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[Asura]

I'm thinking of changing a sniper/pistol bullet to a plasma grenade so that the "instant hit" would stick a plasma grenade to the person hit. When I test, the grenade practically falls out of the end of the barrel, any ideas?

TIA,

Marc

[pantsmaster]

You have to edit the projectile or something. I know that it can be done, I just never cared enough to figure out how. Open the Nightwinder level from NMP in HMT and see what they did to the plasma pistol, cause it shoots plasma grenades.  Go to www.halomods.com to get NMP if for some reason you don't already have it.

[Asura]

Thanks. Anyone else? I don't want to go through the trouble of getting NMP. I honestly don't know hex that well. I can change stuff on my own, but actually looking at it to see what's different is out of the question.

Marc

[pantsmaster]

I don't know any hex at all, and I'm not sure why you mentioned it.
You can download the patch for Nightwinder without downloading all of NMP.
I went ahead and opened the map myself to see what was changed.
Open whatever map it is that you are editing in HaloMapTools and go to projectiles and then plasma grenade. Change the life span to 1000, reduce the weight/arc to 0, and set the initial and final speeds to 33.33334. I think you'll need a weapon tag plug-in to do that. You can get one from halomods.com if you don't already have one. Those are the exact settings of the sniper rifle bullet. Unfortunatly, that'll change the way you throw grenades too. I don't know of anyway to get around that other than injecting the plasma grenade projectile in over the sniper rifle bullet, but that's probably more trouble than it's worth, and I don't know how to do it anyway.

[Asura]

What?

[pantsmaster]

Download HaloMapTools HERE

After you've installed that, download this file right  HERE
When you unzip that you'll get an empty folder, a plugins folder, and a readme. Open the plugins folder and move everything from it into the HaloMapTools/plugins directory.

Once you've done that, get a cache file of the map you want to mod.
Run HaloMapTools, go to file, open, then select the cache file you just got.
On the left side scroll down to where it says [proj] Projectile (# items). Click on the little + next to that and go down to where it says weapons\plasma grenade\plasma grenade.
At this point, a tag editor should open up on the right side.
Where it says Life Span, change the 0 to 1000.
Where it says Weight/Arc, change the 1 to a 0.
Change both initial speed and Final speed to 33.33334

If you check weapons\sniper rifle\sniper bullet, you'll note that it has the same settings.

Now, click on weapons\plasma grenade\plasma grenade if you don't still have it selected.
At the top left there's a section titled Tag Information.
Look where it says Meta, there should be a swap button next to it followed by a field with some numbers and letters in it.
Highlight all of the numbers and letters.
Right-click COPY.
Click on weapons\sniper rifle\sniper bullet.
Look up at the Tag Information box again.
Highlight the little field with the numbers and letters in it.
Right-click PASTE.
Click the button to the right of that that says Save. NOT the one that says Save Meta.
Close HaloMapTools.
Transfer the cache file back into the HALO cache on your XBOX.

You will now have a sniper rifle that shoots plasma grenades as if they were sniper bullets.

You'll also throw them in the same way.

[polyesterjones]