It has been a long time since ive been editing maps and stuff for halo but it has been so long that i have forgotten most of the stuff i used to do and skills ive learned.(mainly scripting)
But anyway i cant get sapien to open up. I have a clean tags folder and i extracted only the tags from bloodgulch. i get this error.

08.09.12 11:02:32 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
08.09.12 11:02:32 reference function: _write_to_error_file
08.09.12 11:02:32 reference address: 401b13
08.09.12 11:02:32 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
08.09.12 11:02:32 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
08.09.12 11:02:32 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
08.09.12 11:02:33 file_open('tags\ui\editor\markers\normal\normal.gbxmodel') error 0x00000003 'The system cannot find the path specified. '
08.09.12 11:02:33 couldn't open gbxmodel tag 'normal.gbxmodel'.
08.09.12 11:02:33 EAX: 0x00000000
08.09.12 11:02:33 EBX: 0x706C6101
08.09.12 11:02:33 ECX: 0x00000000
08.09.12 11:02:33 EDX: 0x00000000
08.09.12 11:02:33 EDI: 0x0018F2A0
08.09.12 11:02:33 ESI: 0x00000000
08.09.12 11:02:33 EBP: 0x0018F178
08.09.12 11:02:33 ESP: 0x0018F168
08.09.12 11:02:33 EIP: 0x77DD0C22, 83 C4 04 C2 ?????
08.09.12 11:02:33 EXCEPTION halt in .\editor_renderer.cpp,#189: marker.model_index!=NONE


I am currently working on editing weapons and gameplay sort of like halo anniversery.
thanks for any help or advise anyone could give me.

Also is the halo ce fourums still filled with trolls or did dennnis destroy them all??

Now Im getting this even after a clean reinstall of halo and HEK


08.09.12 12:29:25 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
08.09.12 12:29:25 reference function: _write_to_error_file
08.09.12 12:29:25 reference address: 401b13
08.09.12 12:29:25 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
08.09.12 12:29:25 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
08.09.12 12:29:25 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
08.09.12 12:29:26 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
08.09.12 12:29:38 the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg shield does not specify a stencil bitmap group.
08.09.12 12:29:38 the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg body does not specify a stencil bitmap group.
08.09.12 12:29:41 EAX: 0x00000000
08.09.12 12:29:41 EBX: 0x00000101
08.09.12 12:29:41 ECX: 0x00000000
08.09.12 12:29:41 EDX: 0x00000000
08.09.12 12:29:41 EDI: 0x0018E3D0
08.09.12 12:29:41 ESI: 0x00000000
08.09.12 12:29:41 EBP: 0x0018E2A8
08.09.12 12:29:41 ESP: 0x0018E298
08.09.12 12:29:41 EIP: 0x77DD0C22, 83 C4 04 C2 ?????
08.09.12 12:29:41 EXCEPTION halt in \halopc\haloce\source\tag_files\tag_groups.c,#3157: #-1 is not a valid object_function_block index in [#0,#4)

did you overwrite tags that come with HEK? if you did, re install HEK (again) and Do Not overwrite the tags that come with it.

Thanks so much i finaly got it to work! I have one more question though. what problems will i have in halo if i use windows 7?

i used to run halo on my vista it did have only 3 problems; Halo Custom Edition directory had read only attribute, it is easy to fix: right click on Halo Custom Edition folder and uncheck read only and press apply. the other problems and fixes to them are on these videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eof4mP1YV7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBcYylAoVxg
and if you have multi-core processor you may have to run sapien (and / or a hobov102) on 1st core ( = 0) to do so open task manager right click on process called sapien.exe and set affinity to 0.(computers start counting at 0, so 0 = 1 and 1 = 2, and so on)

Edited by afD2345 on Aug 9, 2012 at 03:12 PM