I wonder if I can do the folowing things in a halo map:

Make it become nights/day every like 20 minuts
Have Red team players spawn as masterchief and Blue team as covenant
Have the weather changing time to time (like every 10 minuits it starts raining and wind increases for 3 minuts
Make bitmaps change from yime to time: suddently dirt becomes snow and water ice or something close to that

I expect less of these thing to be posseble but I would like to know for sure.

If something can't be trickert by time but can be by something else please define how to tricker it (like day/night on hugeass whit a switch instead of time)

By the way: If it becomes night is it posseble to make it day again?
Edited by Niels on Apr 20, 2010 at 02:23 PM

Ofcourse, replace the whole bsp ^^ radical but effective.

Thank you for your reply Megaguirus

I was wondering this aswell:
What defines that the blue team spawns blue maserchief and red spawns a red masterchief? Maybe this allows me to make differend spawns for teams happen?

Wait a second, the bsp doesn't define the textures does it? How can bsp switch make dirt snow? Might be a stupit question please don't mind...

One more i tought up: Changing the sky time to time. I belive that would make it nessesery to load a new sky tag, probely by bsp? However I wonder again is a bsp switch covers this... (I think the sky is switched in hugges becaus that is what acctually makes it night togethere whit different radiosity...)


Edited by Niels on Apr 20, 2010 at 04:55 PM

The red team blue team thing is possible. If you know how to rig bipeds, make a faux elite rigged to the MC bones. Compiling an MC model and an elite-MC model will make two permutations... which you can script for the different teams.

YEEEEEESSSSS I solved something most people stucked on!
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ehhh, can anyone help me whit doing what slappythepirate said? I don't think I'm that experienced jet... I try to figue out what he means. I think he means that I should replaye the biped of the blue team by a modded masterchief that looks like an elit, but only by using the same 'bones'(?). I know scripting but not for halo... I need help on that.

slappy just doesnt know how that's gonna end up. Its either the cyborg bones. Making only the cyborg a non-fu*ked up permutation. Or its the elite bones. Making only the elite a non-fu*ked up perm too. Yeah its possible to rig elite's to cyborg bones. But you will NOT like the ending result. Your better off rigging the marine & even then \:

So this ends up in not beïng able to do this? Can't you just replace the bones or do those need to be the same for the halo engine? If anyone knows a good solucion PLZ POST!

yes its possible to use custom bones. But because the major differences in the elite & spartan designs is what makes it so bad.
Though I think that the weather & shader changing is possible. 1 set for each BSP & just switch between the BSPs ingame.