Retail Changing a Player's Biped

[7ime 104]

Please note that this tutorial is not written using the newest version of KSoft but the old repack version.

 

This tutorial is long overdue, but here it goes.

If you would like to force someone's biped to a monitor in Halo Reach, simply add the following PlayerObject and Trigger.

 

1.  Add PlayerObject0 to Objects under PlayerVariables

    <PlayerVariables>      <Objects>        <var networkState="HighPriority" name="PlayerObject0" />      </Objects>    </PlayerVariables>

2.  Add this trigger under Triggers

      <Trigger execMode="OnEachPlayer" name="TriggerMonitor">        <Elements>          <E type="Condition" name="ObjectIsSameType" unionGroupID="-2">            <Param type="ObjectReference" varRefType="Player.SlaveObject" dataType="Iterator.Player"></Param>            <Param type="ObjectTypeIndex">spartan</Param>          </E>          <E type="Condition" name="ObjectIsSameType" unionGroupID="-3">            <Param type="ObjectReference" varRefType="Player.SlaveObject" dataType="Iterator.Player"></Param>            <Param type="ObjectTypeIndex">elite</Param>          </E>          <E type="Action" name="CreateObject">            <Param type="ObjectTypeIndex">monitor</Param>            <Param type="ObjectReference" varRefType="Player.ObjectVar" dataType="Iterator.Player">PlayerObject0</Param>            <Param type="ObjectReference" varRefType="Player.SlaveObject" dataType="Iterator.Player"></Param>            <Param type="ObjectFilterIndex">NONE</Param>            <Param type="CreateObjectFlags">0</Param>            <Param type="UInt24">7</Param>            <Param type="NameIndex">NONE</Param>          </E>          <E type="Action" name="DeleteObject">            <Param type="ObjectReference" varRefType="Player.SlaveObject" dataType="Iterator.Player"></Param>          </E>          <E type="Action" name="PlayerSetUnit">            <Param type="PlayerReference" varRefType="ExplicitPlayerType" dataType="Iterator.Player"></Param>            <Param type="ObjectReference" varRefType="Player.ObjectVar" dataType="Iterator.Player">PlayerObject0</Param>          </E>        </Elements>

Edited December 20, 2013 by 7ime

[OrangeMohawk 407]

Glad you posted a tutorial on this! When I first attempted this in Reach, I spent countless hours trying to get it to work but never could.

[Teancum 221]

I would set the unit before deleting the old biped.

[7ime 104]

I would set the unit before deleting the old biped.

The way I have it set up is to use a minimum amount of variables.  In my testing there has been no noticeable difference from doing it this way compared to a more thorough way that I used in the past.  Thanks for the input, let me know if you experience something different.

[Cosmic lightning 74]

K, error. Can't really understand it as well. 

 

Exception while game variant processing, 

Uint24

[Cosmic lightning 74]

K, so the culprit is Uint24 & if I change it, no monitor., so what should I do? I was only doing this for GW thinking this tut was fully functional but I guess i was wrong, so now I'm going back to building minecraft shenanigans. toodles.

Edited February 18, 2014 by Cosmic lightning

[OrangeMohawk 407]

K, so the culprit is Uint24 & if I change it, no monitor., so what should I do? I was only doing this for GW thinking this tut was fully functional but I guess i was wrong, so now I'm going back to building minecraft shenanigans. toodles.

Are you using ksoft 5040? If so, replace the UInt24 with a Point3d, with the z value being 7.

[7ime 104]

The newer KSoft uses point3d instead of UInt24.

*couldn't get it to post from my tablet, but OrangeMokawk beat me to it anyways.

*after looking at his code, assuming he sent me the right code, he wasn't even using the same code that is in the tutorial, sooo... we'll see.

*problem solved; he edited in the wrong DBID's.

Edited February 18, 2014 by 7ime

[Cosmic lightning 74]

The newer KSoft uses point3d instead of UInt24.

The newer KSoft uses point3d instead of UInt24.

The newer KSoft uses Point3d instead of UInt24.

The newer KSoft uses Point3d instead of UInt24.

 

I did that and it went through, but no biped as a monitor. 

 

7Ime & I figured it out. Used wrong dbid's. lol. 

Edited February 18, 2014 by Cosmic lightning

[Taisha 0]

So i've both the newest version of KSoft and the repack but I can't get it to encode either way. Did something change on this?