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Subject: Halo Reach Forge Ideas. Any?
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Does anyone have any forge ideas for Halo Reach? Here are some of mine.

NOTE : THESE ARE IDEAS AND ARE NOT NECESSARILY GOING TO BE IN REACH

FX/Filters

Maybe create new new FX Filtering System. Keep the older ones such as Gloomy, Old Timey, etc., and even create some new ones. Create a Filter where you can toggle the color of the map. From blue to green or green to yellow and so on.

Geomerging

Maybe an automatic geomerge option. You place one item down, lets say a box, and the place another box on top of it. While still selecting the top box press the X button and scroll down the Geomerge menu and turn geomerge on. After you have selected this new options will appear and now the boxes will be merged together without having to restart and place a marker or anything. They will more of directions I suppose. Not options. All you have to do is rotate the box as usual till it is is the place that you want, but as long as you have geomerge on it will stay geomerged to the other object. Once switched off it will automatically disappear.

Items

You could create whole new items that can be used in forge, and even create your own by making a Create Your Own Item Menu. It could have a list of certain parts of other items that can maybe be made into a whole new item, and even newer parts to unknown items.

Have some camo and overshield updates. Maybe make it so where when you pick up an overshield then pick up a camo the overshield can either be visible or not visible.

Precisely

Like Sandbox make a Grid for every map so that it makes forging easier and more precise.

Have an option so that if there are grids that once an object is placed down on the grid it automatically fits perfectly into position. This will only work if the switch is on of course, because some of course may not want to use this. This is just so you won't have to spend countless hours on trying to perfectly fit the box on the lines.

Ability to Float

Have a floating option on the menu. This is for those people who love to forge wings, words in the air, random floating boxes, and so on. This could increase the map rate highly as it would be much easier to form a map if the objects could float. Now what this option will do of course is when selected all objects placed down will float where you place them. You will be able to move it and rotate as usual, but once you have unselected the item it will float in its current place.

Maybe a seasons effect which you can select to have the map layout switch between different seasons.

FX/Filters Cont.

Winter - Have snowflakes falling, and have the layout turn into of course the same map, but now with everything snow covered.

Fall - Have leaves falling and have separate piles of leaves and maybe some rain.

Spring - Have the sun out, and have flowers growing and the trees filling in again with new leaves.

Summer - Bright green grass with the sun bright as can be, and maybe even some puddles of water.

FX - Rain

FX - Snow

FX - Lighting

FX - Fire

FX - Storm

FX - Cartoon

FX - Comic Book Style

These are just some of the ideas that I had. I will try and come up with some more and even provide some links, so that you have an idea of what I'm talking about. For now I was hoping you as fellow members could post some ideas here. Thanks so much, and have a great day.

Items Cont.

The ability to have grav lifts and man cannon select speed. This means that you can adjust the grav lifts speed and man cannon. %100 Percent would be normal of course, and if you cranked the speed up to %150 the speed that you would go at would be faster.





[Edited on 10.16.2009 4:41 AM PDT]

  • 10.16.2009 4:34 AM PDT

forge + physics sandbox = pwnage

ya I would like the fire and rain effects would really add to it

  • 10.16.2009 4:45 AM PDT
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What about a simple way to manually set the X, Y, Z, Roll, Pitch, Yaw, Height, Width and Length of objects without dragging and dropping? A simple menu that would let you any decimal number for any of these properties would be greatly appreciated. It would forge much more usable.

  • 10.16.2009 4:54 AM PDT

A Halo GMOD would be awesome but thats not going to happen

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  • 10.16.2009 5:29 AM PDT
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have walls and such snap together

  • 10.16.2009 7:41 AM PDT

I really like your ideas. Especially the FX/filters content.
I think they should also put in a forge option where instead of having to use a halo map, you just choose the dimensions of your own cube, rectangle, or any geometrical figure. This would help create different kinds of maps and would make ideas come to life easier.

  • 10.16.2009 8:22 AM PDT
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Positive vibes.

Posted by: DebatingBoot
What about a simple way to manually set the X, Y, Z, Roll, Pitch, Yaw, Height, Width and Length of objects without dragging and dropping? A simple menu that would let you any decimal number for any of these properties would be greatly appreciated. It would forge much more usable.


Do you mean being able to rotate and move objects by moving the D-Pad?

  • 10.16.2009 1:17 PM PDT

You should be able to spawn enemys or teamates or both!

  • 10.16.2009 1:22 PM PDT

campaign forge

if bungie put it in i would never play another game again.

  • 10.16.2009 1:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: a rascal cat
Posted by: DebatingBoot
What about a simple way to manually set the X, Y, Z, Roll, Pitch, Yaw, Height, Width and Length of objects without dragging and dropping? A simple menu that would let you any decimal number for any of these properties would be greatly appreciated. It would forge much more usable.


Do you mean being able to rotate and move objects by moving the D-Pad?

No, I mean being able to type in the X, Y, Z, etc... values using an in-game keypad.

  • 10.16.2009 1:26 PM PDT

A far cry 2 style map editor.

  • 10.16.2009 1:30 PM PDT

Marine Corps.
Semper Fi.

Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
My problems [with Reach] are basically just full parties, mlg, and people who go out of their way not to get killed.

The ability to make objects float and merge together without doing anything fancy would be nice. There should be an option such as "make item transparent" and it would make the item ghostly and you could then merge it with other objects.

The float option is simple enough.

It would also be nice if you could rotate items upon spawning them, that way you don't have to spend 2-5 minutes aligning something perfectly.

  • 10.16.2009 1:50 PM PDT
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*Nibbles on Waffle*

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How about a map creator.

  • 10.16.2009 1:57 PM PDT

Even the greatest were once at the bottom.

Water? Lava? Fire? Wind? Rain? Night Mode? Day Mode?

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  • 10.16.2009 2:01 PM PDT
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Positive vibes.

Yeah that's a great idea. Like you have the regular maps, and then you have this one map which is just called "S7ar7 From Scra7ch," and it'd be a place where you have all the items you want and you can create your own map.

  • 10.16.2009 2:37 PM PDT

i'd like a map creator and the forge. Because one advantage of forge is you don't have to donwload it 2 play it online and the recent ones go to recent maps, i doubt if u could do that with a level creator. However having another section where you make your own map, like in far cry 2, would be imense. And then when you've altered the terrain, time, water etc you could then forge on it. I'd also like the ability to change object textures.
ie. press x and go to texture option and toggle between stone, covenant, unsc, forrunner and flood infested. This could change say the wall in sandbox to something similar to the wall in foundry or viceversa.
I think it may also be neat to b able to change the image that pops up when it's loading from the default image 2 a screen shot that u could take of the map and upload it as the map image.

  • 11.14.2009 1:55 PM PDT

My troll sense is tingling.

I would like the ability to add green/blue screens.

  • 11.14.2009 1:57 PM PDT

The ability to change the camouflage or theme of an item. Such as being able to make a warthog Snow Camo, or Jungle Camo, or something. And the theme would be like, I could change it from Human to Flood. Or I could change it from Covenant to Forerunner. I'm not saying with all items, but the ones that would make sense.(Like crates)

  • 11.14.2009 3:56 PM PDT

4-1 Fenkell

Canvas maker. Have a button where all the items on the map would be deleted.

  • 11.14.2009 4:02 PM PDT

*Bobfather17*

I say keep forge basically the same and have a mapmaker for PC that lets you upload via B.net.

  • 11.14.2009 4:09 PM PDT

Full map editor like Far Cry 2 nothing else or fail.

  • 11.14.2009 4:17 PM PDT

FX/Filters Cont. that would be badass

  • 11.14.2009 4:42 PM PDT

fx= good idea... grid=good idea...snap to grid =amazing idea...90' turning button=epic idea.........

custom games...change power of specific weapons=great idea...combine game types=good idea(and randomly fun)

  • 11.14.2009 4:50 PM PDT

Get out of my signature.

fx-visor:
An fx that is like the visor mode in odst.

  • 11.14.2009 4:57 PM PDT
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Positive vibes.

Posted by: Falcon Saber
fx-visor:
An fx that is like the visor mode in odst.


That actually sounds like a pretty cool idea.

  • 11.20.2009 3:56 AM PDT