Soffish Halo 2 Content Editor

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:06 pm

In recent months I have been working with JacksonCougar, Grimdoomer and DemonicSandwich (Ze adviser!) on a new Halo 2 modding program, although at the time of this writing the actual implemented code features are few (one actually), it should progress fairly steadily from here on out.

Soffish Halo 2 Content Editor :: Open Beta Details

I need anybody who wants to help download the latest builds of the application and do thier best to find any and all errors or bugs in the program, posting back here with what you find.

I will not be directly taking feature requests, but if you feel you must share you feelings with me just post anything along those lines in this thread. I may or may not act upon any ideas I see posted...

Latest Build Information:
Meta Editor Code, Beta - Needs heavy debugging (I do not want any bugs getting through on this code!)
Bitmap Editor, Alpha - Bitmap class needs to be updated a bit, most bitmap types should work, (again needs to be debugged)

Latest Build Download (v2):
http://acemods.org/remnant/Remnant%20Fi ... elease.zip

Ragdoll · Post by **Ragdoll** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:41 pm

It's about time some released a new app for Halo 2. Great job, all of you.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:27 pm

Looks nice.

Now, if we can finally get a program released that does everything that all of the other ones do, but in one, and without errors, then that would be fantastic!

sneakyn8 · Post by **sneakyn8** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:51 pm

great app but shouldnt this go in utilities

SkgSkrillaka · Post by **SkgSkrillaka** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:49 pm

sneakyn8 wrote:great app but shouldnt this go in utilities

It's an open beta.
Download it, Find anything buggy or wrong in the program, tell xzodia.
then it will go into utilities

SpecOp44 · Post by **SpecOp44** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:56 am

So what can this do/will be able to do that Entity can't?

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:30 am

Right now:
Soffish has a better meta editor then Entity, and with continued codeing we may be able to squeeze more speed from it.

The bitmap editor lets you inject into submaps, and supports drag and dropping files into the info panel to inject.

Reference Editor lets you select multiple tags to swap (Ident swapping).

In the future: Everything we can.

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:57 pm

xzodia wrote: In the future: Everything we can.

*Prays for a map rebuilder.*

DemonicSandwich · Post by **DemonicSandwich** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:06 pm

It's possible. Any Ideas are welcome.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:08 pm

Bitmap resolution resizer kgo =)
Can't say I'm interested in this yet.

DemonicSandwich · Post by **DemonicSandwich** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:13 pm

The original focus was on the bitmap utilities so there should be some nice advances/fixes in future builds.

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:14 pm

Well, besides a map rebuilder... Proper tag building, chunk cloning, and PLEASE sound extraction/injection!

Thank you.

DemonicSandwich · Post by **DemonicSandwich** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:18 pm

Eaton wrote:Well, besides a map rebuilder... Proper tag building, chunk cloning, and PLEASE sound extraction/injection! Thank you.

Proper tag building and chunk cloning is already possible to some extent with this and Entity.

Post by **grimdoomer** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:03 pm

Sound Extraction + Injection is the easyest thing todo too

Also Demonic, I like your avatar

SkgSkrillaka · Post by **SkgSkrillaka** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:35 pm

Eaton wrote:PLEASE sound extraction/injection!

I wanty

sound would be great!
Maybe fitting a few new halo 2 engines in there that you can edit yourself?
That would be easy

kibito87 · Post by **kibito87** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:07 pm

Drag n drop feature.
Model Viewer
Sound playback

I haven't payed much attention at all to Halo2 modding lately, but if/when you make a bsp viewer, make the instance geometry movable as well..but keep it's collision.

If I think of more, i'll let you know as they come to me. These are just suggestions though, I don't expect off the bat to see them implemented or even at all. Hopefully they are though, only because they are great additions.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:07 am

kibito87 wrote:I haven't payed much attention at all to Halo2 modding lately, but if/when you make a bsp viewer, make the instance geometry movable as well..but keep it's collision.

I don't think you can. I think the collision is linked to the BSP.

Shock120 · Post by **Shock120** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:13 am

Ragdoll wrote:It's about time some released a new app for Halo 2. Great job, all of you.

,yay thank you.

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:17 am

DrXThirst wrote:
kibito87 wrote:I haven't payed much attention at all to Halo2 modding lately, but if/when you make a bsp viewer, make the instance geometry movable as well..but keep it's collision.
I don't think you can. I think the collision is linked to the BSP.

No. You can.

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:49 am

A small preview of something interesting: Rotations.

Having finally found the mode of storage that Halo 2 uses for some of the rotational values we have come up with this quick control (as well as a datatype for the plugins to use) to more intuitively edit the rotational values.

For anyone curious google "Quaternions", there is a lot of documentation on them.