Check out this work in progress ;)!

mattp001 · Post by **mattp001** » Sun May 02, 2004 4:37 am

they are back up i think

MasterNeoChief · Post by **MasterNeoChief** » Sun May 02, 2004 4:45 am

Yeah they are.
Wow, Very cool!

mattp001 · Post by **mattp001** » Sun May 02, 2004 4:57 am

k here are all the pics from the start to the current:
note: there are 10 total! so be patient, you might learn something

maca_§ · Post by **maca_§** » Sun May 02, 2004 6:25 am

wow, thats looking sick

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Sun May 02, 2004 6:30 am

Lose the bridge though... it looks kinda lame and sticks out too much. Players should have to wade through the water to get to the penninsula (Better yet, make the water deep enough so that players can hide under the surface... hehehe)...

maca_§ · Post by **maca_§** » Sun May 02, 2004 6:39 am

i think he means deep enough
hehe
but yeah good thinking

mattp001 · Post by **mattp001** » Sun May 02, 2004 7:15 am

well the bridge isnt permanent. that is just a mock one to screw with. i plan on making a very detailed one. i do definitly want to make the water deeper. later tonight i will subdivide the whole map and tweek. this is a grueling process that can take a while. i also plan on adding a waterfall. im not sure if it will be into the "pond", by the bridge, or on the other side of the map have a creek run to the pond. i am kinda banking on the last one. i also want to add a cave to it all to shnaze things up. or a cave with two entrances. i havent been able to work on it lately. i had to defrag a 250 gig harddrive which is almost all the way full and it just takes a little while. this harddrive happens to be the computer that i have maya and max on so im screwed for a few more hours.

dilinator · Post by **dilinator** » Sun May 02, 2004 7:45 am

ill be glad to host the file on haloce.org

mattp001 · Post by **mattp001** » Sun May 02, 2004 10:03 am

my defrag is almost done! i will be able to do some more work in about 50 min. i am on my other computer that doesnt have anything on it.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Sun May 02, 2004 6:02 pm

WOW! NICE!
(Pics work now)

Overseer · Post by **Overseer** » Sun May 02, 2004 10:12 pm

Will there be any bases?

mattp001 · Post by **mattp001** » Sun May 02, 2004 11:43 pm

yah, there will probably be one or two. I'm thinking that one will be a cave and the other a little base like in blood gulch. not to sure yet. i have started some more work on it. i have been asleep all day till about midnight. its kinda funny how i work: i need to be awake for at least 18 hours and i need to sleep for 10, go figure. so my schedule is forever shifting in the times i am awake. i will have some more shots up in like an hour or two. i am adding the water fall and the cave.

mattp001 · Post by **mattp001** » Tue May 04, 2004 3:22 am

here are some more, sorry anout the update. i have been really busy with alot of other stuff. but here are a few shots. the tunnel is in its "alpha stage" meening that there will be alot of other changes. the levels scale is going to be up. you will be able to fit a ghost through the tunnel. i dont think i want the warthog to able to. ummmm..... i think for the tunnel i might make a third entrance fork of the other two some how so all three will be joined. the other entrance will be on the other side of the map i think. the grey plane thing is just an idea of where i think i want the water fall to go. the water will be farely shallow, maybe knee deep. i took the bridge out since people dont like it. i agree, it isnt very halo like. later today i will have some more shots up. i have to get some shut eye

my eyes are very irratated. keep me posted with new ideas please!!

blink 182 · Post by **blink 182** » Tue May 04, 2004 3:24 am

wow that looks awesome dude good job.

mattp001 · Post by **mattp001** » Tue May 04, 2004 3:27 am

thanks

i like compliments. like i said i will be back on later on today with some really new stuff. texturing will start to happen really soon. so things will look alot better. but probably not for a few days. i gotta fix my wacom tablet, the pen's eraser broke.

maca_§ · Post by **maca_§** » Tue May 04, 2004 3:42 am

wow, it keeps getting better man
keep up the sick work

SavageNL · Post by **SavageNL** » Tue May 04, 2004 7:05 am

I think you should lead the tunnel to some higher place. And what seems cool to me, some large underground cave (beneath part of the map) with hogs and stuff...It is still too much a square...

mattp001 · Post by **mattp001** » Tue May 04, 2004 1:47 pm

okay, i thought of putting the tunnel up somewhere higher. I also planned on giving it a much more "natural" shape opposed to the square shape. i might kidney bean it, and round the edges a little. i have been asleep all day. i jost woke up so it will be a few till i have any screenshots.

oh and i thought about some tunnel or something underground, but the water plane will have to be edited so it doesnt protrude into the tunnel and you have a plane of water in your tunnel.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Sun May 09, 2004 12:52 am

Wow...very nice!
I think that you should make a tunnel under the waterfall too, so once you've "naturalised" it, add a second, similar map but higher up, with that waterfall flowing out of a lake, then make the waterfall tunnel slope up steeply into a large chamber under the lake with a few Halo-ish Forerunner objects and symbols, then open out onto the upper level.

Just a few thoughts...