Quote: Originally Posted by
Not Zachary88-2 
what exactly are you doing?
http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/halo...-released.html
Just to give you an idea of what goes into each map...
- First I have to remove the auto-aim values and lower all the magnetism values for each weapon...the magnetism is slightly different depending on the weapon itself. Then I make various individual tweaks to each weapon, which usually including changes to the spread, magazine, rate of fire, mode of fire (used to have to switch from DH to H2X for that), the scopes, HUDs, etc. Many weapons, like the BR, are completely overhauled and not one value is the same.
- Every projectile has the max range extended to 480 units so no distance on any map will cause the projectile to simply disapear before it hits the target. If you can aim well enough you can hit from any distance. Then speeds are tweaked for each weapon, usually to emphasize leading. The most complicated part is that a good number of the projectiles swap damage tags in order to take advantage of certain properties. For example, the Carbine uses the Plasma Pistol damage in order to deal low bodyshot damage. The Plasma Grenade uses one of the Needler tags in order to deal more shield than health damage. For the Needler, I actually have to swap the impact damage to the Beam Rifle damage tag, then swap the 2 detonation instances to the Needler trigger in order to null the damage.
- Then I have to change all the damage values accordingly. Not one weapon stays the same. And one slip up with either the projectile swap or the accompanying damage values, and the weapon in broken in terms of balance so I have to match every one exactly. At this point I've got most minutea commited to memory, like the exact radius values and 3 different damage values for each grenade (plus extra blast force).
- Once one map is done, the whole thing must be done all over again for the next map until every map is done. Every once in a while I've redone everything from scratch just to eliminate any lingering bugs (like weapons that crash the game) that may have accumulated over months of editing the same files in Dot Halo. It's a *****.
- Now that more complicated technical stuff has been added to the mix with version 2.0, like the SMG muzzle climb fix, custom scopes, and the revised item layouts for each map, the work that would have to be done to mod a map from scratch has been multiplied.
Quote: Originally Posted by
Not Zachary88-2 FYI, Entity is the best public application for modding H2X. you shouldn't have to use Dothalo, h2x, Insolence, or any other poorly built application to complete a task. Entity doesn't cooperate with too many older apps.
Yeah I noticed. I like Entity a lot, I really do, but it's annoying that the more I start using it, the more I run into this bug. However, what's perhaps even more annoying is when I go to research the problem and all I find is some ******* running around threads yelling "OMG U MUST BE USING N00B PROGRAMS OR UR NOT USING CLEAN MAPS!!111".
EUE 1.6: "Internal - Map Not Found, Set Map Paths"
Linear Mode
