Weekly Halo 2 Update #14 - New Screen

By: C�sar A. Berardini - "Cesar"

Apr. 16th, 2004 11:23 pm

It's Friday, so there's another Halo 2 update as usual, this time you can find it on Bungie's new forums. Here are some highlights:

Joe Staten is very pleased with a new technique he's incorporating into cinemas for the game. Thanks to some code-wizardry, he�s able to render a camera-image to a texture,. In this case, it was a view of an epic conflict through a window of a human ship. Joe says the engineers claim the technique can be applied to any surface, and one programmer told him he could do it on a biped. So, like, we could display an entire cinematic on a Grunt�s eyeball!

Anyway, the point is that instead of flat-looking video outside the window, or on a video screen, we�ll be able to show the actual, alternate 3D scene.

Jaime Griesemer, always a beacon of hope for the weekly update, didn't disappoint, and tells it best himself, "The Ghost handling is final. Eamon made it bank into turns, so it feels more like a physical vehicle and less like a magic floaty one. It�s also much lower to the ground than Halo 1, which increases the feeling of speed, makes it react to the ground more and makes it easier to run people over. Shiek also added some ground effect lights which "connect" it to the ground even more."

To read the whole update, click here. There's also a new screen; enjoy it!

BERJAYA