Need Programmers for new halo game

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:36 am

ok so yomama told me to post here ok so i need programmers to do this http://www.halomods.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22384 but note we need good programmers for this so post here if you want to help
this version of halo will also hopefull have alot of features halo pc dident like built in buddy list built in banning and kicking easier modding maybe more player limit and best of all (not really sure about this one) i want to make a chatecter maker like the one found in tony hawk games and build it into this version of halo so we will need alot of good programmers

~{DE}~Demolisher · Post by **~{DE}~Demolisher** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:54 am

.....i would love to help but im a noob at programming and i can barely model with 3ds max...i think i just wasted 3k on 3ds max 7 cause i cant do anything with it lol.

Thebirthdayhat · Post by **Thebirthdayhat** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:56 pm

im a pretty good programmer, wat language is this gunna be in. ill help out

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:53 pm

This will be done in VB and if you know any other programmers please tell them more programmers - game done faster all people who help will be in the credits and receive the beta of the game

kornman00 · Post by **kornman00** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:58 am

I really hate VB :\, and I don't think a remake of Halo could be as good as it could be if it was in VB, rather than C\C++

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:18 am

kornman00 wrote:I really hate VB :\, and I don't think a remake of Halo could be as good as it could be if it was in VB, rather than C\C++

Well all the good C++ programmers are busy soo not really much of a choice maybe i will go find a programming forum to get help from

DarkBrute · Post by **DarkBrute** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:04 pm

One more thing, do YOU know how to program? Because it is SO freakin hard. It is not just about your ability to program, but you logical solutions. Like first, start thinking how you would define a player (master chief) instance. I've tried it and so far I have about 50 different declarations. Not to mention the funtions and their implementations, or actual 3D stuff. Then you have physics, file parsing, AI, entity and scene management. It is just going to tear you apart trying to get started. I'm not being mean, I'm just giving you an insight on programming and generl game development. It is also 10 times harder to manage a team over online connection. My advice: try some simple 3D showcase stuff. Like a grunt doing some funny poses like pumping his muscles (metaphore, I'm wll aware that grunts have nothing close to muscles) it is cool to be able to show that off, like while your making it, you can release those vids saying "these are some animations tests". Its just su c007!!!!

If you need some pointers, ask me. I have some experience in development. Alternatively, you should go to www.gamedev.net because that is the best game dev and programming site ever made and where I learned everything from the hello world tutorials to 3D managment.

Try it!

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:20 am

No i dont know much about programming thats why i need programmers i would be able to progra by now but i still have to buy visual basic that free beta one messed up my comp and i doubt we are making this game from the ground up we are going to edit halo ce most likely and yes this will take a long time and be a very hard but its worth it besides i like a good challenge and aking games is by far one of the funnest things i have ever done and we might also be able to get help from bungie and/or Gearbox we alreas have like 20 people who are gonna help with this project the more the merrier

Thebirthdayhat · Post by **Thebirthdayhat** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:38 am

if u want sum good game programmers then try the forums at
www.gpwiki.org

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:19 pm

Yea well so who is gonna help with this are you Thebirthdayhat? the more programmers we have the better

DarkBrute · Post by **DarkBrute** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:38 pm

How did visual basic beta ruin your comp? Are you sure you had enough space? I have Visual Studio .NET 2003 with Direct-X and OpenGL extensions running on an old cube computer with one 19.1 harddrive with 1.82 GB free.

Also, your not supposed to use Basic language for games, it doesn't offer much features and is limited.

Plus, you can't "edit" Halo CE as far as I know. You have to remake halo to do that.

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:49 pm

DarkBrute wrote:How did visual basic beta ruin your comp? Are you sure you had enough space? I have Visual Studio .NET 2003 with Direct-X and OpenGL extensions running on an old cube computer with one 19.1 harddrive with 1.82 GB free.

Also, your not supposed to use Basic language for games, it doesn't offer much features and is limited.

Plus, you can't "edit" Halo CE as far as I know. You have to remake halo to do that.

IF we get the soucre code we can

and idk basic just messed up my comp i will try to install it again

Thebirthdayhat · Post by **Thebirthdayhat** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:47 am

while vb isnt as capable as many other languages it still can be used for game programming. if u run into a problem wit sumthing u cant figure out write a dll in c++ and use it in vb.

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:12 pm

Lol all the people at gbx forums are calling me a noob and saying this would be impossible the only thing really hard about this is putting movies in but i could do one of these
1: i could try to contact a good ai maker and see if its possible to make a ai mc move to designated points if this is possible you could make a movie kinda or i could finish the whole game send it bungie and ask them to inject our videos into the code

kornman00 · Post by **kornman00** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:01 pm

Not to be mean or anything, but I doubt Bungie would do anything for you when they have other fish to fry

And you can just get some code from various open source sites that read and play AVI, MPEG and other movie files

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:25 pm

kornman00 wrote:Not to be mean or anything, but I doubt Bungie would do anything for you when they have other fish to fry

And you can just get some code from various open source sites that read and play AVI, MPEG and other movie files

Problem with that is the mvoies are in the actual code and we dont have the source code

Oosty · Post by **Oosty** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:47 pm

count me in, man

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 6:43 pm

Oosty wrote:count me in, man

ok if you dont have aim i suggest you d/l it or we could talk on the forum im going to make just for this project

kyboren · Post by **kyboren** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:56 pm

Inject the movies yourself.

Insert them in the .data (I think) section of the EXE or DLL you want to. You'll most likely want to disassemble Halo (unless you're really good with x86 machine code). You could also put them in the .rsrc section and use the Win API functions like LoadResource() to do all the brunt work for you.

Keep in mind that this would make the file absolutely gigantic... It would probably be better to keep them in a different file.

kornman00 · Post by **kornman00** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:38 am

If you inject them, you run the chance of fubaring pointers in the exe that pointed to data in the region you injected it in. Use an external file.