Ive had real fun modding some of the levels and adding ai. i have a10,a30,a50,b30,b40 and d20 which works but i wanted to c10 and c20 to work. im not good with repairing scenario files to make them work. anyone got any working scenario files to share?

derp find missing tags.

It's not the scenarios that don't work, it's that the scenarios require a bunch of tags to run properly (scenery, bipeds, vehicles, weapons, ai, etc) so what's most likely happening is that the scenario needs tags that it can't find in your tags directory. The easiest way to get those tags is open HEK+ and extract them from your Halo PC maps folder (not custom edition). If you don't know what tags to extract, then you can open debug.txt in your CE root directory (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition by default). Debug.txt is a log of what happens when you start up Sapien. First, try to open one of the maps that isn't working. If it crashes, good. Now debug.txt will have a log of what caused it to crash. Open debug.txt and find the last entry at the bottom. Copy and paste it here. It will probably say something like:

08.14.10 10:33:54 file_open('tags\levels\wip\wip.scenario_structure_bsp') error 0x00000003 'The system cannot find the path specified. '

the 8.14 stuff is just the date and time, file_open means it was trying to open a file (the one in parentheses). Now "tags\levels\wip\" is where that tag should be, but either it's been moved somewhere else or it was never there to begin with. So that's why you extract it with HEK+. Just open the map and navigate to that directory. Right click the tag, add to extraction qeue. Make sure to check on the little checkbox next to the tag in the extraction qeue. Oh and then click little cog or gears symbol in the bottom right. Make sure "Overwrite Existing Tags" is OFF. This will ensure that if HEK+ extracts a corrupt tag (because it might do that sometimes) that nothing will get corrupted. Oh and one last thing, right above the Start button, uncheck "Save extracted tag list" you can leave it on if you want, it will just ask you to save a .txt before you extract the tags, and the .txt will contain what tags you extracted.

Sorry for the long post, hope this helped.


derp don't be an ass.
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Aug 26, 2010 at 11:23 AM

I really thank you for your help. you should copy that text in case someone in the future asked. to see you write so much really shows that you like to help others. thanks. i understood your message and it hopefully works unless i make a mess out of it. you dont have to sorry for the long post. i should rather had given you a reward. in case you want to see the halo reach ending(i recommend you not to if you want to watch it on your own console) here it is : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-mg9TLLPB8&annotation_id=annotation_455804&feature=iv
i recommend you to be quick if you want to see it but you and the others reading this topic has been warned about the major spoiler. Do not blame me if you watched it and got angry

Yeah that's actually a good idea, I'll save the post, and I'll skip the spoiler, I'm looking forward to playing it when it comes out ;)


E: and I forgot to explain, when I said "turn on the little checkbox next to the tag in the extraction qeue" what that little checkbox does is extract "recursively" I'll assume you have at least a basic understanding of tags, if not, just say so and I'll try to explain again better :p Basically you have a .weapon tag, that .weapon tag needs a model, that model tag needs shaders, and those shaders need bitmaps.

So if you extract the .weapon tag, it will also extract all tags linked to the .weapon, and all the tags linked to those, etc, etc. It helps eliminate missing tags. You don't need to worry about it right now because from your PM I can tell your problem is a corrupted tag, not a missing one, but it's just something to keep in mind for the future.
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Aug 26, 2010 at 01:08 PM

i have te same problem but none of my campaign maps work even after extracting the files for them from regular halo ce and im really upet about it....if you can send me some tags of your includeing bipeds scenary,music ect...it would really help i know the reason the tags i have dont work is because it cant find other tags it relys on......

if you go to an account with a username corvette19,you can download fixed campaign tags(well a few annoying errors). if your screen load up in sapien with the map loaded but all the sudden drops out, try holding ctrl,alt,end,del(to be sure it loads up the map and doesnt jump out) until the game screen appears(not black but with texture etc) and you will notice after three seconds it worked(you dont need to hold the buttons after the loading). you should be aware that a10(cryo tube is locked) a50(grav lift to cov ship doesnt work) c40(dont know yet) and d40(door to end lift wont open) need either new player spawns or fixing tags. also there are many sound problems and minor bugs on the maps:(. i havent figured out how to fix the tags yet.