Cel shaded halo (repost)

bubbinska · Post by **bubbinska** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:43 am

that's really cool, but i think you should blur the outlines a little to make them look less jaggy. other than that, it looks sweet nice job!

Xaian · Post by **Xaian** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:02 am

thats cool.... with this I might try an create a CELL GULCH!

MY IDEA NO ONE TAKE IT!

lol

LinkC · Post by **LinkC** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:18 am

DUDE! I love cell shaded!

GJ

HeadHunter · Post by **HeadHunter** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:42 am

Very nice job dude, it would be cool if you could transfer the whole game into cel shading. Oh BTW cel shading are the graphics are the future of gaming. I like cel shading it makes it look old style, but it still looks really cool. Good job.

Kamatzu · Post by **Kamatzu** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:19 am

My photoshop has a cel shade effect...never thought of doing this though nice job

Xavier · Post by **Xavier** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:13 am

i didnt use a cel shade effect, each one of these skins (there are 117 of them, which is a complete accident, lmao) was done by hand in PS.

i first made each area a smooth colour with no texturing, as close to the original colour as possible. I then added details with the paintbrush, and outlined EVERY SINGLE AREA with varying thinknesses of black lines with the line tool. this took SO F@*&ING LONG. but the result is worth it, even if some are crap and some arent changed yet (all of this will change with v2).

btw, i considered making everything cell shaded (levels, scenery, etc) but it would look crap the way i did it (just blank colours) and any other way wouldnt fit in with the rest of the skins. If you want to make an entrie level like this, feel free to use my character, vehicle and weapon skins, just remember to credit me for the idea and the skins which i spent SO LONG making INDIVIDUALLY, BY HAND.

lol
(thanks for positive feedback, here's hoping that version 2 will be good enough for the 'outstanding mods' section)

DarthAltar · Post by **DarthAltar** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:19 am

giant384 wrote:looks kind of cartoonish but its cool gj

OK the whole point of Cel Shading is to make it look CARTOONISH. Cel Shading = Cartoon, look at some PS2 games for the younger audience and you will see cell shading used to give a cartoon look.

Phuzz · Post by **Phuzz** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:40 am

its very nice but very easy to do

Halo 2 Rules!! · Post by **Halo 2 Rules!!** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:56 am

Xavier wrote:i didnt use a cel shade effect, each one of these skins (there are 117 of them, which is a complete accident, lmao) was done by hand in PS.

i first made each area a smooth colour with no texturing, as close to the original colour as possible. I then added details with the paintbrush, and outlined EVERY SINGLE AREA with varying thinknesses of black lines with the line tool. this took SO F@*&ING LONG. but the result is worth it, even if some are crap and some arent changed yet (all of this will change with v2).

btw, i considered making everything cell shaded (levels, scenery, etc) but it would look crap the way i did it (just blank colours) and any other way wouldnt fit in with the rest of the skins. If you want to make an entrie level like this, feel free to use my character, vehicle and weapon skins, just remember to credit me for the idea and the skins which i spent SO LONG making INDIVIDUALLY, BY HAND.

lol
(thanks for positive feedback, here's hoping that version 2 will be good enough for the 'outstanding mods' section)

I can try to make everything cel-shaded, I'll do sidewinder first, and ill get some feedback. I will need to use your skins though because i am just going to make the levels and every last enemy (if it's not done already) on my own. It may take a while though.

Z'an_of_Halo · Post by **Z'an_of_Halo** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:54 pm

whenever i download this winra r says it has an error... does anyone know why? does anyone else have this problem?
by the way, this looks UBER good. i cant wait to get it working.

Yoshi Fan007 · Post by **Yoshi Fan007** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:04 pm

BEST.

COLORS FOR SKINS.

EVER.

Edit: I played this mod on SP and I took this awesome pic of the MC. Unfortunately my graphics card sucks. But with this style, you can hardly notice it.

Xavier · Post by **Xavier** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 7:22 am

I played this mod on SP and I took this awesome pic of the MC. Unfortunately my graphics card sucks. But with this style, you can hardly notice it.

yeah, thats where i got the idea from. My graphics card sucks, and the colours lokoed kinda flat, like a cartoon. i thought that halo would look quite cool cartoon style, so i made these skins, now it doesnt matter that my card cant support bump-mapping or shinyness, i just use these skins!!!

Kiersten · Post by **Kiersten** » Sun May 02, 2004 1:17 pm

CEL SHADED YAY-AAAAAAH!
BEST FOR FOOLS WITH BAD Graphics card!
Mine is exceptional tho; supports suit colors, but this will give it a mood since mine cant support specular, luster, and such..

Lovin it

BaYlOr · Post by **BaYlOr** » Sun May 02, 2004 2:09 pm

FUCKING AWESOME.....that is all i have to say

BaYlOr · Post by **BaYlOr** » Sun May 02, 2004 2:09 pm

what exactly did u do to make it look like that anyway

Xavier · Post by **Xavier** » Mon May 03, 2004 3:38 am

BaYlOr wrote:what exactly did u do to make it look like that anyway

I used PS to fill the different kinds of textures on a skin (metal, armour, undersuit, etc) in a plain colour similar to the original colour. Then i used the line tool to draw black lines around everything, which takes absoltuely AGES. (to give you an idea, for the MC skin, i drew about 600 lines, maybe more...)

its quite easy to do, but takes ages and need alot of care to make it look good, which is why version 2 is taking so long.

EDIT: woooooo, it got moved to Outstanding mods!!!! id like to to thank the person/people who brought this about, its nice to have the huge amount of work i put into this pay off. Id also like to point out that i did recieve some help from Logan who made the faces and the spec-ops elite.

Now, I'm going to put a bit extra work into Version 2.

belairbeast · Post by **belairbeast** » Tue May 04, 2004 5:34 am

Sorry guys i dont understand why people like it. Sorry it just doesnt look good to me.

KokichiX · Post by **KokichiX** » Tue May 04, 2004 3:56 pm

How do you insert the .ppf? Sorry if this has already been said...I'm playing multiplayer with these great skins, but the MC cel shade doesn't seem to be as obvious as the other ones...am I doing something wrong? Will inserting the "master cheif cel .ppf" or whatever fix that in MP?

Xavier · Post by **Xavier** » Wed May 05, 2004 6:59 am

if you have applied the .ppf to bitmaps.map, then all the skins should be there, if youre using the dds files, the master cheif skin is called cel cyborg.dds, but you might want to download the version 2 one, its much better.

If that doesnt help, then id ont understand your problem properly, try turning specular off in the video options perhaps.

Fitzy · Post by **Fitzy** » Wed May 05, 2004 10:23 am

u should make it like XIII with all the writing when u shoot