Ok Sapien closes when I spawn a (gold) elite with a sword. The elite appears for a brief moment, (you cant see a sword, funnily enough) and then Sapien closes. I think it has something to do with the tags but there is no error shown when i add it to the actor_varient list and i cant find any red writing in the tags in guerilla (iv looked most places).

debug.txt.. why do people force you to spend your time searching the tag when debug.txt tells you what tags are missing what, and so much more?..
look in your HCE folder for debug.txt, go down, find the log for when you tryed adding the sword elite, post it here.

10.12.07 11:54:04 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
10.12.07 11:54:04 reference function: _write_to_error_file
10.12.07 11:54:04 reference address: 401b13
10.12.07 11:54:04 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
10.12.07 11:54:04 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
10.12.07 11:54:05 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
10.12.07 11:54:14 WARNING: 1 clusters in structure_bsp levels\test\ring\ring have no background sound or sound environment.
10.12.07 11:54:14 recompiling scripts after scenarios were merged.
10.12.07 11:54:14 this left parenthesis is unmatched.: (script continuous switchattackers
10.12.07 11:54:14 DirectInput: 'Acquire (keyboard)' returned (DIERR_OTHERAPPHASPRIO#-2147024891)


ok i figure everything above here is unimportant so:


10.12.07 11:54:31 local player 0, weapon (0x0), deleted unexpectedly
10.12.07 11:54:41 EAX: 0x00C9CEC0
10.12.07 11:54:41 EBX: 0x40018201
10.12.07 11:54:41 ECX: 0x00C9CEC0
10.12.07 11:54:41 EDX: 0x00000000
10.12.07 11:54:41 EDI: 0x0013E6A8
10.12.07 11:54:41 ESI: 0x00000000
10.12.07 11:54:41 EBP: 0x0013E580
10.12.07 11:54:41 ESP: 0x0013E570
10.12.07 11:54:41 EIP: 0x7C90EB94, C3 8D A4 24 ?????
10.12.07 11:54:41 EXCEPTION halt in \halopc\haloce\source\objects\objects.c,#1913: function_index>=0 && function_index<NUMBER_OF_OUTGOING_OBJECT_FUNCTIONS

first of all, one of your scripts has a error.. but thats not whats effecting it, I just feel like warning you.

ive never seen the second error, but it says that the out function blocks are messed up, so either A out, B out, C out, or D out, most likely in the sword weapon tag.. just try using the energy sword on this site, except change the weapon hold label to.. what exactly is the HPC energy sword anyways?.. lol.. idk, check the energy sword your using, and set teh weapon label to the HCE one, and then.. make sure the flag about AI using melee is checked.

yeah i fixed the script,
and I'm using the energy sword from theghosts tag set (the single player one for the elites). tried making an item collection for it, and it's still closing.

ok so iv tried everything you said above. expect i dont know what the "weapon label" is.

and when i use a different energy sword tag (off this site) there is no error, but the elites just spawn with plasma rifles. (no swords...) however, i know the sword is working, because i made an actor_varient tag for the cyborg for it, which works. and is kool. :) but seriously. wtf is with this?

because if a biped spawns with a weapon that has a weapon label they cant hold, it makes them go to their default weapons listed in their biped, and last time I checked, a elite cant wield a flamethrower, and thats what the HCE energysword is held like.

open the elite animation file in guerilla.. then, select the seat label as stand (second thing in it..) move down untill you find something about weapon types, pick melee (im preaty sure thats how the elite is set up) and then go down.. it will have a letter.. now.. open the HCE energysword.. go down until you find the letters FT in a textbox area in the tag.. change it to what ever the elites letter was when you looked in his animations.

IT WORKED!!! YAY! Thanks kirby! Also now i can do other crazy stuff using the same method! jackals with snipers etc... looks a bit dodge but IT WORKS. THANKS!

Hey kirby I need help on successfully assigning a custom weapon to an ODST actor variant from Soi's single player campaign. I can't seem to change the ODST biped's vanilla weapon which is the Soi's Campaign battle rifle or the SMG.

Literally open an actor variant tag and look for the "weapon" field under the "ranged combat" dialogue.

You don't even have to scroll.....

I do that all the time but no matter what weapon I choose besides the BR or SMG it will always spawn with their vanilla weapon the biped has been assigned with BR/SMG. Say for example I want the ODST to use the AR instead of the BR I open the actor variant and I change the weapon in the range combat option to AR I saved the actor variant file, I load up sapien and set spawn points for them and save, I go back into sapien to see if the AI spawns which they did but instead of using the AR I assigned them they still use the BR. What gives?

Trying creating an entirely new actor_variant by saving the tag under a new name.

Assorted AI tuts that might be helpful.