I have a problem. So I tried making myself an fps model view with animations using a downloaded Reach AR tag and the vanilla "Cyborg" fp arms. I used 3ds max 8 to put it all together and for some reason the view, when I try it out in-game, looks like this.
https://s10.postimg.org/cjj807p0p/halo_8_8_2016_9_50_49_pm.jpg (I set the fov to max to see what it looks like, I would have posted the images, but I need 6 more days for that)

Its my first time trying to "mod" something. I was trying make an Assault rifle using Reach AR but keeping the Halo 1 animations. Similar to how Halo anniversary did where they used halo 3 for the assault rifle while keeping the animations. For this one I used the Reach AR.

Im wondering if its something to do the overlay since whenever I open the overlay animations in 3ds, the arms are messed up for reason.
Edited by razgrizone on Aug 9, 2016 at 01:25 AM

You have to make your own overlays.

Already did multiple times. I noticed that if I open the new animation file that I created in 3ds max using the gbx animation importer. The overlay and moving animations can't be imported for some reason (the ones I created) just posts an error and opens up the script for the animation importer. All animation like the first-person firing are fine. For some reason animation that were exported as a jma file can be opened normally.



EDIT: Alright I noticed something weird. Whenever I use the animation importer, JMA animations seems to import normally. For JMO files they mess up (arms are not on right position, weapon is pointed to wherever). I tested this out by importing animations from the Halo 1 AR and other Vanilla weapons. Like I said before, JMA types work, JMO don't.


Edited by razgrizone on Aug 9, 2016 at 06:35 AM

Don't import the exported animations. Save your animation files individually as .max files.

Make overlays, save overlays, compile, test ingame.
Open up the saved overlays, edit, compile, test ingame.
Repeat until you are satisfied.

Importing JMOs always have been screwed.

Alternatively you could just export Reach AR with h1 AR nodes and use the same animations.