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HELP!

Post by Darkgamer »

Im a stupidhead and im trying to start modding and in all these topics i see replace this meta offset and i dont know what any of this means so i am lookin for someone who can help. Thanx. :)

P.S. Don't send replies that say stuff like "your stupid" or anything.
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Post by Hivemind »

hello, and welcome to halomods,

here at halomods we strongly encourage using the search button or just browsing through the tutorials to find what you are looking for, but after u have read this im sure you will (if u havent already)

ok, as for meta there are a lot of tuts, as for "what" it is.. well, its fairly general, its like an adressing system halo uses to tell what to go to where and do what.. so, it can kinda get like a spider web sumtimes, but in time you will figure it out :)
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Post by SirLuke »

I am.... LECTURE MAN!

Meta is the tiny little bits of data beyond the other bigger but still tiny bits of data. At least in this case anyway. I suggest you start with the basic hacking(it's not real hacking) tutorials and stay away from meta until you learn basic modding. Meta is quite a bastard, and is very complicated. The many posts about meta are getting in the way of other posts about basic modding, but don't worry. You can do a lot of cool stuff with just basic modding; meta is advanced modding which controls other things.
Basic modding can make the assault rifle shoot rockets, or the LAAG('Hog's MG) shoot sniper bullets. This is also known as offset swapping.

Meta controls the details. Meta can make vehicles fly; it can alter gravity, change speed, damage, or scope zoom. It can probably do much more than we know. Meta can also control weight(or perhaps mass, because the game takes place on different planets. Mass and weight aren't the same), and even make rockets home in on targets.

Scratch the thing about mass and weight. It is weight, because you are always on the ring... duh. *slap*.
If you forgot, mass is the amount of "stuff" in something, and weight is how hard gravity pulls down on you. Greater mass, greater weight. Mass stays the same no matter where you go(unless it/you grows, etc). Weight changes because planets don't have the same gravitational pull.
So if my mass is forty kilograms, and I go to Mars, it would still be forty kilograms. My weight might be lower(or higher, probably lower though), like I weigh around 120lbs now, so I might weigh 100lbs there. Like I said though, greater mass = greater weight. Incase you wanted to know, for every kilogram on Earth, it goes to 2.2lbs.
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Post by Hivemind »

thank you for helping people out.. we should post that as a sticky statement.. :) very detailed
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THANX. U GUYS ROCK! 8)
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we try (but its not hard, just the way we are 8) )
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Post by SirLuke »

Woot, I actually helped. I feel good inside now. :D
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Post by Hivemind »

and a very good job you did :)
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Post by jce108 »

)yes im shure that was good (too long for me to read :wink: )
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