Hello,

I recently played this map ( http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=6677) which recreates the Foundry map from Halo 3. I was thoroughly impressed by it but was dissapointed by the fact that it was multiplayer only. Could someone with some talent at mapping put a few endless Flood spawners in the map so people such as myself could play it as a pseudo survival map? I am not familiar with the practices here, so I do not know if it is acceptable to edit other peoples work, but if it is allowed a "survival mod" of this map would be undeniably fun to play.

1. Go grab HEK.

2. Do it yourself.

Shadowspartan should share his resources so we can make crappy small changes instead of doing it ourselves. - "real" community
Hey! Can you do this small and crappy change to this map. - random kid
Do it yourself. - Megasean
lol dun hurt mi

It takes 2 minutes maybe. We are not always gonna be here to hold your hand.
Edited by MEGASEAN2812 on May 25, 2014 at 11:21 PM

Quote: --- Original message by: MEGASEAN2812
We are not always gonna be here to hold your hand.

^ everyone pls copy this to your clipboard to post whenever he asks for stuff

I mean, if he was requesting something a little more complicated or needed help with a tag, sure. But mp maps with AI? Really?

If it takes two minutes then why not do it out of the kindness of your heart? Does he really have to read up on this stuff to do something that you just implied is so basic.

I would do something complicated out of the kindess of my heart, not something because someones too lazy to look at one tutorial.

He doesn't have the tools nor the experience so what takes two minutes for you apparently could take a day for him. If you are going to post on a topic that makes a request at least be productive rather than typing a vague answer such as "lol bro u n00b lrn hek".

MEGASEAN2812 does not seem to realize that something he considers to be simple may not be simple to others, especially to someone such as myself who has absolutely no idea how to use any of Halo's editing software.

MEGASEAN2812, If it is such a simple thing to do why do you not simply make the change to the map instead of complain about the request I made?

EDIT: Alright MEGASEAN2812, I'll call your bluff. You only do complicated map edits out of the kindness of your heart? Convert the map into a full fledged firefight map. That should be a little harder than simply adding a spawner or two into it.
Edited by TOT_COMICS on May 26, 2014 at 12:05 AM

Now your talking. sorry if that came out as a little mean.

It's all cool.

So it looks like we've narrowed it down to two options:

1. Just put a bunch of Flood spawners or something into the map.

OR

2. Turn the map into a firefight map.

Would anyone be willing to try either of these?

i could probably half ass one for you in firefight

That would be cool.

On a different note, since I have no experience with modding halo, does anyone have any suggestions for useful editing software I should get and some tutorials?

Software:

1. Download HEK - this is a suite of software that contains everything you absolutely MUST need for editing halo . It comes with 3 programs when you install which will be put into your haloce's root directory - Guerilla is mainly for editing what tags do, e.g making pistols shoot pistol ammo, how much damage pistol does, how much it ca zoom in, etc.; sapien is for placing objects in a level, e.g placing the spawn points for flood around the map; tool.exe is supposed to be run by cmd.exe (search it in your main menu search and copy it to your halo directory). Tool is used to convert files into formats that haloce can understand, e.g: turning your tags into a mapname.map that you can put in your maps folder and play, converting 3d models from 3ds max into tags to be used by sapien, etc.

2. Download HEK+ - this is a program that can extract tags from other maps, since the default HEK install does not come with every single tag in the world. You need to use this program to rip the flood tags off another map. For example, if you wanted one of the halo 3 weapons from that H3 Foundry map, it will not be in your tags folder, you need to use HEK~ to extract the tag as long as the map isn't protected.

3. Maybe download the program "kornman" from here: http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1422. This is an unlocked version of guerilla. Basically, when gearbox released halo custom edition, they "locked" some features in the normal version of guerilla for some reason. This program bypasses those locks

there are other programs and tutorials you can use other there. Google them yourself because its late and im tired x_x sorry, didn't even get all the links as i should have
Edited by nihao123456ftw on May 31, 2014 at 08:02 AM