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Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2007 6:17 pm**

Update 11/24/07

Ok, I'm gonna go into alot of detail, so read the whole thing.

Lately I successfully PMI'd a Wraith, Covie Dropship, Pelican, Lifepod, and a Re-Entry Lifepod.

I got alot of bugs.

1>Lifepod and RE-Lifepod have very glitchy physics, they run strait through walls.
-->I fixed this on the normal lifepod by putting in wraith physics, but the front of it can go clear through objects.
-->I added a pelican looping sound to the RE-lifepod, but I can't see to transplant other vehicles' physics. I've all but given up on the RE-lifepod.
2>Covie Dropship driver seat (it works, but...)
-->The Thrid Person view forces you to look strait at the back of the vehicle, not the are ahead.
-->No track tag to fix this
-->I changed the camera to first person, but when you get in, you can see your weapon your holding and looksalot like riding in a warthog seat.
3>Covie Dropship and RE-lifepod
-->Need to get names for the seats.

I'll reiterate my questions in a more digestable format.
1>How do I make a more rigid, harder to penetrate physics tag for a vehicle?
2>How do I edit the veiw of a seat without the use of a track tag?
3>How do I add names for seats and such?

Have fun with those

Posted: **Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:32 am**

i don't know about the other but you can change the seat names in HMT 3.5 (PC) Eschaton 0.6.1 (Mac) a Hex Editor (Both).

Posted: **Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:58 am**

bcnipod wrote:i don't know about the other but you can change the seat names in HMT 3.5 (PC) Eschaton 0.6.1 (Mac) a Hex Editor (Both).

Perhaps i explained it wrong...

I need to add names for the seats in the game. I allready renamed them so you can use them, I just need to fix it so it doesn't say

"Press E to enter <need string entry here> of <need string entry here>"

Posted: **Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:13 am**

i believe that there was a tutorial about that.

(read this bit atleast twice i hope it will make sense.)
also i just came across this, maybe it can help it is a stretch, but instead of trying to directly change the "<need string entry here>" to "Wraith" "driver's Seat" could you change the text that appears in its stead. like changing the display of "<need string entry here>" to "Wraith" without really making be the wraith. here is a tut that i have that might make more sense.

how to change displayed words, map names, ect,.

To change in game phrases, such as "was killed by" or "died"
any of the displayed text while playing is located within the map you are on
ill use death island as an example

ok now open the map that you want to change the words or phrases in with any hexeditor

first of all, you will need to do a hex conversion. use a hex calculator to take the word you want to replace and covert it to hex, example: "was killed by" coverted to hex is...
"77 61 73 20 6b 69 6c 6c 65 64 20 62 79"
w a s _ k i l l e d _ b y

you may have noticed that where there is a space between words the hex number is 20. that is because in hex a space is 20. got it? well were not done.

now you wont actually be able to find the word you just converted to hex with the hex finder yet, this is because between each letter is a period, so "was killed by" is actually .w.a.s. .k.i.l.l.e.d. .b.y.
in hex these periods equal 00

alright, were now ready to do a hex search. lets look for "was killed by" which we now know in hex means
00 77 00 61 00 73 00 20 00 6b 00 69 00 6c 00 6c 00 65 00 64 00 20 00 62 00 79 00

make sure you always enter it in the proper fashion 2 bits then a space.

you should see %.s. .w.a.s. .k.i.l.l.e.d. .b.y. %.s. highlighted. now replace it with the word of your choice
in hex

example: replace w.a.s. .k.i.l.l.e.d. .b.y. with .g.o.t. .n.o.o.b.e.d. .b.y. which in hex is
00 67 00 6f 00 74 00 20 00 6e 00 6f 00 6f 00 62 00 65 00 64 00 20 00 62 00 79 00

you can experiment with overwriting any of the words, they don't have to fit perfectly, but it can be tricky.

for any of the map descriptions, map names, and other things can be found by opening the UI map.

idk who made this, it came in a downloadable pack there no name in it if it is your then PM me and i will put the name in it.

Posted: **Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:46 am**

I'm trying that hex thing, but I've never used hex before....

Posted: **Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:33 am**

Eschaton does it automatically, it's probaly the only thing i use it for (no offense to the makers). Open a map, go to the USTR tag, and edit away! don't worry about it not being the same length, if it's less, it'll trunacate it. If it's more, it'll only put as many characters as the original.

Posted: **Fri Nov 23, 2007 1:14 pm**

How do I add return spaces?

How do I add seat names for seats without names?

Posted: **Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:11 am**

Well, long things short, I lost my lifepod file, its corrupted, no recover, period.

Starting over ith backups, this really sucks.

HaloMods "Classic" Read-only Archive

Few questions bout some PMI'd vehicles

Few questions bout some PMI'd vehicles