Halo 2 Map Editor Pc
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This video is showing you how to use halo 2 map editor. Please tell if you find a way to do this with other maps. HALO 2 VISTA (PC) CUSTOM EDITION -SOURCE RELEASE. In Halo 2 there's already a map editor but you cant modify the armor. (Team who ported Halo 2 to PC). Map Editor For Halo 2, free map editor for halo 2 software downloads, Page 3.
'In Halo 2 there's already a map editor but you cant modify the armor or weapons.' ' Well the thing is. Yes there is a map editor. But have you even looked at the map editor. You get 16 shaders/textures to work with. Hardly any items to work with, you cannot add any custom vehicles or anything cool or special looking without modifying the Main Menu (which to some crazy people.
Like the halomaps.org guy. Say its illegal. Etc etc etc) Not to mention.
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You get next to nothing to work with inside of the map editor. You can't edit a thing with the stock map editor, cannot do this and that. Because it is stripped, locked and screwed up to the max (sorry for the lang. But it is true) With the stock map, you may as well make a box map with only simple plain textures because there are no cool animations (holograms, etc), effects (fire, waterfalls, cool looking lights 'theres like 2 lights that are horrid, that's it' etc) Buuuuut with the like 3-6 people working with halo 2 vista on making custom maps, decompiling/reverse engineering things here and there. They have unlocked a few things here and there. But even with what they have done, they and we Halo 2 Vista players, map makers and end users, have nothing else.
Just plain stock maps. And you cant download maps while the game is in session btw. (how retarded is that) Bottom line is. The map editor for Halo 2 Vista is the by far worst map editor in history. We need something to work with and there is not very much to work with.
I bought the game for the map editor and all the so called awesome features it has and cool new things they are going to ship with the game back in 07. Well i bought the game and was very unhappy with the product. And I am still pretty unhappy with it. There have been no updates to the game. Wait there was one.
The LIVE update that broke the in-game voice and the update to remove the guy mooning a user, when they got a.ass error when exporting their halo 2 map from 3dsmax. (the bungie export tool exports map data from 3dsmax to a.ass format. Weird extension indeed.) But really all the hype for this game and yet nothing has been done to it in the five years since it's release, other than break it like dropping glass cup from a 100 foot cliff onto cement.
There should be a release for the halo 2 vista game. So that way we the community that plays halo 2 vista can fix everything and make the game much much better than what it is today and make it compatible with all os's bring in split screen/co-op/theater mode -maybe?/spectator mode/matchmaking/ everything that made halo 2 fun and then some, but with cool and amazing sexy sexy sexy graphics!!!!!! So yeah i think that there should be a Halo 2 Vista Custom Edition Release and so that way with the source release like halo 1 pc, we halo 2 vista community can make amazing things and possibly with the release of the source and what not. It would bring a boat load of gamers to GFWL (Games For Windows Live). I'd just like to point out that you are complete moron Undead. A map editor by nature is designed to modify content inside a sandbox yes.but the HEK that shipped with Halo CE is a complete content CREATION tool, not a modifier. That being said, how is a tool command line compiler that is fully unlocked and capable of compiling the entire tag set of a Halo game 'uneaded' for Halo 2?
How is a base tag creator/editor that spans the entire tag library (Guerilla) not needed? Why would a sandbox virtualization environment (Sapien) that was capable of placing things like bsp switching, AI pathfinding etc.not needed?!? Sounds to me like a whole of people have '0' knowledge of HEK's and what they are truly meant to do.
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Along with that, people are tway too defensive about keeping Halo 1, the only one single true fully customizable game in the Halo franchise. Halo cannot and must not restrict itself to a single console only game. Custom content and cross platform playablility is what is killing Halo and bringing it the bottom allowing it's competition to stay on top. As it is, Halo 2's H2EK, is no greater than the crappy ass Forge mode we were given with Halo 3 and Reach. Fact is.it's crap. There's no argument for that.
Forge people like to tought how great they are at creating map layouts but he truth is, they fail in comparison to us truly gifted and talented map creators who spend years crafting the perfect bsp, weapon set, and other custom content that goes with it. If today's map makers.aka Forgers, were given tools to do what we do.they would quit and give up within a week. Prove me wrong?. I wasn't gonna post on here cause realistically this is asking for the impossible to happen no doubt, but it never hurts to try right? From the start when Halo 2 Vista was released was the moment it was cut off by GFWL, it became totally unsupported and neglected.
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It and all of its players were left to take care of it themselves from the start. A lot of people who had bought the game for its supposed to be newer Editing Kit were left with a huge letdown. Where they expected tools to create custom content to there own desires, they were given tools that were completely stripped from there original state and limited to virtually nothing. But this was just the start of all the letdowns from this game, when Hired Gun(Team who ported Halo 2 to PC) promised that users could create servers and manage them how they wanted. People were given servers that had very little documentation on how it worked, and what little documentation it had was so vague it was virtually unhelpful.
A lot of features that people were expecting to have that the precursor HPC Servers had, were stripped away from the server leaving it easy for hackers to get back in and admins unable to do anything about it with ease. And when people went to Microsoft for answers they found that the team Hired Gun was disbanded and that there would probably never be support for Halo 2 Vista from Microsoft again. That's about the time the Halo 2 Vista community got together and started fixing things up themselves by creating, remaking, reversing or modifying the game and its tools so they could do some of what they were supposed to get. Two individuals who made it there task to remove limits to some custom content creation were E3PO and Kornman00, the two of them both worked to allow H2Guerrilla to be allowed to make more content. That is when they release the Unlocked H2Guerrilla that had the ability to create any tag for Halo 2. But when you tried to use some tags in a custom map on Halo 2 Vista, the map would not load and be rejected.
With the server being so easy for hackers to bypass into, all hope was seeming to be lost on ever stopping them. That's when a individual named JohnnyBlaz made a tool that could ban a hacker even if they bypassed the ban. Soon after that the hackers got more aggressive and found a way to crash peoples games and make it close on them, and Games for windows live sat there and refused to help at all. That's when yet again JohnnyBlaz came and found a way to detect people who were doing it and took action on them, whether it be Blocking there ISP from connecting to the servers or getting there ISP to shut off there internet access for illegal activities.
Ill post the rest later when i have time. Read the whole thing not just half.IMO- they should do this.
Imo, halo2 pc not only had the best multiplayer, but was a Great great for PC, imo ppl who have never played it should play it and see how it was, halo 3s -4s multiplayer sucks imo, halo 4s Specificly because of that CoD / MW crap, i dont play those games multipayer Because of that crap halos multiplayer was and still is fun. I dont see any fun in the newer games, so far ill beat new games campaign, then go playa old ps2 game 15 times because its FUN.
Go and look at ALL this amazing stuff that players have created. Now think about how Dead it is since halo 2 is gone. Every time i get bored on a game that New/ Newish, i think about Halo 2 multiplayer, specificly playing zombies, yes somtimes ppl didnt folo the rules and use guns, but it was Still fun. I do not like the way they set up zombies for halo3-halo4. Its not the same, and its not as much fun. More like stressful. Video games are ment to be fun not stressful, when u take away the things ppl like, its not fun.
I just bought Battlefield 3 played 3 missions, fell asleep in each one, havent played it since. Its not fun its boring, the multiplayeri have not played ive seen youtube videos of it, looks fun but im not guna waste money on somthing ill play for a few hours and get bored with or fall asleep to.
Halo2 i and Halo1/CE ive never fallen asleep too nor gotten bored of. Yes its the Same thing over and over again but thats what every game is. You just dont think about it. Try thinking of how much FUN your Actualy having. Laughing n what not.
Screeming and smahing things isent fun also if you dont know what imo is its - in my opinion.
File Notes Halo Map Tools: Overview Halo Map Tools, currently at version 3.0, is a hacking tool for Bungie's masterpiece first person shooter - Halo:Combat Evolved. HMT currently supports all versions of the game. These include: - Xbox, PC Retail, PC Beta, and PC Demo HMT has grown from a simple sound injector to a very complex app that performs a wide variety of tasks. In Version 3, I have teamed up with tjc, a very talented programmer and hacker, to provide more cutting edge features. Current Feature Set as of Version 3 - Injection and Extraction of all Halo Resource Files This includes compressed and uncompressed texures, ADPCM and OGG sound files, and.NEW. Models.NEW.
XML-plugin Based Tag Editor This allows for easily extensible editing of a wide variety of game resources (metadata) The current plugin set supports editing of Vehicles, Projectiles, Bipeds, Damage, Game Globals, Physics, Camera Tracks, and Weapons. Batch Resource Extraction of all resource files and metadata -.NEW. Metadata Import/Export with automatic ident and reflexive offset correction. Object Placement and Player Spawn editing Allows modification of coordinates, rotation, and object types - Easy Offset Swapping - Search Functions Locate by Meta Offset, Locate By ID -.NEW.
Map Rebuilding Allows you to rebuild a map from resource files, allowing for easy additions and deletions of resources from a file. This can be used easily move things from single player maps to multiplayer maps General Instructions Note - This app requires the.net framework. It can be downloaded from Microsoft via Windows Update or directly from their website. HMT is fairly simple to use - just open a map and select a resource from the resource browser. If it has a dedicated plugin or an XML plugin, it will load and you will be able to edit certain properties and/or extract resources depending on the type of tag. Map Rebuilding: This feature requires a little basic knowledge to use effectively.
Follow these steps in order to rebuild a map. Into it's own folder, batch extract the multiplayer map that you wish to modify. Open the map that you which to extract resources from and choose 'Extract Meta' after selecting the proper tag. If you would like to automatically extract all dependencies as well, check the 'Recursive' box. Choose a folder to extract the files to.
Copy the extracted files/folders to the folder you extracted the multiplayer map to. Overwrite any existing files. Choose 'Rebuild Map' from the menu, and choose the Original Map (this is the original multiplayer map that you batch extracted earlier).Note that the original map MUST be in the same folder as the batch extracted files.
Choose 'yes' when prompted if you want to auto fill in the other filenames. Now add any new files you wnat to add to the rebuild to the list at the bottom. For example, if you want to add the Sentinal Beam weapon you would choose the Sentinal Beam.proj.meta file from the proper folder. Note, that you only have to add the parent tag - any dependencies will be added automatically during the build. Now, click Rebuild and wait for it to finish. Once it has completed the rebuild, you will have a new map file in the folder named OriginalMapName.map.rebuild.map.
Copy this file to your Halo MAPS folder, rename it to replace the appropriate map, and enjoy;) Notice about bugs in certain plugins tjc recently decided to leave the Halo Modding scene. He is the author of the XML and Model plugins for HMT, and he has left them in an unfinished state. Because of this, you will undoubtedly notice bugs with these plugins.
I plan on fixing these problems eventually, but rather than hold off on the release, I've decided to address the issues in a future release. They are still very usable, but you may find some annoynaces. Please don't come crying or talking trash about the fact that these plugins have problems!
They will be fixed - do you really wanna wait and have nothing until then?:) Greetings and Thanks There have been a lot of people who have contributed to this project over time. I'd like to give thanks to a few of them individually.
Defenderz Defenderz left Halo hacking shortly after I joined it but if anyone deserves credit for being the 'father of Halo hacking' it's him. A good portion of the most important discoveries were made by Defenderz, and without him, we wouldn't be where we're at now. Thanks man, wherever you are. tjc tjc had joined the HMT project recently to help provide more functionalilty. Unfortunately, due to personal reasons, he has decided to leave the scene and will not be taking part in future HMT efforts. Thanks for your contributions tjc. You will be missed by all of us.
IronForge Map rebuilding would have never seen the light of day without the massive amount of help IronForge gave me in the form of debugging, testing, and hardcore reverse-engineering. There were many times that I was completely stuck and was only able to progress because of his help. He's also one of the few people in the scene that I really consider a friend, and he has provided me hours of good conversation throughout this project and has helped me to stay motivated. So thanks Forge!;oP Grenadiac While gren hasn't actually contributed to HMT, his awesome app - SparkEdit - has really helped to expand the scene and has inspired me to make Halo Map Tools the best that it can be. Watch for future versions of SE, as it just keeps getting better and better. There are many others who have contributed to the scene in one way or another.
Although I rarely see him these days I also wanna thank Pfhorslayer for bringing everyone together for this project and doing a ton of work that has helped all of us. Also, thanks to the HMT Beta team. You guys were a huge help in getting things ready for release.
I hope everyone enjoys HMT.V3 and I can't wait to see some of the awesome new mods that are created using it. Have fun and read the manual before you ask questions!