Make it BETTER!
Take a look at the world editor in Warcraft 3, a game I used to mod, for example. It’s ten years old and the editor can still do amazing things (exhibit A: DotA).
I’m so sick of the ugly greys in Reach. I want to edit the looks, physics, settings, and terrain to the greatest extent possible. I don’t like making tiny changes to existing modes, or putting basic grey blocks in a single map.
Here’s a reasonable list of things you could put in:
Variable tilesets (eg. snow, sand)
Covenant & Human architecture, not just the same old forerunner grey blocks
More natural objects, such as trees & shrubbery, not just rocks
Triggers, if possible, which are basically custom scripts/events (this could also lead to purely custom game modes)
Options to edit physics
Ability to put in AIs (which could also mean we could make our own FF maps)
I really hope Halo 4’s forge will have more options.
> Make it BETTER!
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> Take a look at the world editor in Warcraft 3, a game I used to mod, for example. It’s ten years old and the editor can still do amazing things (exhibit A: DotA).
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> I’m so sick of the ugly greys in Reach. I want to edit the looks, physics, settings, and terrain to the greatest extent possible. I don’t like making tiny changes to existing modes, or putting basic grey blocks in a single map.
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> Here’s a reasonable list of things you could put in:
> Variable tilesets (eg. snow, sand)
> Covenant & Human architecture, not just the same old forerunner grey blocks
> More natural objects, such as trees & shrubbery, not just rocks
> Triggers, if possible, which are basically custom scripts/events (this could also lead to purely custom game modes)
> Options to edit physics
> Ability to put in AIs (which could also mean we could make our own FF maps)
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> I really hope Halo 4’s forge will have more options.
Warcraft is an RTS, Halo is an FPS. If you want to make an example I would use an FPS. Far cry 2 is a popular example, especially with its still unbeaten map editor. But yeah, I do agree with your list.
Not much needs to be done to Forge. Some more colour and some more natural items would do pretty good.
Time of day and weather would be nice to have, but I’d rather they spent more time working on MM than adding those features. Forge should be good enough without them.