Mac Gaming Mods

Check out this app created by DeadHamster. It has a Mac download.

The older version was buggy and unusable except for using with the default bloodgulch map. This version 3.0 claims to have been corrected

Instead use Eschaton or a scenario editor to move spawn points, this app uses values which can slow down modding.

rEsTnPeAcEz wrote:Instead use Eschaton or a scenario editor to move spawn points, this app uses values which can slow down modding.

Pretty sure this app speeds up modding.

EDIT: YO, I GOT CONFUSED WITH MINECRAFT'S [strike]RETARDED[/strike] perfectly logical COORDINATE SYSTEM, SO IN THIS POST Y AND Z AXES ARE SWAPPED! KEEP THAT IN MIND!


When i have to move spawn points I edit each one of them in eschaton assigning them specific coordinates depending from what team and gametype they spawn.

Like, let's say i have 48 player spawns. I'd do something like this:

• ##-## - coordinates - gametype flags
  01-08 - [0, 0, <0-7>] - red, ctf only
  09-16 - [1, 0, <0-7>] - blue, ctf only
  17-24 - [0, 1, <0-7>] - red, all but ctf
  25-32 - [1, 1, <0-7>] - blue, all but ctf
  33-40 - [0, 2 ,<0-7>] - red, all gametypes
  41-48 - [1, 2 ,<0-7>] - red, all gametypes

What happens is this.

• 

It's basically a three dimensional matrix. It's easy to determine which spawn is which, since for example the spawns with Y:2 spawn players in all gametypes, the ones with X:1 are blue, and so on! Knowing these things allow you to have more control on what happens in your map. (so then you can just use sparkedit or swordedit to move things around)

...if there was a program that did this, it'd be really nice.

Taxi, if you rotate that image 90 degrees counter-clockwise, so that the Z axis is vertical as it is in the game, the image would be easier to understand.

More bulk processing of the metadata values would be nice to add to Marvin's program, which would use a single interface of the metadata options and apply them when the user clicks the "apply" button. Such batch processing would be most suitable for .map files rather than groups of tag files.

oh holy SHIT!!!!!!!! Sorry!!!!!!!! i got confused with minecraft's perfectly logical axes system GOMENASAI!!!!!!

MY POST IS WRONG, SORRY! IT WORKS IF YOU SWAP Y FOR Z THOUGH!!!!!!!!!

Don't rant at minecraft's axis system when it's logical =P.

Shit! you're correct!!! Halo's system is retarded!!!!!! Aaaauugghghhhh I defined it as retarded because i used the wrong axes system and since minecraft uses the other one i mistook that as the retarded one... but fuck, you're right!!!!!

Sorry!!! I just get super confused about things!!! X(

But changing the coordinate system to swap y and z is also common and makes some sense going from a 2D -> 3D perspective, so neither is dumb.

what if X was the vertical axis? would it be dumb then?


a system where positive values would go downwards/leftwards would probably be the dumbest.

Actually, the game Dofus ... nevermind, I think this rambling has gone on long enough.

rEsTnPeAcEz wrote:Instead use Eschaton or a scenario editor to move spawn points, this app uses values which can slow down modding.

I agree that this functionality should be added instead to a scenario editor like swordedit or Eschaton. It will be included in Zeus's batch processing options for scnr tags, which is also batch processing for scnr tags in map files. In Zeus, you can replicate the metadata values of reflexives and entire tags using batch processing.

rEsTnPeAcEz wrote:Instead use Eschaton or a scenario editor to move spawn points, this app uses values which can slow down modding.

*facecinderblock* Have you even TRIED the application yet? What you do is you get a location out of Eschaton (or two if you want to do it per team), then you input it to Illudium and it moves all of the other spawn points there. It's actually 75x faster than using Eschaton and it is made to heavily speed up modding.