HMT: Weapons Of Mass Destruction

@THEGUY@ · Post by **@THEGUY@** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:53 am

To all new people at modding (I feel that the word n00b is insulting so I'll stick with 'new people'), I see many of you seek the ways of the modder. Many of your new modding kind see that Weapons of Mass Destruction are amusing. I will teach you this. Such as how to shoot rockets out of your pistol, to shoot tank shells from your warthog, very simple it is; projectile swap.

1. You have to first download this: http://files.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=4198 . It's HMT 3.5, the latest version out there of HMT. I'm assuming you want to mod powerful weapons, I know so, we've all been through that stage, even the great modders.

2. Extract HMT to a folder, and run the .exe in one of the files called 'HMT .v3.5', the .exe has the little icon that looks like a speaker and a musical sign called 'HaloMapTools'.

3. All right, first thing's first, BACK UP YOUR UNMODDED MAP FILE , 'backing up' your files means to copy your file and put it somewhere safe. For this example we'll use Blood Gulch, in the 'MAPS' folder, Blood Gulch is bloodgulch.map. The default directory is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\MAPS. And if you put it on another drive, maybe D:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\MAPS . And so forth.

4. In HMT, there is a little button in the bottom left hand corner called 'Open Map Folder', click on that black button, it'll ask for a directory, go and navigate to your bloodgulch.map file. Open it, it should show sections starting from 'Actor Variant'. Now, what you probably want is to have weapons shoot explosives.

5. Let's start with a pistol shooting rockets, down on the 'Projectile' section (the sections are partially in alphabetical order, from the letters inside the brackets). And double click on the section called 'Projectile', it should come up with a list of projectiles below it. Go to 'weapon\pistol\bullet' and click on it once, now, there should be a black button that says 'Swap', click on that, it should come up with a list of projectiles, choose weapons\rocket launcher\rocket twice as a double-click. Then click the black button that says 'Save'. Congratulations, you have successful swapped a projectile, swap the other projectiles as you want them to. Make sure that you save your work by pressing the 'Save' button each time.

6. When you are done, click the button at the bottom that says 'Close Map File', and make sure that your modded bloodgulch.map is in your Halo Maps folder. Run Halo, host a game (your mods only work when you host a game) in Blood Gulch, and test out your Weapons of Mass Destruction! Enjoy, cheers, @THEGUY@.

neil1 · Post by **neil1** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:56 pm

thanks
for the tut i was wondering how u swap

thanks a lot you were a real help

@THEGUY@ · Post by **@THEGUY@** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 7:56 pm

I never thought this would happen, thanks, yay

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TheRogueOne · Post by **TheRogueOne** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:25 am

hmm did we REALLY need a tut 4 this i figured this out on my own the first day i got HMT

AnalogVirus · Post by **AnalogVirus** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:18 pm

yea, same here, but i guess there are like, super noobs out there, and they cant figure out how to do anything with it. so gj

halogodlex2 · Post by **halogodlex2** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:38 am

i know that every one now uses HMT3.5 or what ever but isnt it more challenging to use a hex editor i mean HMT does all that stuff thats makes you smarts on modding i still use hex editor anyways but this was a very good post for HMT users

blakemanf · Post by **blakemanf** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:55 pm

i cant the find the swap button! HMT v 3.5 HELP!!!!

rabiv88 · Post by **rabiv88** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 5:45 am

you cant find the swap button? what its at the top when you click a certain projectile

delta wolf · Post by **delta wolf** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:03 am

thanks im a little slow and this helped SOOO much thanks and if u cant find the "swap" button ....well ur just a dumbass

I Trunks I · Post by **I Trunks I** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 11:47 am

ok.. i did as it said but when i went and did that it didnt work jsut modding thw Rocket worthog works othing else will work

Llendar · Post by **Llendar** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:55 pm

my hmt wont open y

Llendar · Post by **Llendar** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:13 pm

wat is run a exe

{TM}dizzy · Post by **{TM}dizzy** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:11 pm

ummmmm, if u needed this tutorial, ur a noob. sry, its the truth. on my 2nd day i had a mod where every gun shoots MCs(no very usfull, but fun) and i figured it out MYSELF!

LOTP · Post by **LOTP** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 5:59 pm

Great tutorial. Still trying to get it done with though.

KayJay · Post by **KayJay** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:24 pm

Sucks how you cant open HCE maps.

Le_Loup · Post by **Le_Loup** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:45 am

Nice tut, I was used to doing swaps' in HHT or HHHT whatever it's called, lol. But nice find mate!

Le_Loupce maps, easy 2 edit...hehe

anythingthatworks · Post by **anythingthatworks** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:27 pm

wow thats cool i was looking for something like that awesome thanks

Shadow500 · Post by **Shadow500** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:24 pm

it keeps giving me the "Gathering Execption Data" thing what is wrong

modman · Post by **modman** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:24 am

Apreciated but same as others i figured it out in the first day. now im pro modder im even makin my own map nearly finished i have some problems though workin on it. but like others there are really some super noobs outhere. im trying to get nuclear weapons. any suggestion would be accepted

gurpreet · Post by **gurpreet** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:49 am

thx but on some when u shoot shotgun at cars, they fly away. how do u do that?

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i cant find the swap button !

sweet cool