CLICK HERE IF YOU GET AN ERROR WHILE TRYING TO UPLOAD A PIC.

I'm sure many of you read the Weekly Update in which Luke gave details about the new Bungie Favorites program. To put it very basically, various Halo sites will be collecting Halo 3 content from it's members, and then submitting the best of the best to Bungie. The winners will have their content posted to Bungie Favorites on Xbox Live, and in turn viewed by hundreds, maybe even seven hundreds of people!

Here are the areas of content you can submit:

- Screenshots
- Saved Films
- Gametypes
- Map Variants

How to Submit - READ CAREFULLY

Before going into how, I want to clarify, that to keep from spamming, we will be restricting the number of submissions in each category to 5. (So you can submit 5, screenshots, 5 saved films, etc...)

To submit a screenshot...
Simply upload it to the Bungie Favorites Gallery. That's it! When uploading images, you MUST include the link to the Bungie.net screenshot page you got it from in the discussions. This way we can prove you're the one who took the screenshot. Please put this link in the image description.

Here is a nice shiny picture of EXACTLY what to choose when you upload EVERY submission.



Please note that just because an image gets high ratings or lots of views doesn't mean it's going to get submitted to Bungie... but it sure does help!

To submit everything else...
Please send an organized email containing your HBN membername, gamertag, and links to the appropriate submissions on your fileshare to:



Any questions, please post them here.
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Update #2
Apparently members are having trouble comprehending that when they upload their submissions, they have to actually upload them to the "Bungie Favorites Submissions" gallery. So I added the image above to guide on submitting the screenshots.
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Update #1
It was brought up that the max image size of the gallery is smaller than the 1920x1080 screenshot size for Halo 3. This does NOT mean you can't upload your screenshots! However when you upload an image larger than the max size (which is 1027x768) the gallery will size down the largest side and preserve the aspect ratio so when you click on the image, it is not massive and annoying.

Here is an example (click on each image to see the difference):
- Full-Size Image*
- Auto-Resized Image*

*If you don't see the flash window frame when you click on the image, click on them from my main gallery, here.

If you guys would prefer to have the max image size raised, I suppose I would be willing to change it, but it would suck for people who don't have huge displays!

Is it 5 submissions EVER in each category or is it 5 maximum per batch of preliminary judging?

I hate to point out the flaw in the Gallery, but the maxiumum image resolution for the Gallery is smaller than the size of a Halo 3 Screenshot...

As stated above, "(So you can submit 5, screenshots, 5 saved films, etc...), meaning you can submit 5 for each category.



I'm going to address this observation in the main post above. You'll see that's it's not a flaw if you actually try to upload something.

Fair doos. I tried uploading it earlier and it gave the error, but I'll give it another shot.

EDIT: I just tried uploading it again, and it still gives me the error.

ERROR: Image dimensions exceed maximum permitted size,
Please resize the image or select an alternate image.

Weird. I had no problem uploading my images at all. Let me have the bungie.net link to one of the images you're trying to upload, and I'll download and give it a shot.

I just realized that a lot of my nice images aren't in my fileshare or on my xbox anymore but they're on my laptop. I can't provide links for them

That's a shame. Bungie except entries without real links (for obvious reasons).

Why did all my screenshots get uploaded at a resolution of 1024x576 pixels?

Come on, demon...

Oh...

*goes to shame corner*

Remember to make sure there's a variety of screenshots, Ascendant Justice got torn up because they used nothing but panoramic shots.

Thanks for the advice. Yeah I have no doubt we'll have a variety. Honestly, if I was to lean one way more than the other, I am looking for very clean and creative shots of spartans... which I'm seeing a lot of, so I'm not too worried.

So how close are we to sending our files into Bungie? I've submitted my stuff, have many others?

I believe I'll posting an announcement tomorrow for 1 more week. We don't have very many believe it or not, which makes it easier on me!