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Wow! This topic spawned A LOT of talk! First off, I want to appologize on my lack of effort in the whole Halo Modding community. It is mostly due to my "Linuxification" in which I have slowly been switching from Windows to Linux. Unfortunately, I cannot run Halo from linux, so this poses a...

A while back I was working on a small project in order to convert regular Halo tags into Halo CE tags. The main reason for this was that I wanted to be able to mod single-player maps and have tons of grunts or something. I quit the project a little ways into it mainly because school started and I he...

sweet

i did google but found little.

Well, my basic plan of attack was to just make an array that read in the data (4 bytes at a time) and wrote it to file backwards (4 bytes at a time). Here is the source code so far: #include <iostream.h> #include <fstream.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stddef.h> int main() { ifstream in_stream; of...

ok. i've figured out how to do it (mostly anyway). i'll post a tutorial shortly, or even a utility if i can figure out how to program it.

don't mean to post 3 replies in a row but...

YES!!! I did it!

I sucessfully converted elite specops.actv.meta to elite specops.actor_variant for HaloCE. I still don't know exactly how it's done, but baby, its within our grasp.

Hmmm.... I have NO clue how the reflexives work in HaloCE tags, but I'm not sure if we need them: If I change all of the reflexives (at least I think that's what they are) in assault rifle.item_collections to 00 00 00 00 and open it in Guerilla, it seems just fine. It just adds them back in. More on...

WOW! I go away for a couple days and come back to find over 20 replies! Well, I haven't been here so no new progress has been made by me, but I think that I will try to figure out the "reflexive" system works on the HaloCE tags. I know this isn't necessary for converting from HaloCE to Hal...

GOD! I cannot get tool to compile this sound. I made a 16-bit Stereo PCM Wave file in the sound\test\test directory called test.wav. I typed this: tool.exe sounds sound\test\test platform xbox (I have the xbox wav codec) It made the test.sound file, but it doesn't have any sounds in it! And, I found...

YIPEE! MORE FINDINGS! P.S. Sorry if those images aren't working. Well, I lied. This really isn't a finding. It's just I can't figure out the format change of these reflexive pointers. For instance, in Halo if you want to figure out what a reflexive is pointing to, you do a reverse endian and then su...

Followers: 1 YAY! Ok... I've done some more studies between the two types of tags and come up with some more results. All of the testing was done between assault rifle.item_collection and assault rifle.itmc from Danger Canyon. When converting a HaloCE tag to a normal Halo tag, you basically follow t...

Listen, aside from ending world hunger, a tag converter could give us endless templates to use in our HaloCE maps. It would take the guesswork out of many things, allowing us to see how some of the better AI is written, how some of the scripts from SP are written, and allow us to put anything from S...

Okay. Something's been on everybody's wish lists and I think it's time to make it happen; a Halo/HaloCE tag converter. This would mean the ability to edit Halo with guerilla and import tags from Halo into HaloCE. Basically, it would mean limitless power. So, here is what my research has found as far...

I am curious, is there some sort of Halo CE map decompiler a la HMT? It would be really nice to use all of guerilla's features on an official map. Also, how do you add a name and image to the created maps? Also, I noticed that the Halo CE tags are a bit different from the normal Halo meta tags becau...

yeah. i would definately like to know how to put a hud for a grunt. there isn't even a unhi dependency slot in grunt.bipd

Is there any way to change the max/min pitch (up and down movement) on the Warthog turret? Changing the HUD limit didn't do anything. This would be great for when a turret is placed on the upper regions of a map (it can't aim much lower than the horizon).

dude. hmt v.3 lets you extract and insert bitmaps. you just have to have the right program to read them.

And, no, if you go to 0x170 you'll just find a pointer to that bitmap. open up hmt v.3 (or 3.5) and then load characters\cyborg\bitmaps\cyborg reflection armor under the bitm tag. (mtib

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meta editing is definately tough. use the xml pages to your advantage. ignore the dependencies and the reflexive locations. focus on the reflexive translations. and, if there is a 4 byte string that ends in 40 (ex. 37 5F 34 40) it's more than likely a pointer to another section of the map. pointers ...

do a perfect model insert:
http://www.halomods.com/forums/viewtopi ... 72f4908e2,

reinstall Halo and HHT. replace the actv dependancies of a vehicle with the new ai actv tag.