Halo 2 Rendering

Dalto11 · Post by **Dalto11** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:38 pm

well Squid I have 2 omni's in the scene, maybe I'll move thme around a little

squid267 · Post by **squid267** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:07 pm

Yeah I used lighting in mine.

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:43 pm

please fix the lighting, either lower the intensities or move them away from the mc. right now it doesnt look good. and if you are using white lights, dont. use something like a dark blue-gray for one, and like a melon/beige color for the other. Also, more than 2 lights would be good.

squid267 · Post by **squid267** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:05 pm

Err, Yeah Sure dude. When i get the time.

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:10 pm

Did you follow the tutorial? No offense but your MC doesn't look a thing like Darco's outcome.

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:38 pm

I bet if he rendered with no added lights it would look pretty close.

Bioslayer · Post by **Bioslayer** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:09 pm

I just wanted to say thanks for posting a tut on how to do this it was very helpful

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:22 pm

your bump is backwards.

Bioslayer · Post by **Bioslayer** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:28 pm

for real

god how could i miss that ill post another when i fix it lol...thanks

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:36 pm

did you use entity to extract the bump?

Bioslayer · Post by **Bioslayer** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:40 pm

Darco wrote:did you use entity to extract the bump?

Yeah i did but i used 1.5. I think i inverted it before I applied the normal map filter to it. This look better ?

edit

thought this was funny...i made this before i saw your tut

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:56 pm

http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=56337
use that to get your bump maps. they are the correct ones.
btw, the visor in that last pic looks great.

Bioslayer · Post by **Bioslayer** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:21 pm

Thanks man i really appreciate it. Hope this does it....also this may sound like a dumb question but how do you get the entire material tree into one pic? I try teh print screen but I get just that the whole screen. Im messing around with 3d renders and whatnot but i just dont know the simple stuff lol

Well its late so im off to bed...id be glad to post the matrial tree for the visor if i can find out how

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:11 am

i just use print screen a bunch of times, and then link it all together in photoshop. one question, are you using the cubemap for the diffuse? if so, it would look better IMO if you just use the regular diffuse and kept the falloff colors to color in the reflection.

Dalto11 · Post by **Dalto11** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:27 am

Darco wrote:I bet if he rendered with no added lights it would look pretty close.

me or Squid?

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:11 pm

I was talking about Squid.

Dalto11 · Post by **Dalto11** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:52 pm

oh, lol

squid267 · Post by **squid267** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:00 pm

Oh yeah i kinda Mix and Matched Tuts when i made this Mc, I am going re-make it soon.

Bioslayer · Post by **Bioslayer** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:25 pm

Darco wrote:i just use print screen a bunch of times, and then link it all together in photoshop. one question, are you using the cubemap for the diffuse? if so, it would look better IMO if you just use the regular diffuse and kept the falloff colors to color in the reflection.

I didnt use the cube map for the diffuse I played with the lighting a little so that maybe why it looks that way. Here is what it looks like with no lighting

and here is my material tree used in the render above

edit- the self illumination in the visor is not needed it doesnt make any difference. And another note....the specular map and alpha are the same i was just retarted and didnt realize i made it already

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:09 pm

thats really weird that your material works.. you have the br bump on the mc's visor and partial cubemaps all over the place.