I was responsible for lighting Chasm, a multiplayer map released with Halo Infinite Season 3. Designated as a "quick-map"-an idea to utilize existing campaign assets to speed up the release of Dev-made maps in the game. Usually it takes ~6 months to light a map depending on size, Chasm was done in 1 - ThreadSky

tolerlive.bsky.social • 94 days ago

I was responsible for lighting Chasm, a multiplayer map released with Halo Infinite Season 3. Designated as a "quick-map"-an idea to utilize existing campaign assets to speed up the release of Dev-made maps in the game. Usually it takes ~6 months to light a map depending on size, Chasm was done in 1

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64a.bsky.social•94 days ago

It's a beautiful map with a fun and quirky layout. The area it's based on is one of the most visually striking areas of Zeta Halo.

pfhortnite.bsky.social•93 days ago

One of the best in Infinite for sure, the CE inspiration definitely came through

criticall.bsky.social•93 days ago

Awesome map. Nice job! 👍

veos.bsky.social•94 days ago

I actually enjoy this map quite a bit. Visually, it's very attractive, especially the lighting. Not to mention I've gotten some of my best clips on this map 😂

dizzydisraeli.bsky.social•94 days ago

I feel like Chasm will be a concept revisited in future Halos. It's a really great map.

thehopeful1997.bsky.social•94 days ago

Honestly, possibly one of my favourite maps for infection and fiesta, looks gorgeous

tolerlive.bsky.social•94 days ago

Having 1 month to light the map allowed for a quick and more free-form lighting process, and this map was generally just a lot of fun to work on. As a big fan of Halo CE's boarding action, the map's design (done by Cliff Shuldt) really felt like it was a bit of a spiritual reincarnation of its feel.

jascanity.bsky.social•94 days ago

Boarding Action was always one of my favourite CE maps too, and any time I've dipped into Forge I've taken inspiration from it, so this map was absolutely dope to me when it released in Infinite! Awesome job!

celoxceo.bsky.social•93 days ago

One of my favorite maps to play on. Especially Headhunter and Escalation. Incredible work on the map’s atmosphere.

thedif.bsky.social•92 days ago

Wow!! That’s so sick!!

danstereo.bsky.social•94 days ago

Amazing work on this map I have to say the atmosphere is amazing on it, one of my favourite maps in infinite just for the vibes alone

crusty783.bsky.social•94 days ago

this is a cool map. always liked this one alot

lukaskoelz.bsky.social•94 days ago

Love infinite and great job improving the workflow! Could you give some insight on why it would take 6 months to light a map? That seems extremely long.

tolerlive.bsky.social•94 days ago

On this particular map, the design, environment art, and lighting were all done in a single month. It was an incredibly fast turn around

tolerlive.bsky.social•94 days ago

Typically my sprints consisted of working on multiple maps and projects simultaneously so in terms of time it takes longer to finish a single map. So not necessarily 6 months of actual time dedicated to that one map, but 6 months of work-time.

tolerlive.bsky.social•94 days ago

Typically a V1 pass would be done in a single sprint. Then V2 would have multiple passes done across a few sprints with a lot of changes implemented as design and environment implemented new ideas, likewise with V3.

tolerlive.bsky.social•94 days ago

And map size dictates different work flows. For instance a large-scale Big Team Battle map (where i did the majority of my MP work) takes significantly longer than a smaller arena map. And when the map has designers/artists across multiple support studios assisting there can be a lot of push/pull

lukaskoelz.bsky.social•94 days ago

Right I see, so it's 6, or in this case 1 month for it all to come together not necessarily only scheduled lighting work.
That makes 1 month a crazy fast turnaround, nice!

tolerlive.bsky.social•94 days ago

Right! This was one of the first occasions with post-launch MP content where the environment team dug into the existing campaign assets which really helped speed up the early arting stages as well.

tolerlive.bsky.social•94 days ago

Sure thing! Typically our lighting is done in stages and split i to a V1, V2, and V3 pass. While we may do a V1 pass in a week, it may be a month or more before we really dive into V2 as we wait for design and environments to art the map up. (Part 1. Dang word limits)

latenighthalo.bsky.social•90 days ago

You guys killed it on this map. It feels ripped out of the CE era.

Makes me wish Infinite had an 8v8 legacy movement mode. It would play REALLY well with the classic moveset!

luchat.bsky.social•94 days ago

The map that grew the most on me, once you understand the flow of the map, it's honestly one of my favorite – Btw, is that "normal" for the lighting of a map is 6 months? That seems huge

tolerlive.bsky.social•94 days ago

Multiple maps/projects each week*. No edit feature on here!

luchat.bsky.social•94 days ago

Yeah that make sense, i'm also guessing the work on v3 pass is way longer compared to v1 & v2 but also the work done in the v1/2 helps that you don't feel like starting from scratch and have some groundwork done so once the map is arted and playtested, it's not long until the lighting is done

tolerlive.bsky.social•94 days ago

Exactly! V1 is the quickest pass. Mostly existing as a means to provide visibility to the map for the designers and environment artists to work. V2 is where the colors, tone, shadows, player guidance really starts to form and the art direction/concept art begins to become a reality.

luchat.bsky.social•94 days ago

Appreciate the insight!

tolerlive.bsky.social•94 days ago

So basically it's not 6 months of directly doing that map every day. There's a lot of push and pull while waiting on other teams as you can't finish lighting without everything else being finished. Which also means I'm working on multiplayer maps/projects each week and not solely working on just one

tolerlive.bsky.social•94 days ago

Typically during my time on Infinite lighting was done in 3 "passes". V1, V2, and V3. in the beginning I'll do a V1 pass during the maps blockout stage, But then have to wait a month or so for the environment art to fill in before doing a v2 pass. And v3 comes at the very end.

isometricdreamer.bsky.social•94 days ago

It's incredible to learn the amount of time that goes into lighting for AAA games. The result looks beautiful though.

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