- Second we shall need Notepad. It comes with most computers. No link is needed. Now let us start on the what is duplication in Halo PC. In this tutorial we are using Blood Gulch.
- - - Starting - - -
- To get started make a folder on your desktop and name it Blood Gulch.
- Next, put a copy of an unmodded Blood Gulch into that folder.
- Completing that open the Blood Gulch you have placed in the Blood Gulch folder in Halo Map Tools V3
- When finished go to the toolbar and click Tools and then Batch Extract
- Where it says Extract To Folder click Browse to the right of it and make it the Blood Gulch Folder. The one with the unmodded copy of Blood Gulch in it.
- Next click the radio buttons or check boxes that are Extract Meta data and I always choose Extract Models just in case.
- Now you are ready to proceed so click Start Batch Extraction.
- This may take a while. When finished though go to the Blood Gulch folder yet again. You should see various folders such as Characters or Vehicles.
- The one you are focused on right now is Vehicles. Open that folder. You shall see the normal Vehicles that you may see in Halo such as the Warthog.
- What do you want to choose though? Well... Which Vehicle do you wish to duplicate? In this example we are duplicating the Scorpion or as we call it, the Tank.
- Right now you want to make a new folder in the folder labeled Vehicles. Give your Vehicle a name. I'm naming mine shadow.
- Now what you want to do after creating and renaming your New Folder is go under the folder in which the Vehicle you want to duplicate. In this case the Scorpion.
- You shall stumble upon a folder of various content. This folder contains Xml and Meta and more folders. Don't worry though. This is as confusing as you think it will be.
- The question right now you should ask yourself is which properties do you want your two vehicles ( Shadow and Scorpion ) to share and which to not share. What do I want to have the Vehicles not share? I want the two Vehicles to differ in Vehicle and Weapon. That's all. All other contents they share.
- This is what we are going to do. Look throughout the folder for scorpion_mp.vehi.meta, scorpion_mp.vehi.xml, scorpion cannon.weap.meta, and finally scorpion cannon.weap.xml. Find and copy all of those.
- Now go to the folder in Vehicles labeled shadow for my case or our new vehicle.
- Open that folder. Now paste all contents you have just copied not to long ago. Should be 4 things. Into that folder.
- Now that folder should contain 4 documents. What you want to do is rename them all to your vehicle. I shall tell you what to rename them as.
- Rename scorpion cannon.weap.meta to shadow cannon.weap.meta
- Rename scorpion cannon.weap.xml to shadow cannon.weap.xml
- Rename scorpion_mp.vehi.meta to shadow_mp.vehi.meta
- Rename scorpion_mp.vehi.xml to shadow_mp.vehi.xml
- Now that we have those renamed it is time to change the xml's path directory.
- Start by opening shadow cannon.weap.xml in Notepad.
- You should see many Symbols, Words, Dependency Tags, Reflexive's and plain Xml.
- But as before this is not as confusing as it seems. All we are need to change is one line of this document.
- The line to change is the 6th. That's all. The 6th from the top. It should say this - <Filename>vehicles\scorpion\scorpion cannon</Filename>
- We have to change that to our Vehicle we are duplicating folder or the shadow folder.
- Change it to look like this - <Filename>vehicles\shadow\shadow cannon</Filename>
- Now we are ready to save and close this document. You may do that now. When done in the shadow folder now open shadow_mp.vehi.xml
- Yet again all we are focused on is the 6th line from the top which should look like this - <Filename>vehicles\scorpion\scorpion_mp</Filename>
- We also need to change this to shadow's directory. Change that line to this - <Filename>vehicles\shadow\shadow_mp</Filename>
- As we have done before. Save and close this Xml document.
- We have just duplicated a Vehicle. Yes. It has been done. But what use is it if we don't add it to the level?
- Go back to the root folder with all the various folder names such as Characters and Vehicles.
- Now open the Levels folder. Once inside levels click test. Once inside test click Blood Gulch. Now no more moving. We are where we are supposed to.
- Inside that folder you should see 2 folders and many ( 10 ) Meta and Xml documents.
- What you want to do at this point is open bloodgulch.scnr.xml with the usual and powerful Notepad.
- Once in the Xml document of bloodgulch.scnr you want to go to Edit on the toolbar and then click Find or use Ctrl + F as a shortcut.
- Search for Scorpion
- It should bring you to about halfway through the document. You should and hopefully see this:
<Dependency>
<Location>0x2610</Location>
<Tagclass>ihevtinuejbo</Tagclass>
<Filename>vehicles\scorpion\scorpion_mp</Filename>
</Dependency>
- Then under that more Dependency Tags.
- What you want to do is copy:
<Dependency>
<Location>0x2610</Location>
<Tagclass>ihevtinuejbo</Tagclass>
<Filename>vehicles\scorpion\scorpion_mp</Filename>
</Dependency>
- And then make a new line and paste that so you should have two of these stacked on top of each other:
<Dependency>
<Location>0x2610</Location>
<Tagclass>ihevtinuejbo</Tagclass>
<Filename>vehicles\scorpion\scorpion_mp</Filename>
</Dependency>
- Now we have to change the location. There are two rules to location in this Xml document. You cannot pick your own location and it cannot be the same as what it is already. In this case 0x2610.
- We are going to put it as what you saw in my movie. The Flag Bases location. You can always use Spark Edit to move this afterwards. The Flag Bases location if you look a little higher in the Xml document is 0x1860
- What you want to do is change the one of those Scorpion ones location to 0x1860.
- Now that the location has been changed to Flag Base we must change where in Blood Gulch it is.
- Change the FileName for the Dependency tag in which you changed location from vehicles\scorpion\scorpion_mp to vehicles\shadow\shadow_mp which points to the Vehicle of the one you duplicated.
- As we usually do, save and close that Xml document. You may now close the Blood Gulch folder for we are done with the editing of all contents within it.
- Now back to Halo Map Tools. Open it.
- Now open the Blood Gulch Map File in the Blood Gulch folder.
- On the Toolbar click Tools and then Rebuild Map.
- At the top it should say Original Map. To the right as it said in Batch Extract it says Browse. Click that and from the Blood Gulch folder Select BloodGulch.map and then Open.
- It should ask if you would automatically fill the selected lines. Click Yes.
- Now under Additional Files click Add. Go to Levels --> test --> Blood Gulch --> and then select bloodgulch.scnr and then Open.
- Now under Additional Files yet again click Add but this time go to Vehicles --> Shadow --> Then add shadow_mp.vehi.
- Do the same thing but this time select shadow cannon.weap.
- You should now have 3 Additional Files. You may now click Build in the top right corner.
- This may take a while. When done however close Halo Map Tools V3 and open the Blood Gulch folder on your desktop.
- You should see bloodgulch.map.rebuild.map. Rename that to bloodgulch.map and then put that in your Halo MAPS folder.
- You may now open Spark Edit and position your duplicated Vehicle. Save Changes and Congratulations!
- You have just duplicated a Vehicle and you now have instead of the usual 8 in the game you have 10. No. You haven not replaced Flag Base. I assure you it is still there. But you do have a new duplicated Vehicle that has some of its own and shares some Properties.
- - - Error!!! - - -
Do you have errors? Do you not know why? This may be the case.
1. You have typed names to fast and have messed up with Spellin.
2. You used a caps when you used lower case on it before. It is case sensitive and then will not work.
3. You didn't listen to me
- - - Release Notes - - -
Tutorial typed by Deadly Shadow
Fiqured out by Deadly Shadow
Thanks to MonoxideC for Halo Map Tools.
Thanks to Grenadiac for Spark Edit
And Thanks to all my Halo Modding Friends like Jce108, halofan141, Aztec, Ang88, MasterNeoChief, WaLKa, Beastman, SourceGuy... Etc. Many people
