HaloMD

[Sparky]

Yes I can do that all tomorrow.

Congratulations?

And yeah, spawning on the bridge is in the middle of the open. There should be more spawns on the lowest level. It'll give more incentive to use ghosts

Moxus didn't place more there, so I'm not going to. I can remove the bridge one, though.

[nil]

Sounds good. If you want, you can finally try converting to Full since modzy released a Pearl beta in his Pearl thread. Or you could have me do it.. whichever.

[Sparky]

Beta 4 of crossing:
http://www.halodemomods.com/mediawiki/i ... sparky.zip
I didn't add the energy sword 3p animations because I need a little more time to do that, but this includes all the other changes. I think it looks better.

[Sparky]

OK so due to this problem: http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pag ... icID=38326
...I will need to delete some animations from the tag in order to add more than 2 new ones. Crossing doesn't have a flamethrower, so I can delete those.

And if anyone is looking for the data files to the cyborg animations... lol just PM me or something. Or export them yourself, it's easy just use the Export to File and Export All Animations in Tag options in the Bluestreak Animation Importer script in 3ds max. Don't do it the impossibly hard way like I did the first time and still got broken results by using the cadAnimationExporter to export animations one at a time... sigh. Could have saved myself two or three days of unnecessary work there.

I don't even know why this cadAnimationExporter is broken with certain types of animations, but it is really annoying and I don't even know if I'll be able to properly generate 3p animations for the energy sword. I got one or two nice ones, but... weird stuff happens sometimes.

Can I delete the flamethrower animations from the tag so that I can add energy sword animations? This will of course only apply to the Crossing map.

stand melee idle

[Sparky]

Since I'm modifying the available third person animations for the cyborg due to the maximum animations limit, here is the situation:

- If you are looking to add animations to the cyborg, I'll post a better video tutorial than I did the first time. The first one was before I knew of the 257 limit. (Really 256/255 for those taking a byte into animation details.)
- The energy sword animations tag and the flamethrower will not be compatible in the same map. You'll have to decide to use one or the other. I'd replace the "unarmed" tags or certain vehicles, but there are not enough available or they are commonly used. I'll just replace all the flamethrower ones.

[Sparky]

This requires more testing.

[zapconquest]

Where can I download the latest version? I have alpha 14 and I get an error when attempting to update the normal way through the app itself. The link here doesn't seem to be working anymore and there's no file on the wiki page. Does this have to do with sparky moving to a different server?

[Dead Site]

Indeed, I have an error contacting the update server thing and I am on a19.

[Sparky]

Updates will need to be manual now.

nil and I can discuss what issues there are, no need to resolve them here in the topic... I say that just so you won't become frustrated and because I don't really think you can help solve the problems anyway... and also because it's not necessary. Also there is misinformation, for you see, some will interpret my first sentence here as meaning that the update feature in the application will no longer work. That's not what I said. I said "Updates will need to be manual NOW." "Now" does not imply "in the future," but means "now". So this is why there is no need for nil and me to discuss any problems or difficulties here.

After the problems are fixed, HaloMD will work as it should, and normally.
Peachy?

Now go read this please, it will explain what is going on: viewtopic.php?p=106036#p106036

[Sparky]

Never mind the manual update. I figured out how to get it to work. You can update now.

There are two available links to download HaloMD now:

http://nilftp.halodemomods.com/HaloMD.zip
or
http://www.halodemomods.com/halomd/HaloMD.zip

If your browser does not recognize the first, use the second.

[Fonzeh]

Question, Now that i have a decent macintosh I would love to get back into machinima, and i can actually do it myself. is their anyway my halo fv on my pc can join my halomd server? and if not could this be a possibility?

Only thing stopping me from making my own machinima again is body actors :/

[Sparky]

How is it going, nil? Can you please update the version of Bloodgulch Extreme to version 2.0?

[Mgalekgolo]

I don't think we can create a server. I tried to host a server but the person I was testing with couldn't see it. I unblocked every port by the way. I couldn't check the lobby, it said access denied. I'm on the irc now

[nil]

How is it going, nil? Can you please update the version of Bloodgulch Extreme to version 2.0?

I did, but a recent upgrade on HDM wiki or something temporarily broke the install mod feature, but I have it fixed in my developmental build.

I will want to plan on releasing a small alpha soon. I don't really care about the other map's progress. In particular, what the heck is going on with Crossing? How is that energy sword third-person animation going? I don't have the time to test that with you for hours again, so don't ask me to do that. And I don't want any stupid extra feature you had suggested month(s) ago, or any video describing the progress, or anything extra added onto the map internally. Right now, I just want to release something. If this turns out to be annoying and take too long, I will just roll back to a version where the energy sword behaved like in Moxus' version.

I'm also going to remove Shaft, because I consider it inadequate and it's not something I look forward at this point to completing to make it something more worthwhile.

Barrier seems to be fine. Taxi, can you give me an updated Barrier map with the UI image modded in the ui map? Find the image on HDM's mod database (the demo one), import the texture into ui.map, send it to me.

002 gave me a procedure of updating the map name's in ui.map (for third party mods I think), will have to see if I still have that reference around... [edit]: it's here

Modzy, how do I go about removing maps from the UI selection (choose which ones I want to still keep)?

I also presume I should do updates in halodemomods.com/halomd/ and use halo.macgamingmods.com as the master server now.

[Monoman]

I also presume I should do updates in halodemomods.com/halomd/ and use halo.macgamingmods.com as the master server now.

Up to you the the master server change. Sparky has the original HDM address directed to the MGM address so either will work.