Other Assembly - Blam Research Tool

[AMD 885]

After eight months of development, we are proud to announce the first stable release of Assembly, a 100% open-source Blam/Halo research tool and map editor. It enables users to both research how the Halo games work and also share creative modifications that are made. Assembly was built from the ground up with four goals in mind:

• Flexibility - Assembly is capable of seamlessly opening and editing .map, .mapinfo, and .blf files from Halo 2: Vista, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4, with support for more games coming soon.
• Speed - Spend more time modding and less time waiting for trivial tasks to complete. Even the largest tags load extremely quickly with invisible fields enabled, and search and autocomplete features throughout the program allow you to find what you need quickly
• Usability - We built Assembly using Windows Presentation Foundation and utilized modern UI design concepts. Thus, assembly is both easy to use and easy to look at.
• Customizability - Don't like the default blue look? Select from one of four different UI themes. Don't like how the View Value As tool is laid out? Make your own meta editor plugin for it. Almost everything in Assembly can be customized in some way. Not to mention that the source code is freely available on GitHub to give you even more control.

Supported Features:

• Beta versions of games are supported
• Patch compatibility from Alteration and Ascension
• Patches can contain name, author, description, and target map information
• Voxel converter for creating custom Halo 4 loading screens
• Plugin generator
• Plugin editor with syntax highlighting code completion
• Plugin converter for converting Ascension and Alteration plugins to the new format
• Add support for other similar builds on the fly with XML
• "Xbox Memory" sidebar for controlling your console and taking screenshots
• Automatic update system

Maps:

 

• Tagnames decrypted for all games
• StringIDs decrypted for all games
• BlamScript decompilation for Reach (soon to be all games)
• Locale viewing and editing, with special characters (e.g. button icons) replaced with XML tags
• Meta data viewing, editing, and searching
• Meta data "View Value as" window

 

BLF:

• Extract existing images
• Inject new images

MapInfo:

 

• Edit map ID
• Edit map internal name
• Edit map external name and description

 

Screenshots:
 

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Assembly was brought to you by:

 

 

• AMD
• Xerax
• Thunder/Dovahkiin
• Lord Zedd
• DeadCanadian
• SnipeStyle
• gabe_k

With special thanks to:

 

 

• Xenomega (Xenon.7/Detox)
• Kornman00
• CLK
• DarkShallFall
• Prey
• Shade45
• Anthony
• KingDingDan
• XenonDev
• Gravemind

 

Finally, we also want to thank all who have been a part of research in the Halo scene over the past decade. Without your work, none of this would have been possible.

Here's to the next ten years.

Download from Github
Get the Source Code

[iBotPeaches 12]

first

 

 

good work, looks great and sexy.

Edited March 11, 2013 by iBotPeaches

[Guest Gamecheat]

second

[0xdeafcafe 226]

first admin.

[Lord Zedd 1,771]

first zedd

[Thunder 468]

First Xbox chaos owner.

[misterbanshee 51]

that looks nice good work

[ddxcb 14]

Lawl the Vehi flags for H4 are still wrong

Edited March 11, 2013 by ddxcb

[XxXDarkSoul25XxX 12]

Congratulations guys

[Lord Zedd 1,771]

Lawl the Vehi flags for H4 are still wrong

It helps to say whats wrong about them

[Elijah B I 138]

First Elijah yo. This has been a long time coming

[LazyGamerJc 30]

Lookin sexy guys. Keep up the good work!

[ManBearPig_06 19]

It helps to say whats wrong about them

10/11 should be disable collision (kinda? falls through bsp)/hydraulics, idk about the rest I didn't check but it seems like they are the Reach values currently.

 

And ddxcb being vague? Never would have guessed.

Edited March 11, 2013 by MBP

[Not Dual 17]

Needs more blue.

[AKIMBO BUNNYZ 34]

Glad to see you guys got this project finished and released, good work guys   Can't wait to see further development and updates

[civil210 10]

Do you guys even use a spell checker?

 

Good job anyway

Edited March 11, 2013 by civil210

[0xdeafcafe 226]

Do you guys even use a spell checker?

Then use the built in plugin editor to fix it? (Right Click -> Go to Plugin Line)

[sleepymike7 12]

nice cant wait to try it out..thanks guys!

[p0iz0n 154]

Looks great Will definitely check it out sometime specially for some H4 mods which I havn't gotten round to making yet :/

[Krazy Pigeon 102]

I could have used this a LONG time ago. It's going to make modding Halo a lot more easier and enjoyable. Too bad I don't mod much anymore. Great job guys!

[deadcanadian 271]

I could have used this a LONG time ago. It's going to make modding Halo a lot more easier and enjoyable. Too bad I don't mod much anymore. Great job guys!

thats the whole plan for this, to make modding easier and more enjoyable and get people back into the community so we dont die out

[OrangeMohawk 407]

Holy crap, this is great. Thanks to the team and everyone else who contributed. Hopefully this will help others who have gotten out of it, like myself; get back into modding.

[leor 1]

This is trully awesome, thanks guys

[JJIJR 666]

lovin the new xbox chaos website logo.

[Stormz 0]

Thank you so much for this!