working on map halocity

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:59 pm

im working on this map called halocity or whatever its undicided right now

it doent have textures yet so
kind of simple not so cool or you nkow this is my first map im working on,
it took me40min to do what ive done so far i plan to do more post suggestions of what i shouls add

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SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:01 pm

looks pretty similar to last stand >_<... and it's way too high poly.

{ST} 117 · Post by **{ST} 117** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:11 am

nice map, GL!

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:11 am

you acctually like it i thot it was crap well it is my firs map

hitmanbob · Post by **hitmanbob** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:59 am

i could help u texture it but ud hav 2 export in a good file fromat cuz i got 3dsmax not gmax

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 8:04 pm

no worries i have the tools to export into 3ds yeah you could texture if you want and you could compile and put custom wepons if you want ill give you most credit for map but first i need to finish and we need to decide name

SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:09 pm

you need to redo it low poly. no seriously. i'm not being a jerk, just tellin you how it is. look at sonictag's tutorials.

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:22 pm

its 8398 poly count

SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:34 pm

way to many. try about 30,000 at most!!!! a map like that should have.... 20,000 at the most.... it's very simple. all those buildings can have 1 plane per side. but looks like you got about 30 each...

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:43 pm

its not even 10000 its 8398

SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:50 pm

ah shit my bad i read it as ~83,000... long week late classes... neways it still can be lower than that... i can see just by looking at it...

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:09 pm

lol happens all the time

[CAF]M808B · Post by **[CAF]M808B** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 8:03 pm

True you can make it less polys, you obviously tesselated too much. I can add AI, drop me a PM if you're interested, or with some object placement.

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:33 pm

i dont know how to make less poly but if anybody wants to do it go ahead pm and ill send ya file in 3ds or maybe i could do it in max also

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:00 pm

well i dont have the tools it doent work i thought i did but i dont anyways here an update i put some textures need more lol heres pic

machopenguin001 · Post by **machopenguin001** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:45 pm

Nice, but WAY to high poly, and the middle part needs variation. When you export you may get frustrated, once you export you have to write your map's name in the file name, (with no SPACES! And if you want one, put a _ sign there) and at the end this:

.JMS (has to be CAPITOLIZED!!)

Otherwise it's not recognized as a .jms file, even though it's just a bunch of xyz coordinates written down, which I could easily read, but the computer can't because it doesn't have the '.JMS' tag on it.

To lower the poly count on some of those square like surfaces (the floor for example, just delete the entire skybox, except the roof poly's) delete all the poly's that make up the sides, the floor, but not the roof. Then, connect and make walls out of the four vertices, on the bottom of the box. Then simply connect em with polygons (under the modifiers thingy toolbar thing at the right, go into face mode, and click 'create' then simply click the vertex that will be the first part of the poly, then the second, then the thrid, and wallah! You have a poly!).

Wallah! You now have a new floor! You can tesselate as you like! But before you do, tesselate once then use the 'cut' tool to cut a the shape you want of the forest thing, then simply extrude, if your aiming for the 'straight up' look. THey used this trick in many older games, like zelda the ocarina of time. They made the forest as a boundary (just a wall like structure.) then skinned it to look like a forest, even though it looked so damn fake!

GL!

Oh and I don't know how to avoid open edge errors, with that create polyong thingy

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theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:12 pm

okkkayyyy to much info its not such high poly on in 8000s not past 10000

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:53 pm

im still working on the skining im putting on some textures and i need help is there anyone who would like to help with the texturing but its only on gmax format until i figure out a way to export
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picklebro · Post by **picklebro** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:20 pm

there are some tutorials about using Gmax for haloce ...let me know if you want me to give you the link

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:42 pm

i alrady know if you have links post them maybe i dont know some