Hi i am sorry to ask this, but tool won't open. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thank you in advance.

you use tool with CMD.
Edited by Spark on Aug 18, 2012 at 11:32 AM

I tried but it won't open even with CMD...

you load CMD and type the commands from their so put CMD in halo directory load it and to compile a map type tool.exe build-cache-file <scenario location>

Yeah i tried that.

Could you post a screenshot of the error?

Don't put cmd.exe in the Halo CE folder; that could cause rather unfortunate errors when trying to do non-Halo stuff. INSTEAD:

On windows XP:
Start menu -> run

Type in cmd.exe

A black command prompt should open up. Type in:

cd "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition"

^this is assuming you installed it to the default directory. If you installed it anywhere else, use your install directory instead. The command prompt should then shift to say

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition>_

with the underscore thing blinking. Type in:
tool
and hit enter. If it comes up with a list of tool commands, you've done it correctly. If you haven't, then it should say:

'tool' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. 

in which case, you come back here and post about it.

On Windows Vista / Windows 7
Open the start menu, and type in cmd.exe into the search bar. cmd.exe should pop up. You can do two things:

1) Click it and follow the exact same instructions above.
2) Right click it -> copy. Then, browse to your Halo CE installation directory, and paste it in.

When you run it, it should then say:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition>_

with the underscore thing blinking. Type in:
tool
and hit enter. If it comes up with a list of tool commands, you've done it correctly. If you haven't, then it should say:

'tool' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. 

in which case, you come back here and post about it.

Nope, tool pops up after i try that and then closes, almost like its a compatibility issue.

When you directly execute tool, that's what it does. Its because its a command line based program, so it has to be ran from CMD. And even when you run it from CMD, it only preforms what you tell it to; the process ends when its done doing things.

Yes, but when i run it through CMD and give it the command to build my scenario it doesn't build it.

What information does it give you?

I looked at it with team viewer and when we tried to compile it like he said it does nothing really no message he uses windows 8 by the way.it looked like this when we tried to compiled it.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition>tool.exe build-cache-file levels\test\tutorial\tutorial


C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition>
Edited by Spark on Aug 20, 2012 at 03:39 PM

send your copy of tool to him (or, compare the file hash) I know Windows 8 is horrible disabling almost everything in your computer, but I don't see it disabling output from CMD programs (especially considering that disk management is only available via CMD now. no more GUI)