Forging a Military Structure/Base

Your question is vague. Do you want help in the discussion of aesthetics? Map balance? Themes?

Perhaps you can get inspiration through osmosis? Look for "military base" maps on here, reddit and halo customs, etc. Bookmark them, load them in forge and deconstruct how people craft things. Think of it as listening to music to get inspired to lay down your own track.

 

OH! Yes you currently need an xbox since Halo 5 isn't out on PC yet. You didn't say you didn't have the game haha You xbox privacy settings you are mentioning just be referring to the Xbox app then?

 

well everyone gets it in different ways. My approach to starting a new map is soak up tons of pictures of whatever theme I am are going for. It gives me perspective into construction. (Of course there is no planetary laser on earth so I winged Excalibur out of my head-mind-brain-thingy) I like my maps to sell their themes very hard. I try to give narrative purpose to each room and observing real life locations help me to figure that out. Then once my theme is decided, I get excited to translate that into the limits of Forge.

Along the way, I try to keep the map FUN (this is important). I don't tend to make my maps super try hard competitive, but the important bullet points of balance cannot be ignored. Weapon fairness per team, spawn distances from power zones and weapons, spawning setups being intuitive and not facing walls, etc.

I find that I do best at helping peoples' specific questions. Broad requests of direction or inspiration isn't something I answer well.

 

@CommanderThaum your best bet is to actually collect reference images of structures. Use those as sort of inspiration. Study the texturing, the coloring style, the lighting, the accented details, the overall shape, etc.

With Forge it is possible to re-create those feels as long as you notice the right details. I HIGHLY suggest you start collecting some reference images and just adding them to the OP and that should help people suggest things. Especially with the new prefab system coming out some people may actually be able to replicate something in the reference images for you to use when you get on.

 

@CommanderThaum Welcome to FH! With Halo 5 Forge, a lot has changed since the release of Forge for Halo 5. Take some time getting used to the tool. Look at others examples. Like @Ray Benefield mentioned, try to replicate ideas from pictures that you searched for. I personally am not the best at making things pretty, but I have seen some amazing stuff produced with this tool. Look forward to checking out what you make!

 

I would personally recommend downloading some of the best maps from the community, loading them up in forge and identifying how the map was constructed via reverse engineering. This was how I became interested in forge, by looking at other peoples work and admiring the level of care, craft and artistry required to make something truly special. You'll be surprised by some of the creative piece usage or combinations of structure, lights, etc. Just dive straight in and hopefully you'll be able to dissect enough maps to figure out how to be creative in your own way. Here's one place to start: http://www.forgehub.com/maps/featured

 

I believe you can/should change them here. https://account.xbox.com/

 

I believe that prefabs will be available Friday so u could look up military themed prefabs and spawn them on your map to use also on YouTube there are a bunch of tutorials including one on forgehub that have tanks. But just try to put pieces together and try to see what u can make. That is the only way to learn.

 

From everywhere that I read, it's going to be free.

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Oh I see, welp I have a 660TI that I bought almost 4 years ago and it's still relevant. Hope things work out for you. We'll be here to help when you come around!