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^^^^THIS SHIELD!!! (NOT THE BUBBLE SHIELD!)^^^^

Anyways, heres the tut.

DrXThirst
April 08, 2007
How To Make The Halo 3 Shields

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1. Open Turf in Entity.
2. Go to [+mach]
3. Click on the [+]
4. Click on scenarios\objects\covenant\military\scarab\plasma_ door\plasma_door
5. At the top right check the 3 boxes named Recursive, Parsed, and Sounds.
6. Hit the "Save" button.
7. Create a new folder and name it H3 Shield.
8. Hit "Save"
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1. Open your map in Entity.
2. Click the "Build" button at the bottom right of Entity.
3. Go to the folder you just created named "H3 Shield" , then click on the .info file in that folder.
4. When it is done, a message will pop-up telling you so.
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1. Open 04b_Floodlab.map in Entity.
2. Go to [+mach]
3. Click on the [+]
4. Click on scenarios\objects\forerunner\industrial\doors\door _tron_lg_containment_shield\door_tron_lg_containme nt_shield
5. At the top right check the 3 boxes named Recursive, Parsed, and Sounds.
6. Hit the "Save" button.
7. Create a new folder and name it H3 Shield Shader.
8. Hit "Save"
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1. Open your map in Entity.
2. Click the "Build" button at the bottom right of Entity.
3. Go to the folder you just created named "H3 Shield Shader" , then click on the .info file in that folder.
4. When it is done, a message will pop-up telling you so.
5. Go to [+mode]
6. Click on the [+]
7. Scroll down until you see -scenarios\objects\covenant\military\scarab\plasma_ door\plasma_door
8. On the right side, (Right-Click>Display>Idents) change both shaders to scenarios\objects\forerunner\industrial\doors\door _tron_lg_containment_shield\shaders\door_tron_lg_c ontainment_shield
9. Go to [+hlmt]
10. Click on the [+]
11. scenarios\objects\covenant\military\scarab\plasma_ door\plasma_door
12. On the right side, (Right-Click>Display>Idents) You will see Physics_Model and then next you it you will see PHMO.
13. Highlight the PHMO and Null it.
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1. Place it and you are good to go!
2. Hope this helps!


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I havn't seen a tut for this yet, but, here is the Ivory Tower mod of which G.I.R. refers to.

I personally, like using the Lockout gravlift shader for my plasma doors, just looks cooler, IMO.

Um, you might want to add this to your signiture of tutorials stolen. How, may I ask, did you get pretty much the almost exact tut that Team Lost Mods was to release? If you didn't get a leak or anything, nice tut man

I'm not sure. Because I was at my moms when I wrote this tutorial. (Which means I did not have internet.) However, I went to my friends house later on that day and uploaded it. I promise to everyone here, I did not see another tutorial on how to do this. I wanted to have the Halo 3 Shields that you could walk through, yet not be able to shoot through, so I looked around in entity for a while. Then I thought about the map in campaign where that heretic elite runs into that room and hides. The blue looks pretty cool, so I used that one. Then, I remembered the shield from the scarab and that was the biggest one that I could find. I actually tried the covenant_portable_shields first. So, yea. Take it however you want. I can only tell you the truth, I cannot make you believe it.

ExileDestruction wrote:I'm not sure. Because I was at my moms when I wrote this tutorial. (Which means I did not have internet.) However, I went to my friends house later on that day and uploaded it. I promise to everyone here, I did not see another tutorial on how to do this. I wanted to have the Halo 3 Shields that you could walk through, yet not be able to shoot through, so I looked around in entity for a while. Then I thought about the map in campaign where that heretic elite runs into that room and hides. The blue looks pretty cool, so I used that one. Then, I remembered the shield from the scarab and that was the biggest one that I could find. I actually tried the covenant_portable_shields first. So, yea. Take it however you want. I can only tell you the truth, I cannot make you believe it.

I believe you man. No worries! Just mkaing sure Good tut. Ours will be released with a 100% functional Halo 3 Bubble Shield and possibly a fully functional spartan laser cannon, and if that's not enough, several other Halo 3 related objects, things, etc.....

Nice tutorial.

TLM was going to release this, but it seems to me they are dying or dead...

They said they were making a tut about 2 months ago. So nice I guess for people who didnt know about phmo.

Yea, I have learned alot here lately about PHMO and COLL. I think I'm gonna go and redownload Detox's PHMO and COLL tools.

EDIT: Thanks Locke!

there is a phmo tool?!?!!! WHERE!!?!?!? i thought phmo wasn't possible!

I don't think its... easy... I heard its basically easiest to just resize and forget. I haven't done it so I couldn't tell you for sure.

Oh, nevermind. Its a "Shader and Coll Tool" package.

cmon, where is it? i'm trying to get the cab off of a banshee, but the phmo of it it is still there!

Shade made a tool for extracting/injectinh PHMO models, here it is:

shade45 wrote: Ok progress has been made here

Ive found the verticies reflex at offset 128 heres the code for it

Code: Select all

  <struct name="Verticies" offset="128" visible="true" size="16" label="">
    <float name="X" offset="0" visible="True" />
    <float name="Y" offset="4" visible="True" />
    <float name="Z" offset="8" visible="True" />
    <undefined name="Unknown" offset="12" visible="False" />
  </struct>

I also made i quick app to extract/Inject the phmo verticies

To use:
-Open your map up in this app
-Enter the offset of the phmo tag u want to extract the verticies for then click load verts
-Then choos extract or inject

This will only inject phmo models with the same amount of verticies



Ive also included a patch for coagulation that has a banshee with edited phmo if you want to try it


Download: http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.ph ... ch&id=8633

Why are you taking credit for this tutorial, when one of the first lines says DrXThirst?

Check my aim

ok i did this but it didnt show up in game i was wondering why because i did everything that i did

My tutorial is without error. It was your fault not the tutorials.

However, that is not what you are saying. It should be showing up.
Can you please go into more detail with your problem?

Thanks, thirst.

well ive done everything like built it into the map and everything but it dosent show the shield doors in the map at all the map i put it in the map im using is coagulation can u put a shield door on this map?

Yea, I would test the tutorial once again for efficiency. Although, I don't have my modded xbox anymore.

where would the shields appear on the coagulation map?