[PC Easy] Unlocking new assault rifle animation

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 2:45 pm

Figured I'd write a tutorial on how to do this since it's easy and gives good results. I told pepsi how to do it last night and he tested it for me. turns out it causes a little inconsistency when joining maps, but for regular mods and especially SP this should be fun.

How to do it:
1. Open up a map in HMT
2. Extract the antr tag for the assault rifle fp
3. Open the tag in any hex editor
4. Go to the offset 'B7'
5. you will see 03 00. change that to 0B 00 (that's right, you only edit one nibble

)
6. Save and inject the meta back using HMT.
7. Test it out in game, there will be a brand new assault rifle melee animation. Instead of swinging forward with the butt of the rifle, master chief hoists the gun upwards then smashed it forwards. edit: vid: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JZKFR1NQcVw

Perhaps I will write an HMT plugin that will do this for you... but it's Christmas and I'm lazy so right now you can do it yourself, It's just one nibble!

Hope to see this in upcoming mods.

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:27 pm

i think it looks very damn spiffy myself.

kudos!

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 7:01 pm

pictures?

conure · Post by **conure** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 9:36 pm

Already got the antr plugin made leo

But nice tutorial in anycase

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:05 pm

conure wrote:Already got the antr plugin made leo
But nice tutorial in anycase

I sort of figured, which is why i didn't bother... That's why I don't really make plugins, because you've pretty much ported guerrilla. Any time I released a plugin you'd be like:

nice, but i already made that exact plugin... twice

I made it, hit my head and got amnesia, relearned how to mod and did it again... pwned... (and then I made it a third time just because I was really bored)

assassinator · Post by **assassinator** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:00 pm

does this tut also work for trial?

Mr.Brightside · Post by **Mr.Brightside** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:09 pm

InvaderVeex · Post by **InvaderVeex** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:43 pm

The stealth melee? ;D It's slow, btw

Jackle001 · Post by **Jackle001** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:00 pm

All I got was the Assault Rifle dissapearing. Must not have done it right... or it could be that I used the A10 animation.

DeadHamster · Post by **DeadHamster** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:17 pm

does this work for other weapons as well, or only the AR? And someone mentioned the word stealth melee, does this mean that each gun has another secondary melee to it?

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:33 pm

I don't know. Have a look at the animation trigger tags in HMT. They'll tell you.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:34 pm

can we get some video footage of this?

Jackle001 · Post by **Jackle001** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:08 pm

How about the fp.antr.meta file? I need it for my Halo 3 for PC Mod.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:52 pm

Jackle001 wrote:How about the fp.antr.meta file? I need it for my Halo 3 for PC Mod.

the fp.antr.meta file is the one that he is talking about.

Jackle001 · Post by **Jackle001** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:20 pm

I know. I was suggesting he give us the modified version.

MoDFox · Post by **MoDFox** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:43 pm

Jackle001 wrote:I know. I was suggesting he give us the modified version.

Or you could do it yourself...

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:46 pm

the fp.antr and fp.antr.meta are the same thing just with different extensions, all it is is the meta being extracted to a file. in fact, lets take that into consideration and make a faster method... open a hex calcuator. find your ar fp antr tag. copy its meta. go to your calculator and add B6 to the meta. open the map in a hex editor and go to that offset. change it to 0B. that's it (that way is faster than the one in my original post)
edit: iwould make a video, but fraps keeps exceptioning... somebody else mb?

Jackle001 · Post by **Jackle001** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:52 pm

Have you tried reinstalling FRAPS? What about CamStudio?

CamStudio: http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:13 pm

meh, got it working, it was a sound issue...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JZKFR1NQcVw

edit: dled camstudio. Thanks for the link!