I doubt anyone knows me anyway. I stopped playing CE for 2 years because my computer kind of died. Anyway, What's this thing called open sauce?

It's a 3rd party addition to Halo CE that allows more graphical additions to the game. More stuff in shaders and other stuff like letting you bypass the map limit.

Any OS map will be .yelo instead of .map

I honestly don't use it just yet. I've been looking into it but as of now I'm not going for anything graphical, since that's pretty much is OS'es main use
Edited by MatthewDratt on Sep 28, 2012 at 09:30 PM

It does all that Matt says and more. It also allows there to be new tags and new tag structures, new scripting capabilities, more freedom with animations, vehicle boarding, vehicle EMPs, real boosting, dynamic sky and lightmap switch, post processing which can be used to change the way the game handles colors as well as enable things like thermal and VISR mode, less object lag in multiplayer and more. There's a new version in development that will further enhance multiplayer, but the specifics have yet to be announced or finalized.

But not everyone knows to how to set it up properly yet so OS-enhanced maps are still in low numbers.
Edited by Dumb AI on Sep 28, 2012 at 09:26 PM

It's pretty simple if you've just installed Halo. It can be complicated in it's current form if you've had CE installed and have been manipulating things outside of the HEK.

Oh, and I forgot, zoom specific behaviors are possible with OS as well as sprint.

Well,sprinting without OS is pretty cool too,if you want the side effect of bullet time.

A full rundown of what OS is, where it came from, and the thoughts behind it can be found here

TL;DR, it's basically an open source project aimed at extending the Halo games. Technically, it's not specific to CE, but that's where most of our focus goes towards. 'Extending' ranges from adding new features to the engine/tools, adding new gameplay systems that you can tag, and building on existing systems already in the engine/tools. Sometimes in order for great things to be made, at least with ease, normal engine limits have to be increased, which is something OS does. Sometimes these are trivial changes (eg, just increase some number from 16 to 32, and vola), sometimes the limit changes require many song and dances to be performed before we can get anything usable for our end users. We've even patched a few bugs in the engine itself.

Hmmm, guess that might be a TL;DR too. Basically it's an open source project for supporting the modding of Halo games. Especially CE.

It's definitely a cool concept. But the only people that have made worthwhile extra features for it are people who work close with the OS devs themselves, or get proper support from them.

As documentation is limited currently, and somewhat mediocre for a normal user with litthe background of Halo's engine, only a limited niche of people are actually working on extending HEK's features. So for the most part, the majority of users just uses it for quick graphics enhancements.

Inb4 rage from kornman because I said his site was CMT focused a year ago.

Lord of the Rippers:The Return of the King

Sprinting is possible with OS?

With a combination of scripts yes. If you'd be interested in using it for your mod shoot me a PM, I can send you the scripts that we use for it.

Edit: I should note there's no FP anim for it yet, but in terms of function it's near identical to Reach.
Edited by Masters1337 on Sep 29, 2012 at 11:22 AM

I hear that it can also make you breakfast

Alongside breakfast, multi-wielding flood is now also possible.

Yes to the first. No to the second.

Can I just say that that made me actually laugh out loud? Not the stupid "lol". I actually chuckled on the internet. Thanks