Drivable Mlx [Updated]

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:30 pm

It's only sort of been done before. When it was done previously it was the hog's horn that got replaced, not the turret. The turret is much better as he mentioned because the mlx's body can be destroyed.

For the wheel position's it should be fairly simple to move the hog's wheel bones. I never experimented with the mlx so I don't know if it's rear suspension functions on your car, but if so, it should be possible to line up the hog's suspension so it moves with it. If not, you can lock the suspension by skipping their bones: meaning make the wheels' parent the hog hull and then reposition them accordingly.

To get the wheels looking right, it's basically a shader swap (the mlx wheels should have their own shader--at least the uber does, so I assume the mlx does). It is a bit more complicated, though, as you'll notice that when you reach high speeds the wheels turn plain black. This is because the hog's wheel's bitmap has blurred textures as well as the regular ones and the mlx wheels will be missing that. You can add in the images into the bitmap to get it working right, though. Danjay was able to do this with the uber, so he might be able to explain better than I can.

It would also be a nice touch to do the headlights. First you'd want to enable the headlights in the hog's vehi tag, then reposition the markers on the mode. There are four chunks in the headlight marker reflexive (one for each light) and six for the taillights: two for the default positions and the rest for damage permutations.

If you need any advice you can pm me (though I'm not really here very often these days) or check the tuts in my sig (especially the second one).

DemonicSandwich · Post by **DemonicSandwich** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:51 pm

I always thought that giving the uberchassis's [hlmt] to the horn looks weird because it just falls out when the hog is blown up.
I resized the MLX's wheel bitmap and injected it over the warthog wheels but I forgot to internalize it.

Thanks for the help Snaku!

EDIT:

WOW Snaku, your post on the TLM site is the most helpful and most well organized vehicle tut I've ever seen! This will definately help me improve upon future vehicles.

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:56 am

demonicsandwich wrote:EDIT: WOW Snaku, your post on the TLM site is the most helpful and most well organized vehicle tut I've ever seen! This will definately help me improve upon future vehicles.

it should be its been in the works for about 4 months now... Posted: 29 Jun 2006 lol

Supa1337 · Post by **Supa1337** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:52 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:Yeah...been done before, but it's still pretty cool.

Word

xenowisp · Post by **xenowisp** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:08 pm

yeah i did this a while back, but it could definately use improvement. and yeah i used the horn for the bloc i believe.

LostWithin · Post by **LostWithin** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:27 pm

OMFG! Its xenowisp! FYI if you didnt know this, Xenowisp made the first fully functional MLX of Halo 2.

Btw, Nice job getting it perfect.

BTW, That was commenting this mod, I was on topic kinda.

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:39 pm

xzodia wrote:it should be its been in the works for about 4 months now... Posted: 29 Jun 2006 lol

Well yeah. I haven't really worked on it in forever, though. Like most things I start I never really finished it. I'd say it's mostly good enough though. I always planned on going back and adding a bit more polish and some pics to make it even more newb-friendly, but for non-newb's it should be easy enough to follow.
Also, I planned on submitting it to Halomods' tut submission when it was finished, just because once it's accepted I wouldn't be able to make any changes.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:49 pm

You could always ask a staff member to edit it for you.

I haven't read the whole thread, so I'm just responding to the last comment, btw. =p

DoorM4n · Post by **DoorM4n** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:49 pm

ok well i know poeople have said this but this is beyond old. This is incredibly old.

<3 Xenowisp

Shadow LAG · Post by **Shadow LAG** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:23 pm

in-game pics?

~SkiLLs4KiLLs~ · Post by **~SkiLLs4KiLLs~** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:09 pm

http://files.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=40823

I have seen it done one million times, one that comes to mind is Mars Containment or the mod above.^^^^^^^

nr_gamer · Post by **nr_gamer** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:53 pm

waht code name is terminal?..i think i applied it to the wrong map..is it triplicate?

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:00 pm

Yes, triplicate is indeed Terminal.

motordrip · Post by **motordrip** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:11 pm

sweet

pleasedontbanme · Post by **pleasedontbanme** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:31 pm

you should put this on one of the skytrack maps for racing, it would then look much cooler

BOBtheMASTER · Post by **BOBtheMASTER** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:01 pm

^^^^

that would require skytracks to be fun

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:25 am

Might be an interesting twist to mix up the speed, accel, traction, and weight of the different drive-able vehi's so that each has it's own unique feel for racing maps. Like, leave the hog the way it is, make the uber faster and less bouncy but less traction and steering, and the mlx could be somewhere in between.

DemonicSandwich · Post by **DemonicSandwich** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:57 pm

I felt that I should make a better and more useful version of this mod so got rid of the old terminal patch and make new version for coag.

LostWithin · Post by **LostWithin** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:50 pm

No animated sigs dude.

Good job also finding out but please post mods with more than 1 change.

MilyardoX2 · Post by **MilyardoX2** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:04 pm

looks great!!!