I have been thinking for some time about how medals could be implemented into multiplayer, but I have no idea where to start. Obviously it would include changing the text and will be easier to get multikill medals (double kill Triple kill) than it is to get special kill medals (snipe, assassination and splatter). I think it would probably work in the same way as CAD's backpacking in that you could change it without having to make a new map, and play people who don't have the files.

Please post ideas and thoughts.

Only thing i could think of is adding a small bitmap to the "Double Kill" Text.
Seems like a waste of time though.

I think H3MT got it to work. So when you would get a lazer kill it would have that symbol. Maybe it was a different mapping team.

that was a photoshopped picture

That was zteam.

oh ok it might have been you guys too, but there was a guy who posted on here that photo shopped a picture and tried to make us think it was real

It wasn't a photo it was a video. I tried looking it up on youtube but failed at finding it.

There were 2. It was a photo.

So it's not possible then?

I wouldn't think so, the only way you could do it is to change the text to an image so when the voice says Double kill it will show a picture but as far a splattering goes I wouldn't think so. The only ones you might be able to do is, double kill, triple kill, killtacular, assassination, killing spree, sniped, killing frenzy, etc. I don't think it's possible.

Yay for external apps.

Do go on...

Does the game actually keep track of what kind of weapon killed you, like whether it was a sniper that killed you or a pistol?

i dont think so. Though the game knows when you get hit be an explosive or not, which causes your body to move. Or where you get hit in the body.

yes, but it does not do it in a fashion that can be accessed to display a medal.

(If) We can replace the text with an image you would only be able to have the medals that are already in the game. What I mean by that is when you get a Headshot or just Snipe someone the game says "Nexus sniped URM0M" you would replace that whole text with the sniped image from Halo 3. Same goes with the ones I listed above.

Bottom line: Microsoft hardcoded Halo 1 to the point of sucking for this kind of stuff. It'd be more possible in Unreal or Steam, but you'd need to know the coding language.

Yea, I wouldn't think it would be possible because that's something you can't script. It's encoded into the engine.

What about the Crysis? I heard its open sourced.

That's a different game though.