How the halo xbe works

[python_023]

Im interested to know how the halo xbe uses the magic and the tags in the map file. I dont understand how it can know exactly where each tag is and then where its meta is, etc. etc. I know it has something to do with the magic of the map, but how can it go to the proepr spot so quickly?
a link or description would be most welcome
thanks
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[rabiv88]

www.google.com i personally dont know/really care about that, so i suggest asking google....

[mrhyperpenguin]

^ spam ^
(wink wink)

well i do remeber someone saying

someone complete tore apart the .xbe

means someone studied about it

so something might be out there

for starters search for biped in the xbe, it will lead to dpib, you already know that is what the map file usues
so search for idents magic's maybe that'll lead you to where
take a look at some scripts, try to get em to work that would r0x

i think it was allister

[Evil Cortana]

I was looking around in MP maps, and found something called Cyborg\melee WTF is up with that?

[Spammy]

Ye I was looking in the XBE and found a thing about Sapien

[python_023]

lol thats all interesting .. sapien in the xbe lol
but what iwas really looking ofr, i know i read about it somewhere, was the reason tehy use "magic", and how they parse the map for the tags.
any help here m8s?
thanks
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[Spammy]

Well, it finds the tags by looking at an index of the tags that is in the map. And, in some of those tags, there are reflexives(pointers to offsets in the file) that the game uses the magic to calculate.

[python_023]

yes yes i know
i foudn the source anyways....it was gren's tuts on the mapfile
thanks tho anyways
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