meta faking understanding

bumlove · Post by **bumlove** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:21 am

I've reached the critical point in my mod where anymore anything added to the scnr tag kills it
So I looked up meta faking, it looks like the tut was written in entity's infancy (alpha) so I'm wondering if the meta cloning bit is necessary, (here comes the question) can I just point(ident swap) the unused resources in the scnr tag to my new things

Post by **grimdoomer** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:35 am

is meta facking like adding the chunks but in the meta? like lets say i want to add a reflexive chunk but for varouse reasons i cant in entity. Could I extract the meta and add the chunk that way? If so is there a tutorial some where I dont recall seeing one. If I am completly wrong then disregaurd this post.

bumlove · Post by **bumlove** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:54 am

Meta faking is a way of fixing system link when you can't add anymore resources to the scnr you use unused resources and overwrite them with the new bloc jpt proj meta here is the tutorial I'm just wondering if it can be ident swapped as entity has move on a bit since Alpha as for your problem no I don't think that would work (if the bsp is being a bitch you may have to do all your scnr modding/chunk adding before the conversion)

DemonicSandwich · Post by **DemonicSandwich** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:56 am

Meta Faking is copying the "meta offset" of a object and pasting it over the meta offset of another object using DotHalo.

Example: I copy the meta offset of the warthog and paste it over the meta offset of the spectre. Now when I try to load the spectre, instead a warthog appears.

This is used mainly to fix the SLC of a map by copying the meta offset of a new object and pasting it over the meta offset of an object already referenced.

Edit: wow, you got it as I was typing...
-_-

bumlove · Post by **bumlove** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:16 am

I just found this which I understand it is like meta faking but doesn't involve using dothalo

neodos wrote:you could use tags that are not going to be used on the map(you'll chose which) and swap the predicted resouces idents to the new tags.

Thanks to the demonicsandwich the most evil bread based snack known to man (second only to the pot noodle for all food groups)

Post by **grimdoomer** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:21 am

hmm interesting, now I can overwrite meta, when i inject it with H2X does it actully change. Say I overwrite the scenery placement chunk with the weapon pallet will this relly work and show up in say entity?

kibito87 · Post by **kibito87** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:46 pm

grimdoomer wrote:hmm interesting, now I can overwrite meta, when i inject it with H2X does it actully change. Say I overwrite the scenery placement chunk with the weapon pallet will this relly work and show up in say entity?

Example: i want a battle rifle to spawn over a tree. I copy the meta offset # and then go to the tree. Then paste it over the tree's meta offset #. Then hit save changes.

Now, your battle rifle will spawn where the tree used to.