Bah, everything awesome always happens when I'm gone.

The animation injection/extraction looks win, but I don't see why you don't plan to release the injector tools. Extraction I can understand simply to prevent the flood of H2 animations in HCE content, but injection would be a really neat thing if it could be modified to work with H2V, and might even pave the way for future tools. The community's always going to gripe about something, but you can have some bitching with a lot of praise for releasing tools, or a lot of bitching and no praise for keeping 'em to yourselves.

Orion should be incredibly handy, though, and releasing it would help anyone else making bitmap/sound heavy mods.

Still, I'd love to see some more progress on the actual Zteam mod, either campaign or multiplayer. Especially Zanzibar (which, next to Blood Gulch, is my favorite map in the Halo series.)