i have herd of xfire but never used it i have it installed but never got an account so i thinks since i was going to put up a progress report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yRiuBb_tyY on youtube i'll just do that instead so this link isn't the report but i will have it up soon and you guys can tell me what you think oh and as for the dmr it does not have a skin yet and im still working on the moving crosshairs animating and all :D

A somewhat dodgy active camo script...

(script continuous camo
(if (= (unit_get_current_flashlight_state (unit (list_get (players) 0))) 1)
(begin
(object_create_anew camo)
(objects_attach (list_get (players) 0) camo)
(objects_detach (list_get (players) 0) camo)))
(sleep 30)
(units_set_desired_flashlight_state (players) false)
)
)

excellent i've been looking for this but i still dont know what to do with it im guessing i somehow put it onto an active camo power up and then place it into my map...im sorry for being a nube but i have never used a script before and am not sure how? P.S-working on my progress report now

ok sorry I've been looking for how to do this for a while now and i had a youtube and not a halomaps account so it was all i knew to do :P but as i said. i still do not know how to use a script in a map if someone could post a link or a tutorial i thank you!
Edited by grunt_eater on Jan 28, 2011 at 12:48 AM

i already had the first one but thanks for the second and for your script i hope i can figure out how to use it :P

all you should need to do is add an active camo powerup called camo and it spawns a camo at the player

are you capable of creating quality items?

okay so i'm guessing i just put the script in my scripts folder.go into sapean put in an active camouflage and name it camo and click compile scripts? is that right i feel like such a nube
*this is an edit* oh and i have a qeustion should the powerup be set to all game types?
Edited by grunt_eater on Jan 28, 2011 at 10:34 AM

i go to mission object item equipment and put an active camouflage. i go to the property pallet and change its name to camo. i have my script in th (deta\levels\tutorial\scripts) folder and in sapean after i put in the camo.i hit compile scripts and it says successful compiling i save and go to tool.make my map. open it in halo ce and hit flashlight and all that happens is my flashlight terns on could someone tell me what i've done wrong? and im sorry for highjacking you post board Petera275. if someone knows of a post board designed for discousing scripting in a map i would appreciate it very much if you would show me
Edited by grunt_eater on Jan 28, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Edited by grunt_eater on Jan 28, 2011 at 04:34 PM

Nay, any contributions are welcome. Not sure what's going wrong. I do like the idea of a flashlight active camo armour ability (similar to how it works in Halo 2 while playing as the Arbiter I believe). I think that, besides active camo, say, armour abilities are a third weapon which can be picked up and replaced as necessary. They can even look just like the hologram pickupable abilities in reach, but when you pick them up they look like a little box with an activtion button or something. I know that drop shields, active camo, health packs and overshields all work with this projectile spawn idea, it being rather simple.

As earlier mentioned, there are also ways to accomplish sprint and armour lock. Also, I've had a look around, and just like one I planned to make, albeit harder to control and glitchier, a jetpack 'vehicle' has been made in a hugeass variant. So, anyone who doubted arbour abilities, suck it!

Oh, yeah, also I was thinking, hell, why not give assassination animations a go as well?

-You can script armor abilities with flashlight... you just need to make animations for them, and then in the player's animation tag make a new crouch stance. Then script flashlight > go to the stance.
-Hijacking and assasinations are -- basically-- not possible.

Okay forget assassinations. I have seen some good hijacking concepts using ghosts (in-game) though. They were made by highly skilled and experienced (not to mention well-known) CE modders though.

They were probably good animators, yes, but they knew it wasn't possible in Halo CE. It does not work, you can't hijack stuff, because mp players of different teams can't be on the same vehicle.

eh?

Pretty sure CMT had a way of high-jacking vehicles (not sure about mp though) without open sauce. That was right before they died though (the old team at least).

i know it is possible to make armor lock and i will share me ideas with you all right now.my thawts are make a new animation that is the armor lock stance. go in and swap it out for the crouch animation and add a damage effect that does not do any real damage but makes it so you can see the shield hit bubble thing.for assassination make a new animation and try to make a script that makes it so only when you melee to the back it does the animation and make a dieing animations that suets it so they syncing up.as for sprint make a new chrouch run animation so that it is only played when you crouch and move and go into guerila and change the speed so it will synk up.thats sprint armor lock and assassination i am also working on evade and i take full credit for thees ideas because i came up with them 4 months ago

and as for that active camo script does it only work on solo levels? cause that would explain a lot

oh and hijack i know a way for a beta in single player the AI on your team can be booted out of a seat on a vehicle if you take that and put it into multi player then find a way of only having it on the enimy the change the entering animation so it looks like you boot off a biped than it will look like you just highjacked?
Edited by grunt_eater on Jan 28, 2011 at 06:36 PM

It's not possible in multiplayer. I've heard this CMT rumor about hijacking, and I haven't seen any proof. I trust you on your CMT facts, though, Higuy, but they didn't make working hijacks.
I've seen that one video too. Even if it was multiplayer, the hijacking is done with a biped, which is not an enemy player. The entire reason hijacking can't be done is because of the way vehicles recognize network players.

The script for assassination is possible, but you need a portable trigger attached to every player. It would check for the proximity of the players, whether one is pressing melee or not, and whether the target can see the player (if not, then he's behind the target).

Sprint can be done with a new animation, but changing the speed would require disabling everyone else's crouch.

no it would not if you make a change to the tag put it into a map and people download that map they now have the new animations and speed change but only on that map i know i have don this before exept i didn't make a custom animation that time

what i mean by that is if you change the speed and the animation then you wont be able to sneak anymore but you will be able to sprint i mean you replace the sneak with the sprint
Edited by grunt_eater on Jan 28, 2011 at 06:52 PM

-_-. That's what Slappy just stated. You would replace crouch (OR SNEAK AS YOU SAY) with sprint because there is no other possible way.

Masterz had plenty of live videos he did showcasing the high jacking working with an AI in a banshee I believe, and I doubt teh lag would have made the many high jacking animations without proof or reason to do so.

oh my mistake i thought he was saying that you would have to make it so that no one else could use anything sneak or sprint and that only the persone running the server would be able to use it sorry

also petera275 i have thought about your idea of making the armor abilitys a weapon and i know it would work. but it has been done before and i am looking to make it so you don't have to switch weapons to use armor ability's i wish to make it a script that makes it so you hold in the grande switch butin (G) to use hologram and hold jump (spacebar) to jetpack im still woring on that
Edited by grunt_eater on Jan 28, 2011 at 09:18 PM

Well, anyway, it only works for AI. Does anyone have those (or any) hijacking animations?

I doubt many people have them on file, but videos on them are on youtube.

jesse has all the spv2 jacking anims from masterz

welp get em from jesse then guys

good luck getting them though jesse isnt just handing out them as "partying gifts"

i have a question. why would it not be possible to make a script that does something like...
if rider=enemy then player_enter= boot current rider. i mean i don't no much about scripting but it seems like it would be simple and who cares if it has animations or not if you get on and it forces out the current rider then it would work for the beta version. wouldn't it?
Edited by grunt_eater on Jan 28, 2011 at 11:23 PM

Meh I know spv2 is cancelled but this is pretty dang cool and could be replicated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyZwY0d06Y

Oh yeah I was thinking about using these for the 'Blue Team' (John 117's team from 'The Fall of Reach). Either that, or recreate Halo Legends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfmdiOz_TKU&feature=related

Armour Lock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6mYsB9JzKA&feature=related

Target Locator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoPvkLXZs4o

Jetpack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5279uLwSJ8U&feature=related

So, how go ideas for replication? Jetpack will be easy, armour lock could just be edited crouch, target locator could be...um...beats me...


Edited by Petera275 on Jan 29, 2011 at 04:23 AM

Those could indeed be done, but I doubt getting vehicle jacking actually working would have the ability to use any type of custom animation. Also, the target locator is pretty easy to do as a weapon with some tricks. The thing is, a lot of this would need to stay in singleplayer, or else there may be inherent problems exhibited over this game's netcode.

It's been done.

hey see i told you guys that you could do armor lock....and that guy "totally" riped off my idea of using the shield hit shader's and chrouch for the ability's use

That armor lock video is old already so he couldn't have stolen your idea.
That reach target locator is from Zteam, or atleast just ctrlaltdestroy's, so I'm guessing it will never see the light of day.
That jetpack looks like crap there is a better one in the Hydrolysis map or the Tusken Raid map.
Those spartan bipeds are in the MPG3 maps, so you can ask for them nicely or rip'em.
Edited by Reaper 201 on Jan 29, 2011 at 01:39 PM



I remember seeing someone had already modeled a Saber and a Falcon, so it might be possible for you to get them, if you know who and how to ask.
Edited by Reaper 201 on Jan 29, 2011 at 01:45 PM

In terms of the jetpack, I will use the same idea, just replace the model. I have a sweet Reach jetpack from the 'Deliver Hope' trailer.

The SPARTAN bipeds will probably be ripped from one of the sp maps I have.

I will use the same concept as the videoed armour lock, or, hopefully, utilise a released version which apparently will happen according to the maker.

A Saber/falcon would be awesome, I will look into it

I sure wish CaD wasn't so damn selfish.

yea i've modeled a a falcon want to see?

*this post has been edited* im uploading a vid to youtube right now it'l be about 5 more min >:D
ok so all youtube has been doing for the last few minutes is saying transfering deta from upload.youtube.com

as for my idea of scripting the hijack i would appreciate some input on that to see if i sound like a total moron talking nonsense or if i mite be on to something?


*this post has been edited*so i hear you guys need a falcon.now i know i have some errors on it and i know i don't have the guns modeled yet but it isn't finished yet either here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u7qlxI69bs and tell me what you think! :)
Edited by grunt_eater on Jan 29, 2011 at 03:09 PM

I think you're on to something. Maybe if we could just add an extra 'seat' to each vehicle, make it say 'Press 'E' to board vehicle' and just let the player melee the vehicle/'nade it so the driver dies and they can take control? Custom animations would help. :-D