The withholding of tools and assets seens to be strictly unique to the HALO 'Community'.

There is an attitude that everything injected into HALO has to ooze with an unseen standard of quality before it is accepted. The people who create tools without the intention of sharing (Or percieved future intent) tend to keep stuff within the same obvious circle of people.

These people often have some agenda to 'eventually' release said tools or content, when they are only truly playing 'Look What I have'.

Keeping things locked away to preserve quality content, original content, or to reduce saturation of maps or assets is ridiculous.

I understand the will to protect what you create, but every community has tool makers, and those that cannot. Why look down on those who cannot?

Source, Doom, XNALara, Quake, Unreal, Crysis, and nearly every other game or engine thrives on sharing of content... Be it new, ripped, Whatever.

This 'comnunity' should thrive on content. I know this won't gain me any popularity bringing up such a taboo topic, but whatever.
Edited by Alexis on Mar 15, 2013 at 01:58 PM

What annoys me isn't the fact that it's not a public tool, so much as the lack of transparency on it.

I have noticed this is certainly a trend here, as alexis notes. I agree that as primarily a modding site, sharing content should be integral to the comunnity, where most of it is merely shown via screenshots.

I can understand why others don't wish to share their personal creations though, and respect that. But hiding methods to extract assets is quite frankly foolish in my opinion. It'd be one thing if the goal of keeping it private was to refine the ripping methods untill they are polished enough for general use, but I get the feeling that's not the reason.

Whatever. I'll wait until somebody decides to say how one does it. In the meantime, anything I create or edit I will share when i'm happy with how it comes out.

I apologize for appearing noobish, but I wanted to inform ya'll on the missing texture files, according to 3dsMax.

First off, the model looks legit, and it would have undoubtabley taken a loooong time to have modeled this. The model geometry matches up, and it's pretty friggin' sweet.

Here are my findings:
-Missing Textures:
objects/characters/storm_elite_ai/bitmaps/storm_elite_ai_anatomy/storm_elite_ai_anatomy_diff.tif
objects/characters/storm_elite_ai/bitmaps/storm_elite_ai_techsuit/storm_elite_ai_techsuit_diff.tif
"/"/"/bitmaps/storm_elite_ai_techsuit/storm_elite_ai_techsuit_normal.tif
"/"/"/bitmaps/storm_elite_default/storm_elite_default_armor_diff.tif
"/"/"/bitmaps/storm_elite_default/storm_elite_default_armor_normal.tif
"/bitmaps/storm_decals/bitmaps/storm_covenant_decals_graphics.tif

-EDIT:
On another note, I am very tempted to use this to design armor like Combat, Asthetic, Flight, and even Arby's armor. This is most definitely, dare I say... Squidtastic.
-END EDIT

Anyway, big thanks to TDog and the other User who I will leave nameless until the he or she deems it necessary, and big thanks to 343i on the handiwork.

Kudos, ya'll.
Edited by OashKoash on Mar 15, 2013 at 05:51 PM

I can't wait for the countless midnight Arwing mods

Had I made the program and all the formats to rip content from H4 then I could release.

I can't release any H4 content till I'm told I can. Just that plain and simple. Trust gets you places, makes you good friends, it pays off to be trust worthy and to never break a trust.

Matter of the fact is, I can't release ripped H4 content because I was told not to release, not yet.

Well there we go folks.

The future is always better than the present...

I, myself am not too excited over H4 rips. We can hardly get H3 rips working, much less Reach (with the same functions as the real game) H4 will never be pulled off.

Well, fair enough then. Can you tell us why the person doesn't want the stuff released yet, or give us an estimate of when you think that time may be?

Hahaha, bitch please!!!

http://i1257.photobucket.com/albums/ii505/Bastian_Cortes/Halo%20Custom%20Edition/haloce2013-09-1521-58-08-97_zps93044e96.png

xD