Mac Gaming Mods

I have updated MDRenamer.

It will now fix the ustr's in the map file to your mod, "Crossing", "Barrier", "Random", and modify the map description's for them as well. I think it's in a pretty good state to use now.

[EDIT]: Uploaded new version with some minor tweaks since I made this post.

Cool, thanks nil! I'll check my old HD to see what mods I have left. I'll check my PPC some other time.

If you are porting mods from CE, full, or from demo, after you convert the mod to a full version mod, you may need to open and expand the map in Eschaton, and rebuild it. This fixes many maps that may not work on Halo PC or Halo PC dedicated software. Although, this may not work if the map is protected.

[EDIT]: This is fixed in latest version of Pearl, no longer need to rebuild in Eschaton.

Also, I am thinking about adding custom edition ported mods onto the database. Full version maps weren't added due to illegal matters, however this is, I think more fine. A large portion of the original demo database has also been lost, which is another issue not helping. I feel at this point, this is realistically, the only way to start adding more playable maps to MD.

Mgal and I added and ported some mods recently to the database:

The Island
Blizzard
Acrophobia
Bloodgulch - Alternate Universe
Hell Gulch
MGM Weaponry Collab
Satellite
The Volcano
Shaft KW

nil, shouldn't this topic be in the Modding Programs subforum?

Also you said something that prompts me to further consider an idea that would have otherwise been implemented in Zeus, but that I think you could develop into a standalone program, since it would seem you are fond of standalone program workflows. The idea is to develop a Tag Renamer. I'm sure this concept has been thought about at least ever since map protecting and probably since we first saw tag names in hex code viewers. I'll start another topic for this. EDIT: Nevermind. I don't have any incentive to share ideas here anymore.

MGM Weaponry Collab is protected. How does that fit in with your workflow of rebuilding maps with Eschaton? Al Capwn has the unprotected version, and I have some pre-release versions.

I have updated MDRenamer fixing a crash on launch that could have occurred for 10.5 users.

Sparky wrote:nil, shouldn't this topic be in the Modding Programs subforum?

I guess so. When I first created this thread, it wasn't just about MDRenamer although I have edited my first post to reflect that.

Sparky wrote:MGM Weaponry Collab is protected. How does that fit in with your workflow of rebuilding maps with Eschaton? Al Capwn has the unprotected version, and I have some pre-release versions.

Well, I had accidentally released a prerelease version of the collab on the database not knowing this. Modzy is working on updating Pearl so that we won't have to use Eschaton, and it will be able to handle protected maps like the collab.

Heyall
Could I get some help with this? I've been wanting to convert my claustrophobia mod to MD considering there's some bug where I can't host servers on regular Halo Demo, and i want to make the mod more accessible anyway. As far as I know is this tool only able to convert Full mods to MD? Whenever I add my map it says "this is not a full map file" or whatever. Then I try to convert my demo mod to full using Harbinger and get an out-of-bounds exception.

I feel pretty lost here.

Weird, because Claustrophobia is already in the MD Database and I tried it... Also dont you have to use Demo Hack to convert? And by the way, Pearl converts Demo PPC maps to MD maps.

a bullet wrote:Heyall
Could I get some help with this? I've been wanting to convert my claustrophobia mod to MD considering there's some bug where I can't host servers on regular Halo Demo, and i want to make the mod more accessible anyway. As far as I know is this tool only able to convert Full mods to MD? Whenever I add my map it says "this is not a full map file" or whatever. Then I try to convert my demo mod to full using Harbinger and get an out-of-bounds exception.

I feel pretty lost here.

MDRenamer just does the formatting for the map to be used in MD. Pearl is what you want to use for converting.

a bullet wrote:Heyall
Could I get some help with this? I've been wanting to convert my claustrophobia mod to MD considering there's some bug where I can't host servers on regular Halo Demo, and i want to make the mod more accessible anyway. As far as I know is this tool only able to convert Full mods to MD? Whenever I add my map it says "this is not a full map file" or whatever. Then I try to convert my demo mod to full using Harbinger and get an out-of-bounds exception.

I feel pretty lost here.

Whoops. I forget who, but someone converted it to MD and it's already on the database =P. Check it out in the MD application yourself (Mods -> Install Mod -> Claustrophobia in menubar or grab the map directly).

MDRenamer is used for MD formatting.
Pearl can do both conversion (demo -> MD) and MD formatting (to some extent).

Oh sweet! I have no problem with that. The weapons spawn vertically though, and the plasma rifle/pistol shaders are much darker. Not really that big of a deal, as the game still plays like I meant it to.

a bullet wrote:Oh sweet! I have no problem with that. The weapons spawn vertically though, and the plasma rifle/pistol shaders are much darker. Not really that big of a deal, as the game still plays like I meant it to.

Feel free to make an update if you like. I'd also look into making your mod smaller-sized. It's probably unnecessarily big.

Updated initial post to reflect MDRenamer update 002 wrote. Basically, there's no need for ustr changes anymore, and there's no need for supplying a "Mod name" (short name is still necessary).