Halo Photography

Dead XXX Matt · Post by **Dead XXX Matt** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:10 pm

This was taken by my friend i think. I dont know, me and him were playing and we got that. So it was either my friend or me. I like it

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:20 pm

This thread isn't for Halo 3 screenshots. This one is.

Keablr · Post by **Keablr** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:46 pm

G.I.R. wrote:This thread isn't for Halo 3 screenshots. This one is.

theycallmechad wrote:This thread is for Halo Photography. What he posted is indeed Halo Photography. Though there is another thread for them as well, this thread is ever as appropriate.

Dead XXX Matt · Post by **Dead XXX Matt** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:06 pm

Thanks for clearing that up keablr. but yeah, you can post it any of those 2.

theycallmechad · Post by **theycallmechad** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:14 pm

Dude, that's a great screenshot! Good capture!

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:25 am

Bloom is cool..or not

I'll be releasing tags and stuff ASAP, i just want to get perfect tags without freezing issues and correctly named etc

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:11 am

Looks like you've identified the bloom intensity

Excellent

Did you get the colour values proper? Or do you want me to try and get them again? (although, off memory, I only got the base colour to change, not the bloom colour [which was still white...mixed with the base colour])

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:30 am

In fact i didn't continue that research, i tested some shaders from SP maps, and i am regrouping "cool" shaders into one map(like bloom/transparent,glowing shaders), as reference shaders and some customized shaders too, and of course once i get what i want i'll release the patch for that map with the shaders.

I am creating bloc box's for each shader tag, so that way i am able to test multiple shaders at the same time:

Here 3 box's from left to right : bloom shader, distorsion shader(+ 3rd person "reflection") and a metal shader

DoorM4n · Post by **DoorM4n** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:41 am

I thought a reflection in Halo 2 was not possible. Excellent! I can now put on my MasterChief Make-up!

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:03 am

That's not like a reflection, if it was the reflection we are looking for then in that cube you'd see the front of the player

And that reflection shader show's the back, which is not possible on real world for a reflective surface, so that's not like real time reflection

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/8263/shads1rd6.jpg

It only "reflect" the objects, when an object is in front of the reflection cube and the camera is behind the object.

theycallmechad · Post by **theycallmechad** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:59 am

It reminds me of the water shader from Coagulation (if I remember right).

Good work on the shaders though. I'm glad to see somebody's doing a lot with shaders. No good skin is complete without tons of shader swaps, so the more you discover, the better skins can become.

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:39 am

Nice Neodos. So is that the sniper rifle FP shader you were talking about, the camera? Or did you learn how to recreate it in another shader?

Regardless, very nice.

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:43 am

It's not the sniper rifle shader, it's a shader based on static_water shader as Chad said ^^ you could get that shader from my bubble shield tag, just make a flat bumpmap with the bubble shield shader and you'll get the same effect.

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:52 am

Ohhh Nice ;P

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:01 am

DeToX's tests on sniper rifle screen:

Stay tunned! we'll maybe get real time reflection working soon

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:06 am

Thanks for doing that for me while I was gone. Keep in mind that that was done months ago... I'll look into it more now.

I editted some stem and shader stuff to come up with that. Wont work without stem editting, wont work without shader editting.

It shows a surface you look at. Though its all stretched over the sniper because of its UV's. If you applied it to a box like neodos did, it would probably show the actual picture...

Hope RTR'll work.

DoorM4n · Post by **DoorM4n** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:29 am

Very nice!

Xiion · Post by **Xiion** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:31 am

hahaa that looks soo dank. can't wait for the RTR to come out as a possibility.

plushiefire · Post by **plushiefire** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:48 am

*Wonders what RTR is*
Neodos and detox arent the olny gents who can make snazzy shaders!!
My quick work...

Other random things...

What a scary mistake!!!

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:22 pm

RTR is real time reflection. Our first try at it is going to be to make the MC's visor reflect everything around him, instead of using a cubemap.