Contest of the Month! [June : Vote Now!]

[Mgalekgolo]

The contest for July is a single modified weapon. It can be as extravagant or as simple as you want. It can be as weak or as deadly as you want.

As according to the rules, you may not use any Custom Edition (Halo Editing Kit) tags. However, you could import your own models using OBJConverter and other mac tools...

since I still can't use a computer I'd like to use my sentinel gun from swamp installation #(?) on hdm. When I do have a computer it will probably have lion... but if i can I'll finish my onyx sentinel gun. that thing was epic, but now I have to do everything from the ground up...
would it be possible if i could change the player bipd to one of my handy bipeds with huds(I still want to know whos using them...) and add sentinels with the guns in the map (traditonal one time flipped vehicle spawn)?

Wow I write a lot on my shit phone [/offtopic]

[Sparky]

Here is my entry for June:

"A New Alliance"

The AI/Biped I'm submitting from this mod is the Armored Marine.

Here is a summary of the changes:
- Equipped with a pistol
- Immune to falling damage
- Energy shielding technology is new for them, and while they made them about twice as strong as the elites, the shields were not fully integrated into the marines' armor. They do not disappear like they would in a normal state and with full systems integration. They are always visible when up.
- Improved accuracy and very fast firing rate with pistol, although they prefer to use their unlimited supply of frag grenades.
- Can see about 1.5x the default distance of visibility.
- Drops a higher percentage of ammunition.
- Proportional changes between normal and advanced marines.
- Various tweaks such as shield leak percentage and shield behavior (I think I broke the actv tag when trying to use the bitmask "swarm" behavior).

Story:

UNSC finally unravels covenant shielding technology, and the discovery causes "unphforseen" consequences to our advantage. Seeing little chance of victory at this turn of events, a band of rebels within the covenant forces defects to the human side of the war and convinces many others to follow them. The covenant forces are now crippled, but there is still strong resistance in some areas of the island. Intel reports that the largest resistance is a beach-side group of hunters still confident in their own strength against all other species. We'll drop you in behind their lines of defense. After you're done securing the beach, follow Cortana's instructions to gain access to the map room in order to flush out the remaining forces loyal to the covenant.

But be careful: this new alliance is very delicate. Things could go very bad for us if you shoot at our new friends.



If you want to see the armored marines in additional combat situations and want to remove the alliance, you can swap the following as indicated in Eschaton:

[{DKW}drk]

why is my entry not on HDM? is it not qaulified or something?

[Sparky]

The theme for this month of June is Bipeds / Artificial Intelligence.
You must start with the default bloodgulch or b30 map; it may be single player or multiplayer.
All changes must be made by the modder submitting their mod.
Halo Editing Kit use is not allowed.
Existing tags besides those already in the default maps are not allowed, with the exception of Sparky's Bitmaps and Sounds Collection at any stage of its release.
Deadline is the tenth day of the following month (July 10, 2011, in this case).
Any changes besides those understandably related to the theme will not benefit the mod when it is voted upon.

See above quote for updated rules for this month. That gives us 1 more day for entries into the contest. Voting will start on Monday.

why is my entry not on HDM? is it not qaulified or something?

Please provide a title along with a description or storyline. It would help to mention what, specifically, you changed in the mod. I was unable to notice what was changed as far as the AI behavior and Biped structure.
I'll update my own entry with a description similar to what I'm asking of you, also.

[Noodle]

I find it funny how all the noobles are creaming over this and everyone else pays no attention.

[Amy]

I'm waiting for a fun contest.

[Kayar]

Unfortunately, I can't get Halo Demo working on my laptop right now. I am assuming Snow Leopard causes this? In which case, neither of my available computers can run Halo Demo. Which means I won't be entering into this or any other contest anytime soon.

Edit: I suppose I could do blind modding, or deaf modding, or something along those lines. Like Beethoven. I could change crap in eschaton and whatnot, put it up for people, and never do any testing of my own. Imagine the horrible things I would fail at making...

[{DKW}drk]

Please provide a title along with a description or storyline. It would help to mention what, specifically, you changed in the mod.
I was unable to notice what was changed as far as the AI behavior and Biped structure. I'll update my own entry with a description similar to what I'm asking of you, also.

well you could say i used pretty much no effort on at AI part... I messed around with sheild & body health and coloring (of what i could make of it...).
Title: Elite isle
Storyline: clear elites off the island.
Basicly i was making a test of AI and see the flexiblility of them im still a imcompitent (actual word right there) babble of AI changing. (please for the love of sandwiches dont put this in the description.. if u do upload it)
Biped was untouched.
on my scale it rates... 6.8\10

[Mgalekgolo]

Please provide a title along with a description or storyline. It would help to mention what, specifically, you changed in the mod.
I was unable to notice what was changed as far as the AI behavior and Biped structure. I'll update my own entry with a description similar to what I'm asking of you, also.

well you could say i used pretty much no effort on at AI part... I messed around with sheild & body health and coloring (of what i could make of it...).
Title: Elite isle
Storyline: clear elites off the island.
Basicly i was making a test of AI and see the flexiblility of them im still a imcompitent (actual word right there) babble of AI changing. (please for the love of sandwiches dont put this in the description.. if u do upload it)
Biped was untouched.
on my scale it rates... 6.8\10

In my scale I rate it a 0/100

Anyway yeah i have a computer now so im going to try to do that mod.


yeah well Your a flood just cuz I felt like it and The sentinel guys holding the gun. this is alpha but im bored so try that damn shat.
video:


The file
http://halodemomods.com/mediawiki/image ... ontest.zip

[kiddten]

Holy shit dude, turn down your graphics before recording a vidya. Christ.

[Mgalekgolo]

Its a 5 year old computer. give it a break. Its pretty low already.

[kiddten]

Turn your textures to low, disable anti-aliasing and turn down your shaders. Disable shadows, lower model quality.
Problem?

[Excend]

I'm lost. The June contest is an AI competition going in July? And the July competition is a weapon contest being posted about in the June contest topic? And haven't we had like a million weapon contests?

[Mgalekgolo]

I'm lost. The June contest is an AI competition going in July? And the July competition is a weapon contest being posted about in the June contest topic? And haven't we had like a million weapon contests?

Holy what the shit, hey ghosts 0_0

edit: everything off or low...

[Sparky]

Vote now:

Elite Isle by Drk
A New Alliance by Sparky

Edit: Sorry, but the poll system for this topic is really buggy right now. With a bit of testing and working around the glitchyness, I got it to work. Just vote for the one you think is best.

EDIT: I figured out how it works: The votes are basically doubled with each vote. When you vote for a mod, the duplicate entry also gets a vote. Therefore, we'll divide all the poll data in half in order to determine how many people voted and how many votes for each there were. The ratio still applies, even though the votes are doubled.