Halo Photography

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:00 pm

The "trashalo" pic is cool...are those the exploding barrels?

Munsie · Post by **Munsie** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:21 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:The "trashalo" pic is cool...are those the exploding barrels?

Yep, from Colossus.

~Munsie

Kewl-Aid · Post by **Kewl-Aid** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:28 pm

These are some of the skins that my friend made

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:32 pm

Adding red to a skin =/= cool.

It looks weird...although maybe the Elite's eyes glowing could be good if you implemented it correctly.

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:38 pm

Your friend likes red...

Kewl-Aid · Post by **Kewl-Aid** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:39 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:Adding red to a skin =/= cool.

It looks weird...although maybe the Elite's eyes glowing could be good if you implemented it correctly.

I think this one looks really kewl, and I might just use it in a mod im working on. (Not the coagulation one!)

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Snipermods127 · Post by **Snipermods127** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:10 pm

OMG that is the shiznit lol

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:20 pm

Early Banshee WIP for faisal...

Still got quite a bit to go...Sounds, skins, bumps, impact effects and other things but this may be just the gist of its weapons...

Kewl-Aid · Post by **Kewl-Aid** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:13 pm

very nice! ... And how did you move the beams to where the boost comes from?

slayer410 · Post by **slayer410** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:50 pm

@ Kewl-Aid -

The elite with a little touching up would look pretty badass. Now on the others, looks like something that's been spray-painted.

uncutshadow · Post by **uncutshadow** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:57 pm

the red eyes on the elite are sick. but i dont like the br skin. the shotty skin is kool

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:52 am

Scotty that looks hawt as heyll.

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:20 am

Missing around with stem's

Looks like Cellshading

Kewl-Aid · Post by **Kewl-Aid** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:58 am

I love that first picture - how did you do that?

LostWithin · Post by **LostWithin** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:02 am

He said "Messing around with stem's"

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:02 am

That looks cool. I'm going to try messing with the stem's later.

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:09 am

I was testing, swapping the stem's dependencies to see what happens, that's the way i find cool things, i called that "missing around"

because i read that on various posts on halomods, xD i learn some expressions on english forums, is it right "missing around" = testing ?

Kewl-Aid · Post by **Kewl-Aid** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:11 am

neodos wrote:"messing around" = testing ?

Yea, messing around is right. However, I still do not know what stems are.

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:24 am

"stem" is a halo 2 tag, all the shaders have one dependency of a stem tag, that tag "mix" the shader bitmaps wich make a material.

And the stem's dependencies are "spas" tags, and the spas dependencies are vrtx tags

So i swapped the stem(tex_bump_env_four_color_change) depenencies used by the masterchief shader and see what happen

I was trying to get the level of detail like on FP model, i know that the FP view(the shader of the masterchief fp view) shader use a different stem then the 3rd person view of the masterchief shader.

Comparing the difference of detail between FP view and 3rd view we can see that FP view have a better level of detail it looks less "pixelised" on fp view.
I know that fp view has a bitmap for the masterchief's arm and bump too, this doesn't make it more detailled because the fp view arm bitmaps are of 256x256 pixels and the masterchief armor bitmap is of 512x512 pixels.

So i duplicated the FP view arm shader of the masterchief and swapped the bitmaps to those of the armor, but nothing, it's always the same level of detail, so i guess the level of detail is only enabled on FP view and maybe ponly with those special fp shaders.

If i get a level of detail on the masterchief on 3rd person like on fp view that would be kick ass

trepdimeflou · Post by **trepdimeflou** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:30 am

The STEM (shader template) tag is used for defining how the engine interprets the shader passes. It decides the chunk placement of SHAD (shader) tags and what shader passes come in what order.

SHAD = Shader
STEM = Shader Template
SPAS = Shader Pass
VRTX = Vertex Shader