Active camouflage- vehicles

EchoRanger449 · Post by **EchoRanger449** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:58 pm

I've heard it's in the shaders, but what shaders? I tried the powerups/activecamo for the shader transparency variant- it game me a semi-transparent red shader.
I've heard it's in the rasterizers, but rasterizers are a group of bitmaps.
I've heard it's in the bitmaps, but I read it wasn't- I also saw this through experiementation.
I heard you can do this by swapping a powerup with a vehicle- I tried it and it didn't work- also I heard vehicles won't always function correctly.

Somewhere on modhalotrial.com awhile back, I heard that someone was able to recreate the active camo effect for the hog. they said the only "problem" was that it took a projectile hit to activate it. Several people asked how he did it, but he told them to find out for themselves...

Anyone know how?

FanTasY · Post by **FanTasY** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:33 pm

Try the [sgla] tag.

EchoRanger449 · Post by **EchoRanger449** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:16 pm

Not really...

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:43 pm

if you take the meta for a vehicle and replace a weapon, it will have active camo, that's all i know.

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:47 am

Alright, here's what active camo is.

I'm pretty sure it's 2 bitmap tags put together over your body-powerups\active camoflage\bitmaps\camoflage and rasterizer\active camouflage distortion.

Try putting the first one over the hog's bitmap, and the 2nd one over the hog's multi. Maybe that would work. I don't know.

If that doesn't work switch the order around-the 2nd one on the hog's body and the 1st over the multi. Then I guess you could do the same for the turret and wheels, and paste cryo glass bitmap over the displays and the turret blur, and make the driver, passenger and gunners invisible in the seat properties. I'll try this later too.

For now you try it though.

EchoRanger449 · Post by **EchoRanger449** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:34 pm

I tried that out, both ways- the first gave me a reddish, partly invisible (not camo) warthog. The second one gave me a completely visible white warthog. those bitmaps are apparently for the powerup item themselves, not the actual camo. I think the active camouflage is not a bitmap, but some kind of screen saturizer, or whatever you call it, like the sniper rifle night vision.

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:13 pm

saturationizer-er?

do the weapon replacement thing and then study it, cause for some reason it gives it perfect active camo.

conure · Post by **conure** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:14 pm

The first bitmap muffin mentioned was the powerup bitmap, the second that actual distortion bitmap.... reference? map? distortion scale? IDK what to call it, but it is the bitmap that affects the invis i *think*.

also

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/163/idk2es6.png

Can anyone tell i am enjoying editing these screen shots?

EchoRanger449 · Post by **EchoRanger449** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:18 pm

(comment before conure's)
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I looked for dependencies for the active camo, and all I can say is that there are none that go beyond the powerup. I checked scenario, equipment, items, biped, and bitmaps. There are none? I can't find it!

I just need to know how to trigger the active camo effect. Is it even in the map files?
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(after conure's comment)
Let me guess, you found out how to edit it? What program is that? Prometheus alpha?

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:24 pm

its called guerilla...CE users have it...HMT is a smaller version of guerilla...Guerilla is way better

EchoRanger449 · Post by **EchoRanger449** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:49 pm

I never understood how to use it...can you just open a map as-is with it?
*edit: I tried it, too bad...*

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:11 pm

no...

Guerilla - Tag opener/editor

Sapien - Runs a map file as it runs in game /map tag placer/editor

Tool - map compiler

EchoRanger449 · Post by **EchoRanger449** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:23 pm

*edit: I tried it, too bad...*
That's what I found out. Thanks though.

mysticpie7 · Post by **mysticpie7** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:22 am

i have a halo trial map made by someone with a camo tank in the middle of the level that has the camo efect and distortion. I open it up in hmt and find there is only one tank vehicle, despite there are 2 tanks, one normal textured and the other completely camo, i dono how to do it but i know its possible.

also you can make a warthog completely see through by switching its bitmap with something glass, i forgot but its in the campaign bitmaps, this way also makes it so you can see the person inside (kinda gay). The tank i have n the trial mod is perfect invisible with distortion and you cannot see the person inside, doing that would be realy helpful.

R.O.U.S. · Post by **R.O.U.S.** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:13 am

Patrickh wrote:if you take the meta for a vehicle and replace a weapon, it will have active camo, that's all i know.

this is true, and the only way i know how to do it. but it works, its how i make active camo vehicles in my AI mod. real active camo.

watch this video

mysticpie7 · Post by **mysticpie7** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:20 pm

R.O.U.S. wrote:
Patrickh wrote:if you take the meta for a vehicle and replace a weapon, it will have active camo, that's all i know.
this is true, and the only way i know how to do it. but it works, its how i make active camo vehicles in my AI mod. real active camo.

watch this video

Hey cool it actually works. But have you tried this with a banshee, becsause the shee is not working for me?

R.O.U.S. · Post by **R.O.U.S.** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:53 am

yes if you look at my mod 1 out of every 5 shees that spawn are invisable. are you trying to use the same weapon for all the vehicles? if so that wont work. 1 vehi for 1 weap.