hello thank you for taking the time to check this out,i hope you can help me :)

i open sapien and do the usual things to spawn and A.I,then when i go to test it (creating a new instance then deleting it) sapien simply crashes....every time

i am running windows vista 32 bit and i have a dual core

this is the debug message i get (in full):

07.25.10 15:36:31 tool pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
07.25.10 15:36:31 reference function: _write_to_error_file
07.25.10 15:36:31 reference address: 42ca20
07.25.10 15:36:31 Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'

for the record i have set the affinity to one core and tried running it has XP service pack 2

also i am using the tutorial map scenario

Well. I going to suggest one processors since you tried. Try using different sapien version I can't remember the name but I know it on this site.

Ep30 has program that think might help it called "E3pO’s Sapien Supports Multi Core Systems"

here the links https://www.wmclan.net/main/category/projects/programs/

thanks for the link :)

Ive tried it and it does run much smoother

unfortunately i have encountered a new problem

i might be easy to fix...

i cant seen to add my actor variant tags in the sapien you linked me too, i get this debug message:

07.31.10 16:52:13 file_open('tags\characters\marine_armored\marine_armored.biped') error 0x00000002 'The system cannot find the file specified. '
07.31.10 16:52:13 couldn't open biped tag 'marine_armored.biped'.
07.31.10 16:52:13 file_open('tags\characters\marine_armored\marine_armored assault rifle major.actor_variant') error 0x00000002 'The system cannot find the file specified. '
07.31.10 16:52:13 couldn't open actor_variant tag 'marine_armored assault rifle major.actor_variant'.
07.31.10 16:52:13 failed to load actor_variant tag 'characters\marine_armored\marine_armored assault rifle'
07.31.10 16:52:20 WARNING: cannot spawn actors in encounter_block_0/squads_block_0 because the actor variant specified for this squad is NONE or invalid

any ideas? thanks again :)

Your missing the marine_armored.biped rip it off the a map like a30.

I'm unsure as to how to rip the files from the campaign levels

so i got marine_armored.biped off the site but I'm not sure what to do with it,I'm still new to the mapping aspect of halo ce

I see.. in that case. You need HEK+ and get the most recent one there is.



http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?search=hek%2B&B1=Search

thanks for the tag extractor works great :)

...but now the new sapien crashes when i try to open it! haha

Ive tried the tags in the stranded sapien but i just run in to my original problem :/

heres the debug i get when trying to open the one you gave me

E3pO Sap. 01.01.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
08.01.10 09:00:27 reference function: _write_to_error_file
08.01.10 09:00:27 reference address: 401b13
08.01.10 09:00:27 Couldn't read map file './a_e3pobeta.map'
08.01.10 09:00:27 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
08.01.10 09:00:28 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
08.01.10 09:00:29 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
08.01.10 09:00:30 file_open('tags\characters\marine_armored\flashlight_marine.light') error 0x00000002 'The system cannot find the file specified. '
08.01.10 09:00:30 couldn't open light tag 'flashlight_marine.light'.
08.01.10 09:00:30 file_open('tags\characters\marine_armored\flashlight_marine.light_volume') error 0x00000002 'The system cannot find the file specified. '
08.01.10 09:00:30 couldn't open light_volume tag 'flashlight_marine.light_volume'.
08.01.10 09:00:30 failed to load weapon tag 'weapons\assault rifle\assault rifle'
08.01.10 09:00:30 failed to load item_collection tag 'item collections\single weapons\assault rifle'


.....im only trying to open the original tutorial map

just one problem after another :/

Rip the entire map. That way you get all the tags. Infact rip the entire orginal maps to all the missing the tags.

i got all the tags i needed for the marine using your advice

i opened the original sapien and tried to spawn the marine and SUCCESS! :)

stiil not sure why E3pOs sapien wont work any more but no matter :)

thanks very much for all your help :)