Basically.

Er, just help out, and don't be an ass.
Dwood, you can attach a nav point to an object/unit with activate_nav_point_object. You'll use the (unit (list_get (ai_actors ENCOUNTER/SQUAD) 0)) to reference the one unit.
How are you figuring out if the ai is stuck?

When not game_all_quiet for 10 seconds and game_safe_to_speak.
-Archer1

good luck

My baby! It's so close
Dwood deserves a night with my girlfriend for this. XD
I'm amazed and grateful for the work that has been put into this, and I can't wait for it to be completed. Thank you so much!

As always, keep it cool HaloMaps.

Thanks Moose!

Six days until release. How do you all feel?

Also Jesse talk to me on xfire before release or I'm leaving out some visual issues with a few ammo meters.

I assume it's ready for release?

Make it as good as possible!

I'll be looking foreword to this!

Well, I literally jost said OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Thumbs up to Moose and Dwood. Thanks for Firefight Descent.

Xoro

My life high a new up. (or was it high?) XD

I can't wait for this :) It looks good....no, scratch that, it looks REALLY REALLY REALLY Good :D

Hell yes! I'm so glad, I saw Moose's xfire vids, I can't wait. I hope it turns out well. I actually miss Moose, he was one of the first people on my thread when I first joined.

Same...

I miss Daniel.
-Zekilk

Edited by Dwood on May 28, 2011 at 05:39 PM
Edited by Dwood on May 28, 2011 at 05:41 PM

These look like all of the other pictures shown in the past. I'm not sure what your trying to show...?

Thanks for quoting massive pictures right after the original post.
Anyways, these are just showing again that this map is coming soon, but in this case, it also signifies that the project is only days away from release.
I'm very excited for this I again thank Dwood and everyone else for their support in this.

Oh, and by the way, I miss you guys too.

Keep it cool HaloMaps!

post

lol

Firefight, Round Start, Good Luck On.

Release delayed until:


Fixes itself.

aw

Time for process of elimination....

So in the meantime of bugfixes, things family requires me to do tomorrow and final revisions, plus when I get sapien to work again, Moose will approve the map before I upload it to Halomaps.

Because of the error it's looking like I will have to delay the map about a day, maybe two.

In the meantime: here's some things you may not know about Halo.

• The encounters of Halo are all made such that they can be different. This is most evident on the bridges on the b40 level- each time we play the map the grunts may be in different positions. This is because of the squad features for ai. In the scenario you place the encounter/squad and then the spawn points.
  
  The next critical piece is the 'normal diff count' and the 'insane diff count' of the squad. Basically, in order to have a random squad you place more spawn points than you set for the 'diff counts' so basically on any given ai encounter there are more spawn points placed than there are ai set to spawn, and the engine on its own fairly randomly picks which ones to spawn.
  
  Building off that point, in the dropships and the gravlifts, the previous principle is applied.


• Another thing is about Firing position placement. Ai can handle themselves if you give them the guarding at guard position state as spawn and return states. This way they will actively search you out. I have another system in my mind that would work more effectively but would stretch the map development time probably another month longer.
  
  Anyway, when you place firing positions think of them as guidelines. Ai will comfortably pathfind themselves over surprisingly long distances without messing up. The trick is: Where you do think an intelligent ai will gravitate towards in the heat of a battle?
  
  Without any pictures from sapien, think about it. The developers of Halo made the ai very competent on their own. We are simply given Firing positions not to make it easier for the ai to pathfind, but rather, to give the ai logical places to go... Firing positions have those checkboxes for a reason: To divide certain places up by priority, for story and to make the encounter more convincing.
  
  With more time (think 1 month's worth dedicated solely to this map) I would subdivide the map into separate sections and encounters so that the ai would behave and go to different places based on where the player is, how much health the overall ai have etc.
  
  This way, say if there were straggling ai up at the edges of the bowl and I want them to be aggressive, I would set the ai to an aggressive encounter with specialized firing positions for that portion of the map that would make a slight increase in intensity of the map, but one well worth the increase because the ai would be more believable.
  
  This point wasn't conveyed as well as I would have liked but I hope someone learns from these thoughts and comes up with their own ideas. Basically if you're doing a firefight like me and have 1 main squad in which all the ai get merged into for better management like I have them, then you're going to want to use at the very least, some common sense: Over flat ground and wider areas, all you need is a kind of web that's spread apart. If there's a rock or some structure that the ai could hide behind if they needed to, have a concentration of FP's around that rock.
  
  Don't just spam firing positions like they're icing for a bsp/cake like a certain kid whom I and Higuy apprehended for doing so.
  


• 
  Halo Script has the ability to give you random numbers. Use this ability. For the dropships, there's a window of time for the ai to jump out, and I have it so that the ai will drop out at any given time inside this window of time. Sometimes they'll jump the second the doors to the ships open up, others they'll wait a second or two and then jump, or they may even jump out right before the doors close.
  
  This, I believe, gives the map some unique character, something that makes it stand just that little inch higher above the rest.
  


• 
  I was contemplating doing something drastic with the map, via open sauce that would significantly increase the capabilities in the map, and here's how i'd do it. The basic requirement is that were you to code this you would need to have the structures for the ai actor and actor variant tags mapped out (thanks to OS_Tool), and able to retrieve the tag you want from memory via the tag's name and datum index.
  
  Basically the idea was to have a bunch of globals and some widgets. The widgets would modify the values of the globals or something like that. Then you'd click apply and the apply widget button would call an open-sauce function which would then modify the ai accordingly. Basically the idea would allow skulls and Halo-Reach type FireFight.
  
  But alas that would add a week to the timeslot.
  

Anyway, there's even more features that deal with scripting that I want to talk about and am EXTREMELY EXCITED to announce and have chats about. I have not seen anyone use any of these methods or features, and if you implement them into an already pretty-dang-good-mod/map they can add an astounding amount of polish.

A Mouthful of halo knowledge that I didn't completely understand but I trust that Dwood will make this an epic map :)

Havnt seen rain in a map since "Prime"

How does that work exactly? I mean Open Sause basically opens up the engine so that you can edit it with some restrictions of course so how can others run the map using an unaltered blam engine?
-Zekilk

I'm talking a week in development hours, not a physical week.

I know about that, but at that point it's just tag spam. And second, if I made OS Features for the map they would be integrated without making OS required. They wouldn't be able to be utilized, however, without the dll obviously.

And Third, I literally do not have the time to spend on this map any longer. There is a reason I have to release the map at the latest, this Sunday or pass it on. Once I build the final version it will be handed to moose, and will either be approved by him for release or handed off to someone else.

:D

there seems to be a problem,there is no download link

It's apparently Dwoods bday according to modacity, so I would suspect him to be on if hes doing something else concerning that...

Whoah guys, calm down haha.
There have been a few setbacks, but rest assured the map will come into your hands very very soon. I'm glad you guys will finally be able to play this after being in the "womb" for a good 9 months or more. I love all you guys! Even the retarded ones! XD Nah, you guys are all great. I miss this place.
And happy birthday to Dwood!

Stay cool HaloMaps.

EDIT: Wanna see what this map started out as? This is amazing lmao.

http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/xx140/MoooseGuy1/FFIdea.jpg
http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/xx140/MoooseGuy1/seks.png
http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/xx140/MoooseGuy1/newlighting.png

Peace!
Edited by MoooseGuy on Jun 1, 2011 at 09:50 PM

in the womb haha that made my daY
Edited by milkkookie on Jun 1, 2011 at 09:52 PM

Moose you should have CE installed just so you can pop in just for a bit, It will be lonely :(

LOVE YOU TOO MOOOSE <3
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<3

God dang I hate setbacks...