The Zanz....... Last Resort Blowout!

I still call it Zanzibar but Last Resort was my other substantial contribution to multiplayer, after High Ground. Destination one was the rotating fan. The first thing to do here was to res up the center and make it more round and generally make the whole model a little more eye pleasing. Next up was the texture shaders, These took a major jump up to twice the resolution. Basically, I remade the whole thing and used the original for reference. You also might notice there is some color on it now, as with a lot of things in Halo 3. Another big contributer to Halo 3 beauty is the addition of micro bumps and micro detail bitmaps. Things that add even more detail when you get up close to them.

A lot of people didn't know what that weird metal thing in the middle of Zanzibar(Halo 2) was. It looked a lot like a 1970's space capsule. In reality it was supposed to be the nose cone that fits the center of the fan. I knew that was a problem so I made every effort to make it look like it fit on the fan this time and it actually does.

Here is a shot of the fan with nosecone attached. I thought this would be cool to have out in the background of surrounding areas in the game but it didn't make it.

Next we have the new gate. Originally, this was a packaged gate and barricade lock. The new gate was going to be industrial with broken glass windows above for sniping. The doors were going to be hinged like giant swinging meat locker doors. The Barricades were supposed to be the lock and the tombstones were so you could jump up on them and shoot through the windows while the door was still locked. The designers felt that it tested really well without the doors in place and decided to just use the tombstones. I think it looks a bit odd without the door, but what do I know about art?!

Keeping with the barricade theme, these are your run of the mill vehicle security barricades. Haloized for your enjoyment. It might have been better to use two sets of these instead of the other barricade at the old gate location.

Lastly, I replaced the giant rocks at the old rocket ammo location with these cool electricty transformers. After all, this is a energy generating plant.

Enjoy!