Halo: FTW - A PepNess Project

conure · Post by **conure** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:40 pm

Shit, pepsi i think we need to have babies...........

Lambda · Post by **Lambda** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:49 pm

UGH! now I have to buy a pc with with the proper rig so I can use that DXTweaker thing.

Congrats, it looks so elegant I want to spend more than $500 dollars so I can play it with the UI, a10, and the UI. Man Macs need more mods that are mac friendly. Just clean up a few things, but still I think its Outstanding as is.

it makes me want to spend large sums of money, which is by itself Outstanding.

ajax17 · Post by **ajax17** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:54 pm

omg i love pepsi, i been showin redux to all my friends, now they have to dl this and replace redux, but whats goin happen to redux now..?
i cant use the addon, it keeps sayin that i dont have hardware accelration enabled for my ati gfx card?? i have nvidia, not ati

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:02 pm

ajax17 wrote:omg i love pepsi, i been showin redux to all my friends, now they have to dl this and replace redux, but whats goin happen to redux now..?
i cant use the addon, it keeps sayin that i dont have hardware accelration enabled for my ati gfx card?? i have nvidia, not ati

i have nvida also. the raideon settings are there to trick nvida to think you have one. i checked the problem and in DirectX Tweaker in the "Modules to Load" uncheck the one for "Preset Changer" and it will work fine i promise!

Spartan193 · Post by **Spartan193** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:04 pm

This is probably the best mod I've seen for halo pc. You deserve a beer.

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:54 pm

I edited the tut for the addon.. i forgot things will default when the program is passed out for download. here are the new instructions edited. the main post is changed also for this.

"just run the exe. a program will pop up and click the icon for "FTW HaloPC". then click "Properitys for FTW HaloPC" in and make sure the paths are correct for your setup. make sure "active" is checked also. the arguments box is for target commands like console and what not. Now go to "Modules to Load" and Uncheck "Preset Changer" and go into "Post Filter" and choose "Surreal". one you know everything is correct simply hit "start" in the top right and go play. "

ive tried this method 6 times downloading my own download and was tested by two people and it works 100%. just do what the settings say and dont change anything unless your famular with the XML files or program itself.

ajax17 · Post by **ajax17** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:59 pm

yeah it works now, but what does it do, i have it runnin but i dont really see anything

Rhe7oric · Post by **Rhe7oric** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:38 am

Heres my review. The graphics, shaders, and Yelo work are nothing short of spectacular and I was able to run it just fine with both DXTweaker and I even tested out the maps with DisableAlphaRenderTargets as well with better results (I'm running a GeForce Go 6150). Even without clear scope, I like how you minimized scope blur without getting rid of it entirely. Now if that can just be applied to default Halo in a .ppf file that would be nice

.

Almost everything about it I've liked so far except for a few bugs and general annoyances. (I don't want to sound like a prick here that criticizes everything, I'm aware that no mod is 100% perfect, but these issues should probably be looked into.)

Battle Creek: The trees block your passage up to the tops of the bases and onto rocket spawns since it has a collision model (on a default unmodded map the small trees did not and you were able to walk through them). Obviously this is not too much of a problem when playing in dedicated servers because you will simply warp through the tree that you see on your end, but if are hosting a game, that will be a problem for both you and others there.

All Maps: The active camo (ONLYif you use DXTweaker or have an ATI card) has what I call a Radeon 9000 series card error. Some pixels of the ATI camo reflect the color of the top left corner pixel making it easier than normal to spot camo. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing remains to be seen...

Here is a screenshot of said error and it happens on every single map.

I've also had some sound problems on some maps too; certain sounds would just not play - not positive if its a hardware error or not, but with default unmodded maps I would not get sound lag, so I assume its an error on the map itself.

Particle overload on Gephyrophobia, the flames going off everywhere stopped particles from forming from gunshots or whatnot.

Other than these bugs that I've found, this mod is nothing short of spectacular. Thank you Pepsi and Nessa (and everyone else who worked on this project) for making something really great.

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:10 am

thanks for the review. it was blunt and honest. now here is some replys and ways to fix thoes issues.

bevercreek:
simply open the map in hht and disable the collision for thoes trees that were added. you know well enough not to walk through them so it should be a problem i hope.

active camo:
seeing as theres aimbots, bluwalls, wireframes and lag hacks i didnt think making the camo more pronounced would be that profound on things. most of the time when im in camo im getting shot by some nub using a emachine computer and they cant see grass let alone camo.

gephy:
man, this map was a pain. i tried doing this like 5 times and each time i got a sound issue when it rebuilt. if anyone would like to test if nulling the scenery effects for "fire emitter" and "medium water spray" in htt cures these issue then that would be the solution to it. i dont have time to check now but i can tomarrow to see if its just to much going on for the engine to render. if its that big of deal to some then i can simply PMI just the biped in and play with the light/fog more or completely do a new theme for the map. im upset also how gephy turned out but i wanted to present the vision i had for it.

and yes, i can make a .ppf patch for the sniper or you can open hmt and extract the two bitmaps needed to pull this effect off...

ui\hud\bitmaps\sniper\sniper_scope_crosshairs_sm
ui\hud\bitmaps\sniper\sniper_scope_crosshairs2

just extract mine and pass them around for whoever to inject. hmt will ask "do you want to resize?" and make sure you choose "NO!". you will corrupt your bitmaps if you choose yes.

if you have any other issues let me know. appricated much!

ajax17..
did you follow exactally what i typed? i dont think you did OR!! what vid card are you runnning? you need net framework 1.1 and dx9c also i think to use it. 98% of the people have thoes since halo needs it and most mod applications need netframefork to open. so what vid card are you running?

hiheyhello · Post by **hiheyhello** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:13 am

Eggs which i found.

Andrew_b's egg
wake the chief dammit.
lucky charms
cortana sexy pose
pepness 2007...shouldn't be 2008?
chief skipping with a basket..

O and the bridge ramp texture, is just completely black for me, i dont mind gives me a sense of wierdness..

Blarg-Blarg-Blarg! · Post by **Blarg-Blarg-Blarg!** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:01 am

wow... this mod was out sinse yesterday, and posted 2 days ago... Already, there's six pages! Keep it up pepness, exept that darn ui campain... So annoying... Why does it have to be legendary?

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:57 am

Guys! Through word of mouth i guess i went to check one of the sites i frequent daily and was blown away by something i seen..

simply go here: http://nikon.bungie.org/
perma link: http://nikon.bungie.org/news.html?item=21526

HBO wrote: Halo: FTW
zugy pointed out a mod for Halo PC that basically reskins every level. Halo: FTW is (mostly) the work of Pepsi and Nessa, and adds shiny new textures to each level of the game. The HaloMods forum post contains a billion screenshots, or you can watch a fly-through movie for more dynamic info. (Louis Wu 14:56:16 UTC) (permalink)

yes! FTW got front paged at halo.bungie.org! this means that i super owe the people in the credits even more props for making and helping this mod be what it is!

now i think call the claims for people calling this mod epic have a valid reason for being so!

Rhe7oric · Post by **Rhe7oric** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:20 am

and yes, i can make a .ppf patch for the sniper or you can open hmt and extract the two bitmaps needed to pull this effect off...

ui\hud\bitmaps\sniper\sniper_scope_crosshairs_sm
ui\hud\bitmaps\sniper\sniper_scope_crosshairs2

If you could make a .ppf patch that would be better since I know next to nothing about actually modding - save for simple meta tag swaps but who can't do those?

Blarg-Blarg-Blarg! wrote:wow... this mod was out sinse yesterday, and posted 2 days ago... Already, there's six pages! Keep it up pepness, exept that darn ui campain... So annoying... Why does it have to be legendary?

The options for Easy, Normal, and Heroic are still there; you just have to guess where they are (hint: above the word Epic)

SL!P · Post by **SL!P** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:23 am

Pepsi wrote:Guys! Through word of mouth i guess i went to check one of the sites i frequent daily and was blown away by something i seen..

simply go here: http://nikon.bungie.org/
perma link: http://nikon.bungie.org/news.html?item=21526

HBO wrote: Halo: FTW
zugy pointed out a mod for Halo PC that basically reskins every level. Halo: FTW is (mostly) the work of Pepsi and Nessa, and adds shiny new textures to each level of the game. The HaloMods forum post contains a billion screenshots, or you can watch a fly-through movie for more dynamic info. (Louis Wu 14:56:16 UTC) (permalink)
yes! FTW got front paged at halo.bungie.org! this means that i super owe the people in the credits even more props for making and helping this mod be what it is!

now i think call the claims for people calling this mod epic have a valid reason for being so!

So jealous....

Damn

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:38 pm

i found an egg
here is a clue lets just say Sgt. Johnson is an

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:12 pm

[quote="bcnipod"]i found an egg
here is a clue lets just say Sgt. Johnson is an

hell_knight · Post by **hell_knight** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:33 pm

conure wrote:Shit, pepsi i think we need to have babies...........

wow u can say that word here...

Pepsi wrote: if you have the 60 plug pack you will see up top a check box for "dynamic" and "no specular". simply uncheck dynamic and check no specular. that should give you a ton of frames back.

hmm...will this raise performance if you play at normal 58 FPS?

EDIT: one more thing...
i think this deserves an outstanding now?

UPS · Post by **UPS** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:16 pm

conure wrote:Shit, pepsi i think we need to have babies...........

If what Eugenics tells me is right...

Hurry up I want to see the offspring make mods!

hiheyhello · Post by **hiheyhello** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:39 pm

i knew about the hat, anyways congratz on the front page :Dill start looking for more eggs tomorrow..

Edit:

wow... this mod was out sinse yesterday, and posted 2 days ago... Already, there's six pages! Keep it up pepness, exept that darn ui campain... So annoying... Why does it have to be legendary?

blargx3 legendary is easy, but pepsi made it somewhat harder.. tho the one i made a while back was ridiculously hard. But pepsi did something i did not,
He made it balanced.

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:49 pm

hiheyhello wrote:
He made it balanced.

thx for actually noticing that. that took the longest to do tbh..

and it will go to outstanding when i tell them to move it. i want to make sure all issues are settled here first before its moved.