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Engineer v0.8 Beta



Key Features:

IFP Based Tag Extraction/Injection

In Halo 3 reflexives are stored in "pools" of like reflexives, resulting in reflexives being spread throughout the .map files. This is fixed by using a ifp plugin file to extract the meta and all it reflexives to one file. Then on injection, will inject back to the proper locations within the map file.

**Update**
In case you havnt seen it yet you can grab the unnoficial build of the next version here: http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.ph ... &start=228

Meta Editor

Using the meta editor you can make changes to the tags within halo 3's map files.



Known Bugs

- Meta Editor does not display Bitmask or StringID's value types yet.
- No Sp or Shared maps yet all Mp maps should work I have only had 3 to test with.
- Resigning only fixes the checksum not whatever else is protecting the maps.

IFP FYI

- When editing IFP files all tag references should be set like this
There is now an 8byte un-unsed block on data between the tag class and the ident.

- Tag extraction is based of IFP's so remember to make sure all your header and reflex sizes are correct otherwise your tags wont extract/inject properly

Thanks

- Everyone contributing in the Halo 3 Retail Game Research Thread
- All Beta Testers(Glitchy was a great help )

Awesome, great work shade.

cheers man great work

shade you nut. good stuff!

I heart u

Very nice, soon i'll get into lightly modding Halo 3.

ill be looking into this once im able to.

shade45 wrote:- When editing IFP files all tag references should be set like this

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Probably one of the most annoying things of the originals, that you had to reference both the tag class and ident. Just make 'tag' mean theres a tag reference at that location, and 'id' mean just an ident >_>

Apart from that though, good job. An interesting approach to the layout of the meta editor layout as well, looks really good =P

My only quifs would be that the 'Tag' comboBoxes aren't sorted, and the labels go off the screen slightly sometimes, like in your preview^^. And maybe make the class nodes in the tree all branch off from a root node, as sometimes the scrollbar doesn't extend to the last node in XP when there are quite a few at base level.

Also post any new information in the research thread! =)

Glad to see it working in Vista.

ahh, finally some progress. good job shade

Great Job. Glad to see an app out that actually looks like an app that would help someone.

shade45 wrote: IFP FYI

- When editing IFP files all tag references should be set like this

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    <tag name="Unknown" offset="0" visible="True" />
    <unused offset="4" size="8" />
    <id name="Unknown" offset="12" visible="True" />

There is now an 8byte un-unsed block on data between the tag class and the ident.

sounds to me like tags can now be longer than 4 letters, which some are ie tag is size 8 and possibly the id is size 8 as well which accounts for all of ur "unused" values
and i agree with prey combine tag and id into 1 thing (size 16)

HEADTRAUMA wrote:shade you nut. good stuff!

HeadTrauma long time no see

Im glad everyone like this.

xzodia wrote: sounds to me like tags can now be longer than 4 letters, which some are ie tag is size 8 and possibly the id is size 8 as well which accounts for all of ur "unused" values
and i agree with prey combine tag and id into 1 thing (size 16)

Yeah that is a good idea i'll implement that into the next release. I'll also fix the labels so they don't run offscreen.

Great Work man.

omg hes alive!

like zomg its glitchy >_> but lets not get side tracked here, keep on topic

Sick

This is amazing work Shade, nicely done!

EDIT: GJ shade cant wait to actually play these maps lol

you fail...

you didnt even do a simple hack for the magic!!!

you coulda just made a list of all the maps magic's since it wont change anytime soon


haha