[WIP] Halo Covenant

[drakedaeron 13]

Hello !

I created this thread because I am working in a mod that aims to integrate the faction of the Covenant, and the Covenant Separatists from the Universe of Halo, into ArmA 3.

I'm not very experienced when it comes to 3D modeling, but every day I make progress, I already have started to model weapons such as the Covenant Carbine TYPE-51, as well as the Plasma rifle.

If you want to help me, don't hesitate, you are welcome! If we are more people working in this project , the mod will most likely succeed. The purpose is to add as many covenant stuff as possible, so that you can play with Covenant and have fun! If somebody is experienced at modeling characters such as Elites (It is extremely difficult for me...) don't hesitate to join!

Thus this is what I plan to make, and as I am alone, it will take a long time until this mod gets finished, thus I would try to release the mod even if it contains only two weapons or one, at least you will have something to play with and enjoy, it's better than to wait one or two years.

Covenant

{} = not sure to be able to make it

Characters

-Sangheili (Elite) => Obviously the first ones to make. (I'm sure)

-Kig-Yar and T'vaoan (Skirmishers) => They will come after the elites (Because they are so cool, and are still similar to humans like the elite.)

-Unggoy (Grunt) => They are quite small and weak, but are the most common covenant forces.

{-Mgalekgolo (Hunters)} => They are extremely big and powerful, they cannot get inside most buildings and vehicles.

{-Jiralhanae (Brute)} => Its addition would mean they'll need the weapons and vehicles from Halo 3, that's a lot of work.

{-Yanme'e (Drone)} => Hard to make infantry that flies.

Vehicles

-Type-32 Rapid Assault Vehicle (Ghost)

-Type-46 Infantry Support Vehicle (Spectre)

-Type-26 Assault Gun Carriage (Wraith)

-Type-52 Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AA Wraith)

-Type-29 Troop/Vehicle Transport (Shadow) => Ground infantry transport vehicle, similar to the cougar.

-Type-51 Individual Breaching Carapace => Covenant drop pod.

-Type-48 Light Assault Gun Carriage (Revenant)

{-Type-30 Light Excavation/Anti-Fortification Platform (Locust)} => I would like to add it, but I'm not sure if I have the skills to make this.

{-Type-47 Ultra Heavy Assault Platform (Scarab)}

Aerial

-Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft (Banshee) and her Space version

-Type-27 Exoatmospheric Multi-role Fighter (Seraph)

- Type-52 Troop Carrier (Phantom) => With Helicopter flight model, like the Pelican in OPTRE. More of a gun boat role. Hard to say if the gravity elevator would work.

{-Type-25 Troop Carrier (Spirit)}

{-Type-29 Close Support Fighter (Vampire)} => With Helicopter flight model, like the Sparrowhawk/Falcon/Hornet in OPTRE.

Weapons

-Type-25 Directed Energy Rifle (Plasma rifle)

-Type-51 Carbine (Covenant Carbine)

-Type-31 Rifle (Needle Rifle)

-Type-27 Special Application Sniper Rifle (Beam rifle)

-Type-25 Directed Energy Pistol (Plasma pistol)

-Type-55 Directed Energy Rifle/Advanced (Storm Rifle)

-Type-50 Directed Energy Rifle/Heavy (Concussion rifle) => Grenade launcher that launches plasma concussion grenades.

-Type-33 Light Anti-Armor Weapon (Fuel Rod Cannon) => Very powerful grenade launcher, used to damage vehicles.

- Type-52 Guided Munitions Launcher/Explosive (Plasma launcher) => Plasma Missile/Rocket launcher that can lock on vehicles.

- Type-52 Special Applications Rifle (Focus rifle)

Static

- Type-52 Directed Energy Support Weapon

- Type-55 Anti-Infantry Stationary Gun

- Type-26 Anti-Vehicle Stationary Gun

- Type-26 Anti-Air Stationary Gun

Content of first release

The Alpha of the mod (soon ), will contain at first, the basic weapons, and CSAT retexturesg

-Type-25 Directed Energy Pistol (Plasma pistol) => Done

-Type-25 Directed Energy Rifle (Plasma rifle) => Done

-Type-33 Light Anti-Armor Weapon (Fuel Rod Cannon) => Done

-Energy Sword =>Done

-Ghost => Done

-Elites with minor armor.

About me and the mod

This list gathers all that I would like to make, I'm not saying that I would manage to make a mod with such contents in one day, I think at first I should be focusing on weapons because it is in my reach and completely practicable for me, I even would dare to say, I could release a weapon's pack by the end of April or later, but that will depend of my motivation.

However, I need help from someone who can make characters, thus don't hesitate to contact me if you want to help me, it will be very cool and there will be cookies!

MODDB :

http://www.moddb.com/mods/halo-mod-the-call-of-the-prophets

That is all for now!

Halo© Microsoft Corporation. Call Of The Prophets was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from Halo, and it is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.

Edited June 29, 2015 by Drakedaeron

[evmeister88 10]

Well I wish you all the luck in the world my friend!!! You should talk to the TEI team see if they can help at all!

[somesangheili 111]

THANK YOU. Been waitin for this day for a long time

I'm no model expert but I saw some Covenant species models for SFM and Garry's Mod on garrysmod.org ...I'm not sure if you'd be able manipulate them into Arma 3

Also please please please don't make the Halo 4 remnant of the Covenant, would prefer Covenant Reach style. I eagerly await your first release!

Edited April 6, 2015 by SomeSangheili

[drakedaeron 13]

Well I wish you all the luck in the world my friend!!! You should talk to the TEI team see if they can help at all!

It's a good idea, But I think that they are already very busy with their mod, even if I would like to obtain help to model the characters. I am going to try to contact them.

THANK YOU. Been waitin for this day for a long time

I'm no model expert but I saw some Covenant species models for SFM and Garry's Mod on garrysmod.org ...I'm not sure if you'd be able to use them though..

Also please please please don't make the Halo 4 remnant of the Covenant, would prefer Covenant Reach style. I eagerly await your first release!

When I saw that nobody didn't move, I am say that it was necessary to take decision !

I planned to make elites in the style of Halo Wars as these:

http://www.figurerealm.com/Galleries/halowars/CovenantTroopsYellow1-Heroic2.jpg

Thanks for the link, I'm going to try to contact the author, I hope he is not dead... x)

Edited April 6, 2015 by Drakedaeron

[somesangheili 111]

I planned to make elites in the style of Halo Wars as these:

Okay cool! As long as they're not from Halo 4 I'm happy

Another link that could be some use

Edited April 6, 2015 by SomeSangheili

[evmeister88 10]

Actually I was looking at their thread and guess now TEI development has stopped. Really unfortunate. Honestly though, if people managed to get raptors into Arma, I'm sure you'll find a way to get Elites and such into the game!

[drakedaeron 13]

Okay cool! As long as they're not from Halo 4 I'm happy

Another link that could be some use

Mmmh, I don't know if I can use this if it's not me who realize this. There are rules for Modding with Microsoft.

Actually I was looking at their thread and guess now TEI development has stopped. Really unfortunate. Honestly though, if people managed to get raptors into Arma, I'm sure you'll find a way to get Elites and such into the game!

I can try to contact SpaceNavy.

So for the moment, I focus on the weapons ! I will see later for characters.

[Fadi 22]

Actually I was looking at their thread and guess now TEI development has stopped. Really unfortunate. Honestly though, if people managed to get raptors into Arma, I'm sure you'll find a way to get Elites and such into the game!

A continuation by pretty much all of the dev team is in development under a new name http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?190567-Operation-Trebuchet-Total-conversion-mod-for-Arma-3/

[drakedaeron 13]

Oh cool, I will contact "TheDog88", I hope he give me a positive answer.

[theevancat 277]

Yeah, the vast majority of TEI is now OPTRE.

[LykosMactire 298]

Yeah, the vast majority of TEI is now OPTRE.

its OP:TREB, atleast thats how me and Thedog were going when we were talking about it.

Also very nice to see the covies coming in

[drakedaeron 13]

I have send a message to TheDog.

I hope her answer will be positive !

To my mind, I have continue my Type-51 carbine, the scope will be an accessory.

Edited April 6, 2015 by Drakedaeron

[nightovizard 20]

Darkedaeron this will be a hard path but from what I see that's a pertty good model, hopefully more pople will volunteer to help both OPTRE and this mod :)

Some time ago I posted this in TEI forums, reposting just in case it could be useful:

''In my view the assets considered to be the covenant arsenal (If ever) should be:

Plasma grenades

Type 25 directed energy rifle (SMG)

T-55 Directed Energy Rifle/Advanced (Riflemen)

Type-25 Directed Energy Pistol (Crew/Pilot)

Type 51 Carbine (Engineer/Demolitions, etc)

Type-31 Rifle (Marksman)

Type-27 Special Application Sniper Rifle (Sniper)

Type-52 Guided Munitions Launcher/Explosive (AA/AT)

Type-52 Directed Energy Support Weapon (Static).

Type-55 Anti-Infantry Stationary Gun (Static)

Type-26 Anti-Air Stationary Gun (AAStatic)

Type-26 Anti-Vehicle Stationary Gun (ATStatic)

Melee weapons, not sure if those could work in Arma. Needler would be OP as its projectiles follow objectives. Elites would not use brute stuff. Not sure if Brutes and drones should be included.

Vehicles:

Type-47 Ultra Heavy Assault Platform Scarab (Those things are so OP but so awesome)

Type-30 Light Excavation/Anti-Fortification Platform Locust

Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft Banshee (Should be VTOL)

Type-31 Exoatmospheric Multi-role Fighter Seraph (Should be VTOL)

Type-26 Assault Gun Carriage Wraith

Type-52 Anti-Aircraft Artillery AAWraith

Type-32 Rapid Assault Vehicle Ghost

Type-48 Light Assault Gun Carriage Revenant

Type-46 Infantry Support Vehicle Spectre

Type-29 Troop/Vehicle Transport Shadow

Type-25 Troop Carrier Spirit (Helicopter like controls)

Type-51 Individual Breaching Carapace (Drop pod)

Spirit would perform better than the phantom in arma 3. No brute vheicles unless brutes are added, but that would be a massive work to do and I feel like brutes would be unnecessary. Meanwhile I'll keep dreaming.''

There are quite a lot of models made by fans in websites, you could request their use and hopefully that would make things easier, if more people joins this I can see a future where the covenant is in arma. Also I'm not sure the banshee could work well as an helicopter, I'm pretty sure it would work better as VTOL.

Here some examples of models and assets you can find for free, though they have to be requested to their respective owners.

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6815

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6807

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6652

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6491

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6488

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6487

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6172

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=5845

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4960

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=3453

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search.html?q=covenant&rsi=sbis&backendClass=entity

Edited April 6, 2015 by nightovizard

[corsnake 10]

Nice idea is one thing im been waiting since i see the TEI mod best of luck. I like to see how the ghost will be implemented

[iTzBam 10]

Awesome Idea, cant wait to see how this turns out

[ltfrankie 1]

IMO, you should work on making an Elite first. They're the most iconic of the Covenant. Just an Elite with a plasma rifle would be enough to hold me back for a while.

[SpaceNavy 16]

Wow this would be cool.

I was actually considering trying this, but I'm more interested to see what you can do with it.

Good luck!

[somesangheili 111]

I'm not sure you should use the helicopter flight model for the Banshee. I remember in Halo: Landfall you can see Banshees flying overhead pretty fast like jets...plus Banshees are made for doing strafing runs and bombing attacks. The only problem would be landing, so I guess make it be able to go very slow, or just make it VTOL like nightovizard said

[SpaceNavy 16]

I'm not sure you should use the helicopter flight model for the Banshee. I remember in Halo: Landfall you can see Banshees flying overhead pretty fast like jets...plus Banshees are made for doing strafing runs and bombing attacks. The only problem would be landing, so I guess make it be able to go very slow, or just make it VTOL like nightovizard said

I would say that a VTOL flight model would be the best thing in this context. It didn't work for the Pelican because it was expected to perform quick and precise landings, but the Banshee is a CAS/fire support vehicle so moving fast is key.

[indoorbradster 13]

Hello ! I realize this topic because I work on my mod, to be able to integrate the faction of Covenant, and Covenant Separatists from the Universe of Halo, into ArmA 3.

Fantastic!

[somesangheili 111]

I also have a bunch of questions...

1. Do you have the voice protocol stuff sorted out, if not are you going to? Will they speak English or their own language?

2. Are you able to change the colour of blood?

3. With the varying heights and shapes of the Covenant are you going to disable access of certain vehicles for certain species, as well as making uniforms and gear exclusive for each species?

4. Are you going to make each species clothable, example are Sangheili going to look like this without their helmet/body armour?

5. Sangheili are going to be 2.5m tall, right?

6. Will you give each species a special HUD?

7. Are you going to make Covenant structures/objects such as supply crates and watch towers? And maybe even giant static CCS-Class Battlecruisers?

8. Are you going to give each species their own unique animations?

Edited April 7, 2015 by SomeSangheili
question number 8

[nightovizard 20]

I also have a bunch of questions...

1. Do you have the voice protocol stuff sorted out, if not are you going to? Will they speak English or their own language?

2. Are you able to change the colour of blood?

3. With the varying heights and shapes of the Covenant are you going to disable access of certain vehicles for certain species, as well as making uniforms and gear exclusive for each species?

4. Are you going to make each species clothable, example are Sangheili going to look like this without their helmet/body armour?

5. Sangheili are going to be 2.5m tall, right?

6. Will you give each species a special HUD?

Ammo also intrigues me, most covenant weapons use something like battery charges in most of their weapons instead of ammo, they also don't seem to use any kind of backpacks. (Unless if it could be considered that the grunts have backpacks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5SWD6epuZk

Elite rangers have some kind of backpack it seems:

https://dabidsblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/20111031-142038.jpg

Energy shields and invisibility is something I can hardly imagine in the arma 3 engine, extremely cool.

Also the wraith, is that going to be a tank or artillery? I'm also a bit worried because the projectile of the wraith is quite slow, should be faster in Arma IMO.

Also Shadow transport could be a great counterpart of the UNSC cougar, in these concpts it looks like it has similar passenger seats to the Spirit:

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131208011101/halo/es/images/6/61/Arte_conceptual_Shadow_2.jpg

http://halo.bungie.org/halobulletins/20110628/ConceptArt2.jpg

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140513045557/halo/images/2/2b/H2_Concept_Shadow2.png

http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/323/8/1/vehicles_for_halo_2__anniversary_by_belovp-d86xp76.jpg

UNSC and covenant are not going to be balanced at all though that is not a bad thing, they are meant to be different, the closest relatives are:

Mongoose - Ghost

Warthog - Spectre

Pelican - Spirit

Scorpion - Wraith (Or Locust)

Fox canon/Rhino/Cobra - Locust (Or Wraith)

AA Warthog/Wolverine - AA wraith

Cougar - Shadow

Gladius - Banshee

Longsword - Seraph

Falcon - Phantom (not the one from halo 2, the others where they enter and exit using side ramps and have gunners)

Sparrowhawk - Vampire

Hornet - ?

? - Revenant

? (Elephant?) - Scarab

Elephant - ? (Scarab?)

HEIV - Type-51 Individual Breaching Carapace

Not included Lich/Vulture and brute vehicles since it is unlikely they are going to be in ARMA 3.

When it comes to weapons compared to UNSC OP. Trebuchet mod:

MA37/MA5B Assault Rifle - T-55 Directed Energy Rifle/Advanced

BR55 Battle rifle - Type 51 Carbine

DMR - Type-31 Rifle

Sniper rifle - Type-27 Special Application Sniper Rifle or Type-50 Sniper Rifle System

M6c pistol - Type-25 Directed Energy Pistol

M7 SMG - Type 25 directed energy rifle

Rocket launcher - Type-52 Guided Munitions Launcher/Explosive

Shotgun - ? (Mauler though it is a Brute weapon, shotguns are very uncommon in the covenant arsenal)

SAW/LMG - ? (Type-52 Special Applications Rifle?)

Grenade launcher - Type-50 Directed Energy Rifle/Heavy

Static:

M247 General Purpose Machine Gun - Type-52 Directed Energy Support Weapon

M41 Light Anti-Aircraft Gun - Type-55 Anti-Infantry Stationary Gun

AIE-486 Heavy Machine Gun - Type-26 Anti-Vehicle Stationary Gun

M71 Anti-Aircraft Gun - Type-26 Anti-Air Stationary Gun

Edited April 7, 2015 by nightovizard

[somesangheili 111]

Ammo also intrigues me, most covenant weapons use something like battery charges in most of their weapons instead of ammo, they also don't seem to use any kind of backpacks. (Unless if it could be considered that the grunts have backpacks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5SWD6epuZk

Elite rangers have some kind of backpack it seems:

https://dabidsblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/20111031-142038.jpg

For ammo I was thinking just a very big magazine (a fully charged Plasma Rifle is worth 200 shots I think), or even better, make the magazine like a vehicle's fuel somehow, and make it refuelable at a plasma container thing (those blue glowy things)

Also Unggoys' backpacks only contain methane for breathing and ranger's backpacks are actually jetpacks/jumppacks...and maybe oxygen for space missions

Edited April 7, 2015 by SomeSangheili

[SpaceNavy 16]

Invisibility is something that has already been done. I don't have the video link on hand. Energy shields could easily be replicated by increased armor and the plasma "bullets" can be edited model tracers.

[nightovizard 20]

Invisibility is something that has already been done. I don't have the video link on hand. Energy shields could easily be replicated by increased armor and the plasma "bullets" can be edited model tracers.

You may be right about invisibility, I remember a Predator mod with that feature, but you weren't invisible to AI think. Increasing the armor would work though I would love to see a shield effect when hit too. I have seen so many types of tracers in arma scifi mods, so I agree plasma tracers are possible, though its speed would have to be tweaked.

For ammo I was thinking just a very big magazine (a fully charged Plasma Rifle is worth 200 shots I think), or even better, make the magazine like a vehicle's fuel somehow, and make it refuelable at a plasma container thing (those blue glowy things)

Also Unggoys' backpacks only contain methane for breathing and ranger's backpacks are actually jetpacks/jumppacks...and maybe oxygen for space missions

Yes that could work, find a battery to recharge the weapon like if it was ammo, the magazine would be quite large depending the weapon, plasma rifle and carabine are different in this sense. covenant ammo boxes could have both ammo and batteries. The only thing is that Overheat should be applied to some covenant weapons somehow, infantry firing 200 bullets without having to reload or wait sounds OP.

Edited:

Just found this:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?188375-EXT-Extra-Terrestrial-Adversaries

Surprised by the amount of scifi mods we are getting lately

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?177118-Lost-Dragons

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?153116-Terminator-Rising-(WIP)

Edited April 7, 2015 by nightovizard