i had a look and noticed that the forge bsp parts are exportable, i did however expect this since the parts are just models the same as any other model in reach.
anyway this almost stopped me finishing a reach map i've been doing in spare time.
2 nights ago i was close to cheating by just fixing all these bsp parts up and joining them all together (sounds easier than it actually is) to make my own map look better but this would render my own time spent as wasted so i'll just continue with my own version of it.

one thing i did notice when these models are exported is that things like glass and decals show as flipped faces, i guess the material isn't being exported as part of the textures, or special rendering materials are not being seen when exporting the models.

@tiel
to make things easier click view on the top menu of adjudiant and select folder heiarchy this will list off the models in their actual folders. then search for an object that you want. then click on the .mode file within the folder, it should work fine after that

also make sure that you have campaign.map (for extracting from campaign maps) , manimenu.map, and shared.map in the same folder of the map you are extracting from. this is crucial because if you do not the extractor will exception and crash because it could not find those map files.
Edited by killzone64 on Nov 18, 2012 at 01:49 AM

@ally I can't really fix the flipped faces, but I made it as easy as possible to fix them without spending too much time on it.

Also, because someone asked, here's an EMFv2 of the Reach marine with the missing parts included: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39530625/marine.emf (not all named correctly, though)

that's cool, i was happy enough with seeing the models as refs, that made it a bit better for seeing where certain smoothing groups needed to be, i never really wanted an exact replica anyway. :)

Hey Gravemind.I got this exception error in adjutant when I clicked export models.Is there anyway to fix it?

Do you have Mainmenu.map, Shared.map and Campaign.map? If not, get them, and that will fix your exception.

hey, I'm running on a french computer and I have issues which I believe to appear because of the regional settings, adjutant works fine when I turn my PC on american parameters.

I think it's because we use the comma as a decimal separator or something like this, could you fix it for any language ?

Hey,Gravemind, I have a question.I have some problems while downloading the files from the website.While I was downloading the map files example (shared.map) it makes the download slower.Is there any solution for this?

The female marine also has missing pieces, here's an EMF with all the pieces: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39530625/marine_female.emf


Regional settings shouldn't affect Adjutant, so I don't know what's causing it. What's the error?


The website is not mine and has nothing to do with me, so I can't help there.

So what sight are you downloading the map files on? :) I havn't got the things i needed to extract models so can you give me a link?

https://xboxdb.access.dyn-net.com/0000000001/files-DB/web/Default.asp.net?act=category&id=18

Just a quick warning, that site's very unreliable. It goes down for days at a time sometimes, and, in my experience, some downloads become corrupt. The best way is to get them from the disk yourself.
Edited by haloextreme117 on Nov 20, 2012 at 10:46 AM

Thanks. But i am still very lost at knowing what files i need to be able to extract most, if not everything from the campaign.

(For both Halo 3 and Reach)
Edited by P3 on Nov 20, 2012 at 04:28 PM

Mainmenu.map, Shared.map and Campaign.map, and then the map which has the items you wish to extract.

I'll drink to that!

I'll drink some milk to that

So if you want pretty much everything from the game, then you download all the maps?

you could do that but a majority of the textures and models are shared between the maps so downloading them all is not nessecary.

Does anyone know how Do I get the models In-game in halo CE?
Edited by TheElitePro on Nov 21, 2012 at 12:18 AM

Lmao, i'll drink to that aswell.

Hey Gravemind,When I load up the Halo reach Elites,A dialog come up and told me that it has a lot of missing .tif Files.Is there a way to fix this?
Edited by TheElitePro on Nov 21, 2012 at 02:21 AM http://imgur.com/UsrTn
Edited by TheElitePro on Nov 21, 2012 at 02:23 AM

So then, which files would i need to download if i don't want to waste time downloading because they are pretty much the same thing?

i would suggest starting off by downloading waste and citadel (the ark, and the covenant) because they will have the majority of the textures you need. and i would also suggest downloading the sidewinder mp map (avalanche) because it has all the snow iterations of the vehicle textures.

basically watch footage of game-play on the maps, and if you see something that you like download the map.
Edited by killzone64 on Nov 21, 2012 at 09:14 AM

I was looking around at some files the other day, i noticed that some vehices that are supposed to have illuminated parts dont have a bitmap for them, but a shader called indicator_holo. Does anyone know what this is and where the bitmaps for the illum are? For example, the spirit dropship has tons of glowy parts but the only bitmaps it comes with are tuning_fork_diffuse and tuning_fork_bump. nothing about an illum at all

Reach model extraction, Reach support in general, model viewer, a much nicer UI, and, of course, good ol' Gravemind's support.
Xtraction is really outdated anyways.

I think i mentioned it already that i uploaded the Reach elites with every permutation, every texture, a fixed bone rig and IK constraints, likewise for the marines, if you want them, you can PM me and i'll be glad to hand it off to you.


On a side note. Any new updates gravemind?

Nothing is ever totally fixed. Why don't you try it out for yourself instead of wasting so much time asking questions when you could have answered your own questions in less than a few minutes?

Normal modifier as far as i know just controls how faces are oriented in respect to the view.

However, if you want to figure out how it'll help you when using the imported EMF files, here's how. If you have an object with inverted faces, all you have to do is check (or uncheck dependingly) the "flip normals" checkbox and everything will be set. Nothing extra is required to fix the faces

That's an error with your max file, nothing to do with Adjutant. It looks like you moved/deleted the images from the location they were meant to be in.


Look in the meta of its shader tags, if they don't reference an illum map they don't use one. I still need to update the internal Reach shader plugins though, I'll have to do that next update. Not sure when that will be though, because I have exams soon.


It is now.


The normal modifier was an attempt to fix some of the flipped faces, and also makes it easier to fix the remaining ones seeing as you can just tick the "flip normals" checkbox instead of flipping them in the editable mesh modifier.


Possible, but not worth it.
Edited by Gravemind on Nov 23, 2012 at 08:34 AM

Hey, I notcied there is a problem with model imports :
When you import, the weights of the skin modifier aren't applied for the main bone, which creates a set of 0 weights vertex which is hard to fix without re-rigging the whole model
And re rigging is a big pain since there are thousands of vertices...
It would be cool if that can be fixed

Hey guys, when ever I try to open a model in 3ds with the EMF Importer, I always get some error like "No "*" function for undefined". Any ideas why that's happening?

I see your point, and I agree, but Adjutant isn't flexible enough to be able to load Halo2 maps without major structural changes. I might be able to add EMF exporting to Entity, though.


This should only happen with a few Reach bipeds, everything else should be fine.


You may be using the wrong script. Adjutant exports EMFv2 by default, so unless you changed it you'll need v2 of the script. Go to "Tools > Generate MaxScripts" and select the EMFv2 importer script and use that to import the models.

it was with the spartan laser, but I re-rigged it yesterday...
And I have another problem, don't know if you'd like to look into it but the JMS exporter is slow as hell, could you think a way to make it work faster ? that'd be cool :D :D :D

Some reach models I found export in a few minutes...while some take a few hours ._.

HI PEOPLES !

Have anyone tried this Adjutant with the new HALO 4 Xbox Iso ?


Would be Reaaly cool if there is some possibility to Start looking for ways to view Their Models ... It seams that is using the Same Engine As REACH inspite of heavy modified The models format should be near same .

Cheers!

3DEXILE.