You can look at Extinction to see how well a Scarab works in a multiplayer match.

Okay, well because I feel like making this big long quote even longer, how would you use this scarab in a map? Single-Player or Multi-Player?

I'd have it in a mission where... Your on a covy super carrier, the first bit you have to find a way to destroy it, and at the end of the 2nd bit, you have to find a way off it. So you ride a scarab down to what ever planet your at.

Perhaps even destroy the super carrier from within using the scarab and then blast your way through the debris to lay some grunt hate!
Edited by SS Flanker on Jul 2, 2015 at 07:35 AM

Thats better, but for the mission before it, how would you get on the carrier?

also, hate jackles before grunts www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHqvrJDSD2I
Edited by TheMrJezza_ on Jul 2, 2015 at 07:32 AM

Y'know we have never been entitled to a rich covenant air vehicle experience. With the exception of the banshee I for one would really like to experience the vampire/seraph fighter. Non of this really aids the plot but dwelling upon similar lines......a story line could be conceived with master chief or whoever crash landing a long sword into the fighter bay of a covenant cruiser and from there all hell breaks loose until such a moment arrives when the need to "jump ship" becomes a critical consideration.

Cue scarab & explodey firey things.

So this would be a short campaign? Because I remember at the end of Halo ce Master chief was in a long sword... There could be a small story there.

I actually took inspiration from this

I honestly have never read it, I have a friend who has though. But based off whats here so far, I think this is a good idea for a campaign.
Edited by TheMrJezza_ on Jul 2, 2015 at 07:58 PM

two things

1. Top Turret, Main Hull, Legs
2. First Strike is a novel, not a game

I thought it was a novel, but after I saw the xbox logo, I edited the post to say played.
Anyway, back to kirbys scarab, I opened the tag in guerilla and found that the scarab_detail_metal tag is corrupt. That's probably 1 reason why OS_Sapien doesn't like the h3 scarab
Edited by TheMrJezza_ on Jul 2, 2015 at 10:39 PM

Were you able to obtain the Scarab scripts?

Thanks for uploading the tags, by the way.

No, I haven't asked for the scripts yet. And no problem.

On a side note, will the AI drive the Scarab like garbage, as it does everything else? :P

I have sent a message to kirby. Now we just have to wait to hear back.

This is probably the script, its the only one of two in that folder with a relevant looking name. That script really is not good for multiplayer; need to get better hooking setup (I have all my plans laid out for it, but I havent gotten any time to do it)

As for tags.. I have various different scarabs in my tag folder (At one point, people thought I should be using a custom scarab model, at other points the actual H3 one, etc. I'm not sure whats what, nor what dependencies any of them have; ripping from the level is probably easier, just open HEK+, open, then change to all files instead of .map, and you'll just have to re-create the shaders since OS shaders can't be ripped)

Thank you Kirby, all of us are lucky to have you here.

Indeed, I'll do whatever I can to repay you for this.

EDIT: Could we also have the shader tags too, please?

All of the ones I've received are corrupted. :\
Edited by Megatron on Jul 7, 2015 at 06:35 PM

I already ripped the tags and gave a link in a previous post. Also, is the script just for walking on a moving scarab, or is it needed for the scarab to work? And as for the shaders, I would remake them my self, but I haven't made any models or shaders for tags, so I don't know how to (yet). Thanks for the script and letting us use the scarab. I think this is all the tags --> https://www.dropbox.com/s/0c7ktcqnkz5mc24/Tags.zip?dl=0


And the shaders are corrupt because they are os shaders, you can't rip them like kirby said.
Edited by TheMrJezza_ on Jul 7, 2015 at 09:23 PM

I dunno how to make shader tags currently, but if that's the only viable option, then how should we do it?

I'll try to do it

Thanks Kinnet.

Also if no one else is up to the script yet, there is an error with the script
[scarab line 96] this is not a valid trigger_volume: respawn_vol (player)) (begin
recompiling scripts after scenarios were merged.
this left parenthesis is unmatched.: (begin

I think the script can spawn the scarab without editing the globals.globals file, but it needs a trigger volume, but there is no point to making it without the scarab, and i can't get the scarab to work without the shaders.

i'm having some problems with the body

The body is in 3 parts, legs, body, and head, the script should bind them, and if it doesn't.. then kirby will have to help.

Edit: the other thing it could be.. Bloodgulch is too low for the scarab.
Edited by TheMrJezza_ on Jul 7, 2015 at 10:13 PM

i havent used the script yet, i'm spawning them as normal, vehicles, because i want to fix the shaders first

Do what you need to, I don't know how to do shaders so you know more then I do

The Silent Cartographer's BSP would be a better map to test the Scarab if you want to use content made by Bungie, although if you want to use something bigger for a testing ground, I'd recommend Coldsnap.

well, the shaders are now fixed, but when i try to add the "h3scarab.vehicle" in sapien, it just crashes (i'm using the script

btw, i tried to play the kirby's scarab map, but it crashes the game, i think the script and the vehicle are set-up for OS 3.0

They work for me, and I'm using the latest version of OS.

Perhaps we can try to see if it's turning out okay?

I have a map big enough to test the scarab, and the scripts may not be needed yet. As for the game crashing, did you test it in a yelo or map, I know with os features, a map wont see them so if they are corrupted the game will only see them when you try to get near it.
Anyway if you have made the shaders, then kirby can help out more, since kirby made the scarab in the first place.

Edit: Normal sapien will crash every time you try to place the scarab, even if you have os installed. Be sure to use os_sapien
Edited by TheMrJezza_ on Jul 8, 2015 at 02:57 AM

yep, i'm using the os_guerrilla on a .yelo,and it keeps crashing

I have no idea what can be
Edited by Kinnet on Jul 8, 2015 at 04:59 PM

I'm sorry that this continues to happen, and perhaps we can try if you give us the tags?

We'd be grateful if you did, and I'd do my best to repay you as well.

Thanks

Thank you indeed, we owe you for this.

On a side note, I'm having the same problems you were earlier, plus I can't figure out what the script is referring to by "glue", or the precise tags the objects call for. :\

That, and OS Sapien is also crashing on me whenever I try to put the Scarab objects in the map too.

These are quite the bizarre issues, and the process isn't exactly being too neighborly this week for anyone it seems.

Maybe the scarab model has too many polys, or I missed something when I extracted the tags. I'll re rip them.

Edit: Animations are broken

Edited by TheMrJezza_ on Jul 9, 2015 at 12:45 AM