Anniversary Map Endian Converter

[deadcanadian 271]

thx to amd who made a better program to do this, alot faster and keeps the tag names proper.

http://xboxchaos.com/cea/MapEndianSwapper.zip

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This is a simply program i had been making that simply converts the endianess of the cex.maps so that they will match the pc.maps. this allows you to open the maps in most of the old programs.

however it will also switch around the item names so you would need to manually overright those again with the proper ones.

What i did to overright the a30 tagnames with the proper ones was simply open the unconverted endian .map and go to 0x01A76594. (this is where the tags start, will be different offset for other maps).

then i copied all the tags down to where they stopped, for this map they end at 0x01AA4AB4. i then went to the same starting offset in the converted map and pasted over all the bad tag names with the proper ones taken from the other map. once done modding when you reconvert the map you may want to redo this procedure to make them good again, im not sure if its needed to mod though.

when the program is converting it may take awhile, but all you need to do is open a decompressed .map and itll do the rest.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RTVQCMNT

[AMD 885]

Looks like a nice program, but the link's broken

[deadcanadian 271]

dont know how that happened, i just uploaded. but put the link megaupload shows this time so should work now

[misterbanshee 51]

i just clicked on it it didnt work at all

[AMD 885]

Works now, thanks. To get around the tagname issue, I suppose if you could figure out how to calculate the tagname start offset then you could just ignore that area. Or I suppose you could read ahead by a few bytes and check if the data is an ASCII string longer than 4 characters and ignore it if it is.

[misterbanshee 51]

i really strugle on the tags part

[bfixer117 247]

i really strugle on the tags part

wat parts are u struggling on

[misterbanshee 51]

i cant find the part of hex at im supoosed to coppy and past to make it able to be opened in programs like hmt and stuff for halo pc modding

[AMD 885]

Here's my take on a converter. In addition to what Dead's does, this reads the tag table and ignores all of the names (no ugly hex editing). It's also a lot faster.

Source code is included under the GPLv3.

http://xboxchaos.com...dianSwapper.zip

[misterbanshee 51]

ool i at wait to try it

[deadcanadian 271]

well, nice to see a better/faster program.

mine was really just me testing the idea to see if they worked with just that swap

[misterbanshee 51]

mine didnt work ill tell you wha ti did though i opened b40 with cea comrpess tool i upacked it and then i go to the endian thig and swaped the map i then mod it ad swap it back and name it b40 and put it back on my harddive it didnt work though any one know what i did wrong

[AMD 885]

mine didnt work ill tell you wha ti did though i opened b40 with cea comrpess tool i upacked it and then i go to the endian thig and swaped the map i then mod it ad swap it back and name it b40 and put it back on my harddive it didnt work though any one know what i did wrong

You have to re-compress it using the separate re-compressor tool.

[misterbanshee 51]

i could of sworn thats what i did but ill send you my team viewer im totaly confused of why mine wont work