creating an sphere

[beele]

Every time I make a sphere/geosphere in max, convert it to mesh and attach it to my level, tool gives me an error stating that my bsp is too deep :(. Is there a way to make a sphere without this happening.

[Tweek]

tool doesnt like spheres.

if you want a sphere in your map, use it as scenery, or a low-poly geosphere.
couldnt do spheres in halo1, and can't do em in halo2 either.

[beele]

tool doesnt like spheres.

if you want a sphere in your map, use it as scenery, or a low-poly geosphere.
couldnt do spheres in halo1, and can't do em in halo2 either.

how do you mean, use it as scenery?

[Tweek]

make it scenery, and place in sapien. duh?

[beele]

make it scenery, and place in sapien. duh?

I though we couldn't make scenery for halo 2?

[Tweek]

you can't?
well then you're stuck with the low-poly geosphere.

[Rob Oplawar]

Wait, bsp is too deep? What? I am confused and annoyed by this error. I haven't had occasion to use a sphere myself, but I can't see any reason why it wouldn't let you. Is there no other reason than "tool just doesn't like spheres"?

[Tweek]

i know you couldn't do it in CE for some unapparant reason, the issue must have perpetuated into h2v

[Vicky]

Sure you can make a sphere:

http://i13.tinypic.com/8apu1qf.gif

Reduce the number of segments, default for a sphere is 32 i've tried it on 16 and that works. If it's the same as CE i think you could up it to 20 or 24... just try.

[Patrickssj6]

Make a hole in the sphere and give it a thickness.

[Scooby Doo]

vicky, i'm not so sure that's the same sphere we are talking about. anyways, halo 1 did have problems with spheres, but i thought it was fixed in halo 2 because of the hidden soccer ball in the new mombasa level...mb not though.

[Vicky]

What spheres are you talking about? The ones with 8 corners and 6 flat surfaces???

Those in my previous post are bsp-spheres and you can go higher with the segmentcount, 24 works too. It looks like a sphere, it feels like a sphere and it smells like a sphere... hmm, i wonder what it is.

[SnaFuBAR]

It looks like a sphere, it feels like a sphere and it smells like a sphere... hmm, i wonder what it is.
If it post like a noob, models like a noob, i wonder what it is. Vicky, there are a few different types of spheres as far as max goes.

[Vicky]

If it post like a noob, models like a noob, i wonder what it is. Vicky, there are a few different types of spheres as far as max goes.

Yah 2, or 3 if you like. And what moddeling did you see from me? That thingy on the prev page i made in 6 minutes?

[Rob Oplawar]

OMG Death Star.
http://www.spacebrick.net/pictures/blog_gallery/8apu1qf.gif
Ahem. What were we talking about?

[Con]

It generally doesn't like floating objects unless they have some interior like pat said. You can get collision grossness, etc.

[Vicky]

The whole BSP floats anyway... somewhere, a long time ago in a ... lets make a star warzy level :P

[beele]

I finally got it working, I did it like Vicky said.

http://www.beeles-place.be/halo2mppics/sphere.jpg

Don't mind the texture in game, the shader for the globe is not finished yet.

[Patrickssj6]

Do it like I said and it will look tons better.

[StankBacon]

i dunno what you guys are talking about, ive had plenty of spheres in halo 1 maps.

free floating and all.