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[Thagomizer]

HALO 4 Artist Unveils Creative Workflow for Environments


Real?

No fucking way that grass shot is in-game. No fucking way.

EDIT: And that last pic looks suspiciously like Gears of War

 

[Fracas]

HALO 4 Artist Unveils Creative Workflow for Environments

Real?

Meh, looks good for a Halo game.

Haha, alright, I'm done.

 

[FyreWulff]

HALO 4 Artist Unveils Creative Workflow for Environments


Real?

Victoriarunner.

 

[Thagomizer]

Victoriarunner.

What does this mean. Google tells me nothing

 

[Fracas]

What does this mean. Google tells me nothing

Play on words with the word Forerunner, I believe.

 

[TheOddOne]

Yeah, the guy works for 343. Also his portfolio is here.

 

[Gabotron ES]

These screens look nothing like Halo.

 

[FyreWulff]

What does this mean. Google tells me nothing

Was referring to how it kind of looks like Victorian architecture + Forerunner.

Like how I call the old Forerunner structures in Halo 2 and Sandbox/Sandtrap Stonerunner

 

[StalkerUKCG]

Id be very surprised if the grass shot or that architecture was in halo 4.

 

[Poker Face]

HALO 4 Artist Unveils Creative Workflow for Environments


Real?

if thats real...


dat grass.

 

[Fracas]

If those are really in-game objects/environments...extremely impressive.

 

[TheOddOne]

I'm really iffy on if they are real, so don't shoot the messenger.

 

[Franklinator]

Id be very surprised if the grass shot or that architecture was in halo 4.

Yeah, same here. And if they are, they definitely won't look like that while playing

 

[daedalius]

That doesn't really look like a forerunner environment at all.

 

[Computron]

No, that's not from Halo 4.

That gaming news website just added that last part on.
I have that DVD and I have seen his work on these scenes.
They are work he has done for his personal portfolio and the Gnomon master class.

 

[FyreWulff]

That doesn't really look like a forerunner environment at all.

Too late, I already envisioned a steampunk Chopper in my head.

 

[TheOddOne]

No, that's not real.

That website just added that last part on. I have that DVD and I have seen his work on these scenes. They are work he has done for his personal portfolio.

Dammit

 

[Fracas]

No, that's not real.

That website just added that last part on. I have that DVD and I have seen his work on these scenes. They are work he has done for his personal portfolio and the Gnomon master class.

Aww. Oh well, we should be seeing environments soon anyway.

 

[Slightly Live]

From his LinkedIn profile

-Utilizing Proprietary development tools for next gen Triple A Development

Holy shit, they might be making more Halo games next gen!!!11!!

 

[Computron]

The grass scene is done in v-ray, completely offline rendered with custom content, here is that scene from the DVD:

From his LinkedIn profile



Holy shit, they might be making more Halo games next gen!!!11!!

Halo 4,5,6 are all confirmed, its a new trilogy.

The linked in quote is nothing special.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Halo 2 Cortana still the best Cortana in my opinion. That really shows why I don't like it though. The face is just so off. Look at the others. They at least somewhat look alike. The new face just looks wrong. Course as I said I'm going to wait and see the in game model first before passing final judgement.

 

[Computron]

New game, new art direction. I am completely fine with that. I like how they are changing Chief to add to the "Hyper-Athletic Speed And Mass And Weight and Power" feel. Why not change Cortana.

Now, the axle between the new warthog's wheels, that's another story. If that's suggesting a less agile warthog.

 

[Ramirez]

Gears map also require a lost less work than halo maps, its essentially draw a square some obstacles in that square and multiple chest high walls, nice texture and ship it.

That's because every Gears map is the same.

Oh boy.

 

[Deputy Moonman]

Finally caught up on the thread. Nice cover by GI although it's clear that Cortana was meant to appeal to video game pervs as evidenced by the voluminous size of her boobs and by pages of discussion on gaf. But that's comic art in general. Still cool to see Halo4 on the cover of the magazine, though.

 

[Fuchsdh]

Too late, I already envisioned a steampunk Chopper in my head.

I would play the hell out of a Steampunk Halo mod.

Halo 2 Cortana still the best Cortana in my opinion. That really shows why I don't like it though. The face is just so off. Look at the others. They at least somewhat look alike. The new face just looks wrong. Course as I said I'm going to wait and see the in game model first before passing final judgement.

What those images suggest to me is that Cortana is one of the few Halo characters that *hasn't* had a consistent visual style. Really, if they were regular people instead of holograms, they'd be hard to say that those are the same character. The pattern, texture and coloring are the only major unifying theme with all of them.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

I would play the hell out of a Steampunk Halo mod.

It would be interesting to see what a steampunk Halo would look like.

 

[Zeouterlimits]

Halo 4,5,6 are all confirmed, its a new trilogy.

The linked in quote is nothing special.

Sarcasm not your strong point?

 

[Overdoziz]

Gears maps don't have to deal with people flying all over the fucking place.

 

[Computron]

Introducing the new Giraffe!

Its the new Elephant style troop transport chopper:

 

[Franklinator]

Haha. Nice avatar, Over.

 

[StalkerUKCG]

Gears maps don't have to deal with people flying all over the fucking place.

That was essentially my reasons behind the comment.

 

[ElzarTheBam]

Haha. Nice avatar, Over.

Real boobs>Fake A.I. Boobs.

Oh yahoo answers, why do you continually make me laugh with your stupid questions?

 

[Fuchsdh]

It would be interesting to see what a steampunk Halo would look like.

I'm on it. Spartan armor coming right up.

 

[Gabotron ES]

Bad Boys 2 is a really entertaining movie.

 

[ElzarTheBam]

Bad Boys 2 is a really entertaining movie.

Shit just got real.

 

[Blue Ninja]

Real boobs>Fake A.I. Boobs.

Oh yahoo answers, why do you continually make me laugh with your stupid questions?

http://i.minus.com/jbuPKZmVArzNZa.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]

Oh for fuck's sake. My faith in humanity's dropping to critical levels. :lol

 

[Louis Wu]

Wait, wasn't there recent discussion about how Letters was permabanned? It looks like he posted in the gaming side thread today!

 

[Tashi]

RIP Creator of Halo

Edit: welcome back Letterz

 

[thezerofire]

Wait, wasn't there recent discussion about how Letters was permabanned? It looks like he posted in the gaming side thread today!

some people thought he was perma'd, other people said that it was really just a one-month

 

[GhaleonEB]

Real boobs>Fake A.I. Boobs.

Oh yahoo answers, why do you continually make me laugh with your stupid questions?

how are haloz formed

 

[Zeouterlimits]

Wait, wasn't there recent discussion about how Letters was permabanned? It looks like he posted in the gaming side thread today!

We had heard he wasn't when the ban happened , but when he didn't automagically appear after the understood period, people began to wonder.

Am very glad he's still arround.

 

[HiredN00bs]

RIP Creator of Halo

Hard to believe he's dead...

 

[CyReN]

Welcome back Letter!

Spoiler

now change your avy back

 

[BackdoorBeauty]

Can you consider something iconic right when it comes out?

DLC post release is great because it gives us more variety and more spaces to use. You can't fit 10 maps for each gametype on the disc and don't have the manpower to do it. DLC also has the massive advantage of being developed against a non-moving target engine, which is why it tends to look better than disc maps.

You also have the hindsight of actual play statistics and player behavior. The final Halo 2 maps were hardened against superbouncing and people getting through walls, which the disc maps and first DLC maps were unfortunately unable to be adapted to. Halo 3's later maps omitted the cut Equipment and did not account for them being there, and were also hardened against known engine bugs like the latter Halo 2 maps. Reach's DLC had better uses of low-grav than the disc maps, because they were able to learn what went wrong with Zealot's use of it.

And let us not ignore Foundry and Sandbox, which essentially relaunched Halo 3 as it were with new community content, which was an adaptation to how the community used the game. They never expected Forge to be used to the extent that it was at launch.

* rest of post bitching about the poor Reach post-launch support snipped out*

The maps that ship on disc need to knock it out of the park. It is difficult to fix 5 months of bad impressions..

Edit: Maybe that was a little mean.

 

[Redford]

Guys I just had an idea. Halo Waypoint Elite. $50 a year for heat maps and a play date with Frankie.

What kind of play date.

 

[CyReN]

What kind of play date.

 

[Homeboyd]

Not sure if anyone cares, but DeeJ just posted the recap of the Ride Along he ran with our private group, Blueprint:

Link to news article

Link to Community thread

Some Gaffers rode along. DeeJ is definitely good people.

 

[Karl2177]

Not sure if anyone cares, but DeeJ just posted the recap of the Ride Along he ran with our private group, Blueprint:

Link to news article

Link to Community thread

Some Gaffers rode along. DeeJ is definitely good people.

I care.

 

[bobs...onGaf]

Good Games Steely, I started playing like crap towards the end lol!

 

[Redford]

Was that heatmap thing in the bulletin Wraparound? I'm so behind, sorry.

Edit: thanks, wonder if the forging of wonderful gray variants has been started yet.