Open Sauce Ideas thread

[ShadowSpartan]

Would you be able to make it so when you pick up a flamethrower or chaingun it autmatically changes to third person like in halo 3? (with the camera close to the player and to the right a bit).
Or make it so it goes to 3P when you pick up a weapon with "3p" or something in the tag name (for custom tags)

Yes it is possible. I did it months ago, though it wasn't complete and not the best way to implement it.

This is Open Sauce, this wouldn't need any fancy tagging :P

However, you do need to be a competent programmer in order to do anything useful with Open Sauce.

[Heathen]

his user title is "Programmer"

[Gravemind]

his user title is "Programmer"

You mean me? Yea I am a programmer but im new to open sauce... And C++. I usually do VB and C# but im still familiar with some C++ stuff, although im having problems getting the OS v2 to open with the express edition of visual C++

[ShadowSpartan]

You mean me? Yea I am a programmer but im new to open sauce... And C++. I usually do VB and C# but im still familiar with some C++ stuff, although im having problems getting the OS v2 to open with the express edition of visual C++

Just a little heads up, if you are trying to compile OS with Visual Studio 2010, it won't work. OS and VS2010 don't get along, I tried for quite a while to get it to compile with no luck. Once I switched back to VS2008, everything worked fine. If this isn't your problem, I suggest you post in this thread, and give details about the problem you are having.

[Gravemind]

No that not the problem, i have the full VS2008 Express with visual basic, visual C#, visual C++ and web stuff, the problem is that when i open the .sln file and the .vcproj file, it says

Solution folders are not supported in this version of the application.
Solution folder '<folder name>' will be displayed as unavailable.

and it does this for each folder. Then it complains that the projects in the YeloDebug folder are .csproj files and wont work with visual c++... (if i open it with C# it says complains about the C++ parts...) then it says "Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read".

I dont know what to do about the solution folders part because i cant afford to buy the non expreass version of VS (if its not supporting solution folders because its the express version)

[Kornman00]

I separated the projects into solution folders based on their categorization since OS isn't just for one specific game or really even platform. Like Express says, it isn't supported. I use VS2008 Team System so I have a lot more over the free editions of VS. I wasn't aware of the solution folder issue though. It's not a real issue as long as you can open the actual project files (eg, Halo1_CE.vcproj)

I'm pretty sure you're using Express editions of specific products (IE, Visual C# Express). I don't think there is an Visual Studio Express. If there was, you wouldn't be getting complaints from the system as far as the csproj or vcproj files.

[Gravemind]

What i have came from microsoft.com as an iso and calls itself "Visual Studio 2008 Express edition", it has all the express editions in one. (VB express, VC express etc). I tried opening only the Halo1_CE.vcproj file rather than the solution file, but it still says the same errors...

[Kornman00]

While the ISO may have had all of them in one package, unless the actual editor itself is Visual Studio (and not just single executables like Visual C#) then you'll get those errors.

I don't remember anyone having problems opening Halo1_CE.vcproj in Visual C++ Express so I'm not sure what you could be doing different. Either way, I don't support the Express editions since I don't use them.

[Gravemind]

I managed to fix it by deleting the solution file... Is Halo1_CE the main project file i need? Or do i also need the YeloDebug?

Edit: (to avoid a double post)
Would you also be able to make the OS tool allow compilation of sound tags where the .wav file is more than 12mb? (or 14, whichever it was)

[Dwood]

Just re dl vc++ express and install that.