DotHalo1.0b3.0(Updated 2-10-05)

MasterNeoChief · Post by **MasterNeoChief** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:54 am

Yeah, the no closing thing is really annoying...

killerklown5 · Post by **killerklown5** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:18 pm

zulux wrote:BSP Extraction has already been completed

You can only extract the meta of the bsp, I want an editable bsp...

zulux · Post by **zulux** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:43 pm

killerklown5 wrote:
zulux wrote:BSP Extraction has already been completed
You can only extract the meta of the bsp, I want an editable bsp...

An editable bsp is what I'm talking about, of course u can extract the meta... I'm not THAT stupid...

SunnySharma · Post by **SunnySharma** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:46 pm

You can't edit BSP's. You can make them, though,. with the HEK for CE and crap.

Then, people can convert them to Xbox. I believe a hell load of maps have been converted. New Mombassa Classic, Fissure Falls, etc...

killerklown5 · Post by **killerklown5** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:39 pm

I don't care about that stuff, I want to take the BSP from like say, Lockout and wait, better yet, I want someone who knows how to make maps and stuff to take the BSP of Lockout and insert it into Halo CE with Halo 2 textures, halo 2 weapon models, with their textures and scenery, that would be cool, all halo 2 textures and graphics and levels

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:35 pm

killerklown5 wrote:I don't care about that stuff, I want to take the BSP from like say, Lockout and wait, better yet, I want someone who knows how to make maps and stuff to take the BSP of Lockout and insert it into Halo CE with Halo 2 textures, halo 2 weapon models, with their textures and scenery, that would be cool, all halo 2 textures and graphics and levels

If anyone's going to make a Halo 2 CE Mod/Level, don't just rip it from the game, it takes effort and skill to custom make it all, rather than just Click, HEY LOOK, PERFECT WEAPONS!

the_virus32 · Post by **the_virus32** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:41 am

HMT 3.5 is burnt

, man u r great

zulux · Post by **zulux** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:04 pm

SunnySharma wrote:You can't edit BSP's. You can make them, though,. with the HEK for CE and crap.

Then, people can convert them to Xbox. I believe a hell load of maps have been converted. New Mombassa Classic, Fissure Falls, etc...

Don't disagree with me

You are talking about Halo 1, in Halo 1 you can import CE bsps. I am talking about Halo 2. CE bsps have not been converted to H2 yet.

I don't care about that stuff, I want to take the BSP from like say, Lockout and wait, better yet, I want someone who knows how to make maps and stuff to take the BSP of Lockout and insert it into Halo CE with Halo 2 textures, halo 2 weapon models, with their textures and scenery, that would be cool, all halo 2 textures and graphics and levels

You can extract the bsp of lockout, the model, not just the meta (and all the other maps), its just most everyone right now does not know how to do it

farklem · Post by **farklem** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:50 am

You are correct zulux, no-one has convert a Halo 1 bsp to Halo 2. It has been done the other way (Halo 2 bsp to Halo 1, that would be the bsp expert ViperNeo). When we get halo 2 map rebuilding we will be able to do this (not as easily as using HMT 3.5).

One of the most diffictult things about rebuilding Halo 2 maps will be raw data. Rebuilding Halo PC maps was quite easy because all raw data (except for models which is stored in the bsp meta) was stored in the shared maps. The reason we can't rebuild Halo 1 xbox maps is because all raw data is stored in the maps (if I am wrong please let me know).

During the process of re-writing DotHalo, I will be writing Halo 1 xbox rebuilding and of course Halo PC rebuilding. I won't really touch Halo CE because there will be way too much theft of people's own content (I will have my own build that will handle CE maps but it will only be given to a select few).

zulux · Post by **zulux** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:06 pm

farklem wrote: One of the most diffictult things about rebuilding Halo 2 maps will be raw data. Rebuilding Halo PC maps was quite easy because all raw data (except for models which is stored in the bsp meta) was stored in the shared maps. The reason we can't rebuild Halo 1 xbox maps is because all raw data is stored in the maps (if I am wrong please let me know).

Well you're almost 100% correct

But... here's how raw data is:

Halo Xbox: Raw data is in each map

Halo PC: Bitmaps and Sound raw data in bitmaps.map (shared), & sounds.map?(shared) (Note: I do not have halo pc)

Halo 2 Xbox: Most bitmaps, models, and sounds are in shared maps (shared.map, mainmenu.map, sp shared.map). However, there is still a lot of raw data in each non shared map used solely by that map.

darkhalo1326 · Post by **darkhalo1326** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:29 pm

Does anyone know why the plugins dont work for this, I have all the most recent plugins that is in the stickied topic, but they won't work in Dothalo. It keeps saying that the plugin isn't there so I can't edit anything.

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:07 pm

total crap ,joking
its good but.... it take just TOO LONG To Load
a tag

Iron_Forge · Post by **Iron_Forge** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:48 am

Raw data isn't so much an issue with map rebuilding...It adds a level of headache to whoever is coding it, but it's simple enough to understand, and thus can be handled...

The main difference is the many idiosyncrasies that the Halo 2 meta (and overall map structure) has, that have to be handled during both the extraction and compilation phases of rebuilding...

ExileLord · Post by **ExileLord** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:25 am

I was understanding that up to idiosyncrasies. *Goes to find a dictionary*

Ok basically from what I understand is that there are many characteristics that only the halo 2 meta has apart from other meta data.

hoa · Post by **hoa** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:45 pm

how come i cant add maps?

~WD~ church · Post by **~WD~ church** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:07 pm

RageForInsanity wrote:Hey, when i download anything off this site, i can never get it to open. it says "windows cannot open this file" "to open this file, windows needs to know what program created it", i can either select use the web service to fidn the appropriate program or select the program from a list.

P.S.
Once i mod omething , how do i put it into my xbox to play it on halo 2. do u play it on xbox or pc?

lol, you need winrar. go to www.winrar.com and download it there.

thepizzaguy · Post by **thepizzaguy** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:47 pm

How does one make mc fly..... I downloaded this and all the new plug-ins yet there is no plugin that says bipd-flying........... thanks

xbox7887 · Post by **xbox7887** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:01 pm

thepizzaguy wrote:How does one make mc fly..... I downloaded this and all the new plug-ins yet there is no plugin that says bipd-flying........... thanks

Rename the "biped(flying)" to "bipd" lol. It is a wip so i figured i shouldnt mess with the original and confuse everybody else. Just check the flying boxes, put 0.0001 under biped weight, and fill in the values at the end with the ones provided. you can change those around a bit. the format is somewhat similar to the halo1 plugin for a flying biped. They just edit different speeds and angles.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:55 am

What code is this written in? (AKA Would it be possible to convert this to Mac?)

People should make Java Halo modding programs, then it would run on mostly anything.

Iron_Forge · Post by **Iron_Forge** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:41 am

Java is a horrible language...Most of these are written in C#...And could probably be ported with alittle effort using Mono...

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