Importing Pelican into Bloodgulch

[Glitcherguy]

Sorry, but i need to ask.
when i try to import the pelican into bloodgulch
a message says "an error ocurred failed to open meta file"
then when i try to rebuild the map HKK crashes

[«Beast»]

I think the problem is you aren't exporting/importing the meta right. The key is to create a folder on the desktop and name it Pelican. In HHK, go to the vehicle tag, select the Pelican, and then go to Tools > Recursively Export Meta and References. Select the Pelican folder you made on the desktop. This will put a ton of folders and files in the Pelican folder. What you want to do now is when you open the map you want to import to, go to Tools > Import Recursive. First, pick this file:

Desktop > Pelican > Vehicles > Pelican > pelican.vehi

Select that file and click open. Now a second window will pop up. Select the Pelican folder you made on the desktop. Give it a few seconds for the Pelican to import. Now rebuild the map and save. The only step now is making the correct header changes to update the map size and that, so that the map doesn't crash Halo when you try to play it. Then after that, spawn the Pelican. The importing and the header changes are the most difficult part. I hope this helped.

[Glitcherguy]

so i need to export the whole vehicle tag?

[«Beast»]

Yes. That's exactly what a recursive export does. Because the Pelican meta is linked to many other metas that it takes information from such as its shaders, its model, its animations, and all that. With recursive export and import, it imports ALL of these things to the map so that your Pelican works properly.

[Glitcherguy]

this is what i do: i go to the vehicle tag, open it press pelican, export it
to pelican folder, inside the pelican folder there is now 2 files. pelican.vehi and pelican.vehi.ehmrf thats all
should there be more?

ok what i've tried now is this: i exported the whole vehicle tag
and i found the pelican stuff inside what now?

[«Beast»]

Like I said. Make sure you are picking RECURSIVELY EXPORT META AND REFERENCES. Note the AND REFERENCES.

[Glitcherguy]

what does the last step do to the pelican?

[Glitcherguy]

Nvm i've imported it now

[«Beast»]

There ya go! I'm guessing you found out what that last step does then.

[Glitcherguy]

ummm... actually i only managed to get it in to bloodgulch map i
still can't spawn it but ill keep trying

[Moxus]

Try this:

Using a Pistol to Spawn Vehicles
Tool(s)/Application(s) Used: Eschaton 0.4.1.
Map(s) Used: Bloodgulch.
Notice(s): This principal is not limited to Bloodgulch. It can be used to spawn any vehicle as long as it is included in the target map.

Steps:

• 1. Open the target map in which you want to modify in Eschaton 0.4.1.
  
  2. Navigate to the "Weap" tag. Once there, select the Pistol.
  
  3. Open the Dependency Swapper window. Scroll down to the "Proj" tag and select it.
  
  4. Change the tag class to "Vehi". The options in the drop-down selection list will have changed to show all the vehicles in the map. Choose the Pelican.
  
  5. Close Eschaton and open your Halo Demo with the modified bloodgulch.map in your maps folder titled as such. Select "Mulitplayer" from the Main Menu and proceed to start a LAN game. Once you spawn, grab a pistol (or take one out) and fire. A Pelican should fall from above you.

That should spawn your Pelican. If you want it to spawn like a regular vehicle, check "Phase 6" of the tutorial on the front page of this topic.

--Moxus--

[Glitcherguy]

Cool thx ill try that or ill try to do that in the b30.map

[jimmyg22]

if you do that make sure in eschaton you select vehi > pelican then in meta reflexive edit (the little rectangular window) you select seat then go to string32s > seat name and change it from P-driver to W-driver. that is so you can drive the pelican

[Sparky]

HMT doesn't have a button for Importing Raw Data, and I'm totally lost after the first half of the importing section. I exported the meta and imported it into the bloodgulch map. Then I opened HMT and injected the .mod2.xml file to the mod2 location (injecting the .mod2.meta file just makes it quit). And now I'm lost. There's no Inject Raw Data command or button for whatever those next few steps are. I tried the map, both rebuilt and unrebuilt, in Halo Demo, and it crashes.

I'm trying to import the Covenant shield (c_shield_generator) from the scen index. Unfortunately, I'm having no success at all. Can anyone please help?

Thanks.

[jimmyg22]

what version of hmt do you have .5 or .75 if you have .5 you cant append raw data. also if you inject the xml i think halo will crash. you most likely need to get HMT .75 it should be the one that just says HMT in you folder