{"id":25087,"date":"2015-12-23T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=25087"},"modified":"2015-12-23T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T20:50:11","slug":"a-very-merry-christmas-from-halofanforlife-com-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=25087","title":{"rendered":"A VERY Merry Christmas from HaloFanForLife.com to YOU!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first go at making something in Halo 5&#8217;s Forge. Given the time of the year, I thought it only appropriate to make a Christmas tree. I used several effects here to make offset blinking lights. Signs and radar dishes filled in for ornaments. Both a Covie and regular fire at the top in place of a star. (There actually IS a star at the top, but it&#8217;s too small to see in the pics and vid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Card.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25088\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Card.jpg\" alt=\"HFFL 2015 Christmas Card\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Card.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Card-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Card-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Card-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HFFL H5G 2015 Merry Christmas\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pbaflgQBqIQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a full shot of the build. Not the presents under the tree!<a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-full-shot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25082\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-full-shot.png\" alt=\"HFFL 2015 Christmas full shot\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-full-shot.png 1920w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-full-shot-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-full-shot-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-full-shot-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can you find the simple Easter Egg here?<a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Gifts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25083\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Gifts.png\" alt=\"HFFL 2015 Christmas Gifts!\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Gifts.png 1920w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Gifts-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Gifts-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Gifts-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A close up of some of the blinking lights. I used the two color sparks (orange and blue) as well as flood lights (red and purple) to create a Christmas tree that looks more alive that it would in a static shot (see vid).<a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Mid-shot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25084\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Mid-shot.png\" alt=\"HFFL 2015 Christmas Mid shot\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Mid-shot.png 1920w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Mid-shot-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Mid-shot-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-Mid-shot-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is aVERY tall tree!<a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-top-of-tree.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25085\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-top-of-tree.png\" alt=\"HFFL 2015 Christmas top of tree\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-top-of-tree.png 1920w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-top-of-tree-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-top-of-tree-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HFFL-2015-Christmas-top-of-tree-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first go at making something in Halo 5&#8217;s Forge. Given the time of the year, I thought it only appropriate to make a Christmas tree. I used several effects here to make offset blinking lights. Signs and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=25087\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-blog-info","category-halo-5-guardians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25090,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087\/revisions\/25090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}