I'm putting together a video wishlist for Forge Objects. This particular video will focus on Natural Pieces such as Rocks, Terrain and Foliage, while other objects may appear in later videos if this goes well. If you have anything to add to the following categories, post below with photo examples. If you can find sound effects as well that would be swell. Please refrain from saying "More Pieces". Be specific! CANVAS PALETTE The visual appearance of the objects Alpine Glacier Asteroid Sandstone Beach TERRAIN OBJECTS Flats Rings | NEW 16 - 96 foot Banks Ramps Hills Bowls Accents| NEW Short Grass Short Grass, Flowers Short Grass, Dead Tall Grass Tall Grass, Dead Seashells Cooled Lava Icicles Water Puddle* ROCKS Flats Blocks | NEW 4 foot - 32 foot Rings | NEW 16 foot - 96 foot Accents | NEW Stone Tile Pillars Struts Stairs Domes Broken Wall Doorway Chunks Boulders Columns Cliffs Crystals | NEW The giant crystal rocks from Shattered Arrangements Gravel/Stones TREES Full Swirling (Small, Medium, Large) Swirling, Dead (Small, Medium, Large) Swirling, Hollow (Medium, Large) Swirling, Hollow, Dead (Medium, Large) Sequoia (Small, Medium, Large) Sequoia, Dead (Small, Medium, Large) Branches | NEW Logs Stumps FOLIAGE | NEW Bushes Ferns (Medium, Large) Shrubs (Small, Medium, Large) Potted Plant (Small, Medium, Large) Accents Mushroom Cluster Mushroom, Double Barnacles (Medium, Large) Small Flowers Floodspores (Medium, Large Vines Full Vines (Single, Dead) Hanging Vines (Single, Dead) SOUND EFFECTS Creature Sounds Ocean Sounds (Whale) Forest Sounds (Owl, Woodpecker) Earth Sounds Waterfall Running Creek Water Droplets Weather Sounds Rain (Drizzle, Downpour) PROPS | NEW Animated Natural Objects Falling Sand Falling Snow Falling Lava Fireflies Spider Webs Waterfalls Statues Spartan Rock Statue Elite Rock Statue *Some objects may not be possible
Temple pieces like struts, pillars, accents, that big sphere looking piece, and especially the elite statues. Ill be happy with anything from Sanghelios though honestly.
Personally I think that aside from having bushes and more types of trees it would be nice to have natural objects that could be used to fill in nooks and crannies. Objects like these could be used to hide a seam between floor and wall or rock and ground. Stuff like that. These could go a long way with making Forge maps feel less like a canvas with a bunch of individual objects on them. Stuff like this: The rocks aren't a great example since I couldn't find anything better in the short while that I looked around campaign levels and mp maps, but you get idea.
Way high up on my personal list are these trees. If I have to learn coding myself to get them in the game i'll start tomorrow.
I think of the maps that we have already seen in the new Forge I can only imagine what maps will be built if we can get more objects and the ability to properly alter textures.
I think they should separate out the grass and mud portions of the Alpine terrain, so that grassy islands can be made on the water and such.. Also, Genesis flora would be cool.
You covered a good bit of stuff. So I have no personal suggestions at the moment. However, if you have a picture of the in-game halo 5 asset that is already built, textured and scaled as well as a description of where it is in the game, I'm sure that will help 343. They would never have to create a new asset but instead simply strip their prebuilt (more than likely) modular models from the game itself like they have with some of the items already in forge.
I really want this statue Don't really have too many natural requests though, I'm mostly use buildings when mapping and have very little terrain. Most of what I would like is stuff you mentioned in OP like grass and stuff...wish I had flowers for Remembrance and Palm Trees <3
Perhaps the ability to place a terrain piece so that it mimics the area around then have it save that image if you want. Then we could build grassy geometry above the waster on Alpine.
Perhaps they can have the Decorator toggle in the Map Options disable the terrain mapping on the Alpine pieces. They seem to be the only pieces that render the terrain below them.
natural tunnels, ground vines, patches of leaves, stalagmites and stalactites, various different cave crystals, ores, dripping sound effect, water flow sound effect, river block, hissing sound effect, echoing sound effect, dark rock blocks, bug sound effect, dead bushes and shrubs, burnt bushes, and bones
I know invisible blockers can be used, but what about the ability to set up naturals with their own walking paths. Example: particularly bulky bunch of rocks can be ran up smoothly, while keep the ability to clamber up all the tiny little facets.