Engineer v0.8 Beta 10/06/07

[shade45]

Engineer v0.8 Beta



Key Features:

IFP Based Tag Extraction/Injection

In Halo 3 reflexives are stored in "pools" of like reflexives, resulting in reflexives being spread throughout the .map files. This is fixed by using a ifp plugin file to extract the meta and all it reflexives to one file. Then on injection, will inject back to the proper locations within the map file.

**Update**
In case you havnt seen it yet you can grab the unnoficial build of the next version here: http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.ph ... &start=228

Meta Editor

Using the meta editor you can make changes to the tags within halo 3's map files.



Known Bugs

- Meta Editor does not display Bitmask or StringID's value types yet.
- No Sp or Shared maps yet all Mp maps should work I have only had 3 to test with.
- Resigning only fixes the checksum not whatever else is protecting the maps.

IFP FYI

- When editing IFP files all tag references should be set like this

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    <tag name="Unknown" offset="0" visible="True" />
    <unused offset="4" size="8" />
    <id name="Unknown" offset="12" visible="True" />

There is now an 8byte un-unsed block on data between the tag class and the ident.

- Tag extraction is based of IFP's so remember to make sure all your header and reflex sizes are correct otherwise your tags wont extract/inject properly

Thanks

- Everyone contributing in the Halo 3 Retail Game Research Thread
- All Beta Testers(Glitchy was a great help )

[GametagAeonFlux]

Awesome, great work shade.

[skatekr0oked]

cheers man great work

[HEADTRAUMA]

shade you nut. good stuff!

[patchesreusch]

I heart u

[killarzachary]

Very nice, soon i'll get into lightly modding Halo 3.

[turk645]

ill be looking into this once im able to.

[Prey]

- When editing IFP files all tag references should be set like this

[...]

Probably one of the most annoying things of the originals, that you had to reference both the tag class and ident. Just make 'tag' mean theres a tag reference at that location, and 'id' mean just an ident >_>

Apart from that though, good job. An interesting approach to the layout of the meta editor layout as well, looks really good =P

My only quifs would be that the 'Tag' comboBoxes aren't sorted, and the labels go off the screen slightly sometimes, like in your preview^^. And maybe make the class nodes in the tree all branch off from a root node, as sometimes the scrollbar doesn't extend to the last node in XP when there are quite a few at base level.

Also post any new information in the research thread! =)

[-Legendary-]

Glad to see it working in Vista.

[GruntHunter22]

ahh, finally some progress. good job shade

[DrXThirst]

Great Job. Glad to see an app out that actually looks like an app that would help someone.

[xzodia]

IFP FYI

- When editing IFP files all tag references should be set like this

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    <tag name="Unknown" offset="0" visible="True" />
    <unused offset="4" size="8" />
    <id name="Unknown" offset="12" visible="True" />

There is now an 8byte un-unsed block on data between the tag class and the ident.

sounds to me like tags can now be longer than 4 letters, which some are ie tag is size 8 and possibly the id is size 8 as well which accounts for all of ur "unused" values
and i agree with prey combine tag and id into 1 thing (size 16)

[shade45]

shade you nut. good stuff!

HeadTrauma long time no see

Im glad everyone like this.

sounds to me like tags can now be longer than 4 letters, which some are ie tag is size 8 and possibly the id is size 8 as well which accounts for all of ur "unused" values
and i agree with prey combine tag and id into 1 thing (size 16)

Yeah that is a good idea i'll implement that into the next release. I'll also fix the labels so they don't run offscreen.

[glitchyguardian]

Great Work man.

[latinomodder]

omg hes alive!

[xzodia]

like zomg its glitchy >_> but lets not get side tracked here, keep on topic

[lechatsauvage]

Sick

[kornkidcrazy]

This is amazing work Shade, nicely done!

[halo0001]

EDIT: GJ shade cant wait to actually play these maps lol

[Anthony]

you fail...

you didnt even do a simple hack for the magic!!!

you coulda just made a list of all the maps magic's since it wont change anytime soon


haha