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Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: XBOX War3z on August 23, 2003, 01:30:00 PM
k so I was wondering what would you really like to have in v0.5 cos I don't have that much time anymore these days so I better work on the important stuff tongue.gif

also if anyone has nice additions to the ini files send me the file and it'll be included in next release

some more details:
Saving/Loading Presets
this will allow you to save your changes in the program to a file and your xbox and load it later, in case the cache gets overwritten or to use it on another xbox

PPF Patches
apply ppf patch on your xbox to one of your cache files, maybe later expand this feature
extra: create ppf patch from your changes in the program

Skinning
nicer colors, support for jpg files, background,...

Network
include ftp server so you download your cache file, upload new one
not very usefull I think tongue.gif

LAN
this is much more usefull, this will use the current network to send the changes to other xboxes running HCE so they all have the same settings
(gonna need alot of help for this one, setting up network,...)

for any other stuff just lemme know here wink.gif
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: DaSky on August 23, 2003, 01:38:00 PM
Saving and loading presets would be very nice. But then again its quick to change stuff when your a pal user not much of it. heheh nah Good Job smile.gif
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: orangerhino on August 23, 2003, 02:00:00 PM
Easier way to make vehicles fly. Also a .map compressor/decompressor so that we can make the levels permanently changed if we want.
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: rob1309 on August 23, 2003, 02:25:00 PM
ppf since lots of people make em, why not use em from within hce... would be awesome
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: XBOX War3z on August 23, 2003, 02:59:00 PM
QUOTE (DaSky @ Aug 23 2003, 10:38 PM)
Saving and loading presets would be very nice. But then again its quick to change stuff when your a pal user not much of it. heheh nah Good Job smile.gif

much more pal stuff coming, all outputs are there, now let BOLL convert them and then you can easily switch between PAL & NTSC, they will both have the same stuff

for the compressor, that takes alot of memory, don't the xbox can do it
well halo map extractor doesn't use much memory but it uses zlib
maybe later wink.gif

for the ppf patches, like file browsing stuff (too hard to do yet) so I'll stay with this:
new folder in HCE called PPF (original name tongue.gif ) then some button will show these files, max of 17 patches again, too lazy to make scrolling thing wink.gif and then when selecting, you choose cache file (make sure you choose the correct one smile.gif ) and it'll apply patch biggrin.gif

[EDIT]
question to patch makers: are all patches PPF3 or are some older? cos otherwise more coding for me  rolleyes.gif
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: NME on August 23, 2003, 03:06:00 PM
would it be poss to add the drive a rock hack and hogs on any level and the flying hog =) i know these are add but saves doing it every time in the long run and i cant get most of these to work on my pal version so if any 1 know post =)
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: SD_DRACULA on August 24, 2003, 02:57:00 AM
PAL offsets for SINGLE PLAYER MISSIONS, and a lot of them.
If possible!  wink.gif
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: Stefander on August 24, 2003, 08:06:00 AM
QUOTE (MadManMDN @ Aug 24 2003, 12:40 PM)
And it would be sweet if us PAL people could have the flying warthog in blood gulch

*sigh* did it yesterday... Search a post by XboxWar3z and you'll be fine... smile.gif
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: ianmalcm on August 24, 2003, 08:24:00 AM
get the functionality working to the best possible first with PPF, then saving to one xbox, and go from there. LAN is probably most useful, as this programs goal is to avoid using a computer at all. Skinning shouldnt be a priority, just have some of the kids around here draft a nice GUI for ya smile.gif
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: andy_0113 on August 24, 2003, 12:16:00 PM
heres the pal hce v0.4 code for flying warthogs (PAL) just save in a file called bloodgultch-p.ini

[PHYSICS]
warthog physics = 0x02340658, 0x889d8a80
ghost physics = 0x02340658, 0x84128f80

[WARTHOG-NORMAL-PAL]
warthog1 = 0x0282d9a0, 0x01000000
warthog2 = 0x0282d9a4, 0x08ac9c3e
warthog3 = 0x0282d9a8, 0xcdcccc3d
warthog4 = 0x0282d9ac, 0xd044583b
warthog5 = 0x0282d9a4, 0x5839343c
warthog6 = 0x0282d9b0, 0x00001042
warthog7 = 0x0282d9b4, 0x000010c2
warthog8 = 0x0282d9b8, 0x0000803f
warthog9 = 0x0282d9bc, 0x00003443

[WARTHOG-FLYING-PAL]
warthognohover1 = 0x0282d9a0, 0x05000000
warthognohover2 = 0x0282d9a4, 0xae47613e
warthognohover3 = 0x0282d9a8, 0x00000000
warthognohover4 = 0x0282d9ac, 0x6f12033c
warthognohover5 = 0x0282d9b0, 0x6f12833c
warthognohover6 = 0x0282d9b4, 0xf90fc93f
warthognohover7 = 0x0282d9b8, 0x00000000
warthognohover8 = 0x0282d9bc, 0x00000000
warthognohover9 = 0x0282d9c0, 0xcdcc4c3e
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: XBOX War3z on August 25, 2003, 01:02:00 AM
k current progress:
I added the applyppf source with no problems when compiling (good smile.gif )
working together with HaloSkins, easy stuff for downloading file of HaloSkins.com (also good smile.gif )
don't have an xbox atm (bad tongue.gif )
have an idea for scrolling (good)
so gonna break limits to 50 pages with each max 100 items (very good biggrin.gif)
if that all works I'm gonna need some good beta testers, or I'll release and let you all test smile.gif
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: andy_0113 on August 25, 2003, 04:35:00 AM
war3z if i can help just let me know
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: Samph on August 25, 2003, 08:30:00 AM
FLYING VIECHELS FOR PAL AND TO BE ABLE TO EDIT TEXT SCRINGS
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: Jagger on August 25, 2003, 04:45:00 PM
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Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: XBOX War3z on August 25, 2003, 11:03:00 PM
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code doesn't work at all anymore
so we'll stay with the current limitations tongue.gif  and I'll just add ppf now wink.gif
then LAN support biggrin.gif
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: SHiZNO on August 26, 2003, 09:31:00 AM
so you wont be supporting 30 pages? damn...you have to!
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: Mad_Gouki on August 26, 2003, 03:49:00 PM
an easier way to make the lists... maybe a companion program htat lets u put in a name and hex location and its group and itll compile all the thigns you put on
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: Jagger on August 26, 2003, 03:54:00 PM
QUOTE (Generallee02 @ Aug 27 2003, 12:44 AM)
How about an ability to edit each value/item.

You can just have it so that is you press a button (any button not used yet) it'll bring up a small window or something displaying the 8 hex numbers and allow you to change them. Perhaps pressing up and down changes a 7, to 8 and so on and you can edit them and save. Would allow people testing and modifying maps to go much quicker. Instead of editing them on pc and sending over or using the xbox notepad. It'd jut be quicker.

Nice idea, I like it.
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: Mad_Gouki on August 26, 2003, 03:59:00 PM
another thing that would be cool is larger ini page limits, ini loading, cache resetting(it woudl delete all the cache if you wanted to start from scratch), in game editing, on the fly input, and a pc based ini editor...
i would be glad to help however i can... im learning java in school this year so maybe i can help that way...
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: XBOX War3z on August 27, 2003, 12:53:00 AM
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Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: SD_DRACULA on August 27, 2003, 03:28:00 AM
will PAL users be expecting any single player map hacks?
that  would be the best!
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: XBOX War3z on August 27, 2003, 04:09:00 AM
QUOTE (Generallee02 @ Aug 27 2003, 10:43 AM)
what about what i listed in my post above? Is that at all possible to do? About being able to edit a line just by press of button via little pop up box or whatever. Save alot of time for people.

Like those editing walls, skies and such. They can edit and test much quicker. If they don't the effect, they can easily edit it.

I like the idea, wanted something like that but this would require a virtual keyboard or something smile.gif
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: Leceur on August 27, 2003, 05:30:00 AM
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Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: SHiZNO on August 27, 2003, 06:25:00 AM
Couldnt you just edit it a bit, and make an array of arrays? itd be easier in the long run (updateable)...so you could have it like

vartype array[pages][items]
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: Mad_Gouki on August 27, 2003, 01:06:00 PM
QUOTE (XBOX War3z @ Aug 27 2003, 01:09 PM)
QUOTE (Generallee02 @ Aug 27 2003, 10:43 AM)
what about what i listed in my post above? Is that at all possible to do? About being able to edit a line just by press of button via little pop up box or whatever. Save alot of time for people.

Like those editing walls, skies and such. They can edit and test much quicker. If they don't the effect, they can easily edit it.

I like the idea, wanted something like that but this would require a virtual keyboard or something smile.gif

no it wouldnt, you could use left and right, up and down to change the values... you put in its location and then you can edit its hex value...
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: XBOX War3z on August 27, 2003, 04:14:00 PM
QUOTE (SHiZNO @ Aug 27 2003, 03:25 PM)
Couldnt you just edit it a bit, and make an array of arrays? itd be easier in the long run (updateable)...so you could have it like

vartype array[pages][items]

it already works like that wink.gif
but multiarray is still just an array
something[15][17] is the same as something[255] just easier to use
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: NVShacker on August 27, 2003, 06:57:00 PM
Couldn'tuseuse two arrays, one for pages and one for items?
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: SHiZNO on August 27, 2003, 07:36:00 PM
QUOTE (XBOX War3z @ Aug 28 2003, 12:14 AM)
QUOTE (SHiZNO @ Aug 27 2003, 03:25 PM)
Couldnt you just edit it a bit, and make an array of arrays? itd be easier in the long run (updateable)...so you could have it like

vartype array[pages][items]

it already works like that wink.gif
but multiarray is still just an array
something[15][17] is the same as something[255] just easier to use

so what exactly is holding you back then? the only limit is memory...but obviously thats not the problem...

255?
Title: What Do You Want In HCEv0.5
Post by: sanni on August 27, 2003, 10:09:00 PM
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So I now have twice the amount of codes then normal.  tongue.gif

Why not make a bloodgulch-a.ini/bloodgulch-b.ini/ bloodgulch-c.ini? And switch between them using an unused button. The only problem is that you have to save before you switch the ini.

How about it?  unsure.gif