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Posted by: plasma239
Yes most likley halo cutscenes are rendered using Maya's 3D max which is probably the same program they use to design the characters.
No, Halo cutscenes except for Halo Wars are rendered in real time which means that when you reach a cutscene, the game takes over the character and basically controls everything from there. The game is still going on. Basically the cutscene is happening while the game is being played. Halo cutscenes are not videos that start playing when you reach a certain moment. That is why in Halo cutscenes, if you move something in the way of the cutscene before it happens, that object will get in the cutscene. Or, in Halo 1, if you kill yourself right as a cutscene starts, the cutscene will continue but your dead body will be showing. In some cases, the game may still try and take control of the dead body and you will have a dead body moving around in the cutscenes in Halo 1.
Halo Wars's cutscenes are videos that are made already. When you finish the mission, the game stops going and the videos start playing. That is way different than how other Halo cutscenes work. I don't know what Halo Wars cutscenes are rendered by. But Halo 1,2, 3, and ODST cutscenes are rendered using the actual game engine. Sometimes in Halo 3, there is a glitch where you can still play during a cutscene. Everything in the cutscenes still happens except you're still playing while it is happening.
So Halo Cutscenes can be altered and changed. Halo Wars cutscenes cannot be changed because they are pre-rendered. Hope that clears up any confusion about how cutscenes work in the Halo games.