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Subject: Bungie assistance requested: testing maps in Sapien as the player.

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I know it isn't too likely that a Bungie dev will notice this, and even if someone does it is even less likely that they will have been someone who worked on Halo 1. Nevertheless I must try.

I've been experimenting with the feature in Sapien which allows you to take control of a biped as if it were your player (with HUD, FP arms, and even radar). I know this was also used to create recordings. I cannot seem to find out how you are able to take full control, however, such as assigning keys to movement.

I have tried the tool command "import-device-defaults" thinking it could be used for importing your profile for use in Sapien to test maps. It imported successfully yet I noticed no difference. I have used the console to load and activate my profile. I've used the console to enable player input and player camera control. Nothing has worked.

There are so many debugging tools such as the F# keys which can select AI encounters and such, and there are so many engine globals and functions which are only accessible in Sapien, I know there has to be a way to play the map in Sapien. If you could kindly point out what I'm missing, I'd be very grateful.

Sincerely,
The Cereal Killer

  • 07.25.2011 10:56 AM PDT

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Probably a better place to ask this would be on the boards at Gearbox Software or at Halomaps.org. Not many modders here and the dev rarely even look in here.

  • 07.25.2011 5:09 PM PDT

It was asked here, because it's not something modders know, its one of Bungie's little secrets.

We know its trying, because it has the HUD message to enter vehicles, but we also know it doesn't have any buttons asigned, because it says press ??? to enter whatever. And if you use console to check stuff like list_count (players) it returns there is one, and unit_kill (unit (list_get (players) 0)) kills the biped your in.

  • 07.25.2011 5:43 PM PDT

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  • 07.25.2011 7:06 PM PDT