All of my numerous attempts to make a complete working tags directory have failed so far. I've extracted all the halo pc maps, sp and mp, compiled the level tag packs given on this site into a tags directory, downloaded all the sp levels and extracted them, you name it. I think I now have a complete tagset, or at least complete enough, but the sp maps still won't open in sapien due to an exception access violation. Every time every map, except the silent cartographer. I don't know why that works. But no method works. If someone has gotten working campaign scenarios (complete working tagset), please, how?!

This is the latest debug error i got when I tried to open a10 scenario which I got from extracting Renamon's a10 sp level I downloaded (thank you Renamon for all the sp levels, even though they don't produce usable scenarios!)...


08.11.08 12:06:27 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
08.11.08 12:06:27 reference function: _write_to_error_file
08.11.08 12:06:27 reference address: 401b13
08.11.08 12:06:27 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
08.11.08 12:06:36 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
08.11.08 12:06:38 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
08.11.08 12:06:40 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
08.11.08 12:07:53 EAX: 0xFFFFFFFE
08.11.08 12:07:53 EBX: 0x00000002
08.11.08 12:07:53 ECX: 0x00A4E2F8
08.11.08 12:07:53 EDX: 0x00000005
08.11.08 12:07:53 EDI: 0x0A463000
08.11.08 12:07:53 ESI: 0x00000000
08.11.08 12:07:53 EBP: 0x00A4E30C
08.11.08 12:07:53 ESP: 0x0012F004
08.11.08 12:07:53 EIP: 0x005AB968, 66 8B 04 3E ?????
08.11.08 12:07:53 6F697461 ?????
08.11.08 12:07:53 00000008 ?????
08.11.08 12:07:53 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION

I also get

EAX: 0xFFFFFFFE
08.11.08 12:32:18 EBX: 0x00000001
08.11.08 12:32:18 ECX: 0x0012E3F8
08.11.08 12:32:18 EDX: 0x000002CC
08.11.08 12:32:18 EDI: 0x0012E3F8
08.11.08 12:32:18 ESI: 0x00000000
08.11.08 12:32:18 EBP: 0x0012E2D0
08.11.08 12:32:18 ESP: 0x0012E2C0
08.11.08 12:32:18 EIP: 0x7C90EB94, C3 8D A4 24 ?????
08.11.08 12:32:18 EXCEPTION halt in \halopc\haloce\source\tag_files\tag_groups.c,#3157: #3 is not a valid animation_block index in [#0,#3)

when opening c10 and c20. WTF?

d20 gets a msg box that sais something about the memery could not be "read". WTF?
Edited by Vick Jr on Aug 11, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Edited by Vick Jr on Aug 11, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Edited by Vick Jr on Aug 11, 2008 at 12:38 PM

P.S., anyone know how to get\make some swamp like shaders.
Edited by Vick Jr on Aug 11, 2008 at 02:01 PM

I'll tell you secretly. I don't like telling ppl everything. Goto xfire.com , get a account and I'll tell u.

Are you that selfish to hide valuable information from everyone? A lot of people would love to know how to solve the problem of not being able to open the campaign maps because of this error, including me.

Society would never have advanced if all the great inventors had just kept their work to themselves. Think about that.

I have to agree with him. I know tha thegost actually made a complete tagse available to the public, but that download is no lobger valid and it doesn't work. People are supposed to be able to have a complete working tagset, they just don't know how.
But ifit must be private, I don't have time for setting up xfire right now. Can you pm me here or on Bungie.net (vick Sr). I'll get xfire soon.
Edited by Vick Jr on Aug 11, 2008 at 02:44 PM

I misunderstoud question. It works for me when I delete everything in the scenario. I was kinda being an a$$, but I don't rlly know the problem either. Ask cmt

Kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it? That works for everyone. But the real problem is getting the scenario to open without deleting anything in it, which should be possible, but Sapien just doesn't allow it.

I can open b30, c10, and c20 only. The other levels close on me. I didn't change anything that I know of to get those three to open, so the answer is still unknown to me.

Me too. I PMed masters. I'll find out for us

Answer!!!
It's so simple, I won't say it. Once I tell my team, I'll say it publicly. Sorry, ME ks. Might leak it to u early. ;)
Edited by lordofblake on Aug 11, 2008 at 05:04 PM

Thanks I'm on the team right?

Also, HEK comes with a data folder that, as I see it, has a main purpose of holding a bunch of bitmaps that are the same as the ones some shaders use so you can use them for texture mapping, but like the shaders in the tagset HEK gives you, they are incomplete. I wonder if anyone has a Dada folder that contains the base bitmaps of all the shaders, or at least all the ones you would use for making a map (environment shaders), or do you have to extract every bitmap you want to use for texture mapping (that's not included in data), with HEK+?
Edited by Vick Jr on Aug 11, 2008 at 09:26 PM

lol, but blake you should tell everyone who does have the problem, I dont personally but...

I PMed masters... this was his response on how CMT did it. "We just used the latest version of HEK+ and started with a stock tagset. We didn't do anything special."

lol that's helpfull. I have the latest HEK+ and a complete tagset (except of course for working sp scenarios), and can't extract any sp scenario's sucsessfully except, as I said before, silent cartographer.

ill keep the extra step to my team only, vick ill IM you