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Title: Sooooo........ Map Rebuilding, Xbox
Post by: Zero_Cool on December 03, 2003, 07:35:00 PM

Is there any way to rebuild maps, i know people say it cant be done because of "size issues" but what if like you pulled the laser off the centinal in sp then deleted say the assult rifle bullet and imported the laser?

would that work?

ne ideas?

Title: Sooooo........ Map Rebuilding, Xbox
Post by: xboxhackern00b on December 03, 2003, 09:02:00 PM

why dont you try and tell us i mean it cant be THAT hard to try can it?

Title: Sooooo........ Map Rebuilding, Xbox
Post by: EggHead on December 03, 2003, 11:04:00 PM

It sounds easy but...

HMT doesnt allow xbox maps to be rebuilt (from what i have experienced and heard)
It just gives an arithmatic error. Even if you just batch extract then try to rebuild.
you could manually do it trhough hex (easier due to exact locations from HMT)

May aswell give it a go and post your findings.

Title: Sooooo........ Map Rebuilding, Xbox
Post by: ShadowDaemon07 on December 04, 2003, 05:44:00 AM

QUOTE

<Wraith> hey Mono, can i ask you a question real quick? <Wraith> im just wondering if there will be another version to let you rebuild a SP map <Tophat> or maybe to rebuild an xbox map <MonoxideC> yeah that should be in the next update with xbox rebuilding

Title: Sooooo........ Map Rebuilding, Xbox
Post by: EggHead on December 04, 2003, 07:04:00 AM

Well i meant current version of HMT (v3).
However the size limit may be a problem with the amount of data you can inject.
Inside the xbox map files there are quite a lot of unused space so maybe with a bit of
rearrangement new data will be able to be injected.

If some one figured a way to make the cache files any size then that would allow a lot
more modding to be done. Maybe even more than Halo PC

Title: Sooooo........ Map Rebuilding, Xbox
Post by: Zero_Cool on December 04, 2003, 12:02:00 PM

xboxhackernoob, i was hoping someone with a little more experiance could tell me yes or no, i dont know how to totally delete a section of data, maybe you could help, do you know how?

egghead, how would you go about doing it manually, could you post a tutorial?

shadowdaemon07, do you know when the update will be out?

Title: Sooooo........ Map Rebuilding, Xbox
Post by: ShadowDaemon07 on December 04, 2003, 12:08:00 PM

Sorry, but I have no idea. If you really want to know, get on IRC on the freenode.net server, and join #halomods. You can ask someone there.

Title: Sooooo........ Map Rebuilding, Xbox
Post by: Zero_Cool on December 04, 2003, 12:11:00 PM

ok thanks

Title: Sooooo........ Map Rebuilding, Xbox
Post by: EggHead on December 04, 2003, 06:43:00 PM

Ok I have never done it yet!

But when you extract the meta data you usually end up with 2 files (non recursive) a meta file and the xml.
the xml gives all the dependencies and chuncks of code that make up that object.
With recursive it includes all the dependencies as well.

So I was thinking find another object that had the same/more room for meta data and dependicies.
Then re-write them with the new chuncks from where the xml tells you.

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