Mod Server Help

Jesus0725 · Post by **Jesus0725** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:12 am

ok, so i modded halo pc and i went to play my mods online with my friend and he said that he couldnt see my skins or use my weapon mods, all he saw was the normal game.
so i was wondering if there was some special way to set up a mod server so that everyone who joined got to use the mods of the host.

advice would be appreciated.

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:57 am

In order for people to see your skins they have to have the same bitmap.map file your using. Same goes for almost any mod really done correctly without meta swaps.

If you move things, add things, new skins only your going to be able to see them cause there on your maps not his.

Jesus0725 · Post by **Jesus0725** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:05 pm

Pepsi wrote:In order for people to see your skins they have to have the same bitmap.map file your using. Same goes for almost any mod really done correctly without meta swaps.

If you move things, add things, new skins only your going to be able to see them cause there on your maps not his.

then whats the point of modding?

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:06 pm

If you have to ask that then leave now.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:09 pm

well no he would not. they are on your machine not his.

willtheoct · Post by **willtheoct** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:52 pm

"whats the point of modding"? did he just say that?

.....i know maybe you don't see the point, but i have an undefined level of hatred for you now. i'll keep it to myself.

anyway, AI IN MULTIPLAYER. the big number one. then, all the gameplay possibilities. add vehicles and scenery, import pelicans or autoturrets or whatever. then some features allow you to walk on walls, immune to falling damadge, speed changes, swapping projectiles, etc. all in HMT.

swapping projectiles means you can have a banshee shooting fuel rods as its primary weapon, or a shotgun shooting out plasma grenades, or a sniper-machine gun-mounted turret on a warthog.

this is all my uncreative mind can think of thats easily done at the moment, so let's get on to an explanation.

you will see your own skins. not others. you will see your own scenery, but collide with the host's scenery. when you see a shee, and it's really a tank in the hosts' computer, it will not fly, but look like a shee. lets say you have a needler. the host has the battle base mod. it will look like you're shooting needles, but it will actually be homing rockets.

there are so many possibilities with modding. graphical mods do not have an effect, but if you really want it to look "pretty", send your maps to your friends, it's pretty logical why it doesn't show up.

DeadHamster · Post by **DeadHamster** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:55 pm

Modding is not about projectile swaps at all.

Modding is about taking what makes halo great, throwing it out the window and making something absolutely epic.

And if you can't do that, modding is about building upon what made halo great.

But it is NOT about projectile swaps.

willtheoct · Post by **willtheoct** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:06 pm

yeah i'm not too great with modding, but swapping is the easiest to do, apart from changing variables. and the most i know what to do is take a biped or vehicle from the campaign and PMIng it...

also, i just remembered another thing! exception guns. boot people you don't like.

ever see the cool mods on youtube? portal gun, ocarina of time mod, grunt wars, so much cool stuff.

bottom line: never, ever say "whats the point of modding?". there is always a point, no matter what game.

DeadHamster · Post by **DeadHamster** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:08 pm

willtheoct wrote: exception guns. boot people you don't like.

Hahaha. You just scored 50 points. lol, j/k. You got an Xfire?

willtheoct · Post by **willtheoct** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:14 pm

i knew there was a reason that came to mind.... i'm like, "deadhamster..... why am i thinking of the exception gun?"

you created it..... i remember now.

yeah its the same as my screen name, why?

DeadHamster · Post by **DeadHamster** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:22 pm

I added you.

Yeah I made it, but lets not discuss it anymore on here, last time this got discussed world war 3 broke out in the Rant topic. check around page 333 for everything. It's starts somewhere around there and goes on for a page or 2

xXShadowCowXx · Post by **xXShadowCowXx** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:32 pm

willtheoct wrote:"whats the point of modding"? did he just say that?

.....i know maybe you don't see the point, but i have an undefined level of hatred for you now. i'll keep it to myself.

I like this guy.

ajax17 · Post by **ajax17** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:57 pm

Jesus0725 wrote:then whats the point of modding?

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:43 am

DeadHamster wrote: Modding is about taking what makes halo great, throwing it out the window and making something absolutely epic.

end of discussion

guysullavin · Post by **guysullavin** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:31 am

or you can just use it to cheat... not that I'm suggesting that...

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:19 am

guysullavin wrote:or you can just use it to cheat... not that I'm suggesting that...

wow is this an addicing habit of your? bumping old posts. Also Guys please PM me.

guysullavin · Post by **guysullavin** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:34 am

this one wasn't that bad... still first page...

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:36 am

placement on the page means nothing, the last post does. and you have not PMed me.

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:10 pm

Five days isn't exactly a horrible bump.

But I will lock this topic anyways to stop any further off topic discussion.