinematic, your in the hog driving then a script takes control of the players camera which shows the events unfold from better angles then what you would have from the turret.

that seems like a good idea

keep it up man, I have high hopes for you :)

self explanatory

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/6011/epicuz7.jpg

Still some bugs i have to tweak (bsp is getting redone)

I still have to make a flying animation for the drones, right now there flying around using the idle one

well thats going to be a pain in the butt to fight the buggers.

Christ I hate Drones, they're like grunts, but actually deadly.

Drones are awesome, they turn the standard ground combat on its head, and you have to adapt.

What the CHRIST is up with those origins? :gonk:

the br is oversized, the rest is fine

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j.../epiclol-1.jpg
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are those smoothing errors?

you are correct

Cool concept, as many have said, it's graphically bad though :p

the only thing from the vidio I specifically disliked was the cruiser, it seemed to fly way to low (and a bit more of a delay from the cruiser flying over to the pods coming down would give you more time to realise what just happened and you might see the pods coming and have a moment get ready (even if only for a second..)).

I felt the Halo 2 drones were rushed. They'd have jumpy animation and strange AI.
(inb4ohwaitwholeh2isliekdat)

Hope you find a way to have decent drones, and it'll be awesome.

Well, this is going along nicely. You will be using Halo 2 Brutes, right? And a Halo 2 MC? And Marines/ODSTs? Well, I hope that this gets completed soon, because I'm really looking forwards to it.

Yep, h2 brutes (with a new set of animations by me) are almost done, drones need a few animation tweaks, ODSTS will be rigged with marine anims, there are no halo 1 bipeds in the map right now

Hmmmm, whose first person arms are those? Custom made?

there cmt's fp arms atm, masterz let me use them as a place holder for now, they wont be in any public betas(if i have any) or the final

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there cmt's fp arms atm, masterz let me use them as a place holder for now, they wont be in any public betas(if i have any) or the final

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A public beta (or a closed beta) would be a good idea so you could get some feedback on your work. Maybe it/they could be through invitations.

Is it possible to change weapons with your Marines? That'd be a great add to the map your making.

yep they have smgs, battle rifles, shot guns, and snipers

Wait, so you can switch your own weapon with one of the Marines? Nice...

You're doing it wrong.

He asked a question looking for an answer, not an unrelated tidbit. Co Redsonic was wondering if you would be able to preform the "Hold X to take allies' _____" action, not if they will hold a variety of weapons.

Unless of course, you did do it right, and thus need to type more clearly.

oh that, no but i think i know a way..

Do it tbh. :awesome:

i actually had something like it in my other older map that lets you do that, there was some errors though

I don't think that kind of thing is possible, or would even work right at all with CE's AI engine. In CE, AI works by having general action and reaction data defined in an actor tag, and weapon firing parameters defined in an actor variant. In Halo 2, the actr/actv tags don't exist anymore, and weapon firing params are defined elsewhere.

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I don't think that kind of thing is possible, or would even work right at all with CE's AI engine. In CE, AI works by having general action and reaction data defined in an actor tag, and weapon firing parameters defined in an actor variant. In Halo 2, the actr/actv tags don't exist anymore, and weapon firing params are defined elsewhere.

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gb2 sandbox <:mad:>

I always wondered if you could just let you gun fall down and the marine's gun fall down, with a bit of practice into his and your arms, and thus switch.

But I don't recall any scripts being able to do that.

ill mess with it a little later

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I don't think that kind of thing is possible, or would even work right at all with CE's AI engine. In CE, AI works by having general action and reaction data defined in an actor tag, and weapon firing parameters defined in an actor variant. In Halo 2, the actr/actv tags don't exist anymore, and weapon firing params are defined elsewhere.

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What if you set in the weapon tag which actor variant tag to use like how vehicle weapons are set. Then somehow change their weapon, maybe with bump possession. They would keep their original actor tag but the weapon's actor variant would change they way they fired, right?

maybe...

sorry there hasnt been much updates lately, but i decided to add more then one map to the story. heres a little pic of part of one of the intros.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/648/update2cy3.jpg

i know i doesnt reveal anything, but there will hopfully be a larger update soon, sorry. And i am eventually gonna get a site up for the project, hosted by kororigaming.

What was the point of posting it then? Its just a Pelican in a cloudy day. -_-

wanted to post something, but didnt want to spoil some new things

Oh. you could have done a little bit more though...