Halo Art Showcase / Critique

BobtheGreatII · Post by **BobtheGreatII** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:13 pm

*Sigh*

I have the normal maps. They just don't look very good. See:

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:56 pm

looks fine to me? if you want to, you can use a converted height map as the additional bump in a normal bump. all you need to do is use the nvidia filter to convert the extracted normal maps to height maps.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:04 pm

BobtheGreatII wrote:*Sigh* I have the normal maps. They just don't look very good. See:

How could you have had the proper normal maps when there wasn't any way to get them prior to the latest Entity/tools?

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:57 pm

just make sure you use the entity i linked and export the bumps.

BobtheGreatII · Post by **BobtheGreatII** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:53 pm

I downloaded Vray after seeing what you had done with yours and came up with this:

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:57 pm

The visor could use a lot of work.

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:59 pm

thats why i used a cubemap. although im thinking using an hdr image would be better. but using a straight raytrace is bad unless you edit the background plane because its not connected to itself.

BobtheGreatII · Post by **BobtheGreatII** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:25 pm

Tural wrote:The visor could use a lot of work.

....It's meant to look like that. I don't like the cheesy look of the cube map. real glass reflects things around it not just some strange gold mix color. Actually it has the cube map in it also. Whatever empty space it's reflecting is replaced by the cube map. And as for the strange black lines in the visor.. I didn't want that either. Looks too cartoonish.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:31 pm

I'm fully aware of the effect you've achieved, you don't need to try to explain the use of cubemaps versus raytracing to me. Let me be more clear:
Give it a scene because the visor looks terrible reflecting that scene, if you could even call it a scene at all. It's 90% black, which looks really bad.

BobtheGreatII · Post by **BobtheGreatII** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:04 pm

I'm up for changes...But, which picture are you talking about?

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:08 pm

http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=5008431

Dalto11 · Post by **Dalto11** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:51 pm

as those of you over at yayap have seen:

I have still need to get the materials right and convert over to height map as Darco has told alot of us. I plan on taking this one all the way in due time.

Elite_Green_Devils · Post by **Elite_Green_Devils** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:34 pm

still needs to be fixed up. i know must edit poses.

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:42 am

Elite_Green_Devils wrote:still needs to be fixed up. i know must edit poses.

This should serve you well seeing as your using Gmax.
http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=55979

Elite_Green_Devils · Post by **Elite_Green_Devils** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:33 pm

wow, thanks. but do you like it so far?

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:38 pm

looks good so far just try using that thing i linked you to.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:39 pm

Reposition the bones, and have them shaking with the right hand, not left.

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:42 pm

TomClancey wrote:Reposition the bones, and have them shaking with the right hand, not left.

why right not left what if the spartan and elite are left handed i mean i use my left hand to shake hands with because im left handed.

Veegie[Temp] · Post by **Veegie[Temp]** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:43 pm

Because it isn't appropriate to shake with your right hand.
Thus, near everyone shakes with their right.
Everyone, in the case of a decent, formal environment.

Obviously you're excluded from said places quite often.

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:46 pm

Veegie wrote:Because it isn't appropriate to shake with your right hand.
Thus, near everyone shakes with their right.
Everyone, in the case of a decent, formal environment.

Obviously you're excluded from said places quite often.

no i got used to using my left hand due to the fact i nearly lost my right hand when i was of a young age.