The Halo Engine

[rossmum]

^ Post wins, thank you.

Halo's version of Blam might be rather limited compared to Halo 2's, but it's still not half bad.

[Patrickssj6]

Halo was one of the first games supporting Pixel Shader 2.0.Guess who has it still?CSS mbmb?

Halo engine was made around 2002-2003.Now tell me again that it is sucky if you compare it to engines created 3-4 years after.

[Sgt Stacker]

if a awsome programer was able to decompile the halo engine (even if thats possible) and make it so AI sync.. they would be my god

[Zeph]

You also have to realize that Blam! was made for the xbox at its origional launch. Blam!2 was rewritten to take advantage of WAN features, but it's overall the same once you get past the new bitmap system. It's a possibility, but heaven forbid that the new bitmapping makes it unable to process higher levels of geometry. The point was, afterall, to make less complex geometry look more complex.

Blam!3 though will blow anything else out of the water. It combines the greatest aspects of Blam! and Blam!2 and adds in all the great technological advances that have popped up over the years such as soft shadows and HDR. Seeing how the 360's GPU is a prototype R600, I would expect great things to come out of the Blam!3 engine should it be publically released for content creation.

[Bathroom Security]

You also have to realize that Blam! was made for the xbox at its origional launch. Blam!2 was rewritten to take advantage of WAN features, but it's overall the same once you get past the new bitmap system. It's a possibility, but heaven forbid that the new bitmapping makes it unable to process higher levels of geometry. The point was, afterall, to make less complex geometry look more complex.

Blam!3 though will blow anything else out of the water. It combines the greatest aspects of Blam! and Blam!2 and adds in all the great technological advances that have popped up over the years such as soft shadows and HDR. Seeing how the 360's GPU is a prototype R600, I would expect great things to come out of the Blam!3 engine should it be publically released for content creation.

well said. why's that there are so many Blam! 's? o_o

also, looking at the H3 screenshots, the game'll take advantage of stronger normal and ref maps

[Chewy Gumball]

Thats the name of halo's engine.

[Random]

well said. why's that there are so many Blam! 's? o_o

Blam! = Halo's game engine
Blam!2 = Halo2's game engine
Blam!3 = Halo3's game engine

[Zeph]

Yeah, there hasn't been any official notice of what the engine is called, so I say Blam!, Blam!2, etc. to signify the version of the engine. I say it along the lines of Source6 is running Counterstrike Source. >_>, assuming it is version 6.whatever running the game.

[mR_r0b0to]

it's called Blam?
i thought it was Acid Rain.



or i'm on Acid -_-

[rossmum]

It's Blam!

Think that might be why that's the word censor on the Bungie forums? HAX MB!?