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Subject: Ideas for new HaloCE!
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I was laying in my bed the other day and thought..."What if i got together with some programers and fellow gamers to create the ultimate version of HaloCE. And then I thought..."But how will I do it and what will we include? I want to make HaloCE more...customizable. Not having to download the Halo Editing Kit, and figure out what in the world the tools do and how to use them. The only problem is......................I need some help.

  • 08.07.2005 9:30 AM PDT
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You should get a map editor like the one for Operation Flashpoint. Then you should be able to add ai bots instead of having to create them (which is hard). Then you should be able to play against covenant campaign mode bots that respawn when killed and can be told to hold position, defend the base, guard you, or attack. You should also be able to place certian weapons on certian spots on the map like in perfect dark.

  • 08.07.2005 10:27 AM PDT
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Prometheus my friend, Prometheus.

  • 08.07.2005 10:35 AM PDT
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No... I meant a fully redisigned version of HaloCE basically. My idea was to have a completely new single player with the option of a cooperative mode if possible. I might be able to design the maps and give basis to the story. When creating your profile you would be able to select from a few different characters. The most interesting part would be the Multiplayer. you could select diferent object sets when you went into a map... It would be 'diferent' from halo but you would still be fighting the covenant and also have to fight the forerunners, or the forerunners could end up helping you...

  • 08.07.2005 11:05 AM PDT
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Wait, are we on the same page? You're talking about Halo Custom Edition, not a redone Halo Combat Evolved, right? Over here in The Maw, if you say CE people think Custom Edition, not Halo Combat Evolved.

Seems to me like you want to redo the entire single player of Combat Evolved...a suggestion to which I have only one reply.

Difficult.

Besides, there are very few tools that allow you to tweak the Campaign itself. Custom Edition (if you're talking about that) is exclusively for multiplayer maps, so are most map modding tools out there.

  • 08.07.2005 11:27 AM PDT
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yeah and you would be able to pick from the female fast running spartan or the male regular running spartan with better armor

  • 08.07.2005 11:45 AM PDT
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Yeah i know it would be dificult that is why i am asking for help! And it would be more like Halo CE 2. And I rethought the character idea and have decided if I can get some help and actually pull this off that you would only be able to pick the elite and the hunter. Those are the only two not too weak or complex. And maybe the storyline was a little excentric. more like a new mode where you have multiplayer maps flooded with AI bots.

[did you hear? Bungie already has ads on the internet for Halo 3!]

  • 08.07.2005 11:50 AM PDT
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You still haven't answered my question: Are you planning to redo Halo Combat Evloved or are you planning to redo Halo: Custom Edition?

Oh, and where did you ever see those halo3 ads on the internet? From one of those Google advertisements? That's not Bungie, thats a scam.

[Edited on 8/7/2005]

  • 08.07.2005 12:02 PM PDT
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You lied in you bed and thought about halo. WOW i never thought about halo that much.

  • 08.07.2005 12:17 PM PDT
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Not really its just that I just layed down in bed and I was just thinking about random things... like "What am i gonna do my bike is screwed up!" and stuff like that. I already design stuff on paper and I usually just let my mind wander about. Thats how I come up with most of the interesting artwork I do.

  • 08.07.2005 12:35 PM PDT
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If you are thinking of making a single player campaign, let me tell you a few things, it has been tried. They quit after, what, 6 months and didn't have a single level completed. Bungie took a few years to create halo, and they are professionals. You won't be able to find any tutorials on the internet for things like this. This isn't something that can be done easily.

  • 08.07.2005 1:18 PM PDT
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Who said I was lookin for easy and like I said I rethought the campaign and, like i said it was a little excentric. I came up with the campaign mode idea really late because had been playing Resident Evil 2, went to bed and then the wind kicked up and the house started making weird noises. And to a half sleep dude with his mind wandering freely about, that can get really freaky.

  • 08.07.2005 1:56 PM PDT
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You should get a map editor like the one for Operation Flashpoint.

Where do you get the map editor and will it work for Halo? [and I am partial to the terminology at the maw. CE does mean custom edition.]

  • 08.07.2005 2:01 PM PDT

I would imagine that the EULA prohibits reverse-engineering of the game.

So you'd be stuck at stage 1.

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I would imagine so but if that was correct then why would they allow someone to release the Halo Editing Kit? But just in case I will go read the EULA just to make sure that nothing will happen to me. /*goes to read EULA*/

  • 08.07.2005 5:37 PM PDT
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HEK allows users to tinker with the Multiplayer aspect, not with the campaign mode.

Basically what Mister Moderator up there is saying is that you can't mess with the campaign without making it illegal.

If you really want to make a campaign-ish mode, you'd have to create something similar to what Unreal Tournament offers in its Multiplayer: AI Bots and an objective-based battle. VERY hard. (Fans of the UT series will know what I'm talking about...Assault Mode.)

  • 08.07.2005 5:43 PM PDT
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Well, like everyone keeps seeming to miss is that i scrapped that idea like fifteen posts ago! It would only be a set of maps configured to multiplayer mode with a bunch of AI bots causing chaos!

Even so I am not sure that that could technically be considered reverse engineering. Either way I do not wish to even go near the realm of jail time so thanx for reminding me of my legal limitations.

  • 08.07.2005 6:02 PM PDT
Subject: New ideas for halo Ce maps and where do you get Gmax?
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How do you like the name change?

  • 08.07.2005 6:05 PM PDT
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Maybe sometimes I do get a little hasty with some of the weird contemplations that wander through my mind. Well at least this has been a learning expirience... however embarasing. So why dont we talk about something else?

I have been having some problems with finding Gmax. I have gone to the autodesk website but have not seen anywhere do download Gmax.

  • 08.07.2005 6:10 PM PDT

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You don't need to post everytime you contemplate. That was a triple post. We try to discourage those here.

  • 08.07.2005 9:16 PM PDT
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Try googling Gmax.

  • 08.07.2005 10:46 PM PDT
Subject: Ideas for new HaloCE!
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Posted by: LongspeedKatana
I was laying in my bed the other day and thought..."What if i got together with some programers and fellow gamers to create the ultimate version of HaloCE. And then I thought..."But how will I do it and what will we include? I want to make HaloCE more...customizable. Not having to download the Halo Editing Kit, and figure out what in the world the tools do and how to use them. The only problem is......................I need some help.

If you do get round to doing it, i tell u want i want, custom livery, as in custom skins, like a programme when you just have the spartan model and u add colours and stuff, that would own, u could finally go in as battle damged MC, or the naked MC

  • 08.08.2005 5:32 AM PDT
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I think that someone should find a way to incorporate the halo editing kit into HaloCE and make it so that you have several different models of characters to pick from.

  • 08.08.2005 6:37 AM PDT
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There needs to be a way to get people on halo PC and CE. I can open up a server and leave it there for a half an hour and no matter what setup I use I never get anyone to come. And the weird part is that I just came back from visiting my grandparents in California and there I would only have to wait like three minutes. Even when another 24-7 server is laging really bad and I offer to open a new server so everyone will quit complaining, no one comes!

  • 08.08.2005 2:26 PM PDT

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