There are programs to get pretty much anything from Halo2.

Hello.

I'm brand new to modding/extracting halo assets, but I know my way around 3d software.

How do I use this tool to extract assets? Where can I find one for halo 2 and CE ripping?

Thanks.

EDIT: Furthermore, I see all of these cool stuff you guys make via google, but I don't see a place to download any of the stuff, just for maps.

What gives?
Edited by jabberwockxeno on Jan 16, 2013 at 08:05 PM

So that I get this right, I can open the Halo 4 Map files with the current Adjutant, but nothing can be done past there? I know HaloExtreme117 said "Almost no changes" so I am guessing some changes would have to be made in order to open them, how can I do this?

First going to say awesome tool able to extract some models but not all of them for example, I see people here with Elites and Vehicles and even weapons but when I open Adjutant and load up M20.map and go to objects -> vehicles-> covenant -> Revenant and select revenant.mode I get Failed to load model. My view settings are on Folder Heirarchy and I'm using Windows 7 64 bit.

In my map folder I have all the campaign maps talking about m10 to m70_bonus and Campaing / Mainmenu / Shared maps aswell, so is there something I'm doing wrong I have tried to change the view to Tag type without any succes, hope someone could tell me on how to extract more models then just the cruiser corvette frigate and POA. And yes I also tried to run in windows xp mode and admin.

Do you have ALL the .map files in the same folder with there original names? That includes the main menu and shared.map

All maps with its original names are in the same folder.

Re-download one of the maps, save it in a different folder, then create an MD5 hash from both the original file and the new one. If it matches, then post back, if not, it's a corrupt map issue, and you can PM me for a more reliable map source.

Alright downloading M35 aka tip of the spear together with the campaign shared and mainmenu maps, when they are downloaded I'm going to put them in a new folder and see if that works, something else how do I create a MD5 hash from the map file ? And I got the maps from.

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

Just a general question, have you gone down to the render model peice and just tried to extract the model like that? And i mean actually opening Adjustant in it's normal layout, going down to render model, and then finding the model for the revenant. That should work without a hitch.

Can you extract IK rigged models? Or just models with bones?

Negative I have redownloaded the 4 maps campaign, mainmenu, shared and M35 (Tip of the spear) and cant load the model in tag or in heirachy view, this is bugging me really bad because I'm making a 3D short machinima and I need some models that I cant download/find on the interweb, ofcourse I can do requests but it would be easier for me to work if I can extract them my self.

OK i'll give me 5 minutes

Edit:

here are 4 links to the image's since new members need to wait 5 days before they can post any image.

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/648/mapsw.png

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/328/maps2v.png

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/1073/maps3.png

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3769/maps4.png
Edited by Reconz on Jan 18, 2013 at 11:18 AM

Damn, I hate rigging. Also the bones arn't made for Maya, trying to use the IK tool results in failure. You have to detach the bones from the skin, freeze the transformations (rotate, transform, etc), apply them back and paint the skin weights, then apply the IK for it to work. It works flawlessly in Max though, but I prefer Maya, guess I have to deal with Max.
Edited by DarkestSeptagon on Jan 18, 2013 at 11:54 AM
Edited by DarkestSeptagon on Jan 18, 2013 at 11:55 AM

This is pretty strange, I just loaded up the revvi using only those 4 .map files. I'm thinking that they may be corrupted, that's the only way I see that not being able to load. If the problems continue PM me your e-mail or something and I'll see if I can help you out.

I've noticed that although the civilian_female can be extracted from m10.map, which share face and hair textures with both marine_female and the sara character, I seem to be missing said textures when I upload the assets into 3dsMax 12. I just wanted to know, has anyone else run into something like that?

Does anyone know of any good tutorials for getting a character to hold a weapon like the BR?

Also do any riggers/animators here have any recommendations for when it comes to animating and rigging?
Edited by DarkestSeptagon on Jan 18, 2013 at 01:39 PM

How would I go about extracting those textures?

Unfortunately, it seems that either the bitmaps aren't located with the tags, or that they aren't in any of the .maps at all... They do show up in the tags, but without the ability to view any of the bitmaps.

On a second note, how can you extract one bitmap when the batch extractor won't allow me to?

Yes, however, the two bitmaps I'm looking for, civilian_female_hair_diff and civilian_female_head_diff, don't seem to want to be extracted, as I keep running into a message like this:

Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than size of the collection.
Parameter name: startindex

Thank you for the help.

I thought so. Either way, thanks for the help.

So unless we have 2010, this tool is useless to us?

Works fine in my copy of 2013

Sorry i repeat but it's possible to rip from halo 2 with adjudant or not ?

It's not possible to rip from Halo 2 using Adjutant.

:'( Also thank you ! And what's program I need to rip from halo 2 ? :)

Thank you Waffles ! :D

Defaulting DXN_mono_alpha textures to DXN will cause the channels to mess up. As for TIF files, every bitmap format goes through a conversion to a normal ARGB format, so there shouldn't be any specific format TIF issues. The alpha doesn't actually blend into the diffuse, photoshop just doesn't always separate it. There may be a setting for this, because for me CS4 separates alphas but CS5 doesn't. As for DDS, not all formats are supported, which is why I set TIF as the default. If I made all the bitmaps convert to ARGB for DDS then they would all be supported, but of course would no longer be in their original format.

Opening the tif files and separating the alpha channels is actually really easy if you have photoshop.

Install this: http://www.fnordware.com/superpng/ into your photoshop folder

Extract a tiff bitmap with adjudant, open in photoshop. Resave that tiff image as a png, then open your newly saved PNG file WHILE HOLDING SHIFT (NECESSITY). A dialogue box will pop up, saying SuperPNG Input Options. Select the option, alpha appears as separate channel, and tick Always bring up this dialogue, then set it to defaults. After this, you won't have to keep holding shift when you want to change SuperPNG options. This should give you the alpha channels separated from the RGB diffuse. You can then resave it as a tiff to be compiled for halo ce.
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Jan 23, 2013 at 06:25 PM
*edited link to the download page - linking directly to file is not allowed.
Edited by Dennis on Jan 30, 2013 at 09:32 PM

Thank you this really helped!

I gave up on this awesome tool since it doesnt allow me to extract anything just props, I have tried to run it in differnt windows modes vista xp you name it but without succes :(

Usually when hardly anything extracts it's because the shared maps are missing or corrupted. You need campaign.map, shared.map and mainmenu.map in the same folder as the maps you're extracting from. You may also need to install .NET Framework 4 if you don't have it.

What exactly does .Net framework 4 do?

some programs(E.G. Adjutant 2) use it, it provides some functions and other things. i am not sure how to explain it
, but if you want more information... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotnet_framework
you can get it from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17851
Edited by afD2345 on Jan 30, 2013 at 12:57 PM

yeah I have re downloaded the needed maps (campaign/shared/mainmenu) 10+ time but without succes, I also have a newer version of .net framework on my computer running, if you look 1 page back you can see how I got my maps setup (I also tried multiplayer maps and firefight but I cant extract anything from them only campaign)