Skull Hack/Activator

The skulls behave in memory just like the, for instance, the double speed modifier in HaloCE. They just change a hardcoded value (at least some skulls do)...or?

I have a hard time believing someones head exploding when you shoot it is a hard coded value...

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Originally Posted by CodeBrain

Remember H2X?



In H2X, you would add a script chunk from a map, and then place that in there. Thats the script command for Sputnik. Sputnik makes gravity 0.5, so it can be used in multiplayer. Like I said before, you needed to add a script chunk, but now its different.

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Sputnik doesn't make half gravity... it makes all forces stronger. You will not jump higher, but if you punch a box or set off an explosion, it will have more force than usual.

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Originally Posted by CodeBrain

Meh, what really need is SCRIPTING. Kornman found it for Halo CE (maybe, can't remember), maybe he could find it again. Then we could use the scripts to do the effects that the skulls do.

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We already know how to do scripting in Halo2, or at least in the xbox version. Do the vista multiplayer maps still have the same unused scripts in them as most of Halo2xbox's maps did? Then scripting should be easy as we wouldn't need to attempt to add in new chunks.
But you can't (directly) use the skull effects in multiplayer - all the skulls are activated by the command ice_cream_flavor_stock followed by a number representing the skull. The command switches the skull effect on for the rest of the game (until you exit Halo2 completely - the skull stays active even if you sign into a different profile). But the skull only effects campaign - if you play in multiplayer it ignores any skull effects - there's no way to get skull effects into multiplayer short of making a trainer that changes the game so it does, or hacking the map file to simulate the skull effects, like by removing the hud or manually increasing the force value on everything.

So it would be possible to make a sort of Hack that would search for the command and activate it right?