The fabled Halo Reach "spartan_test" character model with a Reach skeleton rig, and it's original high-resolution textures.
10 materials, 2048x2048 armour, 1024x1024 helmet, 512x512 attachments.
Blender file, saved with version 4.2.5 LTS
#Halo Reach "spartan_test"
viscid pier
wooden prairie
cool
thorny oriole
The fabled Halo Reach "spartan_test" character model with a Reach skeleton rig, ...
do you have any backstory on this model? this is the first i've heard of it
viscid pier
It was one of the initial fully art passed versions of the spartan made for Reach
There's been bitmaps for it seen in early builds of Reach forever, but a mesh for it was only found finally within Halo Recruit
and it happened to also have a full set of full-res textures for it there too
I just rerigged it to the Reach skeleton to make it usable
You could see this version as a basis model for Noble Team in various Vidocs and prerelease Reach media
thorny oriole
ooh interesting! that's really cool that we have our hands on this model :D
thanks for making it usable!!
winter tapir
Its him, its John Reach
twin gorge
The fabled Halo Reach "spartan_test" character model with a Reach skeleton rig, ...
Kinda looks like if Noble 6 had the same decal designs of the rest of Noble Team. Cool.
rocky flume
I remade this guy with Infinite's Mark V B a while ago. I'm pretty sure he's also the spartan used in the holograms which is why I did this
halcyon tide
That's crazy
viscid pier
yeah the model was reused for the forge holograms
I think it was a crushed version though, but I might be misremembering
crushed as in low-poly
if only the textures for the early elite survived
early elite's undersuit textures are the only thing we're missing to stitch together assets from various sources to effectively have a full early reach elite
gloomy galleon
we should give him a name 🤔
grizzled meteor
The fabled Halo Reach "spartan_test" character model with a Reach skeleton rig, ...
tawdry notch
powerful and legendary.
rocky flume
we should give him a name 🤔
he already has one on his armor, "PVT. C4NC3L"
gloomy galleon
he already has one on his armor, "PVT. C4NC3L"
Oh cool that's a nice decal
upper swift
he already has one on his armor, "PVT. C4NC3L"
Oh that's sick detai;
dry grove
What's the difference between this and the final version?
twin gorge
What's the difference between this and the final version?
looks like it's less detailed textures and lower poly
there's a hybrid of the t-mags and sapper chestplates too
dry grove
Ahh I see thanks
viscid pier
looks like it's less detailed textures and lower poly
This one has much higher resolution textures and overall texel density compared to the retail model
viscid pier
It also has more accurate geometry than Reach's retail model, especially noticeable on the grenade pins, because models imported into Halo use compressed vertex positions or collapse nearby verts unless their material is flagged specifically as "precise", which these were not
viscid pier
definitely doesn't look like it
how about now?
livid pond
you know. years ago when I found the recruit spartan I paid attention mostly to the textures assuming it's just high res reach ones and that was it
never noticed the mesh was more detailed too
supple flicker
It was one of the initial fully art passed versions of the spartan made for Reac...
would you believe I asked Ken about this for years and he said the high res Reach Spartan didn't exist?
viscid pier
Bruh momentum
Halo Recruit really shows that their asset archive has all the reach stuff in its original texture res
There's also a 2k reach assault rifle & magnum texture set in it
Not to mention h2a campaign having a recoloured reach sniper in 2k, or Halo online having reach's scorpion tank in 2k
supple flicker
There's also a 2k reach assault rifle & magnum texture set in it
Well now I need more Halo Recruit rips
How have people been ripping stuff from there?
viscid pier
it's just a unity game
supple flicker
There's also a 2k reach assault rifle & magnum texture set in it
DMR too
viscid pier
pretty sure the dmr was stock res
yeah it is, 1024x1024
oh right 2k reach pelican in recruit
wooden prairie
do the reach weapon models exist in recruit? and if so, do they have proper normals?
wooden prairie
pretty sure the dmr was stock res
this is how the vanilla DMR model looks with increased ENV reflections in HREK
all of them have messed up normals in reach
and its a problem with the model, not the textures
supple flicker
These are the Halo Recruit textures in-engine for Reach
#🔨╎modding-halo message
that magnum is c r i s p
glass gull
These are the Halo Recruit textures in-engine for Reach
https://discord.com/chan...
where to get those textures?
supple flicker
where to get those textures?
Download Halo Recruit, find the folder and use a Unity asset extractor
the game files are not encrypted so no big deal
glass gull
oh, does the one on Windows Store have all the assets? I thought that was like a teaser or something
supple flicker
Nah that's the whole thing