Halo Photography

foxfanatic23I7 · Post by **foxfanatic23I7** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:17 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:That coag skin is awesome...Hi res brings out hi clarity

Those aren't high res bitmaps scotty

. But it is a high res picture, im not sure which one you meant. But thank you.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:18 pm

It looked it

but who cares?

It looks kool though

foxfanatic23I7 · Post by **foxfanatic23I7** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:20 pm

, I will try and enter the contest, but I'm not so sure....

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:01 pm

unfortunately SG the problem with Hi-Res bitmaps you need to keep the bumpmaps very clean or they ruin the look of you bitmap.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:38 pm

Havnet tried with the bumps yet...
But I just love the extra detail one can achieve from the hi res (even though it eats megabytes for breakfast)

foxfanatic23I7 · Post by **foxfanatic23I7** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:40 pm

The bump size stays the same, so it really screws things over, unless your bump is very repetitive. I haven't really experimented with the high resolution stuff yet.

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:10 pm

Ugh >_> you;ll undertand what I mean.

Here: Bumpmaps so far I only got to work max of 512x512, so they have LESS detail than their hi-res bitmaps, which is no good because then you LOOSE detail... So to KEEP detail you need to MINIMIZE the amount of actual "Bumping"...

Oh and LMAO; each Hi-Res tag makes the map like a megabyte bigger >_> and 56 64x64 barely made it to a megabyte... perhaps I should start a Low-Res-Skinning trend, lol.

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:20 pm

I wasn't able to load the picture foxfanatic, but now yes, and that coag cliff shader is really good, i love it =p

Complete new mainmenu UI WIP

Anetheon · Post by **Anetheon** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:39 pm

neodos wrote:I wasn't able to load the picture foxfanatic, but now yes, and that coag cliff shader is really good, i love it =p

Complete new mainmenu UI WIP

that is a really sexy mainmenu ui

Sgt.Peppers · Post by **Sgt.Peppers** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:07 am

That looks great, neados.

foxfanatic23I7 · Post by **foxfanatic23I7** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:02 am

Love it!

WoW · Post by **WoW** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:16 am

i wanna hug it

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:09 am

That looks really cool.

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:17 am

Halo 3 styled main menu?

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:47 am

Very nice, neodos.

How have you achieved that?

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:06 am

I have worked on the wgit ent plugin,i am searching, i didn't finished the plugin, i have 90% of values named, there are a lot of bitmask for transitions effects which i am looking for and naming. I will release the mainmenu skin+plugi+tutorial soon.

I can change text color/font(which must be already in the game)
Displace texts,buttons,bitmaps
Change the button type, show or hide a number of buttons
Change transitions or effects.
Duplicate or add bitmaps or text.

But i cannot add new bitmap tags to mainmenu because it brakes the external bitmaps for MP maps which are referenced on mainmenu

so for makign this new UI i can only use the existing bitmap tags.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:31 am

Sounds excellent. Good work.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:58 am

Is it possible to change the filter color on the mainmenu?

Thats a sick mainmenu neados, try making the lobby and stuff look more halo 3, that would be an amazing mainmenu.

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:00 am

Thanks, about the blue philter no, i tried changing the philter color but it's complex.
It's the egor tag which make that effect, but it has a dependency which brings to a shader the shader to a stem and the stem to a spas, so here where you need to research to change the philter color, it's probably in the shad, but the shad plugin isn't yet complete.

I will do some research on it maybe.

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:03 am

Wow, you're making some solid progress there. Keep up the good work, can't wait to see more of the menu.