I’d like to consider myself an avid forger. Or at least I used to be. I spent more time creating maps in Halo 3 and Reach than actually playing matchmaking, and people’s first impressions is that 343i skimped on the textures when it comes to the BTB maps which are made with forge, but as a forger this has made me happy. In case you haven’t kept up to date with features wanted from the forge community, simple textures for forge objects was something the community craved for ever since halo 3. Perhaps many of you didn’t play complex forged maps in Halo 3 but many of those pieces were textured in a way similar to what you would see from an official Halo map but the problem was that if you overlay different objects, those textures clashed with one another and you would see clipping. It was distracting to play a map to see a part of it spasming out because it wasn’t sure which texture to show.
THAT is the reason we wanted simple textures. If you overlay blocks, you won’t see these weird graphical glitches. So yes, forge maps won’t look good, but imo they would look ever worse if they were textured. I’ve played on all the maps so far and most of the time I couldn’t tell where a block started and where it ended. And often times a forge map isn’t trying to look good. After all, we don’t have the same tools are some complex map designers on PC games but we make due to make the map feel fun or silly.
However, don’t get me wrong, I am still a little upset by the fact that 343 considered forge maps as part of the free maps being given out. I was under the impression we would get fully redesigned maps from the ground up. But I’m still having fun on these BTB maps regardless.
You need to have those generic layout so you can build seamless maps all across the board. plus it will only get better with time. Also I’m pretty sure the free forge maps are not part of the new maps they promised but I could be mistaken. Either way I feel like most of the Map remakes from older Halos will be forge and new maps will have custom skins/ textures
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> All textures in Halo 5 are bad. Why is BTB any different?
Most the regular textures are actually really good. The texture filtering however is pretty abysmal, which can make textures look washed out and muddy when viewed from an angle.
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Have you looked? Okay. Not ALL. The hand and weapon textures are good. But environment textures are straight out of last gen. Find me a good environment texture and I’ll eat my hat.
I don’t mind that the forge maps look the way they do. I do however, have a problem that forge maps are being treated as normal rotational maps. They are not ‘quality’ maps in comparison to Truth and the Rig.
Your right. These maps do make forge look like it will be great. Just not liking the shadows and lighting which once I have control I may be able improve. Just hope we get the game types and options to match!!!
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> Most the regular textures are actually really good. The texture filtering however is pretty abysmal, which can make textures look washed out and muddy when viewed from an angle.
Is there a way to view screenshots I took on my smart gl-Yoink- app? I’m not at home. The textures - straight on so AF isn’t the issue - were so bad that I had to take screenshots.
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> Is there a way to view screenshots I took on my smart gl-Yoink- app? I’m not at home. The textures - straight on so AF isn’t the issue - were so bad that I had to take screenshots.
Why is the forum filtering out the word gl-Yoink-?
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> Have you looked? Okay. Not ALL. The hand and weapon textures are good. But environment textures are straight out of last gen. Find me a good environment texture and I’ll eat my hat.
LInk: It’s not in HD but you can see that the textures are good.
As someone who doesn’t give a flying -Yoink- about forge…the texture are terrible. I don’t give a -Yoink- how that affects your forging of maps I will hopefully never have to try.
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> LInk: It’s not in HD but you can see that the textures are good.
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BtB maps play good and look gosh darn ugly fact. I dont want those crappy maps in my rotation honestly, and certainly not when the higher quality ones drop. With The “NO” voting for maps thing, I see tons of disconnects coming, or people just not playing.
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Because, you know, the rear part of your spine is called _ _ _
But yeah, the filter is incredibly strict. As if this was a kids-friendly community or something, dunno.
And regarding Forge textures, didn’t they state they would improve them before releasing the maps?!
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> Is there a way to view screenshots I took on my smart gl-Yoink- app? I’m not at home. The textures - straight on so AF isn’t the issue - were so bad that I had to take screenshots.
I dont doubt there is some bad texturework outside of forge, ive seen some myself. Every game has its sore spots. Im just saying generally speaking most the textures looked pretty good.
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