I've seen many Halo 3 mods out there but obviously they were done from scratch. I really want to know if it would be possible at all to extract the original models and textures. I've seen it for halo 2 (or maybe they were just really good with 3ds max and could easily replicate it) I've downloaded Halo 3 map so if some one could tell if this could be done or maybe even give me and idea on how to do it. I hope I and make myself sound like an idiot I am a real newbie at Halo map design.

Thank you

Do you mean there could be legal issues? I'm not to concerned about that seeing all the other rips out there and who really cares ( i mean to think bungie will get rid of my map for a suffering dying ancient game with a few of their models ).

Well its not a question of if but when it comes out for PC so i'll wait 'till then if I have to. How about Halo 2 is there a way I could do the same thing for it.
Edited by colter13 on Dec 13, 2008 at 04:37 PM

I don't think you can rip from Halo 3 yet, but people have ripped from Halo 3 Beta.

Remember, halo 2 has a pc version, which makes it much easyer to rip stuff from it. And Bungie supports a map making community for it. Halo 3 doesn't have a pc version yet, and Bungie definitly doesn't want anyone modding it or ripping stuff from it. Even if you could get the halo 3 files from the xbox to the pc, they're all heavily protected so I doubt you could to anything with them, especially extract their models. It's illegal and extreeeemly hard. Better just make them from scratch until halo 3 pc comes out (if they are making it for pc. Nothing's been confirmed), atwhich point, they may let you mod halo 3 itself, and then there'd be next to no point in modding halo ce.

I don't think you're alllowed to mod Halo 3 and make it playable using CE, these would raise legal issues.

People have ripped from H3. Go ask a H3 Modder.

Who is? Or is that his name?

The only thing you can rip from is the Halo 3 Beta maps, even that requires time, patience, and a good knowledge to scripting and hex editing.

I believe ZTeam made their own Halo 3 Ripper thing, but there not giving it to anyone.

Well i guess that's a no for Halo 3 at least for now. Could someone hook me up with a tutorial for ripping from H2 PC or someone who knows how.

It would be pointless to rip models from H3. Just get H3 and play it. :|

That's what he said...

Does halo 3 give you the freedom to build something such as a drivable scarab, I don't think so. That's one of the things I wanted to rip to put in a halo ce map.

It would be incompatible because I think Bungie made the Scarab as a biped instead of a vehicle, and Halo 3 has a different engine, so you would have to re-code a lot of things.

Not if you rip it...

If you have a ripping tool, all it takes is the Model and the textures. You can also rip the animations.

They made a Halo 3 Ripper too. No maps out.

I'm not trying to take the tags from halo 3 stick them into halo ce. I know that would be impossible. I just want the 3D models and then start from there.

What we said is that we don't know how to rip out ANYTHING from halo 3.

They make Tutorials and Google for a reason :|

People keep Halo 3 Beta ripping secrets to themselves for a reason

Because if they didn't it wouldn't be a secret :P.

No, can you tell me pl0x?

I like how you read the thread.