- jcap
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- Elder Heroic Member
Join the Modacity Forums - a community focusing on the modding abilities of Halo PC, Halo CE, and Halo 2 PC.
It depends on what you want to do, really. Halo Map Tools won't help you at all when it comes down to serious work with the HEK. It's not even a good introduction for beginners, since it is not even remotely related to the process involved in map creation with the HEK.
If you want to dick around with simple mods like making your plasma pistol fire rockets, then Halo Map Tools is for you.
If you want to make your own gun that can fire a custom projectiles and has custom animations and sounds, or if you want to make a map that isn't just a texture swap, then you need to look at some tutorials on the HEK.
I'd recommend ripping a map like Blood Gulch using HEK+ and downloading custom tags from HaloMaps. You should first learn the basics of how tags work, then slowly back into creating your own tags.
If you need help on this, there's two active forums still open. There's the Modacity community which is based on the biggest Halo CE community from the Gearbox forums and generally has more experienced modders. There's also the HaloMaps forum which is less active, but is more tolerant of people who can't spell or use proper grammar.