(Halo 2) -~! h2x 4.20 !~- --*UPDATED*-- 4/30/05

[GametagAeonFlux]

AWESOME update.

[MXC]

how do i use this and wats it 4 pc or ce? also wat does it let me do?

[mind flayer]

every time i try to up the spawn count and i save i cannot select anouthe(sp) thing or it gives me this index was outside the bound of the array

[TheTyckoMan]

every time i try to up the spawn count and i save i cannot select anouthe(sp) thing or it gives me this index was outside the bound of the array

looking at it now, might've be something poke added last minute (or it could be that I messed up on one of the values in the scnr plugin)

[Gabs]

Update is s-e-x. Nice one

(Sorry about the cesor bypass, but it looked like i was badmouthing the app cause it said ***)

[TheTyckoMan]

ok there is a bug with the index stuff, so if you want to do stuff in the scnr use this until poke gets it fixed

[mind flayer]

thx very mutch
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ok so I open new mobassa go in to the scnr tag then i click on meta editor. next I go to ai si and i click on the box and slelct
1 - e14_mars_inf0 and increase the spawn count then I click save changes but after it saves and i try to slect anouther groupe of chars it gives me the error index was outside the bound of the array so im wondering if it could be because the map isint clean (has a few wep mods on it nothing major) or is it a problum(sp) with the process im useing. but i have also tryed this on some maps that i think are clean but I will try replacing them and trying over
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[TheTyckoMan]

thx very mutch
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ok so I open new mobassa go in to the scnr tag then i click on meta editor. next I go to ai si and i click on the box and slelct
1 - e14_mars_inf0 and increase the spawn count then I click save changes but after it saves and i try to slect anouther groupe of chars it gives me the error index was outside the bound of the array so im wondering if it could be because the map isint clean (has a few wep mods on it nothing major) or is it a problum(sp) with the process im useing. but i have also tryed this on some maps that i think are clean but I will try replacing them and trying over
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what version of halo 2 do you have? pal or ntsc?

[mind flayer]

ntcs

[kornman00]

Not trying to be mean or anything, but that plugin design and syntax has to be the worst I've ever seen (and the slowest :\). Why not use XML? Alot easier, parser already made (which is very fast) and a shit load of .NET classes for interfacing with XML.

[xbox7887]

Not trying to be mean or anything, but that plugin design and syntax has to be the worst I've ever seen (and the slowest :\). Why not use XML? Alot easier, parser already made (which is very fast) and a shit load of .NET classes for interfacing with XML.

because i guess it was easier to code and it has nested support along with scripts and a bunch of other useful things. i actually think its pretty organized and its easier to write plugins using it(especially when dealing with nested meta). so what if it sacrafices speed, it works....and until promethius comes out, this program has by far, the best plugin system yet

[pokecancer]

Fixed the index error.

Also, I think it's a lot easier to make a plugin with my program than with the tradtitional XML format...

[mind flayer]

wooooooot I love you

[kornman00]

because i guess it was easier to code and it has nested support along with scripts and a bunch of other useful things. i actually think its pretty organized and its easier to write plugins using it(especially when dealing with nested meta). so what if it sacrafices speed, it works....and until promethius comes out, this program has by far, the best plugin system yet

The ability to allow nested block editing and string id changing shouldn't rely on the plugins structure.
And I don't see how you find that organized, with XML, you can EASILY tell what thing belongs to what (ie, block 2 belongs to block 1) without looking for some ".--!" or whatever it is again.
And if i'm not mistaken, the reason its slow is because he reparses the plugin everytime a block editor's index gets changed, and reloadgs the data, and repositions all the controls again. Very inefficent.
But I'm not here to tell people how to program.

But if you want my advice poke, learn XML, and .NET's XML classes, I really thing you'll like them. And once (if) you do all that, and implement all that into your app, make a byte buffer for the tag your editing and just edit that byte buffer, instead of reloading and saving to the map all the time. Also, with XML, you only need to parse the XML file once (which is super fast), and then can get xml element data (like say a block's offset) by using some object fields in a XmlNode object.

XML also allows you to add comments that don't really affect parsing (it just skips the comments) and allows you to tab out your XML code, so its easier to read.

Prometheus will be using XML

[pokecancer]

Great... It seem's that the Prometheus team loves to offer me advice, only when I don't want it though. I will make it more effective soon and yes i do reparse it each time but i dont need to keep it like that so expect it to just keep getting better.
btw: my program skips over anything thats not a recognized command so you can put all the comments you like

[kornman00]

I don't represent the team . And I was only trying to help, XML is very powerful, and IMHO is the best solution for things like tag plugins, just look at HMT

But I see that what ever I say won't mean jackshit, so I'll shutup now.

[pokecancer]

Actually, I listened to some of what you had to say and made it not refresh the controls every time. It's a lot faster now.

[EvilMidget]

I converted some of the xml plug-ins for those who want them and those who are complaining. They lack a few objects, but they will work for now. Props to xbox7887 and TheTyckoMan for helping me out.

[Evolved]

Plugins = Good

evilmidget222, GJ man.

[EvilMidget]

Plugins = Good

evilmidget222, GJ man.

Thank you.