This is progress people!

Should I include cut out dialog? Or would you like this to take even longer and possible have an option to turn cut dialog on/off? There isn't much but it's enough to probably notice if you've played Sierra already.
Edited by MatthewDratt on May 22, 2015 at 12:01 PM

Leave the dialog in. Plze.

Yep I'd like with dialog.

You all mean the cut out dialog right? I'll include the normal dialog

keep the dialog don t cut it

If you could include cut dialog and animate some of the cut cutscenes that would be sweet. Why not make it somewhat different

Theres only 1 cut cutscene and its pretty dumb so I probably wont include it

Why not?

"BRUTE WITH POWER ARMOR"

(shows brute with power armor)

its dumb and I can see why it was cut

that's funny

Oh, I thought you were talking about the retail cutscenes.

Hmmm. If your going to cut stuff matt, I think it would be pretty decent if you added it in an out-takes kinda BTS shoot then plug it in to CE3 2015 and have slow bullet comment on it.

(Should slow bullets "Yay's!" replace the current Grunt b'day party sound effect?)

I'm not going to cut stuff. I was talking about putting cut stuff in.

Neither mind

Still would be cool to have any kind of out-take type section for CE3. It would be comedy gold plus it let's us know you are all human and not hypeanoids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U1vqsCDRRI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-B54yGRIms

well when they're indistinguishable with the actual show

New QA about this project:

Is it still in the works?
Yes

How much longer?
Yes

Can you show us stuff?
CE3

Will it be 100% accurate?
No. Trees are placed and scaled manually. And there is no way I'll be able to grab every bit of plant and place it in. Some aren't even extractable.

Will you include the opening cutscene?
This is still being tested and debated. No definite answer yet.

Can I have a beta?
No

Wow a FAQ which answered all my questions for once. Also will it have legit sky?

If someone can get grunt birthday party effect to work, Ill add optional skulls.


Edited by MatthewDratt on May 27, 2015 at 12:52 AM

Hmm might take a little look at it. Btw which party fx? Reach or h4?

I can't remember h3's one.

Thats where grunts explode if shot in the head, right? You're not gonna use shields on the grunts for anything else, right? (since grunts dont directly have energy shields). Apply shield to head, have only the head cause shield damage, every other body part skips shield damage.

(global ai curr_enc encounter1/grunts)
(global short num 1)
(global unit grunt_hook none)
(script static void party_time
	(if 
		(and (!= (unit_get_health grunt_hook) -1) (= (unit_get_shield grunt_hook) 0))
		(effect_new_on_object_marker "effects\grunt_parties" grunt_hook "head")
	)
)
(global boolean pause false) ;;If you are ever going to be erasing AI (ai_erase_all), etc. PAUSE THIS SCRIPT, and (set grunt_hook NONE), otherwise.. exceptions
(script continuous grunt_parties
	(sleep_until (not pause) 0)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 0))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 1))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 2))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 3))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 4))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 5))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 6))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 7))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 8))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 9))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 10))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 11))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 12))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 13))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 14))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 15))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 16))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 17))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 18))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 19))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 20))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 21))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 22))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 23))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 24))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 25))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 26))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 27))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 28))) (party_time)
	(set grunt_hook (unit (list_get (ai_actors curr_enc) 29))) (party_time)
	(if (< num 3) (set num (+ num 1)) (set num 1))
	(cond
		((= num 1) (set curr_enc encounter1/grunts))
		((= num 2) (set curr_enc encounter2/grunts))
		((= num 3) (set curr_enc encounter3/grunts))
	)
)

You could make it loop and do each grunt a different loop, however each loop would take one tick, meaning it would take 1 second to do 30 grunts. Doing this, means it can do 30 grunts in 1 tick, so unless you have 30 encounters (which this can be modified to not check encounters that are dead, or do similar things to how its spamming the 30 grunts) it should run pretty fast.

well you're garbage too tool

It was impossible to find a reference for the actually birthday party effect. All results just showed how to get the skull. Had to record my own.
http://youtu.be/NW2Jh3Jl2yE

The effect is something I could probably figure out how to do but if someone else could do that, it'd be great.

I watched it once but I don't remember who did it.

I think teh lag or someone from CMT had one.

I'm not sure but I think was this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJWZS9yh7wk

Link halo CE campaign halo online please thank you link beta now please do want I want to play

Well you heard it here first. I'm canceling Sierra 117 because Halo Online will get it anytime soon. Lockeowns confirmed it so if you have any issues go to him and see how the progress for Sierra 117 is coming for Halo Online
Edited by MatthewDratt on May 28, 2015 at 04:00 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW2Jh3Jl2yE&feature=youtu.be

It looks easy but it's very deceptive. First of all there is the rate of which the exploding particles.....explode. From what I can see it's a little like party popper.

In terms of speed it starts off on a high band wave and then sort slows down until the point where the particles simple turn end over end in the air.

I'm not sure if this is even possible in CE or OS since we don't have scalar speeds for particles...which would make it hard to get the precise speed. However the particle bitmaps them selves look like simple planes which would be easy to combine in a modified grenade effect tag.

I need a script that can detect when AI are attacking. I thought AI_is_attacking would work but of course it isn't (returns true even when they're just idling).

ala

>ai hang back until ai are attacking

kinda similar to the beginning of a50 but Im too dumb to figure that one out too

I'm incredibly rusty on this, but wasn't there a command that returned the "state" of the AI? In numerical format. I believe it went from 1-8.

But I may be terribly wrong here.

ai_status

Yup, did that do the trick?

yup

Happy2hear