But you have coordinates now...

The Tweet from the other day says we can submit up to 3 maps, so with that being said. Do we need to add any 2nd or 3rd maps to our original entry post or can we just post another reply in the thread?

The new coordinate system is nice but unfortunately it's highly inconsistent and unpolished. Using it has caused more anger and fustration than just Forging normally like I did in OG Halo 3. I find precision editing to be much faster and useful than the coordinate system which constantly shifts pieces out of alignment or just straight up won't align to your other pieces on the same coordinate plane.

I was excited for this contest because I enjoy Halo 3's Forge and gameplay but given the amount of time to make something of polish within a month that will be rated for Matchmaking is too daunting. I didn't even know Halo 3 got the Forge update and file share extension on XB1 until a few nights ago when I decided to make something for this contest - so starting from scratch is difficult. If I had known XB1 had these updates too I would have been doing so much more Forging in MCC.

They also say any map is good to use for the contest but I think they forgot that the new Forge objects were only applied to three maps I believe. I would have loved to use these new pieces on Last Resort, Sandtrap, Standoff and Valhalla which would make amazing canvas maps. Unless weapon sandbox changes to pre-existing maps are allowed for the contest.

I know they're probably not looking for anything too artistically amazing and want maps that play really good like Onslaught but this seems pretty difficult unless you already had completed maps or maps that were already mostly worked on. I unfortunately missed the deadline for porting my old H3 maps to MCC because I didn't know they'd be extending Fileshare limit which I thought was still going to be at 50 lol. The logistics of this contest is way out of my favor but I'm still gonna attempt it but I'm kinda sad I won't be able to make anything really polished. But Forging for Halo 3 has been great, really nostalgic.

That's true, but this implementation of coordinate editing sucks lol.

Looking forward to this. I'm coming over from Halotracks and it's very exciting to see so much h3 support these days. Thank you for the opportunity!

I’ve simply done the cords, rotated a snap and back and anything built on snaps seems to line up just fine for me. Either way it’s a daunting task, but I’m ready to forge. Who knows when we will be forging on infinite.

I just hope Forge is in Infinite at launch and is just as good or better than Halo 5's. I hope as well that every gametype we hope to expect is there. If we get that than I'd rate it my favorite Halo game just cause. I really really hope we get to see Forge for Infinite soon.

Been a long time guys, but I’m gonna try to create something as well. Never had the time to learn and memorize all they pieces in H5, so that version of forge never attracted me unfortunately.

Few questions though:
- Are the tin cups still unusable upside down due to the the invisible blocker in the middle? Or was that in H4? Can’t remember..
- Does anybody have a version of Sandbox available where all the original pieces are sorted neatly next to eachother?

Looking forward to seeing all the maps!

Does it count against you to remake a layout that you yourself have made in another Halo game?

Sir Iron Wolf already answered that "Remakes always have the chance for getting marks against originality"

To be fair, he also said “but it can make up for that in gameplay and execution”

I’m just wondering but can 1 map have multiple artists or does it have to be 1 artists per map in order to be qualified?

Only one person will get the prize

Are there set standards for weapon/equipment spawn times, like in H5? Or are we free to just do what feels best for the map?

Spawn times are pretty all over the place in the standard official maps anyway so wouldn't worry too much. Some BRs have a 10s spawn time while others are 30s. Snipers on Foundry seem to be 90s while on Pit they are 150s but for Narrows it's 180s...

Probably just go with whatever works best!

I'm currently encountering a pretty major issue that I haven't seen anyone else mention yet, so I hope it's not just me. After I save and exit my map, upon reloading it, pretty much all of the pieces I have placed are rotated and/or translated in a random direction by a small amount. As you can imagine this is incredibly frustrating especially combined with the janky coordinate system making it extremely tedious to fix the affected pieces. It could potentially ruin some submissions for the contest, especially the maps I had planned out

Unfortunately I also realised that this consistently happens for me on foundry and avalanche so far (haven't tested sandbox), meaning that spending all that time fixing it was pointless. Also since it occurs when the maps are loaded, it will occur when people download and load your maps for themselves, making it unavoidable and unfixable until it's patched.

I really hope that this is only affecting me for the sake of everybody else's sanity :/

Happens to me too on all three canvases including Sandbox, it's honestly just really janky. Might just have to work around it. The coordinate system I've found so far to be useless at the moment and not worth using yet.

My pieces will actually shift or rotate while I'm in the game working on my map - I'll work on one part and go back to check on another part and pieces will ever so slightly move or do complete rotations out of alignment and it's caused some major headache.

Not to mention that some pieces just won't even align correctly using the coordinates system - even if they're the same exact piece.