Hmhh, not sure if it would look good, but that's a good idea.
Get out of my head. lol
No, but seriously, this is one of the reasons I want it. That and the hilarity of someone driving a vehicle over the bridge and suddenly falling into a pit.
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Hmhh, not sure if it would look good, but that's a good idea.
Get out of my head. lol
No, but seriously, this is one of the reasons I want it. That and the hilarity of someone driving a vehicle over the bridge and suddenly falling into a pit.
BuggyDClown
Member
With grouping can I build a base and now duplicate it? Please can we finally PLEASE have this.
RodanCeros
Member
you should probably join forgehub or something ヾ(´∀｀ﾉ
I'm on Forgehub, although not really a regular, I lurk more than anything else. I've found the Forge community to be a bit daunting, when "celebrity forgers" make really cool stuff that overshadows a lot of of amateur efforts like my own. Anything 343i can do to make it easier for us to create and share maps will really help.
SaganIsGOAT
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User 73706
Banned
If the new invisible barriers are laid on their side, will you flatly walk across them, or sort of bounce? I know Reach had some trickery possible with one-way shield doors where you could more or less cross them like a normal surface when laid horizontally.
Now, that was one of the main things that bugged me in Forge. Flat objects not being actually flat!!!
That moment is one of the most memorable scenes in Halo for me. That cutscene and music playing = goosebumps.
Im_So_Pringles
Member
I remember the old days of forge where doors were activated by a fusion coil and a flipped mongoose and they lifted a dumpster into a perfectly sized alcove with a gravity lift. These kids with their new-fangled door scripting don't know the struggle of the early days!!!
Before that, it was Stinkles.
I'm talking from a competitive map design perspective. Doors turn any almost any competitive map into a shitshow. Gemini, Isolanus, and half of the Destiny maps all suffer from doors. The only door that I can think of that was good was High Ground. Zanzibar's was decent, but I hated the way the starts of matches went for the defenders.
For your crazy maps, have at your doors.
Of course, most competitive maps have to have flow that is unhindered by pesky opening and closing of doors.
I need Doors so I can remake Goldeneye Levels correctly.
Bits N Pieces
Member
Cheers for the info dude.
Well that's a bit shitty
343 have said there will be monthly updates to Forge and they'll be taking on fan feedback, so lets bombard them with all of the above
User 73706
Banned
First map I'm making is a Chiron spiritual successor with more open rooms and interactive elements like doors to seal off teleporters, channel-switchers, etc.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I was actually thinking about a Chrion-inspired map that changes an 8 player FFA into a series of 1v1s. Have a series of rooms connected by teleporters. If you ever get more than one player in a room, the teleporters in that room shut down until the count drops below 2. I could do unique themes for each room, it'd be nice.
The Ice bridges didn't have colour settings that i saw but i am sure you will be able to simulate light bridges by combining objects with lighting and effects.
ForgeHub is under new ownership and is a much more friendly environment to new forgers. What can be daunting is receiving feedback from the experienced forgers because they will be brutally honest. Some people can't handle this form of criticism and push back against it. If you can learn to apply this feedback to better your map you will certainly become a better forger.
The Invisible Barriers are just like the Ice Bridges. They appear as solid glass in Forge mode and are perfectly smooth to walk on.
No need to worry. Flat is flat.
There is one map i saw in the video which absolutely needs to have doors (and windows) attached to a switch. Wouldn't be the same without it.
Agreed. During the busy ForgeGAF period, we had some great custom evenings where we tested some great maps, some random maps and one I made called Jonestown...where everyone died instantly because I put the deathzone inside-out.
So safe to say the forge stuff we will see in the post-launch Sprint episodes?
User 73706
Banned
On mobile so it's imgur compressed, but I had a rough idea for a teleporter trap:
Not sure, but i hope so.
doors on timers could be interesting. imagine some visible signal every several minutes or so that opens up a door thats a direct flag route in a ctf game and the impact that that would have on a match. and thats just applying it to a standard game type.
forge 3.0 is going to be incredible. cant wait to hear how it will be accessible to players at large as i'm sure a ton of thought and improvement will be seen in this regard as well.
forge 3.0 is going to be incredible. cant wait to hear how it will be accessible to players at large as i'm sure a ton of thought and improvement will be seen in this regard as well.
Dee Dah Dave
Member
Is it safe to say we can create moving platforms and such?
It could be a little like Levelution. Having something on a timer that locks down certain parts of a map which alters the flow of the map. Could lead to some interesting CTF games where players work together to trigger the events that shift the path in their favour....
if its all possible of course.
Poodlestrike
Banned
It could be a little like Levelution. Having something on a timer that locks down certain parts of a map which alters the flow of the map. Could lead to some interesting CTF games where players work together to trigger the events that shift the path in their favour....
if its all possible of course.
Oh, man. That would be nuts.
Think bigger!
How about moving bases?
You grab the flag from the enemies base, after you find it. Then have to locate your base has which has also moved.
I watched Maze Runner the other day.
I guess Sand Trap had elements of that.
I wonder if we could recreated the Battlefield 2142 Titan mode.
i'm picturing a troll mode where the flag capture point is always juuuust out of reach of a running player. kind of like those visual basic scripts where you can never click the close window x because it allows moves when the mouse gets close to it.
Welfare
Member
I watched Maze Runner the other day.
I guess Sand Trap had elements of that.
I wonder if we could recreated the Battlefield 2142 Titan mode.
I just wept a little
from my penis.
BleedOrange
Banned
Cheers for the info dude.
Well that's a bit shitty
343 have said there will be monthly updates to Forge and they'll be taking on fan feedback, so lets bombard them with all of the above
Paging Stinkles: will there be a uservoice board for H5 Forge?
User 73706
Banned
I suggested something similar a few pages ago where a three-legged tetherball robot would run away from you holding the oddball.
RowdyReverb
Member
Could have two separate floating bases on the space canvas that orbit different points such that you can only jump from one to the other every 30 seconds or so. It would be like an evolution of Boarding Action.
I like this idea. Since the mode isn't coming out for a couple months, there might even be time to implement feedback before it goes live.
RedSparrows
Member
I see no reason why not. Breakout is Slayer with particular variables, and the flag. I imagine you can set Breakout custom rules on a map independent of the style of that map.
Literally one of the first things I thought of.
Not just doors, but traps in floors, that open as you run across, maybe color coded to other objects (light colors?) so you can see a pattern, get a little F(irst) P(uzzle) S(shooter) action going. Maybe it drops you to your death or just how you access another floor, or pops up mancannons. Multiple actions to fire off a script was mentioned. Depending on capabilities making it where members of your team have to shoot or stand in a certain area to unlock access to a Rocket Launcher or Scorpion for example.
I've always wanted to create a map that changed flow as the match progressed. Kind of like invasion, but not so much built around attack and defend. Start of where the teams are separated and first have to get through a barrier to really engage, but have the ability to take potshots at each other, then break out of a building into a larger space (think lockout to avalanche) and have weapons spawn in different areas as the action moves through the map. Obviously going for a different kind of action than a typical Halo MP match, but I like that is sounds like the new tool-set may be able to let me finally do it.
We submitted a feature request for mirroring of grouped items. My guess is that it's too complicated for this version of Forge but i really don't know how these things work.
We did suggest that any features which could not be implemented be automatically placed on top of the Halo 6 wish list.
If every object has some manner of perfect mirror, an implementation would probably be somewhat doable. Otherwise, you'd have to build all kinds of special-case best-guess logic into it, or selectively not mirror certain objects, or something. And that might get terrifying.
Twilight Gap
Member
One thing i'm still confused about are the terrain sheets. I'm reading that they're "massive" and "strain the engine" but i'm having a hard time wrapping my head around why that's the case.
Are they not just small discs of grass/ice/space rock anymore? Are we not able to create large hills, caves and pits?
yea i'm not sure we'll see mirroring this time for probably the same reason we wont see Undo.
Are they not just small discs of grass/ice/space rock anymore? Are we not able to create large hills, caves and pits?
yea i'm not sure we'll see mirroring this time for probably the same reason we wont see Undo.
Every item in the Primitives menu (Blocks, Cylinders, Rings , , ,) is symmetrical so if you stick to those items you can quickly build a mirror image base.
You copy/paste the first base and can quickly re-arrange the pieces using magnets and rotation. Forging is so much quicker once you get the controls down. Rebuilding structures like this can be done very quickly.
The Terrain pieces go from small to HUGE (almost the size of the Big Island on Forge Island) and add very little strain on the engine.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
How do the colored Forge pieces (and lighting) look when everything is fully rendered?
Overall, does it help the visuals of the map read better, and allow the depth to pop more?
Any word on what theatre will be like? For example can we change timescales yet and is there a dolly cam? This sort of stuff would be really useful for us lot that make fragmovies and shortclips. They're the reason why CS and CoD are at the top of the movie making scene and it would be nice to see some great halo content being created.
Gabotron ES
Member
Will we see some gameplay on the maps the cartographers created soon? really curious to see how the maps look from first person pov