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Coagulation First Person Perspective Vehicles

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:40 pm
by Agent ME
From the readme file:

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Mod Name:	Coagulation First Person Perspective Vehicles
File Name:	coag-fpp-vehis.ppf
Base Map:	*Original* coagulation.map

Author Name:	Agent ME
AIM:		AgentME49
Xfire:		agentme
Email:		agentme49@aol.com
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Description:
Several of the vehicles now have first person perspective modes re-enabled!

The following vehicle seats have 1st person view now:
Warthog:	All (Non-Boarding) Seats
Spectre:	Gunner Only
Ghost:		Driver Seat
Covie Turret:	Turret Seat
Scorpion:	All Passenger Seats

What was that? Scorpion passenger seats? Yes, that's right - I also enabled
the passenger seats on the scorpion - if there is a driver in a scorpion,
you can get in any of the 4 passenger seats.
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How was this done?
Glad you asked - (nearly) every model in the game has numerous markers on it.
Markers are simple a 0 dimensional point in a 3d area around (or inside) the
model.

There is a marker for every point needed - a marker to show where your
player grabs onto a gun, where the bullets come out of a gun, where the
turret is on a warthog, where you get into a warthog, etc.

I found there are often also markers for the FPP view on many of the vehicle
models, created by Bungie, even though in Halo 2 retail they are never used.
Due to this fact, they were also rather lazy in enabling them. The passenger
seat of the warthog was already set up to use it's corresponding FPP marker.
But the driver seat wasn't, and the banshee is set up referencing a
non-existent marker.

So all I did was put in the names of the correspoing SIDs in the seats
reflexive in the .vehi files. Compare my modded map and an original map for
more info.
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And as another added bonus, you get 2 heretic banshees! (If you have something
against a good heresy, go into the Settings menu, and edit your gametype on the
vehicles page, and change Banshee from "Map Default" to "On" and banshees will
become normal banshees.)
Screenshots
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Sure, nothing to amazing - not looking to win a MOTM award here, this is just more like a proof-of-concept and a cool mod for driving around a warthog.

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:57 pm
by TheRocketGuy
w00t, i'm an idiot!!!

ive seen this be done before and this happens on yelo but you dont see the interor... so great job! :D :D :D

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:07 pm
by Hawaiian Modder
Woah this is really cool. I've waited for this for along time. The only thing is the spectre turret FFP looks bad.
Great job, now if only we had a Main Menu option or Start Menu option to enable this.

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:15 pm
by StalkingGrunt911
Looks cool.

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:37 pm
by DarkMetal
I'm loving the warthog's first person view. Great job man.

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:52 pm
by Bankhead
Hawaiian Modder wrote:Woah this is really cool. I've waited for this for along time. The only thing is the spectre turret FFP looks bad.
Great job, now if only we had a Main Menu option or Start Menu option to enable this.
ya, i've wanted this for a while.. but i wanted to see the cheifs arms on the wheel. how i always drive wit yelo on.

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:59 pm
by -DeToX-
The warthog Side seat FPP doesn't look like it's changed. ;)

This is pretty cool...

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:00 pm
by CptnNsan0
wow drivers seat is kick ass

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:34 pm
by xlRainlx
cool.

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:40 pm
by -Legendary-
Nice.

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:52 pm
by Dootuz
NICE the passanger seat if just like halo 1

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:14 pm
by Agent ME
-DeToX- wrote:The warthog Side seat FPP doesn't look like it's changed. ;)
Only change with it is that the view to be 1pp to be default - for some reason Bungie already enabled that camera.
Hawaiian Modder wrote:The only thing is the spectre turret FFP looks bad.
Bungie's fault - I just enabled what they had set up - I thought it was pretty cool how it was - now the chaingun turret - that's something they screwed up :P
Bankhead wrote:but i wanted to see the cheifs arms on the wheel.
That'd be cool - but doing that type of thing would be beyond about anyone here (unless someone overnight gets a bug-free proper chunk cloner, animation creator, and a load of other things figured out that I haven't looked into). Just blame Bungie for the no-hands. :wink:

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:29 am
by Bankhead
Agent ME wrote:That'd be cool - but doing that type of thing would be beyond about anyone here (unless someone overnight gets a bug-free proper chunk cloner, animation creator, and a load of other things figured out that I haven't looked into). Just blame Bungie for the no-hands. :wink:
naw, i don't think so... if u use yelo u can just move the camera to inside the chief's head. and wallah its all there. couldn't u change the camera cords. for the 3rd person view to in his head.?

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:36 am
by -Legendary-
Why couldn't you do that with every vehicle/seat/gun?

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:42 am
by Bankhead
-Legendary- wrote:Why couldn't you do that with every vehicle/seat/gun?
i think he just went into dothalo an unchecked 3rd person view from all the seats.

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thats what i'm talkin about^^^

that would rape!

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:45 am
by -Legendary-
Hmm... HUD ;O? You should probably redo it to make it look cyborgish like. SO you would be like a robot. DRIVIN A CAR

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:50 am
by Pyroman
Bankhead wrote:
-Legendary- wrote:Why couldn't you do that with every vehicle/seat/gun?
i think he just went into dothalo an unchecked 3rd person view from all the seats.

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thats what i'm talkin about^^^

that would ***!
That would be pretty cool. Too bad it's just a trainer and not the map.

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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:26 am
by gobs13
I was wondering why 1st P only work for the warty passenger. thanx

nice tut

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:26 am
by r0tten
you hve impressed me with your originality since the good 'ol days back on HIH, well done

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:30 am
by Geo
Interesting; I may have to try this.