https://twitter.com/HaloCEmaps/status/1614852664570806275


https://twitter.com/HaloCEmaps/status/1614854187300552705


Dug up this old account to say goodbye to all the core-memories I made here.

It's been a pleasure.
- DEEhunter/DEElekgolo/Wunkolo

Saw this too. It was a good run. It's definitely gonna be sad to see this forum go. It was my 6th grade through 12th grade core memories. It was the main reason I wanted to do CE3. I'm happy to see it survived this long hopefully someone can backup all the posts so we can go back and see all these fun memories.

-SlowBullet

Damn you're that guy
modacity.avi and Anon_Hate.avi are masterpieces

This place was my introduction to the Halo CE community. So blame this place spawning such unbearable toxic guys like me.

I remember my first account here was around 2009 and my first post was around 2011 demanding people to give me tags that didn't even exist at that time and people didn't act kindly to it and I respond by being a notorious member and surpassed the ones who kept downing me.

Maybe being on here at such a young age was a bad idea, but I made many lifelong friends on this site and not only got to make a bunch of cool stuff with them, but get a headstart into hopefully making a true career out of games.

My favorite memory on this site is making my first post after lurking for a year about how cool it'd be to see a true pre release Halo mod based on Macworld, etc. Only to be bullied by other forum members to play Lumoria (no hard feelings to that mod, it's great). I'm now one of the people working on the Digsite project for MCC. Funny how that stuff works honestly.

Thanks for the memories Dennis! I still use this forum a lot whenever running into the most random of H1EK problems but I know that knowledge will live on through archives at least.

No!! Don't close on my birthday!

Another part of my childhood bites the dust. I understand it's had its time, but it hurts a little to have another reminder I'm getting older. I'll miss the memories I had browsing around the forums for new maps and Halo CE chronicles episodes.

It's hard to summarize nearly 20 years of history in one post like this. I don't mind being the sappy one to come out of the woodwork and try anyway:

Modding Halo in this community was one of the first major technical things I did. I learned all sorts of things here, and I know I'm not alone in that. So many old heads took the skills they learned here and turned them into a whole career.

It wasn't just technical skills either. We learned how to help each other and support each other as a community. We've made life-long friends here, some even closer than family. This place isn't just an invaluable repository of information for modding Halo. For a lot of us, it was one of our first digital homes.

There's a real feeling of loss with the forums closing. An end of an era for sure, but not the end of our community. Things have moved to a few major Discord servers, such as http://discord.reclaimers.net. Modding is still going strong, and a new generation of people are learning cool stuff and making friends.

To Dennis: I respect the hell out of you for keeping this place up as long as you did, and, frankly, putting up with us in general. You'll always be a legend in this community.

I was around 12 when I joined this site, along with the original Gearbox forums, the original Halomods, and Halomaps.co.uk. Sad to see them all go.

Donut's right, this place was a digital home to a lot of us, and it had an indescribable impact. This place and community were a catalyst to foster creative and technical passions that we're still pursuing to this day. I'll never forget the friends, the game nights and beta tests, or the innumerable conversations into the early-morning hours that grew from this community. I think it's hard to overstate, even if it sounds corny, that this place really did affect the trajectory of people's lives. I know it did for mine. It enriched my adolescence during a time when I really, really needed it. This place was lightning in a bottle for me.

I think about all the art that got made, mediocre and great - simply because people realized that it was within their power to do so after seeing others like themselves do it here - and it honestly gets me emotional. That's the legacy this place has in my heart; that it added something positive to people's lives, and to the world. Yes it's "just" a site centered on modding a military shooter. But beneath the surface was a group of people driven to create for the love of creating.

Dennis, I'll always be grateful for what you did for us, and I'll always remember that this place grew out of a desire to give your nephew and kids like 'em a place to find maps to play around in. I hope that you've found some peace knowing you did something really special for a lot of people. I hope you're doing well these days.

To me, Halomaps will never be dead, just missing in action.

o7

https://c20.reclaimers.net/ has been super valuable to me when making vkblam. I would inspire anyone here to commit their knowledge to the wiki or somewhere indexable so that it isn't all just lost when the forums go down. Just something to capture some of the information on this forum in an indexable way that isn't a discord server. 🙏

I have archived the entire Halomaps forum. I'm going to keep updating the archive until the forums close, then I'll post the download here: https://gist.github.com/Mimickal/3d3b3258c61ef2d4a86e4475b065787d

I essentially crawled the entire site and had it render out each page's HTML (sorry for slamming the server, Dennis). Obviously functions like search won't work with this raw dump, but things like topic and post IDs have been preserved, so somebody (probably me) could write a basic read-only backend for browsing the content more easily.

Halo Maps is responsible for my entire career path. Without this community, I'd have no idea what I'd be doing now. Halomaps provided me a hobby and a skill set to make it through university and ultimately halo maps helped land me a job in the game industry. I wouldn't have explored coding and 3D art, met all my university friends/connections, or even appreciate halo as much as I do without this place. Most importantly, I wouldn't have gotten to meet all of you guys who supported each other to create wonderful content. Or just added to drama haha .
Either way I'm happy to have lived thru all of this with you guys.

Dennis, if there is anyway you can keep the forums on a view-only state I believe that will help people who are still in the growing MCC Halo CE modding community. We love this forum and I think it can continue to be a place of knowledge and appreciation, even if its just as a stop for google search results. This forum does and can continue to help modders, even if it gathers dust.

I'd also like to say I respect the years of interesting experiences you strongly stood to witness and moderate Dennis. While at times a rough job, you truly did helped an entire community grow.

I'm happy to have known all of you. Good times and bad times, it has been more than well worth it.


wrist watch, with the map editor

<insert kirby occasionally posts>

I'm most surprised that Dennis hasn't said anything here on the forums, that people apparently had to go to other sites to learn, and he still hasn't responded to this thread.

Any clue if halomaps any got any GDPR compliant stuff implemented? In particular, the "what does this site know about you, data dump" part? Would probably be nice for archiving purposes.

For contacting me,
Google Chat (Was hangouts, and even earlier on, Google Talk): heath.caswell@gmail.com
Steam (Don't have it open as often as I should lol) https://steamcommunity.com/id/kirby_422/
Discord Kirby_422#9298