I just extracted b40's (assault of the control room) tags using hek+, opened it up in sapien. Added a few battle rifles and changed the starting weapon to halo 3's assault rifle, saved, then recompiled.

A number of problems have cropped up, and searching has turned up little results.

1. Wrong BSP is loaded initially
2. I spawn outside the BSP
3. No AI, or anything else for that matter, is spawning.

2 and 3 are probably just sub-problems of 1

http://taken.dyndns.org/images/halo/nobsp.jpg

^screenshot of initial spawn

Did you monkey with any of the scripts?

Or did you move the player spawn point at all?

btw that old AR skin of mine you got there sucks! ;D
Edited by Invader Veex on May 12, 2008 at 08:08 AM

don't laugh, but I couldn't actually find the single player scripts. I wanted to monkey around with them, but its rather difficult when I can't find them.

As for the assault rifle skin, Its rather vibrant, and I like things like that. But if you have a more accurate recreation somewhere, I'd love a link.

And no, I didn't touch the player spawn point. Is it possible that Hek+ made a mistake extracting the tags? I noticed I have a seriously f'd bitmap in d40 as well, possible mistake on hek+'s part?

Edit: I download the scripts off your website, recompiled and rebuilt, no luck still
Edited by choel on May 12, 2008 at 10:28 AM

Edit 2: Re-extracted tags, complied fine. Ran like it should. Then I made the same changes I made above and I'm back to spawning outside the bsp 0.o
Edited by choel on May 12, 2008 at 11:09 AM

Edit 3: re-extracted tags again. Opened in sapien, saved and closed. No changes. Complied and back to spawning outside the BSP. Sapien is destroying that file apparently.
Edited by choel on May 12, 2008 at 11:38 AM

Best thing to do:

-Completely delete the scenario and bsps, then reextract them from HEK+. That is how I fix it when this error came up. Also, let me know if you get an excpetion some way through. I always get an exception when I get to the part where you are ground level the first time with the marines and the wraith is shooting at you from afar.

Problem seems to be solved:

I re-extracted the tags, and rather then use sapien to edit stuff, I used that "a hobo" program. I've had no problems since, doing some basic stuff

http://taken.dyndns.org/images/halo/b40_battlerifletest.jpg
http://taken.dyndns.org/images/halo/b40_rockethog2.jpg
http://taken.dyndns.org/images/halo/b40_shieldedhunters.jpg

thanks for the help.

Edit: Nevermind, ran into the problem again. I think the problem is related to the single player scripts I obtained.
Edited by choel on May 13, 2008 at 01:38 AM

How did you change the color of the hunters?

I think I found the problem.

http://taken.dyndns.org/images/halo/scriptsissue.jpg

So how would I go about connecting the script in my tags\levels\b40\scripts\b40.hsc folder back to b40.scenario ?

File->Compile scripts just says "Success", but doesn't actually do anything

Edit: Fixed that problem, my directory setup for scripts was, for lack of a better term, "Seriously F'd Up"
Edited by choel on May 13, 2008 at 03:07 AM

hey, I've extracted maps with hek+ but so far only the silent cartographer has opened. how did you get b40 to work?

ps. I've extracted every thing twice and made sure it's all there. sapien just shuts down and i get this in the debug.txt:

05.13.08 16:20:01 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
05.13.08 16:20:01 reference function: _write_to_error_file
05.13.08 16:20:01 reference address: 401b13
05.13.08 16:20:01 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
05.13.08 16:20:01 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
05.13.08 16:20:02 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
05.13.08 16:20:02 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
05.13.08 16:20:34 EAX: 0xFFFFFFFE
05.13.08 16:20:34 EBX: 0x00000002
05.13.08 16:20:34 ECX: 0x00A4E2F8
05.13.08 16:20:34 EDX: 0x00000005
05.13.08 16:20:34 EDI: 0x0DEA2000
05.13.08 16:20:34 ESI: 0x00000000
05.13.08 16:20:34 EBP: 0x00A4E30C
05.13.08 16:20:34 ESP: 0x0012F0E4
05.13.08 16:20:34 EIP: 0x005AB968, 66 8B 04 3E ?????
05.13.08 16:20:34 6F697461 ?????
05.13.08 16:20:34 00000008 ?????
05.13.08 16:20:34 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION

For guy above, get a new sound card.

As for other, you can download the campaign scripts on the website (search campaign scripts) and they should go in levels\b40\scripts

Sound card doesn't matter. When you extract with HEK+, extract EVERYTHING from b40. Then follow what Invader Veex said.

Probably should add that they go in Data\levels\blah blah blah, as my problem was that I had them in Tags\levels\blah blah blah blah

it's not the sound card, i get that for every map and it's worked fine. I extracted everything and it's still not working.

EDIT:
I can't find the script files, can someone give me a link?
why don't I need the script for b30, witch opens just fine?
Edited by yukonmuffin on May 17, 2008 at 03:03 PM