There isn't a file browser? I haven't had the chance to mess around with Forge yet. I assumed it would be bundled together. How are people sharing maps?
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Halo 5 Forge |OT| Plan, Build, Share
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There isn't a file browser? I haven't had the chance to mess around with Forge yet. I assumed it would be bundled together. How are people sharing maps?
You follow someone and look at their maps
also right now this means you can literally see all of their maps, even works in progress, due to how they have it set up
making better looking roads so good!!! I think I'm gonna redo guillotine as practice.
My first time ever even being interested in forge
My first time ever even being interested in forge
gAg CruSh3r
Member
Is anyone having a werid glitch where you can't grab group objects and you can't indicated it at all???
Edit: found out all the items are grouped -.- thank god I copied the item instead of moving it.
Edit: found out all the items are grouped -.- thank god I copied the item instead of moving it.
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Resivore/video/13468323
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Resivore/video/13465450
I find the maps to be beautiful, but I can't figure out why. Somehow they don't suffer from the "everything was grey" texture issue, despite everything being grey.
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Resivore/video/13465450
I find the maps to be beautiful, but I can't figure out why. Somehow they don't suffer from the "everything was grey" texture issue, despite everything being grey.
The new lighting system can have a dramatic affect on maps. Even the most simplistically detailed map can look amazing with the correct lighting options. Also, a great map with poor use of lighting can just look annoying.
Tweaked some more of my Winter/Spring Valley map.
http://www.forgehub.com/maps/winter-valley.1012/
Would certainly love to get customs tested on this one so I can see what the flow is like and what I can change/improve on.
http://www.forgehub.com/maps/winter-valley.1012/
Would certainly love to get customs tested on this one so I can see what the flow is like and what I can change/improve on.
User 73706
Banned
Speaking of lighting, I've been screwing around with settings for my Chiron successor and I've found a neat balance of fog, clouds and FX filters that make it look pretty good - the only thing I'm concerned about is whether using the Negative filter (e.g. red team turns cerulean, blue team turns crimson) would be too confusing for players, in which case I'd just use Juicy because it basically has the same effect. What I like about it, though, is that a lot of the sharper lighting settings (or rather lighting grazing detailed / sharp features) is that they become all aliased and pixelated, and - while that doesn't look too great in a typical map setting - it looks awesome for Chiron 2 because there's this constant Promethean Vision sort of effect washing over the mountains, on top of certain dedicated lights projecting pixellated halo effects. The majority of the map with normal / subdued lighting doesn't have the same problem, but in terms of the glitches / lighting artifacts it basically makes it look like you're using some kind of HAZMAT VISR system. The map's made out to be some weird welkin or Empyrean island of stability that the UNSC's appropriated out of Forerunner slipspace junctions.
Hell, I need to start giving people themes for their maps - I haven't gotten a whole lot done in the way of actual forging, but I sure as hell have a lot of themes and concepts already written up.
Hell, I need to start giving people themes for their maps - I haven't gotten a whole lot done in the way of actual forging, but I sure as hell have a lot of themes and concepts already written up.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
That looks really cool!
RowdyReverb
Member
I'm really curious to see pics of what you're describing
User 73706
Banned
Using the Juicy filter:
Example of a localized light giving off distorted halo effects:
And yet the teleporter's two lights are no worse for wear:
Same thing, inverted:
The artifacts are a little more extreme in Inverted compared to Juicy, though.
For the teleporters, they remain unaffected, albeit I'd have to invert the colors manually:
And then here's an example of the inversion in motion, causing the "scanning" effect.
Yeah, some maps just change a bit too much. It might change them dramatically for the good or bad.
I like the idea of a remake with a twist, mainly to accommodate the new mobility options. Or having maps inspired from classics.
The Longest Yard remake I made actually works really well with the new mobility options. Changing direction mid air is really cool. Leads to some fun almost trick jumps.
nillapuddin
Member
I plan on doing remixes of my remakes, I really like the concept of taking the same shapes and geometry and changing the map flow
User 73706
Banned
same
One of my long term projects whenever Forge appears is to remake more Quake maps, specifically Quake 1 maps. I hope with the additions for the current Forge, I stand a better chance of remaking them accurately.
To help with this, I would like to see 343 adding some tools to make good curves.
User 73706
Banned
Hell, every map could look like The Cage to me as long as they played differently. I'll probably end up having one 2v2 map and one 4v4 for every original / remix I have, and I can't really see myself making much larger maps. I have 4 maps planned for now, 3 4v4, 1 2v2 - so it'll be fun figuring out how to remix them effectively.
EDIT: Plus, more maps means I get to write more descriptions!
EDIT: Plus, more maps means I get to write more descriptions!
nillapuddin
Member
i think my map is broken, i cant save as, and now the distant fog and near fog are broken and dont show up
why
why
User 73706
Banned
velcom 2 reach 5rge
nillapuddin
Member
actually, nvm. I cant save anything as a new map...
can anyone save today?
How am I supposed to start on my remixessss
can anyone save today?
How am I supposed to start on my remixessss
Twilight Gap
Member
that hustle when you try to rebuild your scratch canvas and capture the essence of it in a clean version
igordennis
Member
Twiliiiight this is wildly off topic but since you expressed interest in the bones last week i am here to tell you that Xur is selling them. Dont want you to miss it again and im not sure if you saw my pm. Sorry for hijacking this thread.
On topic: forge is pretty cool and errr stuff
You should come online and help me out with my Hang em Higher map.
I would if I could get the One I'm borrowing to stay connected to Live :/ will probably try again tomorrow.
is it something with the servers? ive been online all afternoon.
So I think I'm mostly finished up with the first pass on Intercession. Everything has been placed, and I believe it to be satisfactory. For some reason, I turned off all fog settings, but I'm still getting the snow effect. It doesn't bother me that much, tbh.
Known bugs/issues:
Things I'm looking into during playtests:
Overview of the map.
Overhead view of the map.
Red base.
Middle structure with SPNKr.
Side base(Green in this case).
Middle structure plus the bridge from the "porch" area.
Known bugs/issues:
- Intro/Outro cameras not working as expected
- Pipes callout not appearing
- Soft safe zone has no functionality
- Other callouts may seem weird(Green Soda, since there's no Green Corner)
- Reflections in areas that don't need to be reflecting.
Things I'm looking into during playtests:
- Spawning
- Weapon placement
- Player flow
Overview of the map.
Overhead view of the map.
Red base.
Middle structure with SPNKr.
Side base(Green in this case).
Middle structure plus the bridge from the "porch" area.
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
i just made all west facing indirect lighting (that means the color of the parts of the map that are in shadow or outside of direct sunlight) on my map purple by placing down one purple colored wall to the west of coordinate (0,0,0).
lovely. now anytime my gun is pointed to the west it looks like a covenant AR.
i reaaaallllly wish i had realized this sooner. like before I made half my map with around a somewhat inconvenient origin coordinate.
What does? Am I missing an image on mobile? :L
Twilight Gap
Member
LT + RT + down on dpad
You mentiomed that last time but it still didn't work.
Silly goat, its up on the D-Pad, just accidentally did it. Thanks for pushing me in the right direction though
You not on the line BTW?
just do it yourself in forge. taking screenshots on xbox takes forever to get uploaded for some reason for me.
this means you could color the sides of your entire map, red side and a blue side (or any arbitrary coloring you want) by just placing down 2 very specific blocks in 2 very specific spots.
Ohh, I missed your previous post. I'll have a look into that, sounds really cool!
for sake of illustration, i will borrow karls last picture:
^^^
You know that red reflecftion you see in the dark metallic ground piece there?
it does't really make sense to see that in the map right? From the ground floor where you are going to be playing the map, the red sky is is going to be obscured by the blue ice walls, so you should instead see blue reflections from the angles you are going to play from. You should probably only see a little bit of the red sky in the reflections and only when you are looking down at a steeper angle.
Well you could change it easily, but for the entire map!
the reason its red there is because there is something red visible in the same direction relative to the origin coordinate. you put something blue there to block it and then you have the entire map reflecting the blue ice, for example. Whatever is around the origin coordinates determines the color and intensity of all the indirect lighting in your map.
^^^
You know that red reflecftion you see in the dark metallic ground piece there?
it does't really make sense to see that in the map right? From the ground floor where you are going to be playing the map, the red sky is is going to be obscured by the blue ice walls, so you should instead see blue reflections from the angles you are going to play from. You should probably only see a little bit of the red sky in the reflections and only when you are looking down at a steeper angle.
Well you could change it easily, but for the entire map!
the reason its red there is because there is something red visible in the same direction relative to the origin coordinate. you put something blue there to block it and then you have the entire map reflecting the blue ice, for example. Whatever is around the origin coordinates determines the color and intensity of all the indirect lighting in your map.
Twilight Gap
Member
You mentiomed that last time but it still didn't work.
Silly goat, its up on the D-Pad, just accidentally did it. Thanks for pushing me in the right direction though
You not on the line BTW?
whoops guess i'm thinking invertedly
this explains why some people have said that they were just forging along when they hit the rebake lighting button and the lighting all of the sudden changes to complete nonsense. they likely simpy put some pieces near (0,0,0) which changed the colors near that area and when it came time to rebake, that color got picked up across the entire map.
my advice would be to take this into consideration whenever you guys want to make another map, because you could do some cool things with that.
my advice would be to take this into consideration whenever you guys want to make another map, because you could do some cool things with that.
I think you only need to hold down one trigger.
I has this problem too. After you select the objects, press X to go to properties and then say create group. Then you can rotate them as a whole.
holy shit, guys.
put a small cube around the origin of your map. make one wall green, another wall blue, and another wall red and make sure all the walls surrounding the origin are bright (use a high intensity point light).
Rebake the lighting and and enjoy running around your entirely rainbow colored map.
put a small cube around the origin of your map. make one wall green, another wall blue, and another wall red and make sure all the walls surrounding the origin are bright (use a high intensity point light).
Rebake the lighting and and enjoy running around your entirely rainbow colored map.
Damn, I really want to see it in motion (I can't see it by myself until the next week).
Pics
hang em high seems to play well with halo 5.
Its now a decent smallish map for 2v2 almost.
All the routes are now short circuited, but I think thats part of what will make it interesting.