Hey guys! I have a bit of a challenge for you. I've played a lot of maps that were made by you. What would be cool is if someone were to make a mongoose, preferably the one made for 2 persons (Halo 3 type). I think there are some 3Ds Max files on the mongoose, but the physics may be a bit difficult to work with. If successful, try to collaborate with slaters fury (who has experience in the map "Valhalla", and try to include it int the map.

What do you think? Reply with ideas, suggestions or the like...

Cannot be done. The Halo 2 Vista Editing Kit does not allow model/animation creation, because tool does not let you compile them. As such, what you just said cannot be done until someone makes a program that successfully converts a .jms file into a tag file used in Halo 2 Vista.

Its appears that it may be possible to modify existing vehicles and perhaps combine them with upgraded models. Tool will compile vehicle changes but the issue is the map will not show up in the custom map list. We are looking into ways around this. One way may be to load the map from the main menu.

I'm not saying its going to happen, but I'm also not going to say that it is completely impossible either.

This is actually extremely possible. Halo 2 xbox didn't allow us to create new animations and people still found ways to create such memorable vehicles as the bulldog, snowhog, snow scorpion, etc.... All that would be needed is to edit the .render_model and a few node and marker tweaks here and there....and essentially you too could make the bulldog, or other variants. I hope you get the map thing figured out Kills....that would be a real pain in the ass saver!

as I understand it then it is plausible to customize vehicles, even add new models to it, but the way halo 2 was ported prevents the custom vehicles to show up, unles the mainmenu.map is patched, and currently I know only 1 person who can do that

I know this may be an "Oddball" idea, but I've noticed that the Mongoose and the warthog do look a bit similar. You think it may be possible to modify the Warthog into a cross between a Mongoose and a ghost?

"Cannot be done."


"I'm not saying its going to happen, but I'm also not going to say that it is completely impossible either."


"This is actually extremely possible."


The Proof is in the pudding as an Australian friend of mine might say:

Amazing! If the hornet can be made and placed into Halo 2 (Looks real close to the Halo 3 Hornet) then the mongoose can be made too. Did you make this one Kills Alone?

yeah, he did, also lol.
It looks like Halo 3 Hornet, because he ripped textures from Halo 3. xD

It's not complete, but it's a custom vehicle. =D

Outstanding! looks like we have a project on our hands. Pretty soon, we just might be able to make full maps with custom vehicles. Great job Kills Alone and Shock120!