Engineer V1.17

GNFRx77 · Post by **GNFRx77** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:57 pm

ah.

i feel noobieish but when i start up enginerr and i open up shrine it says "Could not find your image map directory! This is where we are looking C:/blahblahblah"

can someone help?

and then when i press ok like another window opens but i cant see any tags.

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:23 pm

GNFRx77 wrote:ah.

i feel noobieish but when i start up enginerr and i open up shrine it says "Could not find your image map directory! This is where we are looking C:/blahblahblah"

can someone help?

and then when i press ok like another window opens but i cant see any tags.

....

I made it tell you the filepath for a reason..

where is it looking? and where are you maps?

GNFRx77 · Post by **GNFRx77** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:37 pm

its looking at C:/documentsandsettings/owner/desktop/maps/images

and my maps are on my desktop in a folder called maps

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:41 pm

do you have the images folder inside the map directory?

If not goto settings and set LoadMapInfo and LoadMapImage to False.

then try to open a map

GNFRx77 · Post by **GNFRx77** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:47 pm

where could i get the images from?

i just thought we had to put the shared.map and mainmenu.map in the directory.

but i tried the false thing u said and it worked fine.

and the last question i have is can i extract bitmaps and view them also?

sorry for all the fuss and questions

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:49 pm

Bitmaps can't be extracted.

Supermodder911 · Post by **Supermodder911** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:49 pm

Tural wrote:Bitmaps can't be extracted.

Or viewed.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:57 pm

That's a given.

unknownv2 · Post by **unknownv2** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:11 pm

Tural wrote:Bitmaps can't be extracted.

I cried. I'm trying to learn all this map stuff and I feel so useless because I'm really having a hard time getting it through my skull while trying to see if I can help.

I wish it was a simple as Photoshop...

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:13 pm

Try using Photoshop to reverse engineer something. :3

unknownv2 · Post by **unknownv2** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:18 pm

Tural wrote:Try using Photoshop to reverse engineer something. :3

Hehe. I wish.

Was it confusing for you the first time also?

KIWIDOGGIE · Post by **KIWIDOGGIE** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:48 am

for eveyone, Some people learn about the engine more than others. Im still at a lowly 20%, Anthony said around 80% Thats why he can make such kickass apps.

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:42 pm

KIWIDOGGIE wrote:for eveyone, Some people learn about the engine more than others. Im still at a lowly 20%, Anthony said around 80% Thats why he can make such kickass apps.

I don't get your basis for that post, or why you made it at all.

KIWIDOGGIE · Post by **KIWIDOGGIE** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:25 pm

unknownv2 wrote:
Tural wrote:Try using Photoshop to reverse engineer something. :3
Hehe. I wish.

Was it confusing for you the first time also?

He was asking them, was it hard when they first started Halo Modding/Programming, or programming in general

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:29 pm

He was asking me, and I didn't respond for a reason, because it was off-topic. You put yourself into the conversation to make a post irrelevant to the topic.

KIWIDOGGIE · Post by **KIWIDOGGIE** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:31 pm

Sorry, Ok Shade when do you think BSP viewing will be possible. Maybe even with some of the effects(XNA)

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:44 pm

XNA would be no more useful for interpreting the game's engine than any other structure would.

Prey · Post by **Prey** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:02 pm

KIWIDOGGIE wrote:Sorry, Ok Shade when do you think BSP viewing will be possible. Maybe even with some of the effects(XNA)

Rendering APIs come later. The research into where exactly the map geometry is stored in the map files, as well as the textures, comes first.

OwnZ joO · Post by **OwnZ joO** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:19 pm

Somebody should compile this into a Halo 3 White paper sometimes available for download, I might eventually if nobody else wants to.

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:24 pm

or you can goto the research topic and just look at it all there