Halo 3 Brute Revamp

Brute Revamp is my effort to bring out the full potential Halo 3's brutes. A lot of the inspiration for this mod's changes comes from Bungie's concept art for the brutes. Many of the ideas they had did not make it into the final game. I've worked very hard to make those concepts a reality. I've also taken elements from Halo 2's brutes that are missing in Halo 3 - a big one being hair. The brutes have mohawks, beards, manes, and body hair. Additionally, with help from two other modders - Katherlyn and thehaloguy - I've implemented damage, destruction, and garbage effects for every individual armor piece. I've been working on the Halo 3 brutes since 2023, so I'm very excited to fully realize the vision I had for this mod and to share it with everyone!

Almost every texture has been tweaked, changed drastically, or redone from scratch. I used uncompressed source textures for almost all edits. I've also edited the model in blender, fixing problems, creating new armor pieces inspired by the concept art, and adding armor from Halo 2.

There are nine total brute ranks in this mod:

Minor                                                       - blue and gray           Jumppack             - blue and gray

Major                                                       - red and gray             Jumppack Major   - red and gray

Captain                                                   - gray and gold           Jumppack Ultra    - gray and gold

Chieftain (and War Chieftain)                 - gold and red

Stalker (eye and beam)                          - black and brown

Honor Guard (bodyguard) (5 kinds)       - red and blue

Minors and Majors - both regular and jumppack - are unshielded. Every rank has a unique armor configuration to make them very distinct from each other. All brutes retain their armor when their shield is broken. Each armor piece protects the brute's body from damage, but can be shot off to make hitting the body easier. The helmet must also be shot off before you can secure a headshot. Berserking brutes are much more of threatening because they'll often be fully armored.

This mod now includes flood combat forms for the brutes to transform into.  They are set up

Main Features and Additions:

- Randomized armor permutations

- 7 torso permutations and 13 arm permutations for 91 possible body combinations

- Randomized hair from 29 possible hairstyles

- Randomized skin color with many colors taken from Halo 2

- Hair color matches skin color and higher ranking brutes tend to have bigger manes than lower ranking ones

- Chieftains have white hair no matter their skin color and always have mohawks and bigger manes, to show their seniority

- Minors use a new bare body that is based on Halo 2's brutes and wears Halo 2 armor

- Bodyguards wear Halo 2's and Digsite's honor guard armor

- Armor piece