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Well I've been hard at work creating new weapon effects and I have 3 new ones to show you here:

Fuel Rod Launcher - A mid-ranged, slow moving weapon assigned to the Gigas Bomber. It does a fair amount of damage, more than a plasma cannon but less than the weapons on larger warships.



I created that one to closely resemble the fuel rod weapon you can use in Halo2.

Plasma Torpedo - A powerful, fairly small moving torpedo weapon found on larger ships such as cruisers and the massive Assault Carrier. It does a large amount of damage, but has a slow firing rate.





I designed the torpedo effect to look like the ones you see hitting the Pillar of Autumn in the first Halo cutscene.

Heavy Needler - A larger, more powerful version of the common handheld weapon, the weapon has a very fast firing rate, though each projectile does very little damage, it takes a large number of hits to destroy a large ship. The projectiles are slow moving, but will track their targets over longer distances than most weapons.



Fairly obvious the inspiration for this one, I just tried to make it as similar to the needler projectile from the handheld weapon as possible.

Enjoy, and as always comments are welcome :)

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Those are beautiful weapons Dan:nodding:... I'm very impresed, can I test some?? please??

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Hey dinosaurJR,

Shoot me an email at cornonthejake@bellsouth.net

This stuff is all awesome!

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Hey CanadaMan7 - I will - and thanks! - Im very proud of the team and what we have achieved so far! Please, if you want to see more, try here;

Halo Fleet Command - MSFC

Although I think I already posted this link in the SOSE forum ;)

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Yeah, I tried to get onto your forums. But its doesn't appear to be working for me...





But yeah, I replied to your email, incase you haven't already seen it.

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CanadaMan7, I am the Administrator of that site, I apologise for the problems currently occurring.

These issues I have been unable to fix due to for the past 18 months my life has been in an up-turn with various family disasters, hospital visits and personal matters/issues that almost caused by death plus other ringarooma that I don't need to go into.

However hopefully as things settle down and my stress levels decrease (i'm like a boiling kettle these last few months) I'll be able to fix them. Currently my main focus concerning the site is to get a new skin up that will remove those issues for guests and people trying to register.

However you can PM me if you wish as you already have the link so it's no advertising on my part and I can manually register you. All I need in the PM is the following:

• Username
• Password
• Active Email Address

Kind Regards,
- Majestic

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Ringarooma, eh? I dont think that even begins to scratch it... But thanks Majest - you come to the rescue once again...

But yay! yet another convert to the MSFC army of darkness.... mwahhahhahhaaaaa!!!!!11!!11!1oneone1111!!!!!!eleve nytone!!!!!!!!!!11one!!

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What is it with everyone in this thread's obsession with the Covenant? (traitorous dogs! :p )

any chance for some UNSC images? like a Prowler, or a Destroyer? (hint hint) :D

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We're working on the mod on a race-by-race basis, releasing each one as it's finished, the Covenant are simply being done first. After the Covenant we'll be doing the UNSC, then the Flood and Forerunners. Just be patient, we'll get to it :)

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dang, my scheme has been foiled!

oh well, its worth the wait.

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Wow, it's been a longer time than I thought since somebody posted here.:uhm: Anyway, here's a quick update on the A2 version UNSC UI.

Constructive criticism is welcome.

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Impressive. It actually looks more like a shot from SoaSE :)

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CABAL you're not dead! also - it looks good - really good :) only one comment. Can it have some more transparency? I ask because the GUI always takes up alot of the screen, and I think that it should not be too invasive.

Extra transparency would allow you to see through it, increasing the playable area of the screen... Bad guys could not hide behind the GUI... Other than that, It looks absolutely awesome!

And MaP - I agree, it doesnt look like A2 at all - it looks waaaaayyy better ;)

Also - what ever came of that friend of yours that needed modding help? the one from the EaW community? If he still needs help, he can PM me?

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Your guess is as good as mine.

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Ah - like that,eh? dissapeared into the ether... Alien abduction is my guess... Thanks for the info though.

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Sure, that pic just didn't have the blending style that the in-game version will have.

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Great work so far CABAL, can't wait to see more :)

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A mock-up of the Covenant UI.

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WOW CABAL - just , WOW! it looks so pretty, and not like A2 at all!

Im loving the wire frames especially - what made you think of that design? Its perfect!

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Very nice mate! well done :)

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Awesome UI, this is looking good!

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Hey guys, hows it going....I've been looking here for updates alot, but you guys haven't been posting so many...anyway, beautiful C.A.B.A.L., love the UI, Dino how are the ships doing? havent seen anything lately....waiting in anticipation(probably spelled wrong) Dan and Majest, how have you been?

P.S.- My birthday is coming, jan29, I'll be 18!....scary thought...

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Hey man what up long time no speak huh? Well as for the mod i believe.....believe....possibly it could have it a lil snag with our fearless leader having an injury as far as the entire happening i feel that that is DJR right to tell and ill leave that there. As far as the models the Purple threat are more than finished with me just tweaking things here and there and adding hps were i feel they are needed. As far as Maj he's been around helping here and there but he has said he is moving on with modding past A2 just finishing up on going mods. Dan is...........no freaking idea havent seen him in a while here or over at MSFC...odd.

As for the Birthday, dont really know what that has to do with anything personally but i do get to say this "OLDER THAN YOU" lol by 19 days (Jan 10 baby)

But Happy early birthday anyway

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I haven't heard from DinoJR and we usually keep each other up to date on our lives. Last I heard he was going on a business trip as he regularly does. But with the Christmas season and new year he no doubt has been busy with friends and family.

You're mostly right about me FG, I am finishing up the projects I am involved with including this one, after which I'll resign myself to making and releasing models on MSFC only, due to my upstanding policy and some people releasing work by me and my team without asking permission or giving credit.

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Hey everyone - First, I would like to wish you all a happy new year - may you all have an excellent 2010!

Second, I would like to say that yes, FG is correct, I did have a rather painful accident with a bottle of boiling water whist attempting to unfreeze my bike lock just before Christmas... Leaving me with a nasty scald on my left hand, and a slightly misshapen claw - rather difficult to type with... and painful to boot...

I am now, however 100% fit and healthy (only a bit of scarring on my fingers on my left hand...)

So, this, along with business things (work, huh?) my lack of a gaming / modding PC, the whole Christmas period etc... (In which I have been back to Scotland, the Fatherland... To Brussels, and to the mountains for a skiing trip) have conspired to keep me away from the mod.

Now, however, I have some good news - as FG knows, and as I have been ranting on about for a very VERY long time, I am finally getting a new PC...

it lives here just now;

Datakjeden Webshop / TOSHIBA Satellite A500-19P 16" WXGAGeForce GT230, Core2Duo P7450, 6GB RAM, 500GB HDD, DVD±RW, Webcam, W7 Home

but around 15th January (when I get paid;) ) It will be mine, oh yes, it WILL be mine... mwahahahaaaaa! Then I can get on with the rest of the mod...

Other good news!

I am learning Blender! It is superior to MS3D in so far that it can do more things to meshes... but inferior in that it is nowhere near as user friendly... I am also working on learning to use GIMP, in addition to PSP9... So expect the UNSC models to outshine the Covenant ones... In a kinda dirty and angry low tech way...

So, sorry that Ive been neglecting the mod, and dont worry, it will soon get back into the swing of things!!

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Hey boss! =p just wanted to give you a heads up about the graphics cards...apparently there have been some recent findings that lead me to believe that directx 10 and A2 work as well together as a fat man and a treadmill (of course this IS NOT a fact but more a hypothesis..yeah thats right look at me using big words lol) . idk if that'll apply to you but just a heads up

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Fat man+tread mill = cardiac arrest and buckets of sweat...

as Chewbacca says; "NO WANT!!!"

Thanks for the heads up, I will look into the graphics card a wee bit more closely now...

Also, I have another covenant model ready to go, the NEST... - I realise that the textures ive been making in PSP8 dont always work, but I now have GIMP, so I will try opening and saving them in GIMP first, to see if that helps... pics will be following here and at home, on MSFC... so keep checking back...

I will send a copy to Dan, and also to you, FG - so that you can go about the HPing duties... Dan seems to have a lot of RL to deal with right now...

On a further note - I have been collaborating with CanadaMan7, a SoaSE modder, and some of my models (tweaked, somewhat) have found their way into SoaSE Sins of the Prophets...

Check it out at ModDB...

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Hey Dude,

I finally found my way back over here. Have you seen moddb lately?
I've been updating like a madman this week.

I sent an email to you.

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Ive seen - and I like! It all looks so good - if we can get our mod to look half as good (on A2's wheezing arthritic engine) then we are doing well... But looking at the team we have assembled here - I think H:FC is gonna look great!

Just thought I would post a wee bit of info here, non MSFC folks - I have been off modding for about a month, due to work, RL, having no PC etc...

But now... IM BACK! just bough ta new lappy, so watch this space (and also MSFC, H:FC's home) for new updates, coming soon!

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Do you think you could make this in Halo FC?

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/ha...8CFV-88%29.png

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Phoenix Class ... possibly... Although to be honest we are working on the Covenant right now, the UNSC will follow... But there has been discussions...

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I'd certainly like to see it included in the mod, but then I'm not the modeller who'd have to build it lol, so I'll leave that up to Dino ;)

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I'm curious, will there be authentic voice from the game in the mod? Or sound effects? To me I can always use some new voices.

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i would like to help on that if i could

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To be honest guys - I dont think we are quite there yet - I am still working on the models for the first race (the Covenant) we havent even got a beta up and running yet, to my knowledge...

But why not give it a shot, and send it to me (PM me if you are serious and I will give you my email address) if its good (and right for the mod) we will add them in - for scripting ideas, try looking at the HBO: Humor is arbitrary, Logic is not. website - they have an archive of all the speech clips from the Halo series...

I look forward to hearing from you!

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I like the look of the Spirit of Fire, I might take a shot at it as something to do in my spare time. If I actually do get it finished, you'd be free to have the model. I'm not going to try texturing it, in my opinion for that baby to look awesome you'd need at least 1024x1024 textures, maybe even 2048s. But thats just me and my nit-picky-ness lol.

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Oh, gud. This mod isn't dead. COOL!!!!!.....Ok, wai (W-H-Y!!!!!) isn't my speech normal heer (it's supposed to be h-e-r-e). I tried to say g-o-o-d, but it made it g-u-d.

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All the posts seem to be run through a LOLspeeks filter for caturday. awsum sawce!=p

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DinoJr hasn't been on much recently, I hazn't herd from him in well over a month. But I know DinoJR he'll won't give up the mod even if teh basement freezes over.

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I havent heard much from DJr either. But rest assured this MOD isnt dead, just in a lil slump.

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btw, im still alive. just been lurkin around, tryin to find kool things on the net and talking with my gal online... but im getting a bit bord. i cant wait for SCII to come out! Swarm for the win!

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Hey guys - yeah, I think slump is the word to use... a combination of work (Ive been to Brussels on business twice in the last month) holiday time (Ive spent the last week in a cabin in the mountains with no lights / internet / plumbing etc... kinda like a hermit...) work again (we are really close to signing my first contract deal at work... it means a big bonus... also that I keep my job...) also accounts on Stardock AND Steam (DoW: Soulstorm and Borderlands FTW) plus I cant get Blender to work on my new laptop, also MS3d won't register (I might have to buy a new license... Anyone else have issues gettign MS3d to to register on 64bit Windows7?)

But, other than that list of excuses... slumpy... thats how I would describe things...

I am getting my mojo back, slowly but surely though... Im gonna go for a new MS3d license tomorrow, end of week at the latest, then we'll see...

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Well it's been forever since I did anything with A2 other than minor changes to my own install, RL has been crazy lately even with the end of my uni exams. Now though I've finally reached the big stretch of free time I have for this summer, and I've gotten back to modding.

So with that I've finally cleared the backlog of H:FC models that DJ has sent me.

Starting off with a new Covenant unit, the Illumination Class scout corvette, designed to locate Forerunner artifacts, as well as filling a general scout and patrol function:







Next is one of the Covenants non-combat units and it's corresponding station, the Unggoy Mining Freighter and the Plasma Refinery:







Next up is what I'd call one of DJs best models since the Haven, the Covenant Nest fighter yard/deployment facility. Part shipyard and part turret, these mid-sized automated stations build and deploy Seraph, Gigas & Tarasque Class fighters, and are armed with heavy needlers and point defense lasers:







Now for a change, a UNSC unit, the Prowler Class, small and not all that well armed, these ships are used for stealth missions by the mysterious Office of Naval Intelligence:







And now for something different; the first Forerunner units placed ingame for H:FC, the Onyx Sentinel and Onyx Sentinel Pair. These small killing machines guard various Forerunner installations, and singe units can combine into pairs to increase firepower & shielding.

First, the single Onyx Sentinel:





And the Onyx Sentinel Pair:



I hope you enjoy the pics, and it's good to be back =]

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well i think this mod is actualy a really great idea
it high time someone gave Halo its Armada counter-part and from the pictures id say it wont disapoint

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Those sentinals are beautiful, but might I throw something in for the sake of cannon? A discription of the Onyx sentinels from the book says(and yes this is straight from the book, no alterations);

quotes from book: -Halo: Ghosts of Onyx-


For a texture reference it's fairly descriptive I think...Ok, so to another point, people keep limiting the sentinels to their primary(single) and hunter(double) formations, but these, on their own can't hurt a space vessel, (I realy want to help, I'm not trying to come off as condescending)
So I'll throw in a couple more samples for the team;

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Actually, since there is no real image of the Onyx Sentinel, that model could work. The book only says 'boom', but 'Halo: The Flood' describes the Sentinel (the Halo Installation one) looks like a 'cube with wings' if I remember correctly.

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The description you are thinking of, icebite, is that of the halo instalation sentinels, wich are created on the fortress-world rings, not the shield-worlds, such as Onyx. I'll give you the paragraph of descriptive text for that one as well since it has been mentioned;

Book: -Halo: The Flood-

Also, remember that the halo monitor AI, 343Guilty Spark, may have been rampant at that time, also he may have altered the design of his instalations sentinels for more efficency, as he was fully capable of doing so.
The sentinels on Onyx are presumably unaltered from the original design, seeing as the re-activation of the shield-world was very recent, and the worlds steward was most likely dormant till the signal from the halos awakened it.
343Guilty Spark was the staward of Instalation 04, and had full acess to all systems and functions of said instalation for millions of years, while the Onyx systems had not been run in millions of years.
The descriptions are fundamentaly similar, but there are many permutations of the sentinels to consider, the monitors themselves for example, are a form of sentinel-like construct.
They all seem to have spheroid cores, some have arms, those arms may vary, and the designs on/around the central bodys may vary as well.
Point being, the design was said to be of an Onyx sentinel, if I remember corectly, so I found it's description and threw it in there for reference, if it could be of any help.

P.S.
Ah, and I think I might have figured out a way to create the grouping affect of the Onyx sentinels for the more powerful blast described... post a reply if you want to hear it, otherwise I'll be trying to gather a bit more info for it.

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What I'm saying is that the descriptions in the books may not completely describe how the writers intended on looking. And, your offer sounds intersting......

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Ok so on the game, speices 8472, has the biopulse super-weapon, it takes
around 6-8 battleships, grouped with a frigate, the battleships fire their
energy into the frigate, and it combines the beam and amplifys it. Thereby I
think if we use a similar aproach, and modify this weapon to work with a
grouping of sentinels,and perhaps 1 special sentinel, and give it a good
range, it'll balance the playing feild.
Mind you I'm no good at modifying weapons, so this is only a sugestion, but
if you guys could get this to work I will gladly test it out on my setup. :)
Also, I can lurk the halopidia forums for a good sentinel idea for the central one...
(I WANT TO TEST STUFF)

P.S. Found a candidate,the normal sentinels(Ring world forms) have a stronger
variant, the enforcer Sentinels, they are colored diferently and have slightly stronger weapons.
We can use this idea and create a specific type just for this task.

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I think you mean the golden Sentinel Majors. Enforcers look like this:

I like this idea, but we're going to need to find a way to get them into formation faster or make it so it can't be interrupted by taking pot-shots at the sentinels forming the thing.