Tutorials! Huge List!

[crypt]

Ok Heres Some of the tutorials i made for my site.
I made all of these for my site, and please do not use on another site, unless you cite me. Thanks Crypt/Easynerd
Halolegions.forumcircle.com
Sorry im not using my mac in these mods, but you get the point. Macs Sparkedit is a little different, so the active scenery mod is going to be a tad bit different.

Hex

Ok so i'll try to make hex as easy as i can.
Heres a pic, and below i'll explain what it means.

* To the left hand corner is the offset (Offset). That is the location of the item. Make sure you keep the offset in hex. (Under "View Offset In Hex")
* The middle part is the Hex. That represents the coding of the program, in numbers and letter.
* And to the Right Hand corner is the hex->String. You will only edit this part if your changing words, ect. See the string tutorial here:
http://halolegions.forumcircle.com/viewtopic.php?t=248
* As you can see in the string section there is cmti. That stands for itmc which is abriviated for item collection. You can view these abriviations in HMT, or HHT, ect. So :

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projectile > proj > jorp
weapon > weap > paew 

Get it?
* So the code were looking at is a modded version of bloodgulch where i made you start off with three weapons. (Yours will look different) Heres a chart of Item Collections Info:

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Item Collection (itmc)
  Name          Offset    	Value     	Meta      	Ident   	Meta Size 
Shotgun		00859C30	CC7B224C	00B69540	E5880414	176b
Assault Rifle	0085A6F0	441F254C	00B938B8	E5DE046A	176b
Plasma Rifle	0085A710	F41F254C	00B93968	E5DF046B	176b
Shield-invis.	0085AD10	D479274C	00BB9348	E60F049B	260b
Powerup Health	0085AF70	A4B0274C	00BBCA18	E62204AE	176b
Frag Grenades	0085B070	34C4274C	00BBDDA8	E62A04B6	176b
Pistol		0085B250	E4EA274C	00BC0458	E63904C5	176b
Rocket Launch	0085B270	94EB274C	00BC0508	E63A04C6	176b
Sniper Rifle	0085B650	A02B2A4C	00BE4514	E65904E5	176b
Powerup Shield	0085C110	407C2D4C	00C195B4	E6AF053B	176b
Plasma 'nades	0085C130	F07C2D4C	00C19664	E6B0053C	176b
Flame Thrower	0085C3B0	84B52D4C	00C1CEF8	E6C40550	176b
Plasma cannon	0085CD50	1001304C	00C41A84	E711059D	176b
Plasma Pistol	0085D3D0	6889314C	00C5A2DC	E74505D1	176b

Were going to look at the Indent code
So the starting weapons i have in the map right now are pistol, shotgun, and sniper.
Were going to find Assult rifles Indent Code and change it with Plasma rifle.
So Assult Rifles code is:

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E5DE046A

But thats not how it is stated in hex. So were going to change it backwords, and every 2 forwards.

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So E5DE046A -> 5EED40A6

Heres the plasma rifles code:

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E5DF046B -> 5EFD04B6

So change :

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5EED40A6 with 5EFD04B6

There you go, you just made your other starting off weapon a plasma pistol.
I hope this is easy enough to get. Please comment if you dont get it.

Adding a Pelican in b30

1. Open HMT
2. Open b30.map
3. Find Vechiacal tag [vech]
4. Go to vehicles/pelican and copy the meta
5. Go to vehicles/warthog and paste the meta and then save
6. Go to vehicles/warthog and go to where it say seat number
7. Select seat 0 and change the name to W-Driver
8. Start up Halo Campain and Enjoy!

Make Flaming Gradnades!

Apply sparkify plugins to map (bloodgulch)
Then open HHT
Goto the effects tag
Click on weapons/plasma granade/effects/plasma granade
Click to the left where it says part - weapons/plasma granade/plasma granade armed
Swap it with effect/particle/flash/burning flame

Now goto weapons/plasma granade/effects/explosion
Swap pctl - ; ipt! - ; ipt! as shown below

Now goto weapons/plasma granade/effects/detenation start
Click on effect/particle/energy/smoke e generic
Swap it with effect/particle/flash/burning flame


Goto weapons/plasma granade/effects/bounce
swap all of the Part- tags to effect/particle/flash/burning flame
There you go just apply de-sparkify patch and your ready!

Active scenery

Want to add an moving object that will fly around the map? Well here a little tut on how to do this.
Open HMT and copy a Meta File of that selected Meta File. (make sure its some projectile that isnt being used in the map)

Now goto the equiptment tag
Select on Healthpack, or over shield, or the other 1 (but you wont be able to use it again)
Paste the meta over the other one and click save (not save meta)

Now apply the sparkify plugin because were moving on to HHT
Open HHT
Select the projectile tag
Click on the projectile that you chose in the beggining(i chose the turret one)
Click on MOD2 and change it with a model that you want to switch it with

Close HHT and open up Spark edit.
Move the equeptment (i chose health pack) Where ever you want, note the item flies streight ahead and once it hits an object it dissapears

Apply the de-sparkify plugins
Open HMT and go to the projectile tag. You can then edit the speed (keep it around 0.1-0.5) and the wieght if you want it to curve.
Then in the Item collection tag you can change the respond time of the item.

Game Save Hack

For single player mode the files are saved as how far you've gone. Today were going to be editing one of the files. To start off goto this location:

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__:\Documents and Settings\____\My
Documents\My Games\Halo\savegames\____\checkpoints\autosave.sav

note that you have to fill in the Blanks

Find Autosave.sav and open it up with notepad.

You should see a format of 9 letters like so:

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1,2,3,
4,5,6,
7,8,9

Here is my file:



1. Is the map that you last finished.
Since trial only come with one sp map select 3
0 The Pillar of Autumn
1 Halo
2 The Truth and Reconciliation
3 The Silent Cartographer
4 Assault on the Control Room
5 343 Guilty Spark
6 The Library
7 Two Betrayals
8 Keys
9 The Maw

We selected 3 because of the fact that we only have it

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3,2,3,
4,5,6,
7,8,9

2. The second number is the difficulty you will start out on.
0Easy
1 Normal
2 Heroic
3 Legandary

I will choose Legandary because im not a n00b

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3,3,3,
4,5,6,
7,8,9

3. Is how often the gamesaves will appear.
Heres the forumla

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Any number * 25 + 25.

So for example, if you wanted 100 seconds, you would put
100 * 25 = 2500. Then add 25 to get 2525. Enter that in place of 3. So it

Heres how it looks like now

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3,3,2525,
4,5,6,
7,8,9

4. The next number is the month it was saved on
Heres the code for it

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1 being January, and 12 being December.

I'll choose November

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8,0,2525,
11,5,6,
7,8,9

5. The day you want it to say it was saved on
Of course choose a number between 1-32
I'll use 12

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8,0,2525,
11,12,6,
7,8,9

6. The year it was saved on
I can only be any four digits so I'll put 1890

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8,0,2525,
11,12,1890
7,8,9

7. This one is in Military time. Rember it goes from 1-24 so 2 p.m. would be 14 p.m.

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8,0,2525,
11,12,1890,
14,8,9

8. Is the minutes
I'll use 15

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8,0,2525,
11,12,1890,
14,15,9

9. The final one is in seconds
I'll say 57

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8,0,2525,
11,12,1890,
14,15,57

Just save it and load up halo


Changing name of weapons


Open the hex editing program with the selected map
Push crtl-f (or the find button)
Type in the weapon name
Make sure you have theese things correct on your search:

Hit OK and search
You should come up with a small number like 7 or 8
Ok now find the one you want to change.
It should be p.i.s.t.o.l (if your doing pistol)
To make a change you have to keep the (.'s) and the same amount of letters
So p.i.s.t.o.l (to) minigun or m.i.n.i.g.u.n will not work!
But p.i.s.t.o.l (to) f.a.z.z.o.r will
Now go up to the top and push File -> Save as
Save the work as bloodgulchedited.map ( you can change it back to bloodgulch if you want)(or what ever name)
That should work



Delete Halo Trial Ad

Ok theres 1 file that you delete so that the video at the end will not show up.

select demo.bik and delete it. Its that easy

Text Hack!

-----Text hack-----
Open up Note pad
Open the folder found in this location

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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Trial\content

Find 768editbox.ksml (thats the file were going to edit)
(note yours may be anyone of the files, its different for everyone)
Open it up (make sure you select all files or else you wont be able to see it)
You should see this

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<ksml>
  <head/>
<body>

  <editbox width="680" left="140" top="740" background="gallery\editbox768.png"
	id="oEditbox" ime="false" tabindex="0" maxlength="40"
	font="Arial Narrow-13-bold" color="#ffffffff"
	/>     
  <label left="0" top="742" width="140" text="Prompt" id="oPrompt" 
	font="Arial Narrow-13-bold" color="#ffffffff"
	/>  
</body>
</ksml>

Edit it so that the maxlength is "100"
To change the color of the text use a hex color chart
http://www.immigration-usa.com/html_colors.html
Replace #ffffffff with any one of your selected colors
heres mine (my color is maroon)

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<ksml>
  <head/>
<body>

  <editbox width="680" left="140" top="740" background="gallery\editbox768.png"
	id="oEditbox" ime="false" tabindex="0" maxlength="100"
	font="Arial Narrow-13-bold" color="#990000"
	/>     
  <label left="0" top="742" width="140" text="Prompt" id="oPrompt" 
	font="Arial Narrow-13-bold" color="#990000"
	/>  
</body>
</ksml>

Click on save and your done!
You have successfully hacked the text for halo trial!

Thanks Crypt/Easynerd
Again I made all of these, and please do not copy without giving me credit. It took me foreverr on my spare time to make these tut so n00bs could get modding.
Halolegions.forumcirclec.com

[Kraken]

OMG! You're a trial modder?! That awesome mod you were making was for trial?! DUDE! Look at the name of this site. Mac Gaming Mods. I think you'd be better off here.

[crypt]

Arnt they like the same thing? Am i like kicked off the site now? lol my misstake... O well they share the same concept. Like my hex tutorials, you can use...

[Kraken]

Well, you could still give me the mod that you're working on right now so I could see if it works on Mac. >_>
Also, it's not even close to the same thing. You can't play with people on Mac if you're on a PC.

[draconic74]

not all of them... i tried to mod a mac map using pc. it crashed after some simple and easy stuff (its all done in hex and with plugins...). in other words, i dont think much stuff works when converted, unless its a conversion.

[crypt]

Haha sorry, O well the tutorial is basically the same for both OS. But your spark Edit iis different, so you have to replace that with something.

[draconic74]

our sparkedit sucks. it shows bitmaps, models, and 3d maps. or it is supposed to. mine wont show the map in 3d, so its completely usless since i dont model and bitmap edit...

[Arthur9]

Watch out! He´s a PC user! He can spread viruses to our Macs!

[Big Birdie]

Some parts are friendly at least, the hex tut <_< but we got alot around here plus one on clanhalo.

Draconic74, any swap on a pc will surely crash on a mac.The only thing I believe useful between pc usage to a mac is sparkedit since it doesn't do any form of swap.

Other stuff done on pc's I cant think of that can crash on macs.

[crypt]

Watch out! He´s a PC user! He can spread viruses to our Macs!

. Not reall, plus your stereo typing pc's. One OS is not better in all ways. Plus any computer can recieve a virus. And how would i spread a virus to your mac? Give you a .exe file along with a .map and say you have to open both. lol.

[«Beast»]

.exe files don't work on Mac. And as a sidenote, Windows is garbage.

[Kraken]

I'm still wondering how a windoze is better than a Mac in any way besides more games. I don't like playing games on a windoze anyway. >_>

[LAPTOPER]

Although, yes, it is for Windows, not Mac, it is still very nice. SOME things still do apply to us, but lots dont. All I am going to say is that it is a ton easier modding on Windows, than it is on Mac.....

Anyway, great job, I realize it takes a lot of time for doing it... thanks.


LAPTOPER

[Kraken]

The thing I'm most sad about is that his awesome mod he was working on is for PC.

[LAPTOPER]

Thats why a "Windows playing Mac" would come in handy. Speaking of which, is there any application that lets you run Windows that you dont have to have an intel based mac? Bootcamp and some others, I think are just for intel based. I got mine about a month before they realeased that, so I am not intel equipped. Is there any other way to do it? Thanks,

LAPTOPER