I came up with these ideas over a period of time, someone might want to get them off the ground.

1. Objects you can take cover behind. Like in Gears of War. For example, a covenant cargo container. You turn it into a vehicle, add a seat which has an animation of the player hiding behind it, and it uses the players current weapon. Make it stationary, like a turret, but movable by explosions or melee, making it able to be pushed out of the way, like Halo2/3.

2. Flame grenade (or firebomb as some people call it, found in Halo 3). I don't know much about custom weapon/grenade creation, so, is it possible to createa grenade that when thrown on the ground, spew out the flamethrower projectiles things in all directions?

There's a tutorial on how to set granades on fire.

I'm not sure, but placing activation triggers on the walls. You press e, and an animation is performed, make you crouch behind it.

The problem is the actual animations.

Ya, can't add more animations. So you're going to have to replace an existing animation.

Crouch.
Because most people crouch behind cover, so instead of crouching, you play that animation.

Fire effect is not hard. Just chain spawn flame thrower projectiles or burning_flame scenery.
As for a model:

Did that in 10 min just now.

Or, you could just crouch behind the object like people normally do. [Insert shovel here]

Or, you could make some new and exciting content into Halo Custom Edition.

Agreed.

Right, and when someone comes up to you with a shotgun and you're sitting in the passenger seat of an unmovable vehicle, you're dead. All it would do is make you an easier target. It's a waste of time and effort, and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. [Where is that damn shovel?]

maybe you make a turret, with custom animations and put it on the wall like hes hiding behind, and make anims so he can look over the wall or to the side of the wall to shoot andstuff, but i think you could only use 1 type of gun

the chief has 253 animations by default. animation graphs can only have 255 anims. you CAN add new animations to an existing animation graph. i have done it. and im not talking about recompiling.

Perfect, one for entrance, one for exit.
@Karrde:
There's no need for the shovel here. We're just bouncing around ideas. Nothing wrong with that.

Actually 3. Enter, then Idle, then Exit.

:/

With scripts you can make him play an animation from another animation graph. So that adds 255+ more animations.

what about a turret instead of a vehicle, oh whait i forgot, isnt a turret like a seat of a vehicle or watever

EDIT: ignore me i dont know what im talking about
Edited by halo3n00b on Mar 15, 2009 at 10:55 PM

Turrets are vehicles. Make the seat like a passenger seat so you can use whatever weapon and throw grenades. The only thing, would the vehicles be invisible and placed by scenery, or would the vehicles actually be the scenery. If they are actually the scenery, then there would be problems with physics. Make it invisible with no collision model or physics.

Maybe it's just to see if it's possible. It doesn't have to integrate perfectly with Halo gameplay, what custom item ever has? It would just be neat to say that we did it.

Oh ok, so it's gonna be like longswords, scarabs, pelicans, nukes, mythos', etc.

It's pretty useful if people actually made animations of the chief jumping out of the corner at an excess of 30 M/h like he is able to in the books instead of these crappy slow animations that get you killed when you exit vehicles b/c you can't get out fast enough to avoid grenades, even though MC uses a crystal reflex MJOLNIR Suit...