Alright, well, I'm new and clueless in the world of Halo modding, so what I may be doing is a simple, stupid mistake, but here's what's going on.

Couple of days ago, I started just messing around with a combination of Eschaton, HMT, and Sparkedit. I'm currently working on another stupid gulch mod, really just screwing around and feeling my way through the editing suite.

One of the recent things I'm trying to do, though, is to make a door that is connected to a holopanel, which will open/close the door when you press the use button. I realized that you really can't do something that complex with the current tools I was using, so I had to learn how to get sapien to work.

In order to do that, I understand you have to extract the tags of the map into the tags folder using HEK+. This is where I start having trouble. I'm not sure if the fact that I have a Windows 8 machine has anything to do with it, but here's what happens.

I open my bloodgulch up in HEK+, and attempt to extract the tags. Once I start it, I get errors for each bitmap and sound it attempts to extract; something along the lines of "There was an error converting this tag" and a big blank field where apparently an error should be. Only I have to click through hundreds of these windows until the extraction is complete. Once that happens, I attempt to load up the scenario in sapien, only for it to tell me that there's a problem with the B30 bitmaps.

I've searched threads of different forums dating back to 2005, but I'd like some current-day input to what I might be doing wrong. Thanks.


EDIT: Dammit wrong section. Move to technical discussion, please?
Edited by Fulsam on Feb 10, 2013 at 06:47 PM

Are you opening a map that was already modded in HPC? I could see that causing some issues. Have you tried any other maps?

Also HEK+ requires desktop composition and visual themes to be disabled or it crashes on startup. I haven't messed with w8, but you may want to set it into xp sp2 settings under compatibility too

Turns out the fact that I already modded it with the HPC toolset was the problem. Would've never guessed.

Thanks! Also, good luck with the CMT stuff.