[app] Mr. Mohawk

[Patrickh]

My brother's idea for a name... anyway, it's just a H2V swapper until Gravemind comes out. This app was made primarily for fun, since as of last friday, i had never once modded/looked at a H2 map file.. in fact I'd hardly played H2. I decided to try and figure out the map file through just looking at hex, which i succeeded, except for some help from conure figuring out how to get secondary magic...

anyways, heres a limited, all purpose swapper. it scans for dependencies and lets you swap them, as well as allows the meta swapping of tags...
this program will be completely obsolete when gravemind comes out but till then knock yourselves out.

UPDATE:

New stuff:
-allows the loading and swapping of nulled out dependencies
-double click a dependency to access its tag
-resigner
-no need to swap sizes any more, it does that for you
-a 'restore' button that will set the meta back to normal
-allows you to swap dependencies to different tag classes
-differentiates between dependencies and lone IDs

Only works for campaign maps for the same reasons grimdoomer posted.

Edit as of 6/6/08: You may have noticed I haven't been involved in Halo modding for a bit, but I noticed people still use this program. I just started learning web stuff, so I made a site for this program, and maybe I can make a few bucks if people click ads (please don't go crazy clicking rapidly). Well, that's pretty much it, happy modding, and if you have any questions just contact me.

new download: Click here

Enjoy...

[jackson117]

cool.

but i will only use it when flycam comes out since i like to play as grunt ect ect on thirdperson.

also how you change the biped???

[kibito87]

To change the biped swap masterchief's hlmt with whichever biped you want to play as.

[grimdoomer]

You know this doesent work right?

[Patrickh]

You know this doesent work right?

?
How does it not work? I've made plenty of swaps on several different maps, all of which work (both dep and meta swaps)
Also, I gave it to my brother on a flash drive, and he, having no modding experience, made several mods show up in game in a couple minutes.
Could you explain how it's not working?

[Guest]

dude good work i am teh juggersnaut RAWR!

[jackson117]

ok here are the things that will work.
sparten.marine.elite.grunt.drone.brute.flood combat form(will die easy).jackal.


if you want to play as these guys wait till gravemind comes out then you can mod these charaters to have a weapon or mele.
hunter.sential.giant sential.juggeranunt(massive lol)flood infection and carrier.and thats all i think.

[Shock120]

You know this doesent work right?

because he forgot a resigner...right?

[Pakundo]

Patrickh, thank you for TEH(I mean teh) application.
I'm having great fun to hear my grunt... grunting ^_^.
Really, thanks.

[jackson117]

i spawed the objects\charaters\mastercheif\mastercheif wth a marine and i got a exception and then halo 2 crashed.


maybe do a small tutorial

[grimdoomer]

Because you need to do some meta editing to fix the animations.

[Guest]

dude i accedintally clicked acension and it opeened plz fix modding mp =satan bitch slapping god
amd it lets me eidt tags.

[grimdoomer]

To bad you cant swap any idents in MP lawl.

[jackson117]

im sorry grimdoor im a noob and well noobs dont understand that easy.
also note: Backup your maps before you go nuts with modding.

[Guest]

To bad you cant swap any idents in MP lawl.

i can but i dont wanna change em.

[grimdoomer]

No you swap anything that would be cheating.

[jackson117]

hmm someone teach me how to swap halo 2 bipeds around.

im very new to it and i suck on my own or Patrickh could make a step by step how to do it

[Patrickh]

I wrote it up in my original post, but just in case things are unclear, here's how to use this application.

First of all, run it as admin.

Open a map. Now you can do 1 of two things, a meta swap or a dependany swap. I will teach you how to make it so you throw a rocket in both methods.

Example 1: Meta Swap

Expand the proj tab. Navigate to the rocket node.
On the left of the app, you will see the meta size and offset.
Copy the offset, remember the size.
Navigate to the frag grenade node.
paste the offset and type in the size
hit save. A 'done' message box should pop up immediately.
go play

Example 2: Dependency swap

Expant the matg tag (game globals)
click the globals\globals tag
its dependencies/lone ids should load into the right side
find the item called:
proj | objects\weapons\grenade\frag grenade | <offset>
click it and it should load into the combo box at the bottom
use the right combo box to change the selected item from frag to rocket
click swap, and you should immediately get a messagebox confirming that it worked
go play

Notes: I now know how to resign, and I never bothered to give this app a resigner because it works fine without one. My brother and I have been swapping things for days with 100% succes rate.
On MP maps: yes, they probably load, but the app will exception if you try to make any sort of edits. I am yet to try mainmenu, but i think it might work... Somebody please check.

[jackson117]

um patrick (spelled your name wrong)

i mean changing your mastercheif\armbriter into a grunt or that.

how do play as a grunt teach me how since i got excpetions from doing it wrong.

we need a biped switching tutoiral

[Patrickh]

same basic idea, ive swapped bipeds as well as swapped hlmt dependencies

try copying the grunts meta and putting it over the chiefs
or maybe
open the bipd tag for the chief and swap its hlmt to that of the grunts

someone with more halo2 experience should give out the best way to do it, but i've played as: honor guard, grunt, prophet, juggernaut, bugger, prophet, prophets chair, etc. all were successful in game, though many were lame