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Halo 3 Bubble Shield *working tutorial*

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:04 pm
by Rockymods
Hello, and welcome to my Halo 3 Bubbleshield tutorial.
Today I'm going to show you how to succesfully create the Bubble Shield
(This is my first tut so don't be to harsh.


Step 1: Open up 03a_oldmombasa.map, and any MP map.




Step 2: Select the soccerball tag in old mombasa under the [bloc] tag. Now check the recursive and parsed boxes and save the soccerball.

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Step 3:Build the Ball into your MP map. Wait for the done box and then go ahead and close the SP map.

Step 4:Go to the soccerball tag under the [hlmt] tag in your MP map and go to the idents display.
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Step 5:Click on the phmo reference of the soccerball and right click to swap it to a SMG or anything related to it like a flag or assault bomb, as long as you can walk through the object. This makes it walkthrough, but makes it not work when you throw it as a grenade. (to my testing knowledge, you are welcome to experiment.)

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Step 6: We are going to go ahead and give the shield health/shields. For starters this will just make the shield look better when shot at because it'll have that shield collision effect. Still under the [hlmt] tag go to the elite_mp tag. Go to the idents and right click and select clone chunk. Now click on the health/shields chunk and copy to clipboard. Close the chunk cloner and go to the soccerball's chunk cloner and click the main link of the soccerball then "Add top selective/reflexive." then add meta to map.
It should look like this when you are done.

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Step 7: Sigh in relief that the hardest step is finished.

Step 8: Click tools-meta editor then scroll down to the health and shields part. You can put the health to 1 or something (not 0 because usually that value does not mean 0) Now put the shield value to something high like 4000. It should look something like this when you are done. (don't forget to hit save when you finish the shield editing.

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Step 9: Travel to the [mode] tag of the soccerball. Switch to the idents view. There are two shaders here. One should be soccerball black and the other white. At this point it is preference of how you like things to look. An easy shield look is to switch both the shaders to Active_camo-glass-Active_cammo-or edge. You can even do a overshield instead if you like yellow instead of blue. Experiment with this if you like and find what you like the most.

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Step 10: If you try to make the shield a grenade it may take a while to figure out how to get it to work because through my countless testing I never got the shield to work through the grenade. But if you make the shield a projectile it should work just fine. Yamagushi seemed to have a good solution though, go ahead and try that!

Step 11: Pat yourself on the back for a job well done!

Any questions or comments are welcome!


This tutorial would not have been made possible if it were not for Ninja_Modder. This is tut was made to be more clear on the subject. It sounded like people were having trouble with his tut, I myself had to do things that were not in the tut I believe. But Kudos to Ninja_modder!


My goal of how to change things in the shield.
1. Prevent AOE damage from coming through the shield. I want to be in the shield and not get blown up from a rocket!

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:36 pm
by DemonicSandwich
You should've actually posted this in the tut section...

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:02 pm
by plattypuss
why do we have so many idiots around here, can't they read?!!?! its making me angry myself :x

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:44 pm
by Dissolution241
plattypuss wrote:why do we have so many idiots around here, can't they read?!!?! its making me angry myself :x
Go fuck yourself.
He's trying to help the community and at least he has good grammar.
He provided a detailed, thorough tutorial with pictures for people to use.
Although technically it should go in the Tutorials section, this forum is not far off.

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:04 pm
by plattypuss
its so simple


1. look for halo 2 forums
2. look for tutorials section
3. make a new topic
4. create your post

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:32 pm
by FFIIMan
good tutorial

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:58 am
by Rockymods
I'm terribly sorry, I realized this last night, and if one of the staff of halomods could please move this to tutorials I would be greatful. Just waiting to see that message from Tural that I see in alot of tutorials.

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:00 am
by Tural
Huh?
If you're referring to "Moved to Tutorials." - That's from when we had a Tutorial Submissions board on Files.

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:21 am
by Rockymods
Oh, I did not know that. Anyway thanks for moving it.

You're a fast one for when you are called =D

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:18 am
by Yamagushi
Threw what ive seen you can replace a grenade with the sheild simply. Go to the MATG tag, click view idents. scroll down to Projectiles[0] for grenade or Projectiles[1] for plasma grenade. swap it to the soccerball, spawns directly over you covering you with instant protection.

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:46 am
by ninja modder
there was a tutorial for a bubble shield before you posted this. And it was a working one to. Should of searched before you posted.

=P link

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:22 pm
by YagerX
sorry but ninja modder your tut wasnt very good...but rocky mods i think i have a solution to your problems... maybe change the amount of projectiles the grenade releases when fired? to stop the splash damage?

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:22 pm
by ninja modder
YagerX wrote:sorry but ninja modder your tut wasnt very good...but rocky mods i think i have a solution to your problems... maybe change the amount of projectiles the grenade releases when fired? to stop the splash damage?
its simple. there isnt anything complicated about it. People who i gave it to used it fine...its just a soccer ball

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:08 am
by Atticus_Nair
Hey Rocky, When i did it, i applied it to midship, and it froze my Xbox when it says setting up game, and i was looking forward to this ... any ideas?

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:18 am
by Rockymods
Hmm, you want to send me the patch so I can take a look?

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:22 am
by Atticus_Nair
I got it, its awsome, but cant you like increase the weight of it so it dont move when you melee it?

or could you make the plazma pistol a gernade, model switch and bitmap switch, and make the firing effect the throw gernade effects?

wouldnt that make it a gernade basiclly? then you could use Hex workshope to rename it bubble Shield

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:52 am
by YagerX
uhm can i send u my serenity patch 2, my one freezes on 1 on the countdown XD

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:55 am
by Atticus_Nair
YagerX wrote:uhm can i send u my serenity patch 2, my one freezes on 1 on the countdown XD
did you use the gernade thing or a projectile? i did the nade thing and it froze, but try it with the projectile

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:48 pm
by YagerX
yea i used the nade, ok thanks ill try a proj...

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:41 pm
by Atticus_Nair
:twisted: i have put the time and pure screwing around, and got my bubble shield to disapear after a certain amount of time . not really sure how i did it ... :cry: