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[BigEvilTurtle]

Playing the new maps today in the Holiday playlist, on Antifreeze and Overgrowth a player got out of the map and was being a nuisance (I didn't know this until going back and looking at the films, but same person in both games!). On Overgrowth it looked like he used basic jumps to get above sword spawn and then eventually above courtyard and Railgun, being above the map here didn't seem to beneficial since he couldn't get down and was mostly exposed once you realized where he was. On antifreeze the jump up uses some mid skill jumps from inside red base that can get you anywhere along the outside of the map. This boggles my mind, how are any maps being made now without insta-kill volume around the perimeter ridges and above the playable space? 343 needs to fix three of the four new maps...which judging by Orion's long vacation would take them out of rotation for a month or more

Yikes. Well Entombed shouldn't be much of an issue since it's quite difficult to do and doesn't really benefit much aside from a good sniping perch. I didn't think you could escape Overgrowth!

 

[Twilight Gap]

What are you working on breh

just messing around with angles. going to replace most of those pieces with ones that cost less of the light budget

 

[Im_So_Pringles]

I gave Facing Worlds II a visual overhaul:

Full album here: http://imgur.com/a/vyk49

The map is set up for both Team Slayer and Capture The Flag. There are no other gametypes that will feasibly work on it. I really want to play test this soon! I'm loving this forge!

 

[Loginius]

Did a octagon map to try out the new forge and except for the super complicated controls I really like it.
But I have some problems someone might be able to shine some light on:

-respawns do not work properly. It takes some players up to 20s to respawn with the timer at 0. I have no idea what could cause this. I only used neutral spawns and have one in each corner of the map. I did not place any volumes.

-the ending animation does not play, the intro works fine (cam + animation), the camera for the outro too, its just the animation thats not playing. (the entity is set to outro)

If someone wants to check out the map my gamertag is "Loginius" and the map is caled "Octagon"

Edit:
Deleting and adding the animation entity fixed the outro problem, the spawn point problem remains. Tried adding a spawn volume but the weight setting seems to be busted, it only changes between -15.80 and -16.00 in 0.01 steps...

and I just noticed that the steam FX does not show up while in play mode / not monitor?

 

[Strider]

Not mine, but wanted to share this because it's astonishing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaooSFaFExA

Daaaamn, That's pretty awesome

Absolutely hate that light starting at 00:36 though. Looking down a street and being blinded is never good from a gameplay perspective, even if it looks cool.

 

[Fuchsdh]

Daaaamn, That's pretty awesome

Absolutely hate that light starting at 00:36 though. Looking down a street and being blinded is never good from a gameplay perspective, even if it looks cool.

Yeah the use of lens flares is a bit over the top, especially since they don't quite respond naturally to shifting in and out of your vision/rendering from a distance.

 

[Strider]

Yeah the use of lens flares is a bit over the top, especially since they don't quite respond naturally to shifting in and out of your vision/rendering from a distance.

Wouldn't it be better if the light was flickering anyway? Kinda feel like that'd work better given the atmosphere of the map. Could still provide some vision that way and it'd still look nice...

Idk if flickering lights is a thing though. I dont actually use forge myself.

 

[BraXzy]

just messing around with angles. going to replace most of those pieces with ones that cost less of the light budget

Hey look there's me!

Finally getting to grips with the basic controls in Forge now, much to Goats dismay haha.

 

[User 73706]

YOU CAN CHANGE THE COLOR OF GLASS

BASED 343

I'm working on my Chiron spiritual successor right now, but before I map the actual thing out I'm revising the "teleporter hall" designs a bit. I kinda-sorta-not-really want them to be evocative of CE's original halls, or rather I want the warp halls to be an exception to prove the rule, design-wise. They're meant to look really stripped down, "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain," visible paneling, etc. compared to the clean matte look the rest of the map is going to have.

 

[Fuchsdh]

Wouldn't it be better if the light was flickering anyway? Kinda feel like that'd work better given the atmosphere of the map. Idk if flickering lights is a thing though. I dont actually use forge myself.

Not only can you flicker, pulse, or erratically cut the lights (horror movie I think they call it), you actually have some level of control over the flickering frequencies and such as well. It's super awesome.

 

[Raide]

I wish Fileshare was up and running. Managed to get my map looking a bit more Quake 3 styled in terms of lighting and textures etc. Still not perfect yet.

 

[Twilight Gap]

glacier is busted. changing the skybox will either shift all of the pieces and then crash any existing groups or crash back to the menu.

 

[Karl2177]

glacier is busted. changing the skybox will either shift all of the pieces and then crash any existing groups or crash back to the menu.

I've been working on Glacier the entire time, and I haven't had any of those issues.

 

[jem0208]

I've been working on Glacier the entire time, and I haven't had any of those issues.

Same.

 

[Twilight Gap]

I've been working on Glacier the entire time, and I haven't had any of those issues.

3rd time for me. if it happens again i'll go through DVR and save the last few minutes.

 

[nillapuddin]

3rd time for me. if it happens again i'll go through DVR and save the last few minutes.

are you co-forging or allowing join in progress?

because I spend half my night fixing pieces getting messed up from groups getting stuck together, and pieces going wonky

(on parallax)

When Im solo, I have no issues

 

[ilikesanta]

I wanted to make a soccer game type but the soccer ball doesn't react to Spartan charge, dashes or explosions how you think it would. [sad face]

 

[Twilight Gap]

are you co-forging or allowing join in progress?

because I spend half my night fixing pieces getting messed up from groups getting stuck together, and pieces going wonky

(on parallax)

When Im solo, I have no issues

parallax crashed me to dashboard once when i added a third script to an object while it was moving

alpine crashed me to main menu when i moved a giant welded object around the map

glacier has crashed me to the menu three times while changing the skybox

all of them happened while i was forging solo with the party closed.

 

[Magwik]

I wanted to make a soccer game type but the soccer ball doesn't react to Spartan charge, dashes or explosions how you think it would. [sad face]

Does it react to vehicles well enough? If so you can make a rocket league style game type

 

[Sikamikanico]

So the first map I'm trying to make is for BTB.

Two objectives while I'm building it:

1) Make use of new Forge systems like lighting and scripting.
2) Make it not look like a Forge map.

 

[NOKYARD]

i was forging solo with the party closed.

Does closing a solo party keep players from joining your forge session?

Streaming more of my Grifball court build. The problem with the Invisible Barriers were (somehow) resolved. http://www.twitch.tv/nokyard

 

[Trup1aya]

Not mine, but wanted to share this because it's astonishing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaooSFaFExA

I really like his solution for the white lines in the road.

Making them lights not only works within the 'future city' theme, but it's a much more elegant solution than attempting to use boxes to represent painted lines.

 

[Glass]

I gave Facing Worlds II a visual overhaul:

Full album here: http://imgur.com/a/vyk49

The map is set up for both Team Slayer and Capture The Flag. There are no other gametypes that will feasibly work on it. I really want to play test this soon! I'm loving this forge!

Great job! This is going to be one of my first projects too. Going to use the great rock terrain pieces for the middle part.

 

[nillapuddin]

dont tell anyone, but Im pretty much finished with build out number 1

 

[belushy]

Nilla you're inspiring

 

[Jessie.Bristol]

dont tell anyone, but Im pretty much finished with build out number 1

Foundation?!?!

 

[Loginius]

Hm, so I made a small video showing my problem with the respawns on octagon.
Sometimes they work sometimes they do not and you almost always spawn right behind an enemy (if you can spawn).

Anybody knows whats up with this?
The same behavior applies to the "Parallax" map that has nothing but a few spawn points in it.
Is halo 5 just unable to spawn you when there are no walls to break lines of sight?

The setup for my map consists only of neutral spawn points (8 of them) and the game mode has instant respawns enabled.

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Loginius/video/13325957

 

[jem0208]

So I've found a very odd bug.

Was messing around with scripts on weapons trying to find a way to make static spawns. Accidentally set up something which made it so the weapon was removed from your hands, I thought this was a bit weird so I set two of those weapons up and picked them both up. Waited for them both to be removed and this is what happens:

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Il MeanBean lI/video/13325961

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Il MeanBean lI/video/13325959

 

[belushy]

So I've found a very odd bug.

Was messing around with scripts on weapons trying to find a way to make static spawns. Accidentally set up something which made it so the weapon was removed from your hands, I thought this was a bit weird so I set two of those weapons up and picked them both up. Waited for them both to be removed and this is what happens:

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Il MeanBean lI/video/13325961

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Il MeanBean lI/video/13325959

Can you still melee?

 

[Jessie.Bristol]

So I've found a very odd bug.

Was messing around with scripts on weapons trying to find a way to make static spawns. Accidentally set up something which made it so the weapon was removed from your hands, I thought this was a bit weird so I set two of those weapons up and picked them both up. Waited for them both to be removed and this is what happens:

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Il MeanBean lI/video/13325961

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Il MeanBean lI/video/13325959

I believe that is intentional. There is a method to remove the gun for Machinima, there are Youtube videos that detail exactly how to do it.

 

[therealminime]

Working on a BTB map just to learn forge, who knows if I ever finish it. I think I've finished maybe one map in my life, but whatever. I am happy with how this weird arctic construction site base is turning out.

 

[Sephzilla]

dont tell anyone, but Im pretty much finished with build out number 1

#NostalgiaFeels

 

[nillapuddin]

Yeah I dont want to hype myself up too much, but Im out doing myself, big time.


edit@ nok, really trying to watch but its so laggy I cant, dunno if its me or not, but keep it up!

 

[Homeboyd]

nilla doin WORK

 

[Fuchsdh]

Yeah I dont want to hype myself up too much, but Im out doing myself, big time.


edit@ nok, really trying to watch but its so laggy I cant, dunno if its me or not, but keep it up!

The shadows look good, Nilla

 

[cleansock]

dont tell anyone, but Im pretty much finished with build out number 1

Doing God's work.

 

[RodanCeros]

Amusing glitch- in Forge mode, my character has the FOTUS helmet (which I don't own)...


Anyways I have the beginnings of an epic BTB map, just need to flesh it out with decorations, lights, etc. I'm really not good at this stuff though.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

Ayy nilla, too bad they don't give a lot of REQ points for Forge so you could still hunt for Mk. IV and V :[

Based Forgers doing GOD's WORK!

Doing God's work.

lol get out of my head!

 

[Twilight Gap]

light map is the final boss

can't escape the budget in the end.

 

[nillapuddin]

thanks everyone, Im just a guy, looking at a screen, asking people to love me

tbh that map has been really quick, id probably be done but yesterday I was helping my buddy tackle the remake of his dreams...

(subtle WIP screenshot)

Spoiler

choo choo

Ayy nilla, too bad they don't give a lot of REQ points for Forge so you could still hunt for Mk. IV and V :[

right! its online ONLY anyways, le sigh

 

[Twilight Gap]

saved a map and loaded it again and all my welded objects bugged. framerate was all over the place so had to ungroup them.

lightmap is at 79%

 

[jem0208]

I believe that is intentional. There is a method to remove the gun for Machinima, there are Youtube videos that detail exactly how to do it.

It's definitely not, it breaks your animations and stuff. You can see in one of the videos the legs don't work anymore.

Can you still melee?

Nope, you can't even thrust.

 

[belushy]

It's definitely not, it breaks your animations and stuff. You can see in one of the videos the legs don't work anymore.



Nope, you can't even thrust.

Could be used for some minigames were you don't want to let people kill you I guess.

 

[TCKaos]

Here's a video explaining an issue I ran into editing my Blood Gulch remake.

Basically, Glacier has no hardcoded spawn points for Forge mode, unlike Alpine. Monitors can't spawn at initial spawn points, so if you remove all of the respawn points then the map is rendered uneditable. However, players can still spawn at initial spawn points as Spartans, but there's no way to spawn as a Spartan in Forge outright.

Apparently, 343 knows about this and is working to resolve this but I'm trying to make sure that everyone realizes this is an issue so they don't fuck themselves over.

 

[Computron]

You need Xbox Live to use Forge...

That's the power of the Microsoft Azure Cloud™

 

[nillapuddin]

gotta go out to dinner, damn its a shame, I was really making progress on my favorite...


45 min of work, but shes a beaut

Dont want to alarm anyone, But the controls and everything, Ive got it down. even turned off the screen nanny. I was hesitant at first, and they might not be perfect..

but yeah, this will do, this will do.

 

[User 73706]

So it looks like my Chiron teleporter explosion traps are working. I'll link a vid in a bit. Btw, protip regarding forcing explosives to blow up on their own: i don't think mancannons can be set to have scripts meaning you can't blow them up the old fashioned way, but you can just script a fusion coil to fling itself into a wall at a million miles an hour on spawn.

 

[Twilight Gap]

guess what

you can shoot through glass

 

[op_ivy]

guess what

you can shoot through glass

reach's boardwalk taught me that!

 

[User 73706]

You can also be damaged by the fire particle effects, which I didn't expect for some reason. That being said, it doesn't look to be able to blow up fusion coils, or if it can it at least takes a while to do that much damage - i'm tempted to forego explosives entirely and just cook Spartans alive in the teleporter halls.