"hell tools" These are a version of the MCC CEA mod tools that are modified to ignore all of the block limits when opening tags (e.g. object counts in scenario tags). The limit on the number of flags and objects you can place in Sapien has also been removed. Download (Updated for MCC 2023/07)

This command-line tool dumps definitions from guerilla.exe into a parseable JSON format. You can use this on both the Halo: Custom Edition and Halo: CE Anniversary guerilla.exe. Note that fields nonexistent in guerilla.exe won't be exported, thus you won't get a totally complete definition set. However, it should be good enough to make your own Halo: CE editing tools. There are a two main uses for this tool: Making tools that edit Halo: CE tags Checking for differences between releases (since they are rarely documented, at least 100% adequately) I'll primarily be using this tool for working on Invader (this was why I made it!). You may use it freely for whatever you need, however. Also note that this tool is written in Rust (if you are interested in editing its source code). Source code (GNU GPL v3 - GitHub): https://github.com/SnowyMouse/gorilla Download (win32 - 64-bit x86): gorilla-win32-0.3.1.7z (Note: This tool will work on Linux, but you will need to compile it from source!)

Invader is a toolkit for creating assets for Halo: Combat Evolved on PC. The full topic can be viewed here: Anyway, as of version 0.26, invader-compress allows for compressing/decompressing CEA maps with invader-extract also extracting CEA tags (except bitmaps and sounds). In version 0.27, invader-build started to support building Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary maps for MCC. Since there is a section dedicated to MCC modding tools on Open Carnage, it was worth having a topic for Invader here dedicated to MCC-related updates. Take care of the following notes: You will need to run your game without anticheat enabled if you have modified your MCC installation. Building MCC maps is very experimental right now - even more experimental than building Custom Edition maps. Stuff will not work right, including anything with bitmaps or sounds that were not in the map you're replacing. Make sure to keep your version of Invader up-to-date. Only the PC version is supported. Modding the Xbox One version risks a ban. Here is the original mini-update: As always, you can get the latest, nightly builds (for Windows) at https://invader.opencarnage.net/builds/nightly/download-latest.html

Conservancy is a bat file I threw together to streamline the steps required to port a classic map to anniversary using invader and the anniversary HEK. This requires invader: https://invader.opencarnage.net/builds/nightly/download-latest.html Usage is simple. First extract invader and Conservancy into your Chelan_1 folder. Then you place all the maps you want converted into the "classic maps" folder The bat file will process each of the entries inside of the classic maps folder and use invader-extract to extract the data from the map. After each map has been extracted, it will run invader-bludgeon, and invader-strip on all the tags. Once this is done, it will extract the scenario name from the map using invader-info, and rebuild the cache file using tool. Once all of this has been finished, all the successful conversions will be built into your maps folder. This is practically the same process as the tutorial I made in the tutorials subforum, just automated with a bat file. Do note it is slightly inefficient bludgeoning, and stripping EVERY tag every time; however, for sake of automation the process has been simplified; that is a sacrifice needed to be made for ease of use. Do note if there were any issues with extraction/stripping/bludgeoning a manual approach may be required, to which I recommend following the tutorial here: Please post any issues. I have tested on multiple maps, and it seems to run as expected c: Happy modding! Conservancy.zip

*Note* h2am map compression has changed. This tool will not work right for modern h2a maps QuiCript 1.1 QuiCript is a one tool fits all solution to MCC PC compression. With a simple right click you can decompress a file, and with another you can recompress. No need for command prompts, typing out a long path, or copying files around. Today I am happy to present the 1.1 beta update. This still requires some testing, so there may be a few bumps here and there, but version 1.1 is available for you to play around with. (Version 1 is still available if you prefer. See bottom of post) What's new? - Halo 1 Anniversary Compression now uses the minimal header size variant. Reducing the file size a bit more. - Implemented Halo 2 Anniversary Map Compression ( Beta - Back up your maps before testing ) [EDIT: Currently found issues with compression. Decompression should work fine; however, use assembly for compression currently] - Implemented a new notification system. ( Also included a version that doesn't have notifications in case some people find it annoying ) - Now allows selection of multiple files. Notifications felt like a natural progression from multiple selections. This lets you let it run in the background, and when it finishes it will give you a windows notification like so: Installation Python is required for this tool. Installation is simple. Open the zip file included Open the folder to the version you want (notification, or non-notification) Press Windows Key + R and type %Appdata% and drag the contents straight into the appdata folder. (note don't drag the root folder. if you see QuiCript 1.1 you need to navigate into that folder and drag that folders content into appdata. the folders should be named Microsoft and QuiCript. See reference below) That's it! from there you should be able to right click on any compressed MCC file, hover over Send To, and select the corresponding ( De ) Compression algorithm. Releases If you're curious on how compression works for MCC see this post Version 1

Tex Mod is the second public release proof of concept tool from SeT. The process is still slightly complicated; however, due to how much I've seen people wanting custom textures. I decided to rush the build. BACK THINGS UP, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. The program is still incomplete, things will get easier with time. I also can't guarantee it will work as intended every time. As of now this is a slightly more advanced example. Some things still required hex editing, though minimal. Let's go over how to use it: EDIT: Update has enabled "load from dds" and fixed some minor bugs. making a lot of this null. You can now just load the ipak, bind the imeta, and overwrite the original texture if you desire. Note** overwriting a texture means you'll need to rebuilt every imeta that uses that texture. Since the file size might change. This will be addressed in the next update open the ipak that holds the texture (alphabetical split at "p") bind the imeta for the level find the texture you wish to replace. Click "load from DDS" (Click save to dds for a reference texture to edit) load custom texture build the imeta (since there may be more mip maps and such, or changes in dimensions) Save the changes Our final result. Sorry for the rushed tutorial. I had like 30 mins to make these screenshots, build the project, upload, and fix post. for custom template textures follow original tutorial: THERE IS STILL A LOT OF WORK NEEDED TO GET THIS WORKING RIGHT. Please please post bugs, this has been a long time coming, and a few months of work. I want to get this working perfectly. There are a few ui bugs here and there that need to be fixed, but I wont have much time to dedicate to it this week coming. Hopefully this should give people some time to play with it, and I can get an idea what direction to take things before I dump too much work into "my way" and have to move back on some progress. The final source hasn't been pushed to the github repo yet. tex_mod.rar

See next post for v 0.2.0 information Sabre unPacker is a program that will extract the contents from a s3dpak file (and with future updates hopefully other sabre files) Icon is still being developed. Currently it's in beta version. If there are any features you want to see added, just put them in the comments. To use the program simply open a *compressed* s3dpak file ceaflate will decompress the file and add it to the TMP directory. Select the files you wish to extract, and select a location for them to go. profit. I hope this is a good step towards helping research the engine a bit more. future plans are to repack, and add the ability to read ipak Big thanks to Kavawuvi for letting me use ceaflate. Source License: GNU GPL v3 SuP 0.2.0.rar

SMI Beta In an ode to the old days of PMI, I introduce SMI. Saber model injector. This program will handle extracting contents from s3dpaks, and reimporting them. SMI is SuPs big brother with a degree. It can recursively extract tags, and it can also handle reimporting them as well. This makes injecting templates from other s3dpaks significantly easier. After watching S3's tutorial it gave me a few ideas on how to make modding easier for the end user. S3 gave me permission to use his test map that he used in his tutorial to demonstrate it's strengths. Taking a look at this scene, it doesn't seem like much is going on; however, in classic there are a few objects present. (ignore the white boxes, it's supposed to be rain, we wont be fixing that texture in this example) There are objects present in classic, that aren't present in anniversary. This is because anniversary is missing the templates for this level. We're going to fix that with SMI. first we're going to open the s3dpaks we need to edit/extract from. The example above needs a wraith, a sniper, a c gun turret, and the longsword. For these templates, I'm going to load b30 (the map we're working with), a10, and b40. I'm going to expand a10, and select the fighterbomber (longsword) template I'm going to click extract recursive from the edit menu, and navigate to a directory I have named "Extracts" Once I select the folder, a subdirectory will be made with the name of the extracted templates. I'll repeat the same process with the sniper rifle, sniper rifle projectile, wraith, and c gun turret. now going back to SMI, I'm going to ensure the scope is set to the map that I want to edit: and I'm going to click "Inject Recursive" and select each directory in my extracts I wish to import: As you can see the templates are now a part of the s3dpak. Next we need to build the imeta so the templates textures will carry over(only for aniversary. I will make a script to simplify classic soon) To do this we go to Edit>Build Imeta(or hit F2) Save the imeta, and then we'll save the s3dpak with the standard file>Save As (I haven't implemented save. It'll be in final release) And that's it! SMI will handle compression, decompression, updating the Imeta, updating the SceneData, and the s3dpak. Our final result: significantly faster, easier, and more accessible to new modders c: this is a beta version, and any bugs will be squashed! please post them below. Currently, the source can be found in the SeT GitHub, under "tools" Bug fix update(10/9): Bug fix update(10/18): SMI.zip

SeT Saber editing Toolkit is a set of python scripts dedicated towards editing saber files. While i was working on SuP, i realized that the path I was going down would limit the abilities I have to work with the data. I decided I would migrate to a more generalized toolkit, and use this as a backbone to program a more versatile set of tools. I intend to write a full SEK for editing saber files once I have fully mapped out the structures. hopefully, this may be useful to others who would like to create their own modding tools as well. It will be an ongoing project until everything is mapped out. The github has a readme that explains how to use it. Basically it allows programmatic access to the contents of saber files saving others the stress of having to reinvent the wheel every time they want to make a modding program. https://github.com/Zatarita/SeT Currently I have s3dpak, ipak, fmeta, imeta, TexturesInfo, and SceneData defined; however, ipak, and imeta are partially implimented. I am willing to accept any help if you wish to contribute to the project. join the discord for smaller updates. major updates will be brought to this post. You don't have to be a programmer to help! Anyone willing to poke around with a hex editor can be a big help c:

This is a tool that compresses/decompresses Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary PC map, ipak, and s3dpak files. Have fun! Also, make sure to run MCC with anticheat off if you use any map files compressed with this tool. Otherwise, bad things will happen. Source code: https://github.com/kavawuvi/ceaflate Download (win32): ceaflate-build-win32.7z License is GNU GPL v3.