Sand Blasted: Sandbox Without Guardian Towers.

Time Glitch · 03-07-2009

Hey all.

Well, I know this has been done before, but it doesn't look like anyone's posted a map up *looks behind shoulder*. IKL Dead Man and I thought we were the first to do it, but we aren't sure. So don't go pointing fingers.

All that aside, we've made a map where you can freely move about the outer boundaries of Sandbox with no worries. The map is clean and clear of clutter, and ready to be forged on. It also comes with a nice little description =).

The outside of Sandbox can be used for a number of things, but the most interesting one that came to our minds was night maps. For the first time, you can have a completley darkened area, totally open to do what you will with. The center of the map is still lit, but the outer edges are quite dark when Gloomy is on.

Anyways, how you guys forge it isn't up to me. Here are a few example screenshots:

Download Sand-Blasted

They're on vacation.

Almost at the invisible walls.

Those dunes are HUGE.

The map really does get pitch black with the Gloomy filter on.

Ok, well, thats it! Thanks much to IKL Dead Man. Without his help, we wouldn't have figured this out. Hope you all enjoy.

Question: How did you do this?

Answer: We overloaded the map with trip mines, then placed teleporters outside of the map around each tower, and save/quit Y-Intersection Tubes on the tower's guns. We had one tower that was quite the bitch, and we had to use extra resources on, because it wouldn't let us get close enough to put it directly on the gun. It was a pain in the proverbial ass.

EDIT: Sorhan posted up another blocked map that has all the original Sandbox objects on it. For those of you so interested, here's the link.

http://www.forgehub.com/forum/halo-f...-blocking.html

Shirdel7221 · 03-07-2009

Awesome. Although I've already got the Skull, it'll help my friends get it.

Mr P1B · 03-07-2009

Ahh nice man nice, love the screen shots.
Big help ^^

I could never find the skull where is it?

uralllame · 03-07-2009

Real pretty. Have you done some crazy crap to lag out the map, or have you blocked the lasers with scenery, or something else? I must know!

ForgeGod117 · 03-07-2009

WOW, night maps. those Resident Evil maps that people used to make on sandbox are going to get taken to a whole new level. I wish I had sandbox. I am eager to get out and forge on these dunes. I guess i will have to wait :)

EpicFishFingers · 03-07-2009

Definitely downloading this, but how did you manage to turn the towers off?

Now thinking of thousands of map ideas with your help. You are genuinely a credit to this site, keep it up.

oberlin · 03-07-2009

Towers will turn off if you overload the map, I've heard. Then just place scenery in front of the towers, and voila.

HLG FlashPoint · 03-07-2009

this will help alot for my newest map, Brute Attack. How did you do this? Nonetheless this is very helpfull

rusty eagle · 03-07-2009

Can you make another one with all of the default objects on it? It's neat that you've blocked off the towers, but the hit against the OLN, I'd like to see another blocked off canvas with all of the objects. Good job!

M.Jelleh · 03-07-2009

The dark effect with gloomy on is really awesome. I'd love to see a game where 3 humans get in warthog and that's basically the only light from the hog, and they have to plow over zombies that are a bit slow but have BRs or something. And both teams have no shields =0