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Subject: 3D Halo 2 Screenshot!
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thats cool but why does it show the spartans being slaughtered it shuold be the spartans kikkin ass

  • 05.31.2004 12:06 PM PDT
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thats because the elites kick more ass than spartans! the Elites are a tough cookie! they robbed the spartans warthog in wortwortworthog didnt they? there using spartans equipment against em

  • 05.31.2004 1:38 PM PDT
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Yeah, but the Spartans are so much more heroic and iconic! The MC has become a figurehead of gaming, from just one game! Why not have a big pretty 3D shot of a Spartan kickin some elite ass!
Or like, a Spartan sticking a plasma grenade to an elite, and the elite firing dual needlers at a spartan, in the middle of a big outdoor battle, with the shot focussed on the space needles between the two.
Man, how does that Quicktime VR stuff work! I wanna try some of this!

And about complaints about clipping through walls - do you have any idea how hard it would be to implement something like that? Ragdoll physics technology has only just been able to allow limp, dead models to have that kind of interactivity with the environment, it would be rediculously complicated to work out all the proper collisions and movements to prevent such minor clipping errors on a playable model!
That said, it is kinda annoying having an ambush given away by being seen thru a wall! And if I trust anyone to have the technical wizardry to do cool stuff like in-game collision physics, it's Bungie! I loved the deaths system on Halo 1 - physics combined with animation and contextual events to give corpses so much more substance that a limp ragdoll model! Hopefully Halo 2 will blow the already excellent system out of the water! More death positions! Has anyone noticed how a blown-up chief always lands in the exact same position?!
Hey, maybe Brutes will be playable in the final version - there's a few months to go yet!
But enough ramble - 3D screenshots are ace! More please! Bungie are great! Hooray for Halo 2!

  • 05.31.2004 5:31 PM PDT
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Hey Frankie if you want to be really nice, you could have the guys there at bungie do a matrix type movie out of that sequene, just like 10 seconds long. ahave him begin the sword slash, do the freese frame spin around, and go back to like action.

  • 05.31.2004 6:24 PM PDT
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Cant get it to move grrrrrrr, anywhere where i could download the software, just got macromedia

  • 06.01.2004 12:17 AM PDT

SGT. JOHNSON:
Dear Humanity... we regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!

PILOTS (in unison):
Hoo-rah!

I am speechless!! The most amazing scrren shot of Halo 2 Ever! Bungie ... you keep torturing me ... when this game is finally released my social life will be over, except for my clan buddies on LIVE! ;)

  • 06.01.2004 7:40 AM PDT
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I counted... it's actually 110 (give or take 5) screenshots strung together... how awesome

  • 06.01.2004 10:38 AM PDT
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Actually, you'd be surprised. I think there's two different ways to capture what everyone now knows as a 3D picture. Ford's been doing this on their site for a while. For a real object, such as a car, I believe a small camera rotates around the object, taking pictures as it goes.

I think you can have the program automatically take all of the available views on an axis (which would be the Elite, in this case) so you don't have to do it manually.

  • 06.01.2004 10:45 AM PDT
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ya ive seen the new car rotater thingys, it does look like a small camra does that.good work bungie

  • 06.01.2004 11:12 AM PDT
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What can i say? That i was suprised? No i figured you guys would do something along these lines but it does signify that bungie isnt stupid. Good use of resources and i hope we see more of these.

  • 06.01.2004 4:38 PM PDT
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  • 06.01.2004 7:41 PM PDT
Subject: Im the best at halo and will be the best at halo2
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im sorry to all the halo fans but sadly im am the beat at halo noboby can kill me let alone beat me if you think you can you need ur head done.

  • 06.02.2004 2:44 AM PDT
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Bah, cocky git. *rolls eyes*

The energy sword will kick ass, but duel wielding weapons like in the e3 multiplayer demo will wipe the floor with it.

  • 06.02.2004 4:00 AM PDT
Subject: 3D Halo 2 Screenshot!
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damn, damn, damn, I WANT MORE! umm, how do you go up and down? tell zoe thanks!

  • 06.02.2004 1:47 PM PDT
Subject: Im the best at halo and will be the best at halo2
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give me a sniper in blood gulch and i'll OWN YOU!

  • 06.02.2004 1:49 PM PDT
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O.o , im more of kamikaze sort of Spartan... see i will drive my warthog off a cliff... jump off it right B4 i die and hurl grenades like a madman... then after your ass has moved by a second i take cover behind my hoggy and send lead your way 8D

  • 06.02.2004 2:06 PM PDT
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I gleaned more info from this 3-D screenshot than from about 70% of the entire Halo 2 portion of bungie.net!!! THIS IS AMAZING! A picture says a thousand words, right... so since this 3-D contains over 100 individual pictures...

Keep up the good work Bungie!

P.S.- I know this has already been stated, but some more of these would be great!

  • 06.02.2004 6:33 PM PDT
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Actually i just got done counting there are exactly 110 frames in there. mabey I was off by 1 frame though.

And i wonder, If Zoe just plays and plays all the time. I wonder how much she's gonna own if she ever partakes in tournaments.

  • 06.02.2004 9:55 PM PDT
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Hmmm I think you are confused with me there buddy cause im the best at halo and im gona prove it when my name is on halo 2 right beside the number 1 on xboxlive. " quote from sum 1 i saw on this forum before he " The meaning of war isnt to die for your country but to make the enemy die for his "

  • 06.02.2004 11:10 PM PDT
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Frankie, Aaron, Zoe,

What an excellent idea! Simple, yet so very, very effective. I'm amazed this hasn't been thought of long before, and I'm sure this method of showing screenshots will fast become an online standard. It seems such a perfect and, in hindsight, obvious use of the QTVR technology. Being so much more immersive and informative than regular 2D screenshots, they're not only brilliant for capturing the dynamic action of a game but are also ideal for demonstrating the various features of the game engine.

I'm sure you've chased the idea round and round by now, but for what it's worth, my only suggestion would be to add elevation control. Obviously this adds significantly to the total number of screenshots, but for us broadband users, it would add an nice extra level of depth. It would only need to be a hemisphere of coverage, as there wouldn't be much to see below ground level! Much like this example: http://www.apple.com/hardware/gallery/pmac_sept2003_480.html

Will you be building the 3D Screenshot capturing functionality into the PC release? That would be an amazing tool.

My only reservation is that by unveiling this concept, you've now pushed back Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 by another couple of months as their developers rush to implement this feature!

Much kudos and many thanks.

  • 06.03.2004 3:01 AM PDT
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Very Very cool shot. I also would have liked to have seen the Spartans kicking butt. Very sweet never the less woohoo!

  • 06.04.2004 11:35 AM PDT
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any one notice the tiny rocket in the background hurtling toward the Elite, he may have layed out quite the ass kicking but the Spartans are still about to frag his weird alien ASS!!!

  • 06.06.2004 6:13 PM PDT

how did the elite kill 2 MCs at once????

  • 12.10.2004 11:25 AM PDT
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My computer was fetured on an episode of the flintstones and was called an antique, I cant see this new screenshot thing!!!!

  • 01.07.2005 5:09 PM PDT
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that is amazing

  • 01.08.2005 10:43 PM PDT