Pardon Our Dust.

[Kornman00]

I problem I have with an idea of making AOTCR a sort of forest\jungle is that the engine isn't really made for vegitation. Sure you have detail objects, but I'm talking about ferns, bushes, tall grass, trees trees oh and some more trees. A forest\jungle is variety. You won't see the same shaped tree over and over again due to the climate factors such as wind and sun light. This iteration of the engine doesn't allow for much permutation room as the 2nd and 3rd have.

Think about what the control room is. Its deep in the bowels of the actual rind structure, so theres going to mountainess scenery. It's the control room of the ring's purpose, the harse environment I think does well for protection. We of course don't know if the climate controls had actually malfunctioned (as Cortana suggested IIRC) during out trip in that level, which caused the snow to build up. But maybe since the flood had been released, it was Halo's environmental defenses since no matter your bio status, colder temperatures will slow down organisms development and speed.

But imagine how the flood's presence can affect a forzen mountain range assuming it can live fairly still? We already know the flood basically absorbs into the environment and the life around it.

[DarkHalo003]

I agree with Kornman. Unless CMT modeled different segments of trees into the BSP, the map would be laggy as crazy. As much as I want to have Damnation converted into a Jungle map, it wouldn't really look incredible on CE. However, if you make it similar to Delta Halo, then I'm sure it would work some how. That would actually be pretty interesting, especially if you have some beams of light poking inside of the structure when you go indoors, showing that the structure has had some decay. Of course, that would require some BSP editing on the original structure, but then again you're pretty much doing that already. If it's Delta Halo-like jungle scene, then I say go for it.

[sevlag]

keep the detail in the ok range, if you make it as detailed as some of the CE maps, which basically push the engine to it's limit. the maps should be detailed, but not to the point where most machines that run CE are unable to play the map because of the insane amount of detail...

also, what is the 343GS level lookin like? I hope it looks really dark and creepy, give me a reason to crap my pants again like I almost did when I first fought the flood way back when ^.^

[DarkHalo003]

keep the detail in the ok range, if you make it as detailed as some of the CE maps, which basically push the engine to it's limit. the maps should be detailed, but not to the point where most machines that run CE are unable to play the map because of the insane amount of detail...

also, what is the 343GS level lookin like? I hope it looks really dark and creepy, give me a reason to crap my pants again like I almost did when I first fought the flood way back when ^.^

I think they should just leave 343 GS alone. It was perfect enough. They'll probably just texture the inside with amazing textures then walk away. I remember hearing CMT saying they were going to not add BSPs to 343 GS. I could be wrong though.

[Hotrod]

Yeah, that level and The Library won't be getting new BSPs, last I heard.

I'm also liking this idea of making b40/c40 like Delta Halo, though I'm not sure if it'd be better to have the Halo 1 style of Forerunner buildings or Halo 2's style.

[sdavis117]

Sorry for my crappy Paint skills, but there are some issues with an otherwise decent MC Model.

[NuggetWarmer]

First off, you don't know why I put the things on the helmet in the first place. :V
Secondly, the belt stays. Nades are still being thought about though.
Thirdly, I'll fix the hands. Thanks.
Fourthly, yeah, I know about the boots. I'm trying to think of something to do with them.

[BobtheGreatII]

Have some of you just not noticed that he has the same belt setup in the first Halo?

[Masterz1337]

At first I thought that complainging about the belt was stupid, but now that I think of it, we really don't need it, and I think he'll look alot better without it.

[Masterz1337]

D40 and A10_new have been sucessfully merged.

For those that haven't been following the project, we've been using child scenarios for our new segments, allowing us to set upa basic template of the new areas, so that the scenery and trigger volumes all match and don't have to be redone. Merging scenarios has always been a tricky thing, and for those of you who have looked at Bungie scenarios, they are full of duplicate referances and extranious data which isn't needed, which fills up palletes and inflates tagsize and slots. The new D40 should be finished within the week now, making 4/8 levels recieving new bsp treatments fully playable..