Pardon Our Dust.

[Ganon]

cortana getting a make over?
Cool.

Know what would be cool?
WHen she gets all crazy and green after getting all the information from the cartographer, if you modeled her hair floating around all zero g like. Idk why, I just always imagined that. Would make the feeling of the WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE flood thing a little more obvious.

Just a random flop of thought.

that does sound pretty cool

[Delta4907]

cortana getting a make over?
Cool.

Know what would be cool?
WHen she gets all crazy and green after getting all the information from the cartographer, if you modeled her hair floating around all zero g like. Idk why, I just always imagined that. Would make the feeling of the WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE flood thing a little more obvious.

Just a random flop of thought.

I think you mean on AotCR, in the control room.

[n00b1n8R]

GENIUS
DOITDOITDOIT

[Daishi]

Can they reanimate an entity inside a cutscene?

[Roostervier]

it doesnt have to be reanimated... just have the model have the hair floating. although animation would help get the feeling of null gravity across.

[Daishi]

That's what I was saying. Without being able to animate it, isn't the entity still gonna be doing the same shit?

[Masterz1337]

Want some refs?







Keep your shirt on.

[ICEE]

demanding pics of this cortana. Not to be posted here... just send them to me

[Heathen]

I think you mean on AotCR, in the control room.
argh fuck yeah. I always confizzle those two.

[PopeAK49]

demanding pics of this cortana. Not to be posted here... just send them to me

:mech: I wonder why the inventor of the A.I in halo wanted there creations to be so beautiful if you know what I mean. Maybe it was a request from the captain to have there A.I look a certain way. Oh Captain Keyes, You lonely bastard. :realsmug:

[FRain]

Cortana was a replica of Dr. Halsey's mind and body..

yeah, so if you do a color version of cortana, you basically get Dr. Halsey.

[PopeAK49]

Interesting. That's something that is good to know about the halo story. :downs:

[Hotrod]

And the AI choose their own shape. I forget, is it ever specified that Cortana chose to look like Dr. Halsey?

[klange]

And the AI choose their own shape. I forget, is it ever specified that Cortana chose to look like Dr. Halsey?
I believe they mention it in one of the books, yes.

[Heathen]

I believe they mention it in one of the books, yes.
Yeh, in reach.

[English Mobster]

Cortana looks like a YOUNGER version of Dr. Hasley, to be exact. :eng101:

[.Wolf™]

And the AI choose their own shape. I forget, is it ever specified that Cortana chose to look like Dr. Halsey?
They copy Halsey´s brain or something and create the AI(Cortana) from that..So thats probably one reason...I believe they explain it in Fall of Reach..

[Daishi]

Yea. In Fall of Reach they say that Cortana is made from a younger Dr. Halsey's brain, and it's "thought" that that might be part of her affinity for MC.

[Masterz1337]

How about you guys talk about flood controlled machines instead?

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

flood controlled machines don't have boobs >:U

[Heathen]

So no to my idea?

[paladin]

flood controlled machines don't have boobs >:U


This.

[sdavis117]

Sad part is, until Masterz posts pictures of Cortana and then people here discuss it for three pages, the topic won't die.

By flood controlled machines, are they limited to Sentinels, or will we be fighting Flood Banshees and other flood vehicles?

[Ki11a_FTW]

How about you guys talk about flood controlled machines instead?

flood are unable to infect a machine

[Hotrod]

flood are unable to infect a machine
They did it before, with the Covenant ship on Earth in Halo 3, as well as High Charity. In plus, you guys said no flood sentinels, so why would we talk about them?:downs:And who wants to talk about flood driving vehicles?

[Ki11a_FTW]

They did it before, with the Covenant ship on Earth in Halo 3, as well as High Charity. In plus, you guys said no flood sentinels, so why would we talk about them?:downs:And who wants to talk about flood driving vehicles?

right, but they had some kind of combat forms controlling the ships, but things like sentinles, and other machines of halo dont have a "steering wheel"

[Cagerrin]

flood are unable to infect a machine
Umm.

Flood take over biological organisms by faking nerve impulses(i.e. electrical pulses). I really don't see why such impulses couldn't be adapted to control machines, especially as they can control more than one species of biological organism, which are fairly likely to need different signals for different species.

[/overanalyzing]

[Ki11a_FTW]

infection forms utilize chemicals to infect living orgasnisms, a nervous system is one thing, but wires and metal is another

[AAA]

Not to be blunt about it all, but these guys have made the point. Any progress?

[PopeAK49]

Ya if the flood were able to take over machines and such, then Sgt.Johnson would have been a flood awhile ago and wouldn't appear in halo 2 and 3. Plus the only reason that ship in halo 3 had flood crap is because the flood are more comfortable when they are living in there own environment and makes the reproduction process more easy, so they just terraformed the ship. I mean it makes perfect sense,. Think about the movie aliens. The reason they terraformed the outpost station is so that they can be comfortable, and make the whole reproduction process easy. :eng101:

[paladin]

So I hear you fucked up your new biped tags, nice.

[Heathen]

infection forms utilize chemicals to infect living orgasnisms, a nervous system is one thing, but wires and metal is another
Reality is one thing, a game is another :realsmug:




i.e. its a game :eng101:

[itszutak]

From what I can tell, flood "absorb" information from their hosts-- sometimes, they use this information to learn how to use weaponry, and sometimes, they learn how to use vehicles, like in H2.

In fact, in the pelican that crashes at the beginning of one of the HC levels, there's a blob over the control panel that used to be the pilot.

[paladin]

But can it fly the pelican?

[Masterz1337]

It crash landed the pelican. :X

[English Mobster]

So it can crash a Pelican.

[Cagerrin]

So it can crash a Pelican.
Well, given that most people who were rated to fly Pelicans seem to end up crashing them, that's not all that decisive one way or the other.

[itszutak]

Well, given that most people who were rated to fly Pelicans seem to end up crashing them, that's not all that decisive one way or the other.
I do not think a single pelican made it through H3 without crashing. Even the Master Chief crashed one at the very end

[Con]

I was thinking about that a while back; pelicans crash a lot. Someone should screenshot them all from the 3 games. Are there any in Halo Wars?

[itszutak]

I was thinking about that a while back; pelicans crash a lot. Someone should screenshot them all from the 3 games. Are there any in Halo Wars?
I found it hilarious how at the end of H3 everyone's so used to pelicans crashing that nobody even blinks when that last crash happens-- they just jump out and don't even turn around

[Masterz1337]

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBBBBBBYYYYYYYYY
SNAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/315/haloce2009072301594728.jpg

[FRain]

Visor: Alot better.

Everything else: Good, but something feels kinda, cartoony about it. I'm not sure what it is, but it just feels kinda cartoony.

[AAA]

a little less depth on the black lining and It'd be great. thanx :3

[n00b1n8R]

Is Dano doing much skinning these days?

[Roostervier]

Looks a lot better than before (except for the inner forearms being green)

[Heathen]

I love it and dont know anythign wrong with it.

[Delta4907]

*image*
The rubber that's on the feet needs to be masked off from your reflection cubemap, but other than that it looks great.

[Daishi]

That's one sexy biped.

[Arteen]

Maybe it's the angle but his lower legs look really thin compared to his upper legs. I'm not liking his kneepads either, or the way the black lining looks around his hips and legs. I think you should go for a Halo 2/3 look, or just use the stock lining.

[Masterz1337]

Looks a lot better than before (except for the inner forearms being green)

Yeah scooby skinned them as metal, when they should be rubber. Was hoping no one would notice it in that pic, I only realized it after.

[Hunter]

:O Sexy biped. And Sexy vehicle. I have always loved the designs on the cockpit, those bar things which go over it.

[ICEE]

glad to see you curled the fingers.

[TeeKup]

I found it hilarious how at the end of H3 everyone's so used to pelicans crashing that nobody even blinks when that last crash happens-- they just jump out and don't even turn around

Pelicans get no appreciation. They're awesome drop ships! ;-;

[Amit]

Visor: Alot better.

Everything else: Good, but something feels kinda, cartoony about it. I'm not sure what it is, but it just feels kinda cartoony.

Because it looks like they coloured it in with pencil crayons? Correct. Fix it. The armour's colour seems like it's been bleached 50 times over.

Pelicans are by far the coolest vehicles in the Halo universe.

[k4is3rxkh40s]

Pelicans get no appreciation. They're awesome drop ships! ;-;

By drop ships, you must mean ships that drop out of the sky :realsmug:

Back to the topic at hand, it may just be me but the MG that Chief's holding seems terribly out of place. Either way, looks great

[paladin]

Maybe it's the angle but his lower legs look really thin compared to his upper legs. I'm not liking his kneepads either, or the way the black lining looks around his hips and legs. I think you should go for a Halo 2/3 look, or just use the stock lining.


Its the angle, his right leg is bigger than his left.

[RedBaron]

I don't remember seeing this anywhere: what are the entering and exiting animations like for the Hawk/Sparrowhawk whatever the hell they call it these days. :/

E: And I've never followed this into the live broadcast. That place is too cool for me.

[Daishi]

Pelicans get no appreciation. They're awesome drop ships! ;-;

Yes, they ARE awesome at dropping, aren't they? :P

[Masterz1337]

I don't remember seeing this anywhere: what are the entering and exiting animations like for the Hawk/Sparrowhawk whatever the hell they call it these days. :/

E: And I've never followed this into the live broadcast. That place is too cool for me.

Uses 3p ghost animations. Sparrowhawks are driven by flood, spartans, and marines, so we really need to use it so it be compatible with all 3.

[English Mobster]

On WHAT level would the Flood want to fly a Sparrowhawk???

E: Owait, 2 Betrayals. Sorry.

[Heathen]

Actually library I think.

[bobsam]

Actually library I think.
nu :v:

[Warsaw]

Definitely on Keyes for sure.

MC biped is lookin' good. Don't have anything to add that wasn't said before. Can't wait tp play this.

[Pooky]

Visor: Alot better.

Everything else: Good, but something feels kinda, cartoony about it. I'm not sure what it is, but it just feels kinda cartoony.

Halo has always been somewhat cartoony, I don't see what the problem is.

[Warsaw]

It's that it doesn't fit with the rest of the skins and textures in the mod. If it all looked that way, it would be fine.

[Amit]

Actually library I think.

There isn't even enough space for it to maneuver in the corridors.

[Heathen]

There isn't even enough space for it to maneuver in the corridors.
Oya? :-3

[Ki11a_FTW]

There isn't even enough space for it to maneuver in the corridors.

maybe in the middle area , where the elevator goes through, but how would flood get a sparrow hawk in there anyway?:v:

[Warsaw]

maybe in the middle area , where the elevator goes through, but how would flood get a sparrow hawk in there anyway?:v:

You saw how big the doors were. It'd fit inside the Library no problem. Also, manoeuvring wouldn't be too bad...anybody who can get the CMT tank through that roadblock in SPv1's Library could get a Sparrowhawk to go. :aaaaa:

[Ki11a_FTW]

oh shit i forgot about those ones

[Amit]

Also, manoeuvring wouldn't be too bad...anybody who can get the CMT tank through that roadblock in SPv1's Library could get a Sparrowhawk to go. :aaaaa:

This thought intrigues me.

[Heathen]

You guys think I was joking?

[Revord]

MC biped is lookin' good. Don't have anything to add that wasn't said before. Can't wait tp play this.
Cant agree more. Nothing more to add, just 'git er dun', and lets get playin'!

[English Mobster]

A Tank? In the Library? WHY DID I NEVER FIND THIS TANK?

[Daishi]

Because you're blind. It was at the top of one of the underground tunnels. You exit, and there's a tank sitting on your left.

[m13120]

If I remember correctly, there were 2 tanks.

[Warsaw]

If I remember correctly, there were 2 tanks.

Yase, right before the end. The only thing that made it bullshit is that CMT put fuck all armour on any of their vehicles (especially the Banshee, which made Two Betrayals VERY aggravating...please fix), so you would explode very quickly on difficulties as low as Normal.

[NuggetWarmer]

g8L1PLkDHiE

HDoan finished rigging.

Welcome to the team.

[Horns]

So when are we going to be able to see the final texture for the marine? Right now it just looks fugly.

[HDoan]

Actually there are no textures on the marines right now...

[BobtheGreatII]

What are the variations going to be like?

[Heathen]

backpack?

FUR CARRIEN DA TEEM?

Cause he so pro.

[m13120]

Yase, right before the end. The only thing that made it bullshit is that CMT put fuck all armour on any of their vehicles (especially the Banshee, which made Two Betrayals VERY aggravating...please fix), so you would explode very quickly on difficulties as low as Normal.

Yes, when I encountered flood with..machine gun turrets(?) I would die very very fast anytime I was in a vehicle.

[Warsaw]

Fuck that, getting to the top of the platform with all the Shade turrets was a bitch, and even if you did get out, and sneak kill all the turrets with grenades and hose the elites with a chaingun, you were fucked by the grunts on the platform across the plateau blasting you with rapid-fire n00b-tube rounds, and then you have to restart that section from the beginning...

[Daishi]

Shade turrets? When were there shade turrets in the Library?

[m13120]

Fuck that, getting to the top of the platform with all the Shade turrets was a bitch, and even if you did get out, and sneak kill all the turrets with grenades and hose the elites with a chaingun, you were fucked by the grunts on the platform across the plateau blasting you with rapid-fire n00b-tube rounds, and then you have to restart that section from the beginning...

I forgot about that, and that also pretty difficult. I tried over and over with a banshee to shoot or run them over but I always ended up getting killed. And this was on Normal. What I finally did was fly the banshee up to a little building/box that was up there and if you could get up there and crouch, none of the covenant could see you. Then I just used the chaingun and "sniped" each of them individually. But yeah, I think anytime I encountered a shade turret, either it being land based or from a dropship, I think I died the each time I encountered it. But if I remember correctly what Masterz said awhile ago, that he fixed that.

[Amit]

Remember the final warthog run when you come up out of a tunnel and go flying in in the air and that sneaky bastard of a Spirit dropship creeps up to rape you in the ass? That was so frustrating as the turret would either kill you outright or flip you over and kill you there. It was hard to dodge those damn things.

[HDoan]

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/2513/marinesn.jpg
Ingame.
Model by Nugget
Textures by Bungie
Rig by HDoan

[ThePlague]

Storm Troopers!

Looks cool, can't wait till they're textured.

[HDoan]

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7334/jackal.jpg
Model by Nugget
Texture by teh_lag
Rig by HDoan

[Masterz1337]

texture*

[p0lar_bear]

You forgot to rig the mouth.

Unless jackals didn't have a ponytail bone?

[NuggetWarmer]

We're not sure why the mouth isn't working right.

[Masterz1337]

iirc jackals don't open their mouths

[HDoan]

The mouth is rigged, bungie probably didn't animate them.

[Heathen]

Good stuff.

[NuggetWarmer]

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u27/foxymccloud/Modeling/cortanaCMTrender2.png

Have a few edits to do.

Left = Bungie's
Right = My model.

[PlasbianX]

So you gave her a bigger waist and larger tits?

[Warsaw]

No, they subtracted from her already near non-existent hips and made her hair wrong. Hair is what is bothering me the most...

[paladin]

Id like to she her with longer hair and not so smile. nice job though

[Roostervier]

I'm inclined to assume that you've never actually seen a female in her naked form. http://fr.projectiris.net/smilies/blf.gif

[FRain]

Also, when women have long hair, they tend to put the bangs off to the side, so I say cut the bangs.

[Roostervier]

Another thing... the hair was square before for uving purposes. Don't forget it's got alpha maps.

[Reaper Man]

I'm inclined to assume that you've never actually seen a female in her naked form. http://fr.projectiris.net/smilies/blf.gif
I concur.

[NuggetWarmer]

I'm inclined to assume that you've never actually seen a female in her naked form. http://fr.projectiris.net/smilies/blf.gif

Nope.

15 is a hard age to get sex at, and porn only focuses on two areas really.

:>

[n00b1n8R]

The hair is too long (One of the things which shitted me when I picked up H2 is they changed her hair length), but other than that it looks fine.

I never realised how fuckugly Bungie's Cortana model was. :v:

[Reaper Man]

Nope.

15 is a hard age to get sex at, and porn only focuses on two areas really.

:>
There's plenty of nude model references out there, just go look.

[Good_Apollo]

Nope.

15 is a hard age to get sex at, and porn only focuses on two areas really.

:>

If nothing else... (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=naked+woman)

[AAA]

The hair is too long (One of the things which shitted me when I picked up H2 is they changed her hair length), but other than that it looks fine.

Yeah, did anyone else think that shouldn't have been possible due to the fact that it was just an A.I. hologram that didn't give a shit how it/she looked?

Very nice uppage on the model, do what you want with the hair, just keep it to a less "Hi, I'm a dyke."

[Heathen]

What the HELL man?
You took her hips away and threw it on her chest.

That makes her look like a 12 year old boy with tits.

Fix it.

Have you ever seen a woman?

I refer you to tblop for help.
Cant post links but google should help.

E: and beef up the legs.

EE: not beef up, but come on, you subtracted from good legs and sad hips.

[Arteen]

I'm having trouble seeing how it's improved.

[Warsaw]

Yeah...I'd rather have the stock than that tbqh. Blasphemy, I know.

[ICEE]

should do the hair h2 style.

[Heathen]

H3 STyLE.

[L0d3x]

As I said on maps: jackal mohawk sticks through the shield on the right one.
Cortana, doesn't have a significant change to her. Honestly, she hardly appears in the game, I don't see why you went through the effort to make a new one.

[Heathen]

old one was fine actually, he is right.
Because his user title is my name.

Also, do the hair floating thing I suggested plox.

[RedBaron]

Do you guys forget that all the artists in the mod are just making random shit for the hell of it now? Chances are this won't even make it in...

[ICEE]

Do you guys forget that all the artists in the mod are just making random shit for the hell of it now? Chances are this won't even make it in...

No, your wrong

[Masterz1337]

Unless she actually looks good it's not going in >_>.

[PopeAK49]

Do a SSJ Cortana. Let her have gold spiky hair.

[Con]

Just give her new shaders.

[markopolo]

Do a SSJ Cortana. Let her have gold spiky hair.

That would look really good actually

[Heathen]

That would look really good actually
you trollin.

[Rob Oplawar]

Am I the only one who prefers Cortana with shorter hair? Idk, I never really cared for the Halo 2 or Halo 3 Cortanas, except for the detail on the shaders. Somehow the faces look different and the longer her hair gets the more, I dunno, standard she looks. The Halo 2 and Halo 3 Cortanas just look much more like your standard sci-fi chick than the Halo 1 Cortana. Idk, perhaps I'm just being nostalgic.

The rest that I have to say has already been said.

e: Oh, as for the shaders, the little code details on Halo 2 and Halo 3 Cortanas are pretty cool, but otherwise she looks too, I dunno, blue. Perhaps she's blue to stylistically differentiate her more from the Covenant, but I still like the patterns and purple of the original shaders. Plus the rampancy-suggesting green when she entered the core. ;D

ee: The more I think about it, the more it makes sense for the UNSC to want her to conform to what seems to be the standard blue color for computer interfaces, but it also makes sense for Cortana to want to go against that, so...

eee: For convenience, some refs:
http://casualtygamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/cortana_h3.pnghttp://www.the-junkyard.net/images/characters/halo2/cortana_holo.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Cortana.jpg

more edits: btw, bilateral shader symmetry is for chumps.

[ThePlague]

She's got more perky since Halo 1

[Hunter]

I think she looks best in Halo 3 tbh.

[Billyboi456]

how is she going to be skinned? are you going to go with the normal skin, or something more along the lines of the Halo Wars AI?


(with the model, i say bigger is better :), and preferably the halo 3 hair style)

[AAA]

Cortana would be perfect if she had a mixture of the three. Keep the original look of her from Halo 1 (That means, Hair and face), give her the color from Halo 2 and give her the body style from Halo 3, maybe a little extra on it, if ya get mah drift.

[Ki11a_FTW]

I like the Halo 3 one the best

[Heathen]

I like h2's face, but whatever.

[Billyboi456]

I like h2's face, but whatever.

i concur

[BobtheGreatII]

Halo 3's obviously looks the best. Not so pointy.

[Amit]

I liked Halo 3's hair and face, Halo 2's code pattern and colours as a combination.

[Daishi]

i liked everything about the third one...it just looks right.

[ICEE]

halo 3's face looks like it has downs.

[Billyboi456]

i think we all agree that her bewbs should be bigger, anyways, what about face? hips? hair? etc. (personally i like the halo 2 face and halo 3 hair, don't care much for hips)

[Hotrod]

i think we all agree that her bewbs should be bigger
I disagree. Cortana has always been fine the way she is. In plus, it's not the size of her chest that matters, especially since she's an AI. Taking that into consideration, all that really does matter for Cortana is that she's there, and she does her job.

[Kornman00]

Ok, seriously now, no more talk about breasts and such, we're running out of baby wipes for teh lag

yes, even if its in reference to chicken

[Hunter]

I will be happy if she isnt that shitty purple color. I like the blue color which she is in Halo 3. I think she looks better with long hair as well, she looks like a man in Halo 1.

[teh lag]

haha lol titty discussion

:lolugh:

this brings me back to the good old days of deleting shitty posts in the cmt section (fyi there's 28 posts that were deleted between me and korn)

except this time i can infract people

honestly, if i gave out shitposting to all of you it would probably be the biggest massacre this forum has ever seen, like 2 or 3 people would probably get banned too

idiots.

p.s. don't count on this being unlocked until we have something new to post