first off, get this in ur head, IT'S A BETA

second, I'm happy to release this BETA to you all of b30 - the silent cartographer

many of you know the goal for my mod is leave nothing untouched, and I feel I have succeeded in that

this is NOT just a compilation of numerous tags, they have all been modified for balance in the game, many weapons have counterparts for the opposite team indexes which in this map include insurrectionist, covenant, and UNSC, weapon damages and enemy/ally weaknesses have been drastically changed, and I'm sure though many of the weapons you use may seem familiar I can almost guarantee you will admit they play slightly different than the way you've used them before (Im not pullin a Sphinxbio on u guys I swear)

that being said you are all now beta testers, you are to test the combat scenarios, and see if they are challenging, balanced, and enjoyable

Please note when giving criticism that to create balance a lot must be modified and I'm no ifafudafi so if you could give me suggestions on how to create more balanced gameplay based on what you experienced and the problems rather than just sayin "____ is ovrpowrdd fix nao!" then that would be great

kay so most of you r prolly wondering, how the hell did you add the rebels into the campaign without thinking that I'd say WTF? well, the story is (made up of course):

about, idk, a week maybe? before the Autumn came to Halo, an insurrectionist group fleeing from the covenant landed on halo, in the weeks time, they have been scattered and pushed deep into forunner structures such as the cartographer's structure. the rebels are losing the battle. in addition, they have no idea the unsc are even on halo too, let alone spartan 117. Inside the structure containing the cartographer, the rebels are regrouping to push their way out of their corner and escape to one of their few small outposts they have managed to defend from covenant. They will be more than happy to kill you if they lay eyes on you aswell, so how absolutely no mercy

sort of a weak story I know but they don't have a real significant part to play other than a new team steppin into the playing field, making the battle of installation 04 a FIVE way battle, and I plan to bring out this huge struggle with new encounters, including many in this map

I DID NOT make any tags in this map, just modded them, I take NO credit for any of this except for the actual mod itself, not any of the tags within the map

weapons are:
h3 AR
h3 BR
H3 shotty
H3 SMG
H3 carbine
cmt/H3 plasma rifle
H3 plasma pistol (counterpart of H2 magnum [human magnums are not in this map])
Plasma Gatling (plays role of covenant AR)
Plasma burst (plays the role of covenant magnum [h3 magnum counterpart])
DMR (rebels)
MA5B (rebels)
H3 Spartan Laser
H2/CMT needler
Cmt/Sigma Spiker
CMT brute shot
H3/CMT Rocket Launcher
I think that's it

AI in the map are:
Green H1/CMT marines (bitmap recolor)
Insurrectionists
H2 Elites
H3 Grunts
h2/CMT Jackals
CMT Brutes
H2/CMT Hunters
(controversial) Drones

aight gaiz, get out dere and win! and give crit

http://www.mediafire.com/?sb3z4p4gpk0sb85

Also let me know how I can make the level more exciting if you have any ideas


EDIT: I suck at screenys so if any1 wants to take some be my guest
Edited by Delicon20 on Nov 29, 2010 at 09:45 PM
Edited by Delicon20 on Nov 30, 2010 at 09:04 PM
Edited by Delicon20 on Nov 30, 2010 at 09:05 PM
Edited by Delicon20 on Dec 1, 2010 at 06:21 PM

Guess this is alittle unique... I will give it a try later...

the file is corrupt

xD. Just take normal screen shoots it ain't hard; I would but I uninstalled my Halo Custom Edition and Halo 1. Anyways; this actaully sound good now before I left for couple month( i.e Halo:Reach/MW2) it didn't as good.

works fine when I DL it :/

doesn't for me

EDIT: ya, it keeps cancelling the download so it only downloads a portion of it.
Edited by Sergeant 1337 on Nov 29, 2010 at 10:26 PM

I think you might be out of memory...

that or your browser sucks, are you using google chrome?

ya im using google chrome

Hey. Theismap file have the gathering exception data error... It occurs when i approach the outside entrance to the map room.

it exceptions every time im about to jump out the pelican

You just stopped me from pressing the download button

the only reason the sounds and particles don't appear is because of the scenery above the cartographer, the AR sounds are fine, I don't see how theyre too silent, and how is the shotguns reload screwed up (where)? Show me in a vid or pic or something and I'll find a fix for it, and I don't have a very good spiker model to use, and I don't like cmt's, Strings and icons I am working on, and I guess I'll change the vehicles' crosshairs to the color of the guns, I must've missed that because I usually always the R - hog, and I don't get what's wrong with the brutes shields.

As for the exception error I have no clue about that I'll work on it

the drones arent really TM's
they were made by edspmt and some TM members

k so on my to do list are:

fix the vehicle reticles' colors

get a shotgun model better suited for the animations

remove particle and sound overload causing sky scenery

find a louder AR reload sound

get better ammo meters for most of the weapons

fix the strings and icons (this is the only thing I'm not quite sure how to do)

hopefully the removal of the sky scenery will stop the map from exceptioning too

anything else?

ALSO if anyone has a good spiker model besides sigmas or cmt's could you please give me it? otherwise the sigma spiker is staying in
Edited by Delicon20 on Nov 30, 2010 at 04:18 PM

Just fit your model to your animations; ie, shift some nodes around.


In the .sound tag, increase the gain.




For icons, the bitmap is referenced in tags\ui\hud\default.hud_globals (by default), and the reference is in the weapon_hud_interface.

aight guys I've fixed the particle and sound errors, as well all of the string errors, and a few of the icon errors

I need a new shotgun model but I don't know where to find the other h3 shotty model I see all the time. oh yeah and all the reticles for the vehicles but the r - hog turret are fixed

I believe the model is H2
The textures were also H2. TM probably did some editing, but the Drone I was given to animate was from H2.
Somehow the drone was given to EDSPMT and KingNick used it in a couple of his videos, he did some tagging work on it as well.
The animations were by me, L0d3x gave me the drone a long time ago (at least I think it was L0d3x, my memory is a bit fuzzy).

I fixed majority of the overlays and all the strings (some weapons didn't have their icon bitmaps so I picked the bitmap of a weapon that best resembles it)

the spv2 beta sign is attached to the shield bar bitmaps, so I'll have to edit the bitmaps to remove it, so I'll save that for last, also when does the peli lag? it usually drops the hog right off for me?

EDIT: eh watevs, I'll fix the shield now -____-
Edited by Delicon20 on Dec 1, 2010 at 06:07 PM

mmmmm melosh dusnt think das gonna work...

http://img573.imageshack.us/i/ahurfdurf.jpg/


now gamma if u could better explain the anim node thing so I don't screw up my shotty to beyond repair that would be just dandy
Edited by Delicon20 on Dec 1, 2010 at 06:50 PM

Aside from a few minor errors, I absolutely loved the gameplay. The rebels made for an interesting addition, although their uniforms could use a little work. Perhaps darken their BDU's, and make their armor a duller shade of red. I think you should remove the eyepiece, too. They're rebels, and while they may have been able to get their hands on a few pieces of UNSC hardware, I doubt they would have many of those.

I plan to upload the second beta within an hour, once I can make sure a few bugs are fixed. Most of the bugs in the first beta have been fixed, a few remain but I'll fix them later for they're very minor (like the quietness of the AR reload and the spv2 beta sign on the hud)

for those of you who put too much trust into other people who say the mod isn't good and not play it, I recommend you change your minds

Yessss. You should make an entire campaign series like this.



What he said. ^

Other people have extracted this model just fine; try a reextract.

Import your .gbxmodel and the default Halo 1 .gbxmodel. Note how the nodes are placed on the Halo 1 .gbxmodel, and rearrange the nodes on your model to fit correctly. Then, delete the Halo 1 gbxmodel and its nodes. Going back to your .gbxmodel, detach all moveable parts (convert to editable mesh, select the polies to detach, and click the detach button). Link all the moveable parts to their respective nodes, and link the base gun to frame gun. Be sure that all the nodes are linked to frame gun, and then export to a .jms. Compile in tool with the model command.

I plan to.

bump for delicon

alright uploadin the second beta download will be up in a few minutes I'll post it here when its done so keep checkin the thread

here it is: http://www.mediafire.com/?80s4c2d68z9414x
Edited by Delicon20 on Dec 4, 2010 at 08:43 PM

answers in read, let me know if you find anything else, and if you see any floating trees other than the one by the two brutes in ghosts let me know
Edited by Delicon20 on Dec 4, 2010 at 11:28 PM

Keep on getting the gather excecption data in the cutscene where mc enters the inner parts of the structure.

That never happens to me and idk what it's from...

I'll work on what I can

Ah so this is the Delicon20 guys work....

Yeah all I had to do was read the first few post on this thread summed it up quick for me..



LAME
Edited by DarkLord0912 on Dec 17, 2010 at 10:24 AM

get out of my thread you can't judge my mod just by reading a few posts and I didn't release this to hear what people think I wanted to know what the bugs were and any balance issues

also I don't care whether or not you think this is lame I've had quite a few people who's opinions I respect tell me they like this mod and look forward to me doing the rest of the campaign.

so like I said in the other thread, quit derailing other peoples threads and go make your own
Edited by Delicon20 on Dec 17, 2010 at 04:18 PM

I dont derail threads

I just dont like you!


You came into a thread and tried to say I said something which I didn't about CMT.

Remeber the back up your words thing,I can backup my words,people said I couldn't do this H2 task including yourself,and I've proved them wrong,even you.

Don't you ever notice the better memebers never doubted me.