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Re: Bungie Weekly Update!!!
Posted By: [WAR]JonDate: 3/7/04 6:24 p.m.

In Response To: Bungie Weekly Update!!! (Frankie)

: Bungie Weekly Update March 05

: Busy, busy week at Bungie! Tons of stuff going on! Number of deadlines all
: converging! No sleep for many! I managed to stick my head in the middle
: and glean some goodies though. Check it out: * Michael and the other
: environment artists have been tooling around with some very human
: geometry. A gorgeous bridge, worthy of a glossy spread in any architecture
: magazine, has been profoundly torn up by Covenant attack. The futuristic
: surface of the bridge is composed of bonded interlocking panels of a
: space-age material, and the damage is being carefully honed so that it
: reflects the rending blasts of Covenant energy weapons and the warping of
: the structural panels and concrete elements.

: The bridge can be driven on too, so the gaping holes have to be both
: obstacles and gameplay elements, so some of the bent panels can be used as
: ramps. That means there is a profound danger that you could eat it and
: plummet into the sparkling waters below either through the gap itself, or
: as the result of a poorly aimed jump.

: And on the subject of water (a personal favorite of mine) the placeholder
: water I thought looked pretty freaking good, is being replaced with what
: the graphics guys say is a much more convincing wave-based shader system.
: It's so far below that most of it will go unseen – but the designers know
: that players will go take a closer look when they get a breather, possibly
: with a sniper scope, so they're making sure everything looks good from any
: distance.

: Why bother with realistic placeholder water at all? The designers could make
: their job a bit easier by simply inserting a big blue sheet of nothing.
: It's so that when designing levels, and tuning graphics, everything has
: the correct context for color and geography.

: * Over at the Cananimators' lair, things are progressing shockingly well.
: Looks finished to me boys! Ship it! But no, tons of work still to do,
: although you wouldn't know it to look at the brilliant new dual-wielding
: animations. Nathan has been tuning the idle animations and aiming stuff –
: and he's made a few subtle, but vital changes.

: Two identical guns now look wholly natural, instead of just kind of stuck out
: in front of you. They reload convincingly, Chief will make slight turns
: and angle changes as he's blasting, and it's kind of hard to describe how
: much more realistic the difference in animation between hands makes it
: look. Just more organic, I suppose. The same thinking is being applied
: when you hold two different weapons, but that always looked more natural
: anyway.

: An even more subtle thing is the way Chief raises or lowers his arms when you
: look up or down, respectively. This lets you see more of the screen so
: that your arms aren't blocking what you're trying to swing and aim at.
: It's a teeny, teeny change, but it's going to make looking up and down
: much more natural – rather than simply improving how it looks.

: He's also been working on a Covenant weapon that has been shown before – but
: never discussed. The first person animation looks great, and the weapon
: has a zoom mode too. Nathan wants to see a really cool alien interface for
: the zoomed view, but that's something that's still being discussed.

: * Rob (who does the designs for almost all the Halo weapons and vehicles) has
: been working all this week on the same weapon Nathan is animating. He's
: changing little details on the way the gun looks, and also building in the
: geometry for the collision detection – so that the gun can bump into
: walls, or if it's in the way when the Elite holding it gets shot, the gun
: itself is struck, not simply the creature wielding it.

: You know, getting to design weapons and vehicles all day – that's a pretty
: freaking cool job.

: * The sound guys have been working on alien Covenant noises. And alien voices
: as a matter of fact. Expect to hear a lot more artistic nuance in the
: voices of all sorts of alien scumbags, including a very cool surround
: based effect for a particularly epic encounter.

: Mat Noguchi has been working on "an intractable problem, the equivalent
: of proving or disproving the existence of God." He wouldn't
: elaborate, claiming that the very revelation of the problem would destroy
: any possible solution. Which is pretty esoteric, to say the least. Maybe
: he's been trying to give kitty treats to Schrφdinger's Cat.

: Mat is also pondering some kind of amusing "promotion" for the
: escalation of grenade explosions. That may or may not happen, but you
: might want to try playing around with ridiculous numbers of grenades when
: the game ships, just in case something cool is attached to a cataclysmic
: escalation of explosions! You know, apart from the epic amount of
: destruction.

: * Marketing guys have been going bananas with packaging issues all week – one
: of the items being designed right now is the box. I've seen a mock-up with
: one of the proposed illustrations and it's very cool and when you see it
: on the box, it looks even cooler.

: * Chris Butcher chatted about the Live stuff that we're planning and it's all
: pretty cool. Some of it is secret, but some of it simply takes full
: advantage of Live's already stellar features. The way your Halo games will
: find the best and closest servers (for Quickmatch) is going to have some
: excellent options attached to it, especially for groups of friends who
: want to play together.

: The Xbox Live datacenter is actually located here in Redmond, so all of the
: matches are filtered through here – even for European, Australasian and
: Asian gamers. But naturally that's not ideal for connection speed – so
: once you've found, filtered and started a match, the connection is much
: more direct. In fact, Live will check for the closest geographic location,
: and often try to match up service providers – so if two guys are using a
: Comcast cable modem in the same part of town, there's a higher likelihood
: they'll find each other in a quickmatch. That's stellar news for ping
: times and of course, the dreaded lag. That matchmaking isn't totally
: unique to Halo 2 of course, but the game is going to do some cool and
: radical things to take advantage of it.

: * Faxing is stupid. As a technology, it's right up there with square wheels
: and turd-filled pizza crust. So not only can you never be sure that what
: you just faxed ever went through, the recipient actually has to go look
: for it. Imagine if to check email you had to drive to a bad part of town
: and stick your hand down a dark hole? That's what faxing is like. Kinda.
: Anyway, while I was faxing something this week, I wandered around the
: corner from the fax machine and discovered heaven. For me anyway. The
: Microsoft Game Studios TV Lab. Drool.

: It's literally set up like a museum. There are rows and rows of TVs for
: testing and reference, with little cards that explain the technology and
: the purpose. They range from an RF-only--capable black and white set, to a
: giant Sony Plasma display. There are also TVs from other countries – a
: Japanese NTSC HD set – a UK PAL set with digital capabilities. They just
: go on and on and on. I tried to sneak out of there, but the receptionist
: knows that I don't have a 42 inch rectangular physique.

: One last thing: I wonder what Mister Chief will look like after Halo 2 ships?

:If u wanna see the "secret" Gun download the making of Halo 2 video and pause it when MC melees the jackle in the back of the head then throws the nade ull see it

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     Re: Bungie Weekly Update!!! *NM*Frank Earullo 3/24/04 3:15 p.m.
           WTF?... *NM*WildMonkeys 3/24/04 3:17 p.m.
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