HMT: Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Posted: 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@.
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@.
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