[Dr.Zer0]

yep. its me, Im not gone yet

now just a stupid idea but kinda easy, just wondering if someone would make the Halo(you know, the big ring) just for fun. I tried a search but the search engin just isont working :
if someone alredy made this then just point me in the direction of the like

[Unknown Target]

Just make a really, really big ring

[Killfrenzy]

Hmm....let's see......I think it would take me about ten minutes, including textures!

You don't even have to be faithful to Halo's landmasses either since they're not that 'clear.' Just use Lunarcell's 'map color' option on a very long texture map and apply that!

Although, why the hell would you want a model of Halo?

[mikhael]

Just use the measurements given by Niven in Ringworld, since that's where Halo got the idea in the first place.

[Styxx]

Actually, the Halo is a LOT smaller than the Ringworld. It's around 10k kilometers in perimeter, according to Shrike (don't remember that being mentioned in the game, though). You can see that it's not that big by comparing it to the planet it's orbiting (the Ringworld itself is all the way around a star, with more or less the diameter of Earth's orbit).

[StratComm]

Scale in Halo is a bit FUBAR'd... the ring is MUCH larger than 10km across, although there really isn't much reference.  It may actually be around 10km wide, though, as that could make sense.  Or maybe 10km thick, although that makes somewhat less sense.  Anyway, looking at the ring, I would say you're talking somewhere between 1000 km and 5000 km in diameter, somewhere near the same order of magnitude as earth's diameter, although somewhat smaller.  And that planet it's orbiting is a gas giant, so scale comparisons are pretty much useless there.

[phreak]

at least its not as bad as the scale in freelancer

[kasperl]

Originally posted by Styxx
around 10k kilometers in perimeter,

[StratComm]

Now if that doesn't go against every prefixing convention I've ever used...
That sounds about right.  Trouble is, at that scale the newer builds won't show it.  HT&L has a clipping plane at something like 100km.

[Dr.Zer0]

I wanted the Halo because I knew it'd be really easy to make and I just wanted it for the fun of it
now on to somethng more complicated then
Banshee?

[Hippo]

banshees aren't space capeable though

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by StratComm
Now if that doesn't go against every prefixing convention I've ever used...

Looks fine to me.... what convetion would you use, like?  x10^3 ?

[Nico]

The Ring isn't very large. In that room where you're about to start the hanihilation thinguy ( where you have your AI wifey and that weirdo bot arguing ), you have a 3D map featuring the planet, the ring and the moon. The ring is about 1/6 the diameter of the moon. If the planet  was to be the size of our earth, the ring would be about 1000 km in diametre. Hell, 10 km, with the wartog, you'd cross that in 10 minutes... The ring is at least 30 km wide, I think.

[Knight Templar]

Originally stated by HBO

Halo is roughly 10,000 kilometres in diameter and 22.3 km thick, and remains in orbit at a Lagrange point between Basis, the moon, and Threshold, the gas giant.

[Nico]

That's some big moon then

[Dr.Zer0]

Originally posted by Hippo
banshees aren't space capeable though

then uhh, how about that ship you leave in at the end of the game, or the Pillar of Autumn, or a Pellican, or something

[SKYNET-011]

Originally posted by Dr.Zer0


then uhh, how about that ship you leave in at the end of the game, or the Pillar of Autumn, or a Pellican, or something

Or how about a Covenant dropship, or the Truth and Reconcilliation?

[Nico]

how about a TC, while you're at it?

[SKYNET-011]

Even better!

[Styxx]

Just wait for the mod SDK and extract the damn things.