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Hi guys,

I have pretty big problem: I'm trying to put the swamp bugs/rain from the c10.map (343 Guilty Spark level) file into the beavercreek.map (battle creek) file. I'm using the recursive export/import technique, but here's the problem: nomatter what I do, as soon as I import something using HHK, the map becomes corrupted or something and Halo crashes when I try to load it. I do the obvious "rebuild" function in the Tools > Rebuild Map menu, but I still have the same problem. Can anyone help me figure out what I am doing wrong? I have looked around and followed some HHK tutorials, but the map still crashes.

thank you for any help you'd like to give me.

-Zeoman1001

Wrong place to post this. Try posting in modding discussion.

Have you already rebuilt the map once before? You can only rebuild a map once. Otherwise it should work. Export recursive to a folder. Import recursive the tag and then the folder that contains all the folders created when you exported. Rebuild. SAVE. Don't try modding anything yet and see if that's the problem first.

No, I'm working with the default Battle Creek map. it's not been rebuilt at all.

A step by step would give us a better idea of what you did. Sometimes it can be little things that are missed.

Zeoman1001 wrote:Hi guys,

I have pretty big problem: I'm trying to put the swamp bugs/rain from the c10.map (343 Guilty Spark level) file into the beavercreek.map (battle creek) file. I'm using the recursive export/import technique, but here's the problem: nomatter what I do, as soon as I import something using HHK, the map becomes corrupted or something and Halo crashes when I try to load it.

thank you for any help you'd like to give me.

-Zeoman1001

i did that on my death island mod so i think i can help. first make sure you have recursivley imported the rain and sky tags for a30.
heres a tut i wrote at halodev that should help. if not pm me.


How to make it rain or snow using HMT .75 and HHK 1.01

iv'e seen a tutorial posted before on this somewhere in this site but i felt it was incomplete and could be done easier so...

ill make it snow in sidewinder, using the rain tag from level b40 as the example.

open the map you want to export the desired effect from (b40) in HHK and open the rain tag.

highlight snow levels\b40 F0B00F39

then go to tools and hit recursively export references and meta.

it will then ask you a folder to save to, create one (name it whatever you want) and save the information to it.

close the map you just exported from (b40) and open the map you want to import to (sidewinder) with HHK.

go up to tools and hit import recursive....

when the screen pops up asking what file to open, go to the folder you created earlier (the one you saved the recursive to) and open that. then go to the folder named levels and open that, then (b40), and open the file named snow.rain.

then hit rebuild map, and save.

close HHK and open HMT

load the map you just rebuilt (sidewinder) and bring up the d swapper (apple+d)

highlight sbsp in the first window

then levels\test\(sidewinder)\(sidewinder) in the second window

then find the rain tag in the third window. when you do it should be nulled out, change it to whatever the rain tag you imported is, in this case rain levels\(b40)\ snow.

hit save offsets and quit.

Zeoman1001 wrote:I do the obvious "rebuild" function in the Tools > Rebuild Map menu, but I still have the same problem. Can anyone help me figure out what I am doing wrong? I have looked around and followed some HHK tutorials, but the map still crashes.

alot of it has to do with the order in which you do the steps.
it goes HHK>export,HHK<import,HMT>export,HMT<import,HMT<append,HHK rebuild,and finally HMT D-swap or meta edit.

umm....yeah. thats fine and thanks for clarifyingg that. here's the sticky point: the battlecreek file dowsen't contain a rain tag, let a lone any meta dependencies for a rain tag. it's not that it's nulled out. it's that it isn't there to begin with. Also, The PMI thing is driving me crazy. I can't rebuild a map without it making the game crash.

so...I followed the steps according to the tutorials included with the all-in-one download of the Halo Modding apps. for injecting a vehicle. that dosen't work either. I get all the way through it, and then my game crashes. whats up?

I remember the thing about it not showing up in the d-swapper. I think a rebuild is what puts that in there. Like I said, please post step by step what you are doing. The more details, the better we'll understand what's going on and more likely we will be able to find the problem