Quote: --- Original message by: Sprinkle


If you have no time to contribute to a project than you shouldn't be doing this project to begin with, it is almost like you are setting yourself up to fall hard.



Your right, the way you're talking just sounds familiar. "It's not dead ". When do you expect to be finished this project, let me guess, when it's done right?

Quote: --- Original message by: ethreepoh
I never did set a deadline for the project to finish? I'm pretty sure I said it will take a long time and we will release updates as they become available.

I will not update this thread any more until I have something to update about the project.

Quote:
Progress Briefing

I have finally gotten around to jumping on the trolley! College has buckled me down full time, but I am having fun getting the ball rolling with the HEKAIO project. There is much more reverse engineering and research to be conducted in the beginning stages and so far, things have been going smoothly. I have been working on initialization of sound & graphic devices because I believe it is very important that we have a solid foundation to build on for the renderer. These things will be done in compliance to how the Halo engine works. Multiple monitor support has been discussed and is plausible at this stage in development. After the foundation is setup, I’ll begin working on code to render the map file and add a basic camera. E3pO is working on the backend coding for the server side part of the project that will store tags as xml files and allow users to share.



That’s all for now.


SilentK

Quote: --- Original message by: ethreepoh

http://www.hekaio.info/2011/09/11/progress-briefing/

Project is now making progress, feel free to check the blog for developer updates.


Edited by ethreepoh on Sep 11, 2011 at 09:32 PM

Quote: --- Original message by: Masters1337
Isn't this the kid who use to hide spyware inside his tools?

Quote: --- Original message by: Masters1337
Isn't this the kid who use to hide spyware inside his tools?

Quote: The code so far iterates all graphics and sound adapters and gathers their info -- guid, name, description, driver info, memory size, and their capabilities, so we know how to set up the devices and what their limits are when rendering. also, the code gathers some system information, such as cpu clock speed, available vram, os version, etc. Then I have basic code that sets up the direct3d device. Haven't touched the sound code yet (directsound is what halo uses I think).

This is how both halo and I am doing it. Things may change later. For sound devices, I am using DXDiag to query properties of the sounds devices, including but not limited to GUID(device id), description, hardware id, driver version, etc. For graphics device, I am using DirectDraw to enumerate each device and gather info such as guid(device id), name, and VRAM total. Operating system is easy, I just use the GetVersionEx api. CPU speed is calculated by retrieving clock cycles and using a high resolution counter. GlobalMemoryStatus is used to get vram amount. I use the RDTSC assembly instruction to get clock cycles of the cpu (ReaD Time Stamp Counter). So this info might not seem important, but it is when determining the capabilities of your devices and how they need to be setup to run the game/app...and will help in debugging and troubleshooting for people who get errors. Like for example...older graphics cards dont support all the new shader features and such so if we know what the device is capable of, we can setup the device properly.. etc...

Quote: --- Original message by: cyboryxmen
Lost interest in the project.

Quote: --- Original message by: ethreepoh


Why is it ever time you post in one of my threads it has to do with me putting spyware in one of my apps? I have never put spyware in any of my apps and until you can prove me wrong do not spread false information again.

Quote: --- Original message by: Sprinkle



We have proof, your tools are no longer on halomaps :). So now where's your proof that there wasn't spyware on it.

You shouldn't be using an assembly instruction like RDTSC since it's implementation changes from processor to processor. You should be using something like QueryPerformanceCounter on windows and the equivalent on linux.
Edited by Sprinkle on Sep 18, 2011 at 12:07 PM

Quote: --- Original message by: Jaz
And yet Dennis has NOT confirmed whether the tools were taken off because of spyware or for some other reason.

Quote: --- Original message by: Dennis
You have also published hacked software that phones home and then in a fit of anger remotely disabled it on everyone forcing me to remove it from the archive.

Quote: --- Original message by: Pepzee


Search is beast
http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=31189&start=11


Edited by Pepzee on Sep 18, 2011 at 12:23 PM

Quote: --- Original message by: Jaz


Well he hasn't confirmed in this thread xD

Quote: --- Original message by: qwertyuiop15

@everyone saying E3PO's apps were removed from the site: http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=5073
Edited by qwertyuiop15 on Sep 18, 2011 at 07:07 PM

Quote: --- Original message by: Limited
Surely your first port of call E3po, would be to actually code up the lies you have posted on your website.

Quote: --- Original message by: Sprinkle
Why would anyone make a website about what it's going to do, completely unprofessional. You can run into problems along the way and end up dropping half the features. So it seems it's already not going to use opengl and you are limiting the binary by using assembly, so much for it being cross platform xD.

Quote: --- Original message by: OrangeJuice

"The new Apple ###### is Gonna be able to do ####, and ####". Thinking things through before speaking or typing helps a lot in the long run.
Edited by OrangeJuice on Sep 19, 2011 at 05:56 PM

Quote: --- Original message by: XboxHavic


That's what bungie did with halo 2... They showed the audience all the wonderful new stuff that was gonna be in, but back at the studio, there was 1000's of errors with halo 2.

Quote: --- Original message by: SprinkleYou shouldn't be using an assembly instruction like RDTSC since it's implementation changes from processor to processor. You should be using something like QueryPerformanceCounter on windows and the equivalent on linux.Edited by Sprinkle on Sep 18, 2011 at 12:07 PM

    // Set thread & process priority to HIGH

    LARGE_INTEGER frequency, counter, cycle;
    QueryPerformanceFrequency(&frequency);
    QueryPerformanceCounter(&counter);

    counter.QuadPart += frequency.QuadPart;
    cycle.QuadPart = __rdtsc();

    do
    {
        QueryPerformanceCounter(&counter);
    } while(frequency.QuadPart >= counter.QuadPart);

    cycle.QuadPart -= __rdtsc();
    cycle.QuadPart /= 1000000; // Convert to MHz, 10^6

    // Reset process & thread priority

Quote: --- Original message by: Sprinkle
So you're basically reverse engineering the entire game just to use the code... Doesn't that defeat the purpose, take twice as long to do and you learn nothing along the way.