I built a Cyberpunk City in Halo Infinite - "OVERDRIVE" 

Yeah 343i is trying to force enough sweaty gameplay on us already. 😂 Looks pretty cool for a map with no vehicles, though.

​@@Dr0ctagonapus5 you can still explore the map and solve the easteregg!

They do. They have a community playlist

@@TheVortexUnleashed You must’ve misread. The OP was saying they should add this map to the community playlist.

Prob won't bc of IP

@@d.minaru7707 cyberpunk isn't copyright as a theme, and I don't call the map cyberpunk. Everything in the map is original work or derived from Halo :) except for slim and husky but that's an easy change.

The double entendre is that "overdrive" is also the name of the blue product on the map being produced in the crime syndicate's apartment (blue base) But nobody will ever know that unless I expand on the concept in future maps! The lore is that the area used to be bussin, but the overpass collapsed, and because it's cyberpunk and resource-wasting, the city just built another one above it. This cut off frequent access to the economy below, leading to halted construction, worn down businesses, and an increase in crime producing a product that's taking... over the drive. You can spot overdrive all over the map, and see the only business thriving is connected to blue base :) And of course, there's an easteregg showing that not everything is as it seems, which I attribute to overdrive "numbing the mind", causing complacency in a simulation that's all too real Not that you asked 👀 but I started with lore before designing the map, as I feel the story can shape the aesthetic rather than the other way around. Makes the map feel more alive

Red Nomster and Paimon are top tier.

Their facial expressions change if you move closer or further away :)

I think both of these perceptions will change if you walk around the map yourself! Streets does what every single cyberpunk map in halo has done as well - be night time. For forge maps, it's an excuse to only highlight the areas you detailed, hiding ugly parts in the dark. I wanted to detail everything! For the floors of the apartments, I filled space with "lighting", you can sort of see that in the red base interior more. They're minimalistic and sleek to contrast the outside world. Speaking of the outside world, readability is subtle for sure. But I put a lot of work into making sure the player can easily tell where they are from THEIR perspective, rather than a camera floating in the sky. Finely tuned lighting, materials, themes, and points of interest. With that, the map is quite honestly symmetrical just like Midship. And imo this map has better readability than Midship, which looks the exact same EVERYWHERE haha try standing on either end of the over pass to see how different the two sides of the map are conceptually when you get a chance!

@@RedNomster I think your "place" work was solid. When I meant readability, I didn't mean player orientation, I meant enemy identification, that's all. But perhaps I'm getting old. Alot of the forge maps I played and have seen recently are just difficult for me to get a good and quick "read" on where threats are and can be.

Yeah I didn't want to use night time and neon overload as a crutch, so now if I do make a night time version it'll look detailed even in the dark! Toy Story is shelved for now until there's a better tool for transferring maps

@@RedNomster Yeah an alternate night version with neon would be 🔥! Great work !!

Thanks BEE :D

Love to hear that, miss showing my brother maps. He barely looks at mine now adays 😂

That'd be nice 😅

Follow the steps - they're vague, but the longer you search, the easier it is to connect the dots when you find step to and beyond :)

When you can take a closer look I think it'll feel more punky. Especially when they contrast and connect to the more "cyber" apartments! The sound design (the trailer is just music) helps sell the cyberpunk city vibe too imo - spent several hours on that specifically for dudes wanting to slowly explore the map. I also got inspiration from tsavo highway, where it is futuristic but not in a neo-tokyo type of way - more 3d printed or resource-wasting. For instance, the overpass broke. The city simply 3d printed a new one and slapped it on top. Hence: Overdrive. :)

​@@RedNomster the amount of details is really amazing. And why not combine future with curent archtiecture, just as iur cities are today! Hope to see it soon in the customs server and maybe a forerunner styled cyberpunk city in the future 😇😎🤔

Fun fact, the lore I crafted calls that juice "Overdrive" - double entendre for the map name which also comes from the fact that there is traffic driving over a forgotten section of the city :)

@@RedNomster Nice! Love that it has its own Lore! Would love to see that expanded in new maps you make in the future.

@@RedNomster btw if you ever have a moment, I’d love if you checked out my map “Loft 117 WIP”. It’s the first map I ever published but I put over 2 months of work into it. Let me know your thoughts if you get a chance!

Comments like this make it all worth it

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Around 230 hours, hard to carve out that much time! But definitely more doable than making actual video games and such in your free time for sure.

25th of March :)

@@RedNomster lmao :)

Considering it's the first map I've made that's an original IP (cyberpunk as a theme isn't copyright) it's possible! But I'd probably have to make adjustments to make it less rough around the edges

@@RedNomster Very cool, I hope it does make it the map looks sick

I discovered a trick with rescaling decals! Basically making a white decal massive and arranging it so that it's close to the intro cam. Looking through a decal unrenders textures, but not light, objects or fx. This gives an unrendered effect which plays into the cyberpunk "simulation" theme I was going for. Doing the same thing for the apartment doors gives off the impression that the world/scene outside deloads, just like an actual video game :) and you can't see the massive decal in the sky because decals are invisible from behind. Lots of cool techniques went into this map, plan on releasing a long video Friday breaking down everything!

@@RedNomster Just noticed the use of z-fighting to make the superintendent expressions change as well! Very neat.

@@Didact2401 It's actually a rendering method that deloads small objects at a distance - the way around it is to scale the small object deep into the wall. I did that for graffiti and such to avoid object pop-in, but left it for the expressions because the outcome actually fits lol

@@RedNomster Neat! On a somewhat unrelated note, I was looking through some of your old stuff and noticed that you seem have found a way to get muzzleflash to not render in your underwater video. Was wondering if you would be able to explain how you accomplished this effect?

Forge has a scripting tool called a script brain, I used "Translate object to point" nodes that move each and every object from coords A to coords B. It's a bit more complicated than that because it loops and each "car" has traffic sfx, but still pretty simple

@@RedNomster u have my thanks brotha

I alternate the version every so often, I'll put it to day this week :)

can you make it become timelapse map

That's the impressive part, he doesn't have any. It's all created from smaller existing forge pieces

I made them out of various objects to make the map feel unique! There isn't just an "Icecream truck" asset, for instance. That's built using roughly 80 unique objects :) Same for the other cars, the skatepark - the chalk body outline is 40 objects. EVERYTHING haha

It released yesterday bucko :)

@@RedNomster my man 🤘

Those are technically flying above the map for looks, but you could potentially make a map like that!

@@RedNomster Are you able to grapple hook onto them?

@@RedNomster I might start to learn forge soon

Yep! In Halo Infinite, go to the community tab, select popular maps, then search keyword "overdrive". Or, just go to the second page of popular maps to find overdrive! Bookmarking a map makes it so that you can find it more easily when you go to create a custom game. Don't forget to leave a rating 😬

Search the keyword "overdrive" in the popular maps tab :) if not, link in description

I make Forge maps full time because I'm partnered with an esports org. But I know what you mean; I'm pretty much the only Forger with that situation. If you want to make Halo maps (like me), Forge is incredible. If you just love making maps (also like me), you gotta try fortnite. I'll be dabbling in both!

Incoming video? 👀

@@gcwishbone Next couple of days I'll have one :)