- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Hey, i have a long background in Halo Custom Edition Modding and i also know most of the questions here will be left unanswered but will probably be noticed. As much as i am excited to hear halo 2 comming to the pc, erm i mean the expensive Mac OSX clone Vista. (not to dis it, OSX rocks!), im just concerned about the Editing Features for the Editing kit.
I know its a high priority to make it easy to use and user friendly for any gamer with a map idea, but that shouldnt take away from advanced modding features such as map scripting, custom character models, custom vehicle and weapon tagging, ability to model, map and animate from other 3d programs such as Maya or the free PLE version, and other professional modeling apps. Halo CE was restricted to 3ds Max only which costs nearly 5k. Open sourcing of the exporters/importers would be great for other community developers who want to port it to other modeling apps. I don't expect as much as what UT2004, or HalfLife 2 Editing kits provide, but just enough to not restrict the indepthness of what a user wants to create or mod in Halo 2.
As for making it gamer/newb friendly, it would be great to have allot of prebuilt map pieces, buildings, bases, terrain editor etc, to be able to snap together in a sapien like enviroment. With this, anyone could just take a bunch of parts like legos and construct an entire map with out needing the the extensive knowlege and experience in modeling and level design yet have a fun decent looking map to play in. Just as long as that isnt the only thing that can be done in it.
Im very optomistic in what can be offered in H2 Vista and If the editing features to prove worth while, i just may consider doing what may be nessary to upgrade my computer to be able to run Vista. I just hope it won't be as big of a mistake as it was when i had to upgrade from 2000 to XP.
Im very excited to get my Halo CE map Chronopolis http://www.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=1625 ported to Halo 2, just as long as the editor allows that.
I would be very excited to have a say, or even lend a helping hand in the Editing Kit for Halo 2 Vista. Just the editing kit is the one thing Im most excited to hear about. I just hope my voice gets heard by the important people out there.
[Edited on 3/22/2006]