Halo 3 Retail Game Research

Digital Marine · Post by **Digital Marine** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:13 pm

Plugin system is pretty nice. But Shade...that blue you used for the meta editor is going to KILL MY EYES! Heh...but nice program.

Perhaps you can make it so I (we) don't have to type "[Size(int)]" so much? I was playing with the weap.cs to see if I could map it all out...got annoying typing the size junk over and over again.

Well...I'm going to get some sleep...getting unorganized from doing too much crap right now at school and home...

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:35 pm

Digital Marine wrote:Perhaps you can make it so I (we) don't have to type "[Size(int)]" so much? I was playing with the weap.cs to see if I could map it all out...got annoying typing the size junk over and over again.

do you have a better idea?

shade45 · Post by **shade45** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:14 pm

Digital Marine wrote:Plugin system is pretty nice. But Shade...that blue you used for the meta editor is going to KILL MY EYES! Heh...but nice program.

I'll will be making the app skinable so you'll be able to choose your own colors in the final release

Tanasoo · Post by **Tanasoo** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:17 am

Anthony wrote:
Digital Marine wrote:Perhaps you can make it so I (we) don't have to type "[Size(int)]" so much? I was playing with the weap.cs to see if I could map it all out...got annoying typing the size junk over and over again.
do you have a better idea?

Yes I do! =o

'Been working on it a little. Got the main UI thrown together (needs moar lipstick) I have it adding and removing objects. I'm almost to the part where I export to the plugin types, and then I'll do reading so you will be able to convert the types. So far I have:

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Unknown
Reflexive
Tag Reference
ID
String ID
Float
Int
UInt
Short
UShort
Byte
Bitmask
Enum
Option
String
Unicode
Comment

Anything I'm missing?

shade45 · Post by **shade45** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:41 am

Tanasoo wrote: Anything I'm missing?

Yes .cs also supports

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long
ulong
double
single 
byte[]
char[]

Tanasoo · Post by **Tanasoo** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:41 pm

OK, thanks. I suppose for these, I'll just have the app ignore them when it is writing in ent mode? I have the comment type in there, but it there a way to add comments to either mode?

Digital Marine · Post by **Digital Marine** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:58 pm

Here's my thoughts:

If it's unused data, then you really shouldn't have to declare it public or give it a name since it's...unused. So you should have a function that you just input the size and it'll just skip right over all that. Maybe just like "Unused(52); public int Whatever;" and then you continue on.

I haven't thought of the reflexive parts yet...

Also...for the "[ID(IdType.TagReference)] public TagReference blah;"...why can't you just forget about the "ID" stuff? So basically if you say "public TagReference blah;" it'll automatically know it's a tag ref...

EDIT:
Oh yeah! For reflexives you should make it skip the null data. Because from what I've been doing..reflexives follow this

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int ChunkCount
int Reflexive //Subtract Magic and you have translation
null Null //4 bytes long.

Because in one of the tags I was mapping a while back using Engineer with the .forge types, I had to keep adding "unused space" of four bytes...and there was a long list of reflexives...it was quite annoying...

OH! Happy Halloween!

Prey · Post by **Prey** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:02 pm

Note Digital that you subtract the MapMagic from the Pointer, 'Reflexive' is the name given for the entire structure.

Anyway can we get back on topic now guys.. :\

Digital Marine · Post by **Digital Marine** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:10 pm

I exported the whole Raw Table for salvation and imported it into Excel...I have no idea where to start.

http://e-digitalmarine.net/H3/salvation_rawtable.rar

There is the spreadsheet if you want to look at it. Ignore the other worksheets in it though...it was stuff I was testing...

ill3galpr0gram · Post by **ill3galpr0gram** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:55 am

woo hoo!

KMXsK8eO · Post by **KMXsK8eO** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:24 am

Tural did you know your name sounds like turtal? Anyways I have a flashed drive and about 10 DL's if anyone needs me to test anything. Aim me at KMXSK8EO considering I don't come on this site alot

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:43 am

KMXsK8eO wrote:Tural did you know your name sounds like turtal?

"Turtal" is a fictional word. I could use the same logic and say your name sounds like KMQsK8eO. If you were trying to say "Turtle," you're about 2.5 years late.

KMXsK8eO · Post by **KMXsK8eO** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:51 am

Tural wrote:
KMXsK8eO wrote:Tural did you know your name sounds like turtal?
"Turtal" is a fictional word. I could use the same logic and say your name sounds like KMQsK8eO. If you were trying to say "Turtle," you're about 2.5 years late.

Yeah I did mean Turtle lol.

ill3galpr0gram · Post by **ill3galpr0gram** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:42 pm

um I tried turning on the program and it gave me this.

T_T

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:59 pm

Tural's never been a turtle to me --_--

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:16 pm

umm how about you guys get back on topic... and if you would like to continue your discussion of turtles you can go make a topic

ill3galpr0gram · Post by **ill3galpr0gram** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:22 pm

Anthony wrote:umm how about you guys get back on topic... and if you would like to continue your discussion of turtles you can go make a topic

I can see it now..Halo 3 turtles mod...it involves bubble shields...anyway lol yeah what is this error i'm getting...it upsets me...lol

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:03 pm

Ask it in the modding discussion. Not here... You'll just spam up the topic.

shade45 · Post by **shade45** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:53 pm

Yeah guys stay on topic

and ill3galpr0gram bug reports are supposed to be sent via pm... it looks like you dont have the .net framework installed.

ill3galpr0gram · Post by **ill3galpr0gram** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:59 am

bah figures it's always the .net framework

2.0 or 3.0?