Program Idea

[bitfox]

Hey all,
I started a program earlier this morning working with the Halo 2 Vista map format, because I haven't really seen much in the way of programs yet. Of course, there's H2V Edit, but that doesn't really count in my opinion :p

Anyways... I was wondering if anyone was interested... This is my first halo-involved program, so don't blame me if it's not too great. I did as much research as I could, and scrapped a lot of information from Iron_Forge's old white paper. Here's what I have so far, let me know what you think!

http://rs171.rapidshare.com/files/56446639/Aeolus.rar

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b140/MurderThyLamb/aeolus.png

[Patrickssj6]

Looks nice! :)

What language? And what's the UI? Is that a custom one or the new 2008 version ones?

Oh can you sent me the white papers? I lost them a long time ago and I want to take a look at them again :D

[CodeBrain]

It says it can inject and extract tags.....I try opening the Tools window....it wont open.....


Thats all about the Tools section. However, this is a awesome program! It looks nice! If only the Tool section would work, Id give this a 9.5 For now, ill give it a 9.0. You did pretty well for a first-timer halo-program maker!

[SMASH]

It's nice, but it's completely unusable and incomplete right now. You can't even look at the tags, let alone export or import them.

[CodeBrain]

Like he said, its his first time making a Halo program SMASH. However, I agree that it is unusable for now. Let him continue with making the program, ok? :)


Bugs (for now)

1. When you open a MP map, the tags are messed up, however, certain tags CAN be seen, only with some error naming.
2. There is no inject/extracting, even through it says so in the "About" section.
3. The "Tools" tab does not open.
4. You cannot view the tags.

Other than that, I encourage you to continue making this program, as it will be a great help to the community.

[bitfox]

Hey guys, thanks for the comments.

I wrote what I have so far in C# .NET, and I think I'll keep going with that language, it's pretty interesting.

The user interface was all done by me, made custom images and everything.

The extract/inject was a planned thing, as it is right now, the program is fairly incomplete.

The screwed up tag groups is kinda weird... I'm not sure if they changed anything for multiplayer maps as I was using the tutorial campaign map for researching values.

I'll continue working on it when I get my system back up, but if anyone wants to, feel free :)