Should have photoshoped that picture onto the porn
Edited by Banshee64 on May 11, 2013 at 10:26 PM

Well, that was rather unsightly....

Anywho, back to the topic. How're people's experiences with the upgraded Adjutant?

Hey, would you happen to know how Korro was able to explore those HCEA campaign maps? I apologize for asking something so non-chalantly, but curiosity has overcome me momentarily.

@Rosanna Weyland:
Which .map file is the Mammoth located in? I can't find it the maps that I currently have.
I have tried to find it in the following .map files.
m60_rescue.map
m70_liftoff.map
m90_sacrifice.map

I cannot seem to find it in those .map files. Am I looking on the wrong .map files?

Please let me know,

Thanks

For reference:

m05_prologue = Prologue (Halsey's Interview)
m_10_crash = Dawn
m_20 = Requiem
m30_cryptum = Forerunner
m40_invasion = Infinity
m60_rescue = Reclaimer
m70_liftoff = Shutdown
m80_delta = Composer
m90_sacrifice = Midnight
m95_epilogue = Epilogue

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to turn up the model myself, either - it's likely another model that's not appearing. It SHOULD be in m60_rescue, under the filepath objects\vehicles\human\storm_mammoth, but as I said, I haven't found anything.

I'll add it to the OP as another asset to be bugfixed, if anybody else can solve this then I'd love to hear from you. Also: a tiny ask, but:

Gravemind, if you have any news or updates, I'd love to hear from you, especially on the point of helping you with some of these bugfixes.
Edited by Rosanna Weyland on May 13, 2013 at 05:03 PM
Edited by Rosanna Weyland on May 13, 2013 at 05:07 PM

What's Adjutant?

It's a music reproductor, like paint.

How quaint.

OP updated with a few new bugs.

m60_rescue is Infinity
m40_invasion is Reclaimer, it has the Mammoth in it.

So it is. My thanks, I'll edit my post to reflect that.

Now, the question is....Is it extractable? Or is it the same as the many of the other models? Meaning, not working properly.

I'm afraid that, for the time being, it's not extractable. I just tried myself, but as soon as we can I'll be sure to let you know first.

Does adjutant export scenario's bsp?

No. Currently there are no functions for BSP extraction, nor am I aware of any plans for them. The most we can get are sound and model assets (for now, at least).

And... Why my extracted models aren't rigged? And when the next update? I need Spartan 4 models xd, and they are not extractable...
PS. Good job bro

Better off doing some reading before you ask that.



When It's Ready (TM).



Mhm, we already know, but thanks for making sure.

This thread makes me feel like gravemind won't post any more updates to adjudant anymore.

probably not, since all his work got pre-published and everyone started ranting about it.

It'll probably get picked up again at some point. Gravemind's not the type to leave a job unfinished, and it'd be a shame to leave Adjutant incomplete. Though, I do understand his desire to break from it for a while, given the storm that arose over the leaks.



That's the risk you take when you take on beta testers, unfortunately. Sometimes you take on a few bad apples, and they have to ruin it for the rest of us. That, combined with the community's generally-immature attitude and a penchant for entitlement, and you get a bunch of teenagers making arseholes of themselves over nothing - who then have the nerve to wonder why people don't like releasing their work.

Put short: download the work, enjoy it, report bugs if there are any, and show some common courtesy when you have it. Nobody gives you the rights to their work when you download them, and you shouldn't expect them to either. They worked hard to bring you their tools, the least you could do is be gracious about it and exercise a little gratitude.

Was not the testers fault, some one found a glitch with the security checks in an older version, I thought you were there for all this?

Many of the H4 assets don't load because the raw pointers from the tags point to only part of the raw. So most stuff wont load, or will load improperly because of that. This has not been a problem in past titles so that is why its taking to long to work around this.
Sound extraction is likely not going to be done for H4 because the sound files are no longer stored in the .map, anyone who has actually looked at the H4 files would know this.

Love how people wanted this app so much before it was finished and are now complaining that they cant load a mammoth or mp spartan :p This is all that is currently developed. There is no "secret build" or something that everyone loves to rip on Gravemind about. You wanted it all so you got it, bugs and all.

I was referring more to the initial asset and plugin releases by TDog - without that first leak this whole fiasco wouldn't have happened.

What's the status of the skeletons on reach and 4 bipeds? The materials/maps for 4 stuff?

The reflection maps for reach?

BSPs/level geometry?

Haven't kept up with the program for a few months.

Also, I saw a video of a reverent in a devolper build of halo 4. That model isn't still in the map files, is it?

No idea. They'll get here when they get here.



See above.



Noticing a pattern?



That'll explain a lot.



Most likely not. I haven't seen one during my travels, in either case, but if what Elijah says is true, some stuff either isn't viewable currently, or isn't extractable. 'fraid we're just going to have to wait and see what updates bring (if any are forthcoming).

Well, can you explain to me what's the deal with the covie maps for 4 stuff? I've skimmed a few things and it looks like they did something along the lines of multiplayer colors for them.

Also, i've seen some images of h4 MC's armor that has a pretty close visor to the in game one, are you sure the reflection maps aren't extractable?

I have 2 guesses on this one, one of which is reflected on the render on the 3dsmax renders thread.

1. the textures are read wrong, and the miscolouration is a result of that.
2. the odd-coloured bits(most noticeable on the carbine) act as a multiplicative layer for the specular, giving a specular colour tint. in the render on the 3dsmax renders thread, I changed the texture of the carbine manually and reused the miscoloured spots as colour for the specular, which then changed the colour of the cubes/highlights in their respective UVs.
Edited by master noob on May 19, 2013 at 12:25 PM

Woah, woah, slow down now.

I was talking about how some of the halo 4 maps had those black red blue green maps where the RGB spots tell the engine how to color in the model.

But you lost me on point 2, Can you explain in a step by step of what you did, if that's okay with you?

the 3 channels of those maps you are talking about cover each step of shading the model correctly, one acting as an environment mask, one acting as a specular exponent, and one acting as a specular mask. very inefficient, but that's the overall gist of it.

on point 2, I manually selected and changed the parts that were miscoloured(the white-rainbow parts of the carbine) to the dark blue-purple used ingame, then copy/pasted the colours as a separate multiplacative layer on top of the specular to allow the specular to reflect light differently per UV.

I spoke with Gravemind directly and he stated that



As you can see, it is most likely not going to ever happen. So for people who read the forums, please stop asking about BSP extraction (also including animation extraction). If Gravemind says he highly doubt that ever be happening, it will most likely not ever happen.

Just letting you all know.
Edited by videoman on May 19, 2013 at 03:51 PM

Wasn't there another project that was able to extract BSP? I recall somebody mentioning somethinig about it.

Assembly might eventually be able to. But that's in the far, far future.

I posted this on the other thread. When I try to extract certain sound tags, music or sfx in general from Halo 3, ODST or Reach, it gives me one of two errors:

1. Error extracting sound\music\amb\perc\perc85\track1\loop.snd!:
--Source array was not long enough. Check srcIndex and length, and the array's lower bounds.

2. Error extracting sound\music\amb\glue\d_glue_low\track1\out.snd!:
--Number was less than the array's lower bound in the first dimension.
Parameter name: dstIndex

Previews and manual/batch-extracting don't work for these. Oh and cinematic snd tags won't extract either. I guess full sound extraction is still in progress.

As stated in other topics, no, its not 100%. You can extract most things at the moment though. What cinematic sounds are you trying to extract? Dialogue or what?

I guess that sound extraction does not work for me. It keeps giving me an error mesage saying index parameter something......

Try a fresh install from one of the links in the OP. I just booted up myself and I don't see anything wrong.

But I can only find like 3 cubemaps period. I've looked all over the different map files.

If there is a general location where they are stored for reach, PLEASE tell me. Or am I still not understanding you?