Our representation of Halo's iconic space combat in the Homeworld 2 engine, which puts the player in command of some of the most powerful weapons fielded by the UNSC and Covenant and to provide a balanced and competitive experience.
There hasn't been a lot of work coming my way. As I started redoing the UNSC specular and gloss maps to be more interesting, I noticed the Covenant were pretty lackluster so I decided to touch them up as well.
I removed the hex pattern since it was barely visible and instead opted for a more diverse specular map. The gloss map has also been adjusted to display more of a difference between the dark armored parts and the elegant blue parts. The armor parts have little to no gloss so they take more direct light while the main body has a moderate gloss pass so light is more dissolved across the surface to give it a polished shine.
On a related note, this image is special. I added an extra light to the map scene that comes from the planet itself. It's a very faint blue haze that's a reflection off the planet's atmosphere, just as it would be in real life.
you took a look at the original reach style or not yet ?
yeah it's mostly where I got inspiration for the specular map.
well if you need H4 let me know.
these shots are actually beautiful!!!
Amazing work fellas
Just pure epic! Love it!
This ship is beautiful
Spectacular just... Spectacular
Covenant ships suddendly became much more intimidating with this texture rework!
Hell, you beat covenants at their own game ;)
DAYUM
Can i motorboat those ships? Pllzzz, Let me at 'em! I got these CHEESEE BURGERS MAAN! Anything for those ships! Mostly because i hope i can atleast look at the ships up close in combat, for some reason i cant look at hermes class i belive they are called (cruiser) when it starts pew pewing the baddies. Scrolling out and framerate is acting like a charm but scrolling in on any cruiser (frigate) except for paris it lags like (yepp).
"I got these CHEESEE BURGERS MAAN!"
Nah man I don't want any cheese burgers.
:C They got bacon!
Oh I thought it was a Don't be a Menace to South Central joke.
It was but i like bacon :3
MAN, I'LL SUCK YO **** MANNNN
I love you.