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Posted by: the omega man117
... for a modder to extract the textures from CEA and import them into Halo PC?
I know I couldn't do this, (damn plasma shotgun still doesn't work right) but I think it would be cool if someone were to replace all of the textures in the Halo PC campaign with CEA textures. Then, people would not be forced to use controllers to play with better graphics.
I realise that there is a graphics layer in CEA that can't be reproduced. I am not saying to try to import that layer, but to just extract the textures. (I doubt that made any sense)
I thought you had made a good thread up until this point:
Then, people would not be forced to use controllers to play with better graphics.
No need to keep reinforcing your cool PC gamer cred.
On the subject of the thread, yes, it is possible. But it's likely that the textures used in the campaign are compressed and thus difficult to get at. However, the maps being released for Reach are another story.
Programs already exist to extract textures from Reach maps, which means retrieving those textures should be relatively simple.
Extracting the BSP once again depends on whether it's compressed or not, which it likely is. However, this is not some proprietary technology when we speak of the graphics layer. This is a commercial engine used in multiple commercial games. There's a good chance that whatever filetypes that will be used will already be understood.
Also, incorporating the BSP is also difficult. Halo PC has a very limited engine, and would not be able to support such a high-poly model. Opensauce would have to be used, but Opensauce is still in it's infancy.
Even if you were able to extract every asset in a form that could be incorporated into the engine, you would still have to deal with many limitations. OpenSauce would have to be used if you wanted the same level of detail, as the Halo PC engine cannot apply detail maps to weapons-in-hand and scenery objects.
I hope that this has helped.
Posted by: path1k
i know what you mean and its definitely possible but there will be errors though because there are now terminals in the CEA campaign + the videos from C.E for the PC will have to be completely replaced with the video files from C.E.A for cutscenes because they're not the same
I don't think you know what you're talking about. The terminals are completely irrelevant.
[Edited on 09.29.2011 4:59 PM PDT]