I want to make a full library here of all the forge objects rendered for reference and personal use. I'm asking for anyone to help out by submitting screenshots of forge objects. I will take your screenshots and make renders of them here so anyone can use them, save them to their computer, or w/e. It's a hell of a lot of screenshots and rendering, that's why I'm asking the community to submit the screenshots and I'll do the rendering. I'm going to include all objects, including dominion, gadgets, weapons, specific map items, etc. I will update the list as fast as possible. Weapons Spoiler UNSC Weapons Magnum Assault Rifle DMR BR Shotty Squad Automatic Weapon Sticky Detonator Sniper Rifle Rocket Launcher Rail Gun Frag Turret Covenant Weapons Plasma Pistol Storm Rifle Carbine Concussion Rifle Needler Fuel Rod Plasma Rifle Sword Gravity Hammer Plasma Grenade Turret Promethean Weapons Boltshot Supressor Light Rifle Binary Rifle Scattershot Incineration Cannon Pulse Grenade Vehicles Spoiler Warthog Rocket Hog Gauss Hog Mongoose Scorpion Mantis Ghost Wraith Banshee Misc. Items Spoiler Red Flag Ordinance Flood Aesthetic Creations Spoiler "Pelican" by Blaze "Fork Lift" by UNSC Fenix Hulk
Can we submit some of our own aesthetic pieces to be added? Also, will this list include all blocks as well as map specific pieces?
Yes of course, I added mine just to inspire others to submit their works. All blocks as well as map specific pieces will eventually be added once the screens start coming in. I just posted items I already had saved to the computer so far. I looked all over the internet for renders or screens of objects, but they are far and few between. Weapons and vehicles you can find, but I will need screens of the rest.
good effort here and I'll try to contribute some shots... suggestion would be that I'm sure F.H. is needing to use photo shop or equivilent to select just the portion of the screenshot that is the item in question. A way to make that super easy would be to take your screenshot and angle the item and scenery in a way that makes the background all one color. it should then be easy to select just the object itself in whatever tool he is using.
Most of the times I just hand draw a line around the entire object to crop it from the picture. The only time I ever use a color background delete is if the entire background is one solid color, and it has to be a very bright color at that. Either way will work though.
cool. for weapons then, it might be good to take a shot of the weapon directly in front of a Cwall? That would give you a bright whitish-brown color to delete like a green screen, only whitish-brown Since it's such a big task, I was just thinking of ways to speed it up for ya
or just use a program like Paint.net and use the Magic Wand tool to select the background then simply hit delete. It will keep it's transparency
I understand weapon and objective graphics for showing locations on an overview, but why yould you need anything besides that? Are you planning to show people where all the forklifts on your map are? (Btw, Zatherla beat you to the forklift.) I already have cropped out all the weapons in Halo 4 and converted them to PNG for the exact purpose of an overview plotting.
I don't care about who made the first forklift, where did I ever say I was the first? I'm not going to copy someone else's work anyways. I'm not even saying it's great, I made it in less than 5 mins b/c I was in forge and wanted a forklift on my map so that's what I came up with. I only posted it here is to describe what I mean by aesthetic creations and get people to submit theirs. This is mainly for people to view all the building blocks in forge when thinking about anything they may need to reference to when designing, sketching, or w/e without having to jump on the xbox and into forge. I was thinking about designing a Quake style teleporter when this first came to mind and was trying to think about all the available objects in forge at my disposal. This is a pain in the *** to have to jump on xbox just to see all the items. So I thought about making a library for everyone to use. You don't have to use it, no this whole library is not being built to display forklifts on my map, don't hate and I know a lot will find this useful as myself. And congrats on having all rendered weapons on your computer, give yourself a high-five.
Look, I didn't intend to offend you which seems as though I did... again. I just don't personally see the use of pictures of the forge objects because most people who have forged in the past 3 years realize what they are. Even if not, it seems that most people don't design maps outside of forge based on the exact objects. It usually is just a sketch up on graph paper. Also since the objects are all scaled pretty much the same, (1x1, 1x2, 2x2, etc.) as long as the sketch they make is even remotely scaled, it is possible to make it in forge. That is what I think about the objects anyway, as for the weapons, objectives, and vehicles... Kudos. It would be very helpful. Anyway, I brought up that I have all the weapons done in a helping effort to finish the weapon category. (Since you only have 3 of them...) But realizing how hostile you act towards me, nah. Once more, sorry if I have offended you in any way, wasn't the intent. I think you had a good base idea here.
That's pretty stupid to say, both forklifts look totally different anyway and no offense to Zatherla and his great aesthetic work but Fenix's forklift looks much better in my opinion and resembles a forklift much more also. If I wanted to put a forklift in a map I made I would use Fenix's design. Saying someone beat someone to something in regards to Forge in Halo is just retarded. That's like saying hey, this guy stacked a few lego blocks in a certain way before you did, so you can't stack those like that or you are a copy cat. It's Forge, not a real map editor like Unreal Editor or Q3ARadiant... you can only do so much.
Just to clarify, I wasn't saying Fenix copied Zath, I was just letting him know there was a forklift already made that resembles Halo 3 item. That is all... I don't understand why people are getting so upset over something they interpret the wrong way... Anyway, good to see you got the vehicles done as well!
If I had to guess it's just because of the *way* you said it. Telling someone that someone else "beat you to it" doesn't give off the sense that you're merely telling them that someone else made one too, it implies more that they shouldn't have even bothered or that they wasted their time making it *because* someone else had already made one, regardless of how different/similar they may be. That's my guess, anyway.
You know how you worded it, no beating around the bush to make you feel better. The Halo community is huge and I'm sure even someone beat whoever you posted to it, but who the hell cares. I didn't make the forklift to represent the Halo 3 forklift. I made it because I had a warehouse and thought a forklift would be a nice touch to the map. I posted it here b/c I wanted people to submit there aesthetic works so I gave them an example. No where did I say how awesome it was or how original it was. Then you come along and the only thing you have to say is someone beat me to it. Are we in kindergarten? EDIT: You have not been helpful at all and rather insulting to me trying to do something good for the community. If you really wanted to help and contribute to this community, you should of posted all of your renders you had saved instead of threatening me that you won't. You may disagree or not find this thread useful, but even if this helps a few people, why be so rude about it? This is not a map submission, I'm not asking to get critiqued. I plan on adding a lot to this thread, especially renders that will be very useful in posting to your map submissions.. for example, I will be getting the team logos from the stats page and making renders of them so people can place them on their map to show where each team spawns.
I'm done, everything I'm trying to explain is just digging me a hole deeper of hate. So bye. PS, I like the thought of using team logos to show spawns.
See that would be useful if i could get pictures from my fileshare... It would be a nice aesthetic touch.