Help with modding...

Mazdamundi · Post by **Mazdamundi** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 8:40 pm

I just read SirLuke's tutorial. It all sounded fine, so I decided to try it out.

My first goal was to make the assault rifle fire like the warthog's chaingun in level a30 (Halo). So in Iron Forge's list of offsets, I went to a30 and found the assault rifle's offset: 01A59C14. OK, so far so good. I then found it in my hex editor (Hex Workshop). But... It wasn't there. I right clicked, clicked "Goto --> offset", and cntrl-v'ed it into the location bar ( after making sure I was looking for a hex, not a decimal). It found something, but not 01A59C14. The offset (the black column on the far left in my hex editor, or so I'm told) is 01A59CO8. The cursor was placed on the 7th column to the right of the black number: 58C4. Well, thinks I, no matter; maybe that's what I'm supposed to change. I went back to Ironforge's thing, and found that the value of the warthog's chaingun's bullet is 887B9040. But... Which, out of the ten columns of figures, am I supposed to change? I thought maybe I was supposed to delete 58C4 and the next number after it (5A40; the number after THAT is 0000) and replace 58C4 w/ 887B and 5A40 w/ 9040, but how do I do THAT? Cntrl V has no effect, and I'm confused with the insert. It has "number of bytes", and I have no idea how many that would be, then "Fill with the following hex byte:" which I assume would be 887B (b/c 887B is the first part of the warthog's chaingun's value). Am I right there? And how many bytes do I put? Am I doing ANYTHING right here?

Thanks for any help, and for putting up with my idiot questions.

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 9:15 pm

i only read about half of you post but anyways

go to the offset of the AR

and it will bring you to the offeset row

but the cursor will be on the value, the value is what you wanna switch

so whereever the findthing brought you too, just type in the desired value of the new projectile or whatever you want

Mazdamundi · Post by **Mazdamundi** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 10:34 pm

Thanks... that does help clarify things a bit.. But.... how do I type it in? With "Insert", right? So how many bytes do I insert? When I click "insert", it puts up a little box with two bars to fill in. It has "number of bytes", then "Fill with the following hex byte:". I assume the hex would be 887B (b/c 887B is the first part of the warthog's chaingun's value), but how many bytes?

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 10:58 pm

when you get to the spot

just start to type your new value

it will automatically replace the existing one

and just keep typing it in until you finish

and once you finish just save and try it out

Mazdamundi · Post by **Mazdamundi** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 3:36 pm

Woohoo! It works! w00t!

Thanks!

But another question... When I tried to make the pistol shoot frags, they just dropped in front of the barrel.

How do I make them shoot?

Thanks!

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 3:48 pm

you need hmt for that cause u need to change the speed of the frags and u gotta do it in hmt so yea GO GET THAT

Mazdamundi · Post by **Mazdamundi** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:00 pm

OK, thanks.

I'll go dl it now.