OpenSauce Halo CE SDK Update #2 (RC)

[Kornman00]

You could potentially do something like that. However you'd have to setup a tag block in your scenario's py tag- Wait no scratch that, the py tag is closed source. You'd have to create your own scenario_trigger_volume_extension tag or something which has a tag block which takes the name of the trigger volume and a real value for it's gravity. Then you could just have an Update function check to see if the local player (this would only work for campaign) is in any of those, lets call them gravity well volumes, and then update the gravity to what that extension says.

you could end up with something like:

scenario_extensions
    * tag_block: scenario_gravity_well_block
        - tag_string: trigger volume name
        - word_flags: flags
            - use interpolation
        - short integer: interpolation speed (game ticks or something)
        - real: gravity f(x)
        - real_bounds: gravity interpolation range

If this was halo 2 or later, you'd have the benefit of a mapping_function to define a much more robust interpolation function.


For your second question: it's not implemented...please explore the source code.

[the1]

For your second question: it's not implemented...please explore the source code.

thanks. not much of a programmer. so ill have to look into it a bit when i get an editor.

[Dwood]

Would it be possible to have something that pushes the person too, like gravity + an angle?

[CodeBrain]

Me and Dwood were trying to figure out this problem, haven't solved it yet:

fatal error RC1015: cannot open include file 'afxres.h'

Everything needed for OS (DirectX SDK March 09 and Boost C++ Libraries all set up in Project Directories) are set, so I have no idea what's going on.

Google said that afxres.h is installed with the Microsoft Platform SDK, in a MFC Folder. :/

[Skyline]

It's not installed on the express editions of visual studio. You can just delete the Halo1_CE.rc file.

[Kornman00]

I don't use Express edition of VS (which doesn't have MFC). You'll need to delete the resource data in the DLL's project. I only used a VS_VERSION_INFO (or w/e it's called) resource so it's nothing terribly important

[CodeBrain]

It's not installed on the express editions of visual studio. You can just delete the Halo1_CE.rc file.

I deleted the Halo1_CE.rc file, it resulted in:

1>fatal error RC1110: could not open .\Halo1_CE.rc
1>Project : error PRJ0002 : Error result 1 returned from 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\rc.exe'.

Korn, unfortunately I am having trouble locating the resource data for Halo1_CE. Is it the resource.h in the Halo1_CE folder?

[FireScythe]

Remove the following from the Halo1_CE.rc file:

#define APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Generated from the TEXTINCLUDE 2 resource.
//
#include "afxres.h"

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#undef APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS

#if !defined(AFX_RESOURCE_DLL) || defined(AFX_TARG_ENU)
#ifdef _WIN32
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
#pragma code_page(1252)
#endif //_WIN32

#ifdef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// TEXTINCLUDE
//

1 TEXTINCLUDE 
BEGIN
    "resource.h\0"
END

2 TEXTINCLUDE 
BEGIN
    "#include ""afxres.h""\r\n"
    "\0"
END

3 TEXTINCLUDE 
BEGIN
    "\r\n"
    "\0"
END

#endif    // APSTUDIO_INVOKED

and optionally (doesn't do anything):

#ifndef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Generated from the TEXTINCLUDE 3 resource.
//


/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#endif    // not APSTUDIO_INVOKED

E: Forgot to mention you can't directly open the .rc file using the express edition so just edit it with a text editor if you need to.

[CodeBrain]

Thanks FireSythe, got it working

Now, does anyone happen to have the source for the d3d9.dll plugin on the first post, that has the updated stuff in it?

[Skyline]

I deleted the Halo1_CE.rc file, it resulted in

Ugh. You didn't remove the file from the project...