Need a little help with 4 things...please

[STAEDTLER]

First off I must say this forum kicks ass and you all do great work!

I'm new to HALO 2 modding but have been goofing around with some basic stuff for me an my son to wreak havok on each other with. There are a couple of things I have been trying to do but to no avail and was hoping I might get some help from the comunity on this one.

1. Change Plasma Grenades into Wraith Mortars

2. Change Plasma Rifle Ammo into Plasma Grenades

3. Change Warthog Horn into Frag Grenades

4. Add Fuel Rod Gun into Map

#1-3: We LOVE sticky grenade fights...lol...This will kick major butt if someone can help me out on this one. I've changed other ammunition types before (warthog chaingun ammo = needler/rockets etc) but cant seem to find the ammunition # relating to plasma or frag grenades.

#4 I have tried for hours and have read one or 2 tuts but they just say to copy from SP map into MP map but don't go into detail about the process of overwriting a diff. weapon.

Well a huge thanks to all who plan on replying and a huge HUGE thanks to all our modders out there supplying us with such fun and wikked maps/mods etc.

Ps. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

[xXxCocoFangxXx]

1.) Go to the [matg] and and swap the Dependencie.

2.) Swap the [itmc]

4.) Use Entity and build it in.

[STAEDTLER]

Could you please go into a bit more detail? lmao...Just saying to swap means nothing to me. I've been trying to figure out how to just swap stuff but not working as of yet. Thnx.

[supertrek32]

I'm at school (free time atm), so I can't get too detailed, but I'll do the best I can.

1. Change Plasma Grenades into Wraith Mortars
If I remember correctly, you just go to the dependencies (for entity they're called idents) of the matg and swap the proj of the grenade with the of the wraith mortar.

2. Change Plasma Rifle Ammo into Plasma Grenades
Go to the weap tag and switch the proj dependency with that of the plasma grenade. You'll have to go to the proj tag and give the stickies speed though.

3. Change Warthog Horn into Frag Grenades
I can't remember how to do this too well, but it i remember correctly, the warthogs horn is actually a weapon. Go to it and give it the projectile frag grenades.

4. Add Fuel Rod Gun into Map
Go into entity and open a SP map with it. Find it in the weap tag, then click recursive, parsed, and, if you want them, sounds*. Click save, and save it in an empty folder, then wait for it to say done. Now open your MP map and hit build. Choose the .info file you just created and open it. Wait for entity to say done.

*If you chose sounds, it sometimes makes your map really big. However, it shouldn't do too much for just the single weapon. Be careful when using it, though. If you did not choose sounds, you must find all places that refer to them and null them out, because if you don't, the game will freeze when you use it. (For example, you would null out the noise it makes when you fire the gun)

To make it spawn, go to the itmc tag and choose a weapon to replace it with. If you want to make a new weapon spawn, read this tutorial and apply it to the fuelrod instead of the car.[/url]

[STAEDTLER]

Okay, Got the Plasma Grenade to Mortar working, but still a no go on the plasma rifle shooting plasma grenades...any extra help would be greatly appreciated.

[STAEDTLER]

Gak, late post up there...Thanks alot supertrek32...got mortars and plasma grenades working. Changed it to sniper rifle instedad. Just had an idea tho, is there a way to copy the plasma grenade proj tag? wondering because I have the speed set to 1200 (same as SR Bullet) but if I also wanted to add stickies to say the magnum, its speed is no where near 1200 so I was thinking if I could make a copy and perhaps rename it and set the speed to match that of the magnum, then I could have a magnum shooting plasma grens as well.

Oh and if you guys dont mind (sorry for all the questions) how can I change the display picture for my map? I'm usin coagulation and renmaed it to fragtastic (lol) but the pic is the map selection screen is for zanzibar.

Anywho, thanx a million guys. Now to try and add that FRG.

[a mammoth]

To duplicate a tag (in this case a projectile) go into entity, then right click your tag, hit duplicate. There you go.

[supertrek32]

To make a go into mainmenu.map And look under bmps for something like multiplayer1.bmp, multiplayer2.bmp, etc. If you're just changing, an existing picture, change it like you were skinning.

If you're adding a new map, duplicate multiplayer 13 (13-50 are "linked" for some reason, and I haven't figured out exactly how to add pics other than this yet.) Now send the image to your newly created picture slot. Now go to the globals and swap multiplayer13.bmp (or whatever it is) with the duplicate. There may be a better way around this, but this is the only way I could figure out. If you can find a tutorial to do it some other way, follow that.