Anniversary [Wip]Emergence

[Mgalekoglo 4]

It's done! The program requires decompressing it to open with this: http://www.xboxchaos.com/topic/1921-halo-cea-compression-tools/
It autosaves. Be sure to send modzy some love!
http://macgamingmods...hp?f=43&t=18243
Now I want to see some great mods with this!
Note: I didn't make this. I just posted about it where it would be most useful, here. It is more involved than emergence.




I saw DeadCanadian's video on youtube, I thought it would be beneficial to ask some of my old halo 1 modder friends if they could modify their old modding programs to work with halo: Anniversary. I contacted Canadian and received a map for sample. I then had my friend compare it to the halo pc maps. No difference, except the anniversary maps are in big endian format. But the only think functioning is the reference swapping, It is undetermined how long meta editing will take. There is no download link yet, I will update this when there is.

Note: This will be made for windows since everyone here seems to use it, I just use a virtual machine for windows. Also, it says halo retail because that's what he had it identify as.

[deadcanadian 271]

lol, i believe i told you that the maps where the exact same other than a slightly new header but same format and the endianess was different.

[Mgalekoglo 4]

Yeah but i'm not a trusting person . So I had my friend check them out.

Oh and I forgot to say the magic is different too.

Edited December 11, 2011 by Mgalekoglo

[deadcanadian 271]

Yeah but i'm not a trusting person . So I had my friend check them out.

Oh and I forgot to say the magic is different too.

sorta, i have calculated the magic for these new maps. although checking other programs cause of their code i couldnt tell if im doing it the same way. but some maps appear to be weird. cause instead of the int - the hexoffset + 40 some appear to be + 0 or nothing, which i havent quite figured out.

but either way i got the magics so i could start editing the .maps on my xbox through realtime

[Mgalekoglo 4]

I'm sure he figured that out. I never got a clear answer, will it be possible to use modded maps on an unmodded xbox?

[deadcanadian 271]

I'm sure he figured that out. I never got a clear answer, will it be possible to use modded maps on an unmodded xbox?

yea, there's no securities in this version just like the first one. so you could play modded maps on a retail, if you were able to get the .maps onto it.

which means you would likely need a flashed drive

[AMD 885]

yea, there's no securities in this version just like the first one. so you could play modded maps on a retail, if you were able to get the .maps onto it.

which means you would likely need a flashed drive

I'm just throwing this out there, but wouldn't it be possible to somehow edit the cache files the game copies to the HDD?

[deadcanadian 271]

I'm just throwing this out there, but wouldn't it be possible to somehow edit the cache files the game copies to the HDD?

if we could edit the cache we could realtime edit on a retail. cause thats all that is, editing the cache

[Mgalekoglo 4]

The original method was using the cache wasn't it?

[misterbanshee 51]

this looks pretty cool whene is it comeing out for windows ?

[Mgalekoglo 4]

It will come out for windows when it comes out for mac, it's not done yet.

[iBotPeaches 12]

Very cool. Looking forward to it.

[misterbanshee 51]

i cant wait is it similar to hmt for halo 1 pc only its just for cea ?

[deadcanadian 271]

i cant wait is it similar to hmt for halo 1 pc only its just for cea ?

this program is just for CEA. and to my understanding its from the makers of eschaton

[Mgalekoglo 4]

This is an app from a guy who worked on eschaton, but he also made the converter for CE and Full to demo since that's what we used back when it was popular. So basically he knows the maps almost as well as bungie. This will be more similar to eschaton in terms of better features and improvements from HMT. Also it may work with halo 1 pc and xbox maps, it already had the function, we will see if he overwrote that or just added CEA format.

Edited December 12, 2011 by Mgalekoglo

[misterbanshee 51]

thats cool i cant wait to try it whene it comes out

[0xdeafcafe 226]

if we could edit the cache we could realtime edit on a retail. cause thats all that is, editing the cache

Maybe AMD was talking about the fact that Halo1-XboxOriginal copied the entire .map file into the cache on the HDD.

[Krazy Pigeon 102]

Maybe AMD was talking about the fact that Halo1-XboxOriginal copied the entire .map file into the cache on the HDD.

Doesn't CEA do this on the first map load?

Wait a sec, couldn't you cache it on your retail, put the HDD into your Jtag or whatever, mod it, and put it back?

Sorry if i'm being one of those "I've got an idea" noobs...

Edited February 2, 2012 by Krazy Pigeon

[misterbanshee 51]

when is this program going to be released ? i cant wait to see it

[Halotutorial 20]

will this ever be done?

[Nate the Great 560]

will this ever be done?

Yeah, I wonder the samething.

[misterbanshee 51]

yea ikr im not trying to rush you or any thing but i cant wait to see it whene its done

[Mgalekgolo 0]

Sorry for taking such a great length of time. The plugins had to be edited to fit anniversary. It turns out he used eschaton to do this. The links are at the bottom of this page:

http://macgamingmods...hp?f=43&t=18243

I'm not sure if it's in the anniversary edition, but if someone could check C20 for me and see if there is a flamethrower, i'd love to see what it looks like in anniversary.

Edited August 2, 2012 by Mgalekgolo

[Twis7eD 1]

Sorry for taking such a great length of time. The plugins had to be edited to fit anniversary. It turns out he used eschaton to do this. The links are at the bottom of this page:

http://macgamingmods...hp?f=43&t=18243

I'm not sure if it's in the anniversary edition, but if someone could check C20 for me and see if there is a flamethrower, i'd love to see what it looks like in anniversary.

When I attempt to open a map, nothing happens. I'm using the Windows version.

Any ideas?

Edited August 14, 2012 by Twis7eD

[misterbanshee 51]

so is this h1 remake map editor working ? i cant wait to try it if it is