halomods CXE - (CUSTOM XBOX EDITION)

blink182house · Post by **blink182house** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:30 pm

Alright, I worked on the UI a LOT tonight. Ultramagnus found out what was making all that crap, and fixed it for me. Now I've started over basically, and it's looking GREAT! I've got the mainscreen done, and am working on the Multiplayer text-screen. I've put some of the more-popular-maps images on the multiplayer map chooser, but I haven't edited the text below them yet (since the maps aren't set in stone). I'm going out of town tomorrow at 3pm (central US time) and will be gone for about 8 days... but when I get back I should be able to finish it (and maybe the maps will be chosen by then, who knows?) and have it ppf'd and ready for the other creators' opinions!

blink182house · Post by **blink182house** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:28 am

Here's some UI pics (they just don't justify!)

goatninja · Post by **goatninja** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:31 am

Unbelievable blink!!! but you don't need me to tell you!!!

What do you think of making the CXE smaller... i don't know, i find it a little overbearing... just my opinion... and your in charge of this...i'm sure it looks awesome regardless!!!

blink182house · Post by **blink182house** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:36 am

goatninja wrote:Unbelievable blink!!! but you don't need me to tell you!!!

What do you think of making the CXE smaller... i don't know, i find it a little overbearing... just my opinion... and your in charge of this...i'm sure it looks awesome regardless!!!

Yeah, I thought about making it smaller... but like I said, the images just don't justify. It doesn't look so big on the screen... it's really only a little bit taller than the original 'HALO' font.

Also, if you notice, I made 'campaign' just a darker shade... instead of making it clear and still accesible (NMP 1.1). This way, you don't have a blank that's still able to use like on NMP1.1, but it still looks kind of "Hey, multiplayer is brighter and more fun..."

lol

junit0524 · Post by **junit0524** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 7:12 am

i was talking about the name lol

jake07777 · Post by **jake07777** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 2:50 pm

PhatheadWRX wrote:
jake07777 wrote:
jkjk wrote: be careful about choosing maps that cannot be compressed yet like covasion and library.
I can compress covasion, if u need me too. I've found a way to open it in SE and compress it.
The covasion.map you have does not work.

Ok, Now I seriously can do it. Someone just send me the covasion cache file compressed as a zip file over AIM and I can compress a working version for u. TTYL

thescottishguy · Post by **thescottishguy** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:19 pm

jake07777 wrote:
PhatheadWRX wrote:
jake07777 wrote:
jkjk wrote: be careful about choosing maps that cannot be compressed yet like covasion and library.
I can compress covasion, if u need me too. I've found a way to open it in SE and compress it.
The covasion.map you have does not work.
Ok, Now I seriously can do it. Someone just send me the covasion cache file compressed as a zip file over AIM and I can compress a working version for u. TTYL

how do you compress it and have it working? mind sharing? it would be useful to know

jake07777 · Post by **jake07777** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:59 pm

look at the world war 3.5 mod for details. It lets u compress any map

goatninja · Post by **goatninja** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 7:02 pm

I'm sure your judgement is better than mine... full steam ahead blinK!!!

I read the other suggestions from thescottishguy about organizing a little better and i think to a certain extent he is right... and, i've read junit's philosophy of just making halo fun as well and believe he is right too.

The biggest difference with my idea and nmp is that of a democracy... this is a pack in which all decisions are made by the modders... and that would include nominating one person as well so long as that person does not fall in love with their own power and get tempted to become 'proprietary' (this is exactly why ms doesn't want us doing this... if we become 'proprietary' we'll be just like them)

I've been playing the organizer up to now since i started the idea, with blink doing the ui, junit doing the poll, however, once again this map pack belongs to all of us so if you want to vote me or anyone else off, i will respect that, lol (please don't vote me off, lol!)

thescottishguy is very experienced at this with his californialan work so i would welcome any help from you and of course give you equal 'billing' (or if you do more work than me like blink, you will get first or second billing -behind blink)

I like your idea of testing the mods, i could get a cxe testing room made for us on kai, when we decide on the first batch of cxe games...

Another idea for further map pack organizing would be to make a map pack of all small maps... none bigger than hang em high....so all maps could be playable for 1 on 1. Most games online are small so having a whole variety of small maps that play like wizard, chillout and hang em high would be awesome!!!!

Despite the mistakes in the vote, we can take the top 5-10 now i guess and begin testing the in the room. Then i will reset the vote so it will be more accurate.

Ultra personally asked me to not include any nmp maps so that is out of the question, covasion isn't on but we better ask just in case. I will reset the vote when we have the fianl answer from Ulta, but for now... time to get the CXE room up on kai... be back soon!!!!

MR.INSANE · Post by **MR.INSANE** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:33 am

for now on i have haulted production of my warthog destruction derby map and i dont think im going to finish i am considering to stop modding
i might continue but from what it seems nobody really cares about halo anymore i will tell u im gonna have one last mod racing in sidewinder i will definetly continue moding once halo 2 comes out just thought id tell u guys cause i was like a founding fathher for halo cxe

blink182house · Post by **blink182house** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 2:53 am

MR.INSANE wrote:for now on i have haulted production of my warthog destruction derby map and i dont think im going to finish i am considering to stop modding
i might continue but from what it seems nobody really cares about halo anymore i will tell u im gonna have one last mod racing in sidewinder i will definetly continue moding once halo 2 comes out just thought id tell u guys cause i was like a founding fathher for halo cxe

Aye, MR. INSANE has also been my #1 assistant in the Aztec map, from Counter-Strike to Halo. He rocks!

junit0524 · Post by **junit0524** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:22 am

i have a map pack i made last week when some friends are over but i dont know if u want to use it for cxe because i was assuming there was going to be more than one pack. I just kinda thought about cxe last night and thought maybe we could use it who knows. The UI is already edited and pics are up on it and stuff. Its not fan voted like i said at the time i made a pack of all me and my friends that come overs maps. If we want to use it we can talk to blink and i can send him the cache002.map and he can inject his cxe pics. Heres what i have in the one i made the other week:

Gray Gulch (like a castle mod almost)
Eb whatevers first mod
Goldeneye
WW3.5
WW3.5 @ night (me and my friends thougt it was fun to play ww3.5 in the dark lol but if we dont want an extra dark copy i can replace it with something)
Doom
Starwars
Some Jungle Map
The Void
Jump Fun
Torture Chamber

There are 2 more available (3 if we take out ww3 night) origially i have the SP to MP Library in there but its not compressable and i have not yet found a good beaver creek mod because u cant use a bg since u cant hex bloodgulch to beavercreek. And since library isnt working then we need some type of boarding action mod.

Anywho, if ya want we can use this and get blinks cxe pic injections and change the 2 (or 3) maps.

junit0524 · Post by **junit0524** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:26 am

just thought of something

Assuming each map pack we make has its own arena in the xlink...If we make several map packs i think each should require a password to enter its arena in xlink which we can include in the read me for each map pack. So no idiots that dont have these map packs mess up our games since they wouldnt be able to get in.

sew3521 · Post by **sew3521** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:38 am

junit0524 wrote:just thought of something Assuming each map pack we make has its own arena in the xlink...If we make several map packs i think each should require a password to enter its arena in xlink which we can include in the read me for each map pack. So no idiots that dont have these map packs mess up our games since they wouldnt be able to get in.

I was reading the NMP fourms and somebody said that because NMP 1.1 doesnt use default.xbe an idiot not useing NMP 1.1 would not be able to join a game because it wouldnt detect uyour xbox.......couldn't you just do something like that?

Genocide414 · Post by **Genocide414** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:05 pm

Hey goatninja, my starwars mod is taking a little longer than expected. It will probably be done by the end of the week hopefully. I want to know when the CXE is due out....approx.
genocide414

thescottishguy · Post by **thescottishguy** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 1:47 am

junit0524 wrote:i i have not yet found a good beaver creek mod because u cant use a bg since u cant hex bloodgulch to beavercreek.

why can't you hex edit Bg to BC? you just need to zero out the remaining letters.

junit0524 · Post by **junit0524** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:52 pm

common sense here people.... bloodgulch is 10 letters, beaver creek is 11 and maybe its just me but i think 11 is more than 10 but maybe thats just me

thescottishguy · Post by **thescottishguy** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 3:06 pm

junit0524 wrote:common sense here people.... bloodgulch is 10 letters, beaver creek is 11 and maybe its just me but i think 11 is more than 10 but maybe thats just me

when you hexedit the name on the third line of the file's hex, there will be one letter left after you make it bloodgulch, go to the hex values side of your text editopr and input 00 for that last character, job done!.

junit0524 · Post by **junit0524** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:01 pm

scottish guy why dont u pay attention, if u took a modded bg and tried to replace beavercreek with it u would have to hex bloodgulch to beavercreek. Not beavercreek to bloodgulch, damn. People these days

junit0524 · Post by **junit0524** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:06 pm

BTW this topic is dying out, 8 pages...still not one damn map pack. Come on you guys, it took me like an hour out of my day to make a map pack the other day which we still havnt gotten any confirmation if u want to use it. No suggestions for a ww3 night replacement, no beaver creek or boarding action mods. Not to mention the first map pack is already underway with ui and everything...now tell me this. How the fuck do we make a map pack of the top 13 maps if ur making a map pack that already contains half of them but not the others. This is dying out quick and its starting to look a little ridiculous.

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