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Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram
Posted By: Louis Wu <halo@bungie.org>	Date: 9/26/03 9:58 a.m.
In Response To: Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram (ThorsHammer) : Well, I had actually just checked it out too, and I came to the conclusion : that it didn't repeat textures, but hey, what the heck, I could well be : wrong. I am definitely not a pro; if you've done four animated shorts and : textured everything in them by hand using Photoshop, you probably know : just as much, or maybe more, about texturing than I do (Yes, my animation : projects all sucked royally, but I did do them, and I'd like to think I : learned something from them). : It would be nice to hear some evidence that the textures are repeated, like : "That one set of clouds shows up three times on the ring", or : "The major continental masses are all the same shape, just flipped or : rotated", instead of "I checked." I checked too, but that's : not proof that I'm right. My evidence for concluding that the textures : weren't repeated was: (1) The small holograms don't always point to the : same location; some are placed over clouds, some over clear land, and some : over water. : (2) The locations of the holograms are all wrong, if they point to the same : spot in the repeated textures; some parts of the ring don't have any for : quite a ways, while in other places, there are two close enough together : that a sniper on 10x zoom can fit them both on the same screen. : (3) Although some of the textures do appear to be reused (particularly one : cloud formation over open water, which I believe appears twice; it can be : hard to tell, and I'm not too good at it, as I may have mentioned), the : overall impression you get is not one of a "cookie cutter" : copy/paste/copy/pasted texturing job, which is what I mean when I say : "repeated texturing"; you may well mean something else, though. : (4) In checking out the landmasses, I was not able to find any pieces that : looked exactly like one another (Although, I only spent ten minutes : checking the ring, so there's a good chance that I missed a lot). Some are : similar to others, definitely, but I would argue that it's not really a : repeated texture unless it's the exact same texture. I think it's quite possible that the holograms are completely separate from the texturemap. BOLL mapped the PoA Halo; it repeated 7 times. I'd be really, really surprised if they used a different texturemap for the Control Room Halo (though I suppose it's possible). Check this page for details, including a 5000x200 image of the tile): http://halo.bungie.org/misc/mapping_halo/

Message Index

Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram	ThorsHammer	9/25/03 3:10 a.m.
Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram	Louis Wu	9/25/03 11:32 a.m.
Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram	Fork Me With A Spoon	9/25/03 3:08 p.m.
Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram	ThorsHammer	9/25/03 5:55 p.m.
Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram	Infininja	9/25/03 4:17 p.m.
Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram	ThorsHammer	9/25/03 6:04 p.m.
Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram	Infininja	9/25/03 6:10 p.m.
Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram	ThorsHammer	9/25/03 6:39 p.m.
Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram	Infininja	9/25/03 7:29 p.m.
Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram	ThorsHammer	9/25/03 9:05 p.m.
Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram	Infininja	9/25/03 9:39 p.m.
Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram	Louis Wu	9/26/03 9:58 a.m.
Re: Forerunner symbols/Halo hologram	ThorsHammer	9/28/03 12:12 a.m.