HAC 2 Release

[sanni]

Thank you btcc I like it very much

[stunt_man]

Hi, sorry I haven't checked this thread in awhile. At second glance, I'm not sure if I'm just used to the stretched reticle, it might be okay after all.

I recently installed OS after someone told me that it works alright with HAC 2. Obviously, HUD scaling clashes but it's easy to disable it for one or the other. The main issue that I'm encountering is when HAC auto-downloads a map. The download/install process completes, but then Halo crashes with an error that states "[mapname].yelo could not be found/is corrupted" or something like that. Upon re-launching Halo, I am able to join the server and the map loads correctly.

Also, I don't know if you are planning any future updates, but it would be great if we could get a command to disable the chat text. There's an app for it, but for whatever reason it doesn't seem to work. I'm putting together a promo video for an upcoming map release and I'd like to get some flycam footage of actual gameplay, minus blaring white chat feed.

If there is another way to disable this (temporarily), I'm all ears.

[Btcc22]

The problem with map downloads is caused by OS making the (reasonable) assumption that the game is loading the map from the default maps/ folder. When it isn't able to find the downloaded map in the default folder, it seems to assume you're trying to load a .yelo map and when it fails to find that too, it just forces the game to exit. I'll be adding a patch for this in the next update but hopefully I can talk Kornman into making a small change to OS so it'll use the actual path Halo is reading maps from.

For the second issue, go to your Halo(CE)/content folder. You'll see a bunch of xlog.ksml files, where x is your vertical resolution. Find the one that's the closest match, open it and change the number for left or top to some silly value. It'll reposition the chat somewhere off the screen.

[stunt_man]

Thanks for clearing that up.

So, I take it you aren't planning on implementing a new console command to disable the chat?

[Btcc22]

Can't say I had any plans but it wouldn't take much to do.

[sanni]

You could uninstal MSXML Parser and SDK from within the control panel. Then you don't have any chat in Halo anymore.

[stunt_man]

Can't say I had any plans but it wouldn't take much to do.

Would be useful for Machinima and other filming purposes!

[Dwood]

all halo apps need dogecoin integrations. i'd get back into playing if servers had a way to allow people to get dogecoin for winning.

[mywarthog]

all halo apps need dogecoin integrations. i'd get back into playing if servers had a way to allow people to get dogecoin for winning.

There'd need to be a lot of work done to do this. Since it's almost like dealing with currency, you'd be getting into a lot of issues such as cheater prevention, admin abuse on servers, a need for more stability in servers, etc. I could picture this becoming an issue too, where maybe they would try and control Halo servers that this was utilized on. The idea of dogecoin is neat, but I don't think that Halo CE is a good choice of a platform for using it.

Anyways... about HAC... have you thought about creating a way to allow CE players to connect to PC servers? I'm sure that it would be possible somehow.

[Btcc22]

Anyways... about HAC... have you thought about creating a way to allow CE players to connect to PC servers? I'm sure that it would be possible somehow.

Possible but there wouldn't be enough of a benefit to make it worth the effort.