Underground mods

alcapone900 · Post by **alcapone900** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:14 pm

Ive noticed that almost every mod and a lot of things about mods are not let out to the public. How excatly would you beable to get into the underground modding business. Ive been researching halo 3 mods and such for monthes and I can't get anywhere really becuase nothing is released into the public. All I really what to know is how to not the one of the "publics".

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:15 pm

Start on your own project.

unknownv2 · Post by **unknownv2** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:16 pm

Show that you can contribute enough in Halo 3 modding research and maybe the people who have established a group will let you use their tools necessary to mod Halo 3. You also need a dev kit which costs around $800.

Aumaan Anubis · Post by **Aumaan Anubis** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:16 pm

This'll probably get locked, not because they don't want you to mod(well, they probably don't), but because they probably doubt the public's(yours) capabilities.

You need to know, a lot. Not only the map structure, but programming, and all that stuff, I'm sure that it's incredibly difficult.

To mod, you'd probably have to get 'in' with one of the inside members, and right now, they aren't accepting applications, so tough luck.

alcapone900 · Post by **alcapone900** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:17 pm

JK-47 wrote:Start on your own project.

Thats the problem I really don't know how

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:18 pm

Then you probably aren't qualified to be doing a whole lot of research.

The people doing it now aren't doing it just to screw around, they are making tools and mapping out a lot of data, so that when a modification before the 360 is made that allows unsigned code to run, they can release the information, and we'll have a huge head-start on modding.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:19 pm

Well, for Halo 3, you can't.
Unless you can figure out your own way of getting around the various barriers that stop just anyone from modding. It's not public yet, as you can see.

alcapone900 · Post by **alcapone900** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:20 pm

Tural wrote:Then you probably aren't qualified to be doing a whole lot of research.

What does not quallified mean?

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:22 pm

You don't have the resources or the knowledge to get involved in the process. As stated, the first thing you're going to need is an $800 devkit, which is technically illegal for you to purchase.

alcapone900 · Post by **alcapone900** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:24 pm

Yeah I also don't have that kind of money. Is there any idea of when anything of halo 3 modding will be released at all.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:25 pm

When the people who do hardware modding, the people on other sites, can create a modification to allow unsigned code to run on the 360, then you can probably expect tools or information.

alcapone900 · Post by **alcapone900** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:29 pm

Ok thanks but how do some people have those mods up on Youtube and such.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:30 pm

They have the right material.
Or, they bullshit everything and just use forge tricks and make it appear to be a mod, either or.

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:32 pm

alcapone900 wrote:Ok thanks but how do some people have those mods up on Youtube and such.

They have a devkit. Pretty much all mods are done on it.

alcapone900 · Post by **alcapone900** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:34 pm

Alright well i hope some new mods come out soon. If I can help with ANYTHING ill be glad to do so.

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:35 pm

alcapone900 wrote:Alright well i hope some new mods come out soon. If I can help with ANYTHING ill be glad to do so.

You can look at the screenshots and videos, but don't be able to expect to be able to play them.

unknownv2 · Post by **unknownv2** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:38 pm

alcapone900 wrote:Alright well i hope some new mods come out soon. If I can help with ANYTHING ill be glad to do so.

http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=69721

http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=69804

L0d3x · Post by **L0d3x** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:36 am

Eaton wrote:
alcapone900 wrote:Alright well i hope some new mods come out soon. If I can help with ANYTHING ill be glad to do so.
You can look at the screenshots and videos, but don't be able to expect to be able to play them.

I recently was over at a friends place, and he went into a custom game and actually had some modded maps. I doubt he made them by himself though cause he knows nothing about modding.

All I'm saying is if you look hard enough you can probably find those maps shown on youtube.

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:39 am

Good job reading the sticky topic.

unknownv2 · Post by **unknownv2** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:09 am

L0d3x wrote:
I recently was over at a friends place, and he went into a custom game and actually had some modded maps. I doubt he made them by himself though cause he knows nothing about modding.

All I'm saying is if you look hard enough you can probably find those maps shown on youtube.

You're right, he didn't. Everybody can find a link to a modded forge map, but can they make their own and make it playable? Also, there is a difference between modded forge maps and actual mods done to .maps.