well I got an energy sword tag with lunge and added it in one of my ai maps. I found that the lunge on the sword was extremely weak so I modified the damage lower and higher bounds on the lunge but now every time I attack a creature with it it kills me and the ai unit does anyone know how to help me thank you and very much appreciated.

Maybe the sword was meant to damage you when you lunge.Since you increased the damage,you would die when the lunge damage affected you.Basically,lower the damage.

That fake lunge effect is from basically a rocket up your ass. When you lunge a damage effect takes place to push you forward, and you have raised the damage so urr.. you have answered your own question.

I believe you could create a new damage effect tag where no damage is done but you still get affected and pushed as you would normally, am I correct people?

well then can tell me how? and also another problem is when I try to ave an item_collection file its locked and I cant put it into sapien
Edited by crashinghell on Mar 22, 2012 at 10:04 PM

Open the damage effect, and check this box (and maybe the friends one too).

now why when I save the item_collection tag its locked and unopenable in sapien

If your computer is using Windows Vista or 7, you always want to make sure that you run Halo's tools as administrator.

well thanks for your help im new to this now how do i get the marine/spartan ai to wander around the map and fight flood when they encounter one?

If you are wanting marines vs flood then do this.

Set the Marines/Spartans team index to zero which is default red team. And then set the flood team index to One which is blue team. Alternatively you can set the flood to their own index "Flood"

As for wandering the map you need firing positions. It should be under Encounters > Squads > I forgot after this but it should say "Firing Positions"

Now the firing positions are kind of not very "Smooth" For example if you place Instance 0 at X: 2 Y:5 Z:0 and firing positon 1 at X:5 Y:7 Z:0 they will go from 0 to 1 however they will stop for a brief moment after reaching each position.

If you want them to just all meet up in a big battle. Put 2 Marine & Spartan Firing positions at blue base and 2 Folod firing positions at red base.

Sorry if this isn't clear. I am not at home lol.

thanks it helped oh crap now I tried to make flood elite actor variant have shields so I put 100 for shield vitality and not the shield wont deplete

Lmao shielded flood ey? Well try lowering the value and see what happens.

its the shield recharge because the sniper staggers it and the rocket launcher kills it but nothing else kills it

Edited by crashinghell on Mar 23, 2012 at 04:32 PM

This situation is involved with the materials and collision. Make sure the material of the shield collision you're using has a damage multiplier in every weapon you're using (or simply make sure it is selected as "energy shield" in the dropbox in the .collision_model tag).

can someone tell me how to use these firing positions? all the ai are doing is standing around
Edited by crashinghell on Mar 24, 2012 at 09:33 PM