Section Rules - Halo 3 Modding Q&A

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:19 pm

unknownv2 wrote:
Veegie wrote:
Tural wrote:When you connect to Live in Halo 3, the server responds with information as to whether or not the account has the armor available. If so, it can be selected. If not, it can't. You can edit the profile to have the armor, and if you don't connect to Live, you will retain it (I believe, assuming the game doesn't auto-revert it if the mainmenu still has it as hidden), else you can edit the mainmenu to change its setting from 'hidden' to 'unlocked.' There is no data that is downloaded onto your console. It is a simple flag on your online profile that the game interprets when you load it.
If it cannot make the check to the servers (you're not connected), you revert back to default armor. The modifications are only done through editing the mainmenu.map itself.
How did Roofus do his?

I just said the only way to do it(excluding complimentary editing of the .xex itself), so by process of elimination it leaves very few choices...

unknownv2 · Post by **unknownv2** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:21 pm

Okay. Things make sense now.

M715ForLife · Post by **M715ForLife** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:24 pm

I have a question.

You know how DLC on XBL marketplace is in .con files? Where is the resigner located for the DLC? Is it in MicroSoft's servers?

LuxuriousMeat · Post by **LuxuriousMeat** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:32 pm

M715ForLife wrote:I have a question.

You know how DLC on XBL marketplace is in .con files? Where is the resigner located for the DLC? Is it in MicroSoft's servers?

DLC files are in PIRS or LIVE containers which no one except Microsoft can sign as the keys for them are not on your Xbox. And CON files have no extension, as in they are just, for example,: "usermap00000000483334BB2" not "usermap00000000483334BB2.con".

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Fixed!

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:13 pm

As a side note, LIVE containers are signed at the time of deployment, not at the time of download, I believe. When Microsoft packages the content, they sign it then and it goes onto the marketplace already signed.

M715ForLife · Post by **M715ForLife** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:41 pm

Ok, what about Achievements?

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:23 pm

M715ForLife wrote:Ok, what about Achievements?

... What about them?
Also, I assume this is going to be related to Halo Modding, as that would be the only way you could be on topic.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:39 pm

possible to make/show a brute plasma rifle yet?

haxalot88 · Post by **haxalot88** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 7:52 pm

Tural wrote:As a side note, LIVE containers are signed at the time of deployment, not at the time of download, I believe. When Microsoft packages the content, they sign it then and it goes onto the marketplace already signed.

I would think they were signed at the time of download. If the header is still similar to the CON files, then the profile and console IDs should still be part of the hash. So in order for microsoft to include those IDs, they would need to resign it. Now if they did this at the time of deployment, they would need to host several billion copies which they do not.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:07 pm

haxalot88 wrote:They would need to host several billion copies which they do not.

You're pulling my leg.

LuxuriousMeat · Post by **LuxuriousMeat** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:10 pm

Perhaps the Xbox downloads the LIVE/PIRS file and submits it's header to a server for signing, much like 360GS's CON resigner.

SPARTAN-OMEGA · Post by **SPARTAN-OMEGA** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:04 pm

Hax, what you said makes sense, but I think Tural and Lux are right

M715ForLife · Post by **M715ForLife** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:15 am

Veegie wrote:
M715ForLife wrote:Ok, what about Achievements?
... What about them?
Also, I assume this is going to be related to Halo Modding, as that would be the only way you could be on topic.

Are they held in .con files?

Aumaan Anubis · Post by **Aumaan Anubis** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:18 am

M715ForLife wrote:Are they held in .con files?

LuxuriousMeat wrote:And CON files have no extension, as in they are just, for example,: "usermap00000000483334BB2" not "usermap00000000483334BB2.con".

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:53 am

M715ForLife wrote:
Veegie wrote:
M715ForLife wrote:Ok, what about Achievements?
... What about them?
Also, I assume this is going to be related to Halo Modding, as that would be the only way you could be on topic.
Are they held in .con files?

... you're achievement progress is encrypted with the rest of your profile.
I don't understand how you would... forget it.
Keep this Halo modding related.

SPARTAN-OMEGA · Post by **SPARTAN-OMEGA** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:56 am

Okay I recently made a user map mod for valhalla and I spawned some trees, and some spawned side ways, any help on how to fix this

shade45 · Post by **shade45** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:11 am

You'll just have to mess with the rotations in the placement blocks until you find the proper ones. Or you could use the rotations of a mongoose

M715ForLife · Post by **M715ForLife** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:41 am

Sorry for all the stupid n00b questions, but I want to learn how to use engineer and Johnson. How do I go about getting the maps onto my computer? Via XSATA or XPORT?

unknownv2 · Post by **unknownv2** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:56 am

http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=76128

SPARTAN-OMEGA · Post by **SPARTAN-OMEGA** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:26 pm

shade45 wrote:You'll just have to mess with the rotations in the placement blocks until you find the proper ones. Or you could use the rotations of a mongoose

What do you mean by this? I would greatly appreciate it if you dumb it down for me =P