|===-- AC's Conversions Map Pack Release --===| w/Patch

trentdadi · Post by **trentdadi** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:33 pm

Can some one please confirm that this download works. Im getting an average of kbps although its slowly speeding up. I just want to make sure what I am getting is not corrupt as some one said earlier. I very much doubt that it is corrupt and is probably "user error".

angrycamel · Post by **angrycamel** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:33 pm

Heet wrote:Yup AC its a very lucrative business now.

Sounds like it! Wow, we need something like that around here. Just don't know if anyone would come to it. Well when in doubt remember The Field of Dreams, "If you build it, they will come." LOL

The ideas I posted above about making an install cd would not work in actuallity, now that I think about it. You would have to copy it to the HDD of the comp you are installing from because HMPi is designed to write to its own directory. So it would not be able to do so from a cd.

angrycamel · Post by **angrycamel** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:39 pm

trentdadi wrote:Can some one please confirm that this download works. Im getting an average of kbps although its slowly speeding up. I just want to make sure what I am getting is not corrupt as some one said earlier. I very much doubt that it is corrupt and is probably "user error".

You can see the number of completed downloads (379) here: angrycamel.com's Torrent Tracker

If that many people have successfully finished the download from the torrent and only one guy has said that the files are corrupt then you do the math.

Not to mention I have a feeling that guy that mentioned the files were corrupt didnt actual finish downloading the files since he said that the download was very quick! Since the torrent proggy writes the files blank first then fills them in as it downloads. He probly saw the files there and thought it was complete, thus the 'corrupt' rars. As you are seing for yourself, it takes a little bit of time to see all of the peers and get a good share rating before downloading at a good sloid speed.

If you are firewalled then you must open ports for the torrent uploads or else it will upload very slowly, thus effecting your download speed. For more information on how to set up the torrent program for your particular network settings, go to my post about it a couple pages ago.

TheTyckoMan · Post by **TheTyckoMan** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:51 pm

angrycamel wrote: The ideas I posted above about making an install cd would not work in actuallity, now that I think about it. You would have to copy it to the HDD of the comp you are installing from because HMPi is designed to write to its own directory. So it would not be able to do so from a cd.

if your talking about what I said then what I meant was take the files from ~output and change the name of the xbe and then burn that to a cd with Xiso or other xbox cd maker, that's what I did

angrycamel · Post by **angrycamel** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:50 am

I was talking about making a cd to install map packs

luke.luke1 · Post by **luke.luke1** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:41 am

Please help, I'm a N00b trying to get this map pack, im using a friends computer to download from and I cannot use bittorrent cos its not my computer. I hope its ok to post this request here cos I cannot seem to see a N00b section.

angrycamel wrote:hxbdev.org

I can see that someone else was referred to the above site to download it without the torrent but this forum says "For those who understand how to seed a torrent, you can grab the package from my site at. . . " The site this referrs to has 19 differnet rar files.

Firstly, is it ok to donwload it through this method if I don't know how to seed a torrent? Secondly, is this download for the actual map pack that you get through the torrent or is this just a download so you can seed a torrent. I know its probably a stupid question but I can't seem to find the answer from reading up on it. Please don't flame, I'm new to all this.

Thanks in advance, Luke.

daggerx · Post by **daggerx** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:57 am

Credits:
We all worked very hard together to get the maps supporting all game types and with all kinks worked out. Thanks to everyone for your patience while we got this Pack to the best that it could be. Now run HMPi and enjoy!

Maps created by the original modders and listed in the map menu.
Thanks to all of your hard work on these maps and for the permision to include them in this pack.
Thanks to all who helped make this possible:

The Swamp Fox
(GT)Juggler
ViperNeo
Spammy
Team Killer
rcm
Mr. Default
pokecancer
Reddog
Martijn
TigerHawk
MrHyperpenguin
tristanx
jake07777
mr.murder

Map Pack managment, compilation, and distribution done by AngryCamel.

all mentioned and not mentioned
you guys rock...
Just by the way everything is designed..i know it takes a lot of work to make it so easy for us - users/fans..

Thanks...

Hats down to everyone who had a hand in this project..

sableholic · Post by **sableholic** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:25 am

Is there anyway to make this cd without transferring over to xbox? I would rather have it make it on my computer and then burn it to a dvd if its at all possible

Dollars · Post by **Dollars** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:14 am

angrycamel (and everyone else that helped out) YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!

Install went flawless!! I don't know why others are having issues. I installed it using the same directory(f:\games\halo) as I did with NMP2, and CXE. (Therefore NMP2 and CXE were already installed). Then I ran both your patch files in order and everything work perfect!!

Only a couple suggestions. For those that want to integrate this conversion pack with NMP2/CXE It would be nice to have the UI's flow the same as NMP2/CXE.

This would mean patching the retail UI to reflect the conversion pack.
-Like you should select "Conv Maps"(or something) instead of "new maps"
-Then on your UI change the "game demos" to "New Maps" and remove campaign selection.

Anyway that would just really complete the package if you know what I mean. Very good job and thank you!!!!!

$'s

tristanx · Post by **tristanx** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:32 am

i hope everyone is enjoying this...

i haven't downloaded this cause my computer at home... DIAL-UP!! and i can't use a torrent thing on my work computer because of security reasons.

benheadp2 · Post by **benheadp2** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:44 am

AC and Hizlo (and other map makers) --
Thought you might like to know of any

map flaws

, especially one this crucial (and fun!) --
On the Reactor Room map, if you go to the level where the big shafts come out and go into the Reactor Core holes (like where you guys hid the Rocket Launcher), on the left and right wings of the level there are little barriers, like the ones commonly found on Boarding Action, to protect snipers etc.
If you jump into the little dip in the barrier (it makes a kinda "U" shape), wiggle around a bit, you begin to float and get totally stuck! After a few seconds you die, and your body is stuck, floating in the air acting like it's falling! The fun part about it is that it also acts like the frozen flying Elite that you can charge up with explosions from HBO (on assault on the control room). Shoot the frozen flying body with the rocket launcher a few times, stick it with a plasma grenade (see the plasma tail? that's the body's trajectory). When your body becomes "unstuck" it will fly around the room like a friggin' bouncy ball. It's great fun!!!
Excellent map packs, BTW -- I've got 'em all and am S#!tting my pants every time I play... thanks so much!

Furious_Wun · Post by **Furious_Wun** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:05 pm

Is anyone still seeding this pack? I have 35mb downloaded so far and at this time and for the past 3 hours I havent even seen 1kb. It is just sitting there not downloading. But with that 35 mb that i do have, i am steady uploading about 10-30 kbps.

mykl · Post by **mykl** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:49 pm

thanks angrycamel for clearing things up for me. i did what you said and it worked fine. thanks to all who made this avalible to us. it is great.

busbeepbeep · Post by **busbeepbeep** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:08 pm

torrent is taking me forever..

been downloading for 21 hours, at 98% now.

can't wait to try this out.

mykl · Post by **mykl** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:17 pm

i was playing frozen canyon today and thought since it was so big, i would edit some of the weapons to make them more powerfull if you know what i mean. i was using halo map item editor v.1.2. but, when i edited the cache file it did not do anything. can you not use the map item editor with this map pack or am i supposed to edit a different file. i tried to edit "cache003.map" like i always do.

Martijn Gelissen · Post by **Martijn Gelissen** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:13 am

Mykl, if you wanna change frozen canyon grab the compressed map (chillout) and uncompress it using hhtv5, this will solve your problem. Cause this is a mappack with different version numbers there wont be cachefile or somehwat. Anyways just uncompress chillout and you have it in cache file.

Martijn

tdog76 · Post by **tdog76** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:53 pm

hey AC

WE NEED TO GET THE PACK ON XBC TO BE PLAYED

rockade · Post by **rockade** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:51 pm

hey i try and run the installation, but it comes up with an error about a movie playlist tand the application cannot run... what the hell is with that?
does anyone kjnow what i am talking about?
also something about an ini file

tdog76 · Post by **tdog76** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:48 pm

hey rockade

the same thing happened to me i just closed and reopened it and it worked fine

rockade · Post by **rockade** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:04 pm

no i put in side the nmp2 and cxe pack installer and the installer auto detected it... but now when i try to get into a map... halo freezes... it goes to "select game type" and thats it... wont go any farther