Posted October 5, 2018 It's exciting to see how this is coming along. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted October 7, 2018 Menus have been added. Some other stuff was fixed. There are still a few issues left to fix with tutorial.map: Part of the sniper rifle zoom is flipped Some particles look a little off The warthog is making the sliding sound when it shouldn't Some tags, namely those stored in loc.map, aren't indexed, so you will see English strings regardless of your language Download the map here: Takka, DRL333 and ShikuTeshi like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted October 9, 2018 I'm planning on open sourcing this pretty soon. My license of choice for this one will most likely be GPL version 3.0 or newer. Such an license ensures that my program stays free and open source whether it's being used standalone or as part of a bigger thing, and in this kind of community, I feel everyone benefits from this. People who make useful tools only to never share the source probably should steer clear of my work, though I suppose the one person I know of who actually said he'd do this probably wouldn't have used this, anyway, simply because I made it. ShikuTeshi likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted October 10, 2018 Tutorial.map is almost entirely finished. There are more issues to work with, but for the most part, it works. I also wrote a feature to force a specific tag order, thus you can use the same tag order as stock tutorial. This means that, if there are no tags missing, the map can be network compatible, assuming you correctly spoof the CRC32. Here's tutorial.map: tutorial.7z Also, ui.map builds and works. Download that here: ui.7z Edit: I found an issue with item_collection tags' default timers. I've updated the map with the fix. WaeV, ShikuTeshi and Takka like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted October 17, 2018 I put the source code online a few days ago. Here is a link: https://github.com/Kavawuvi/Invader Invader is not done and has lots of issues that need to be fixed before I can even consider releasing it. Therefore, it will be a while before I actually start posting binaries (e.g. exe files). If you want to use it early for some reason, you must compile it from source. Takka, Sunstriker7 and ShikuTeshi like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted October 18, 2018 I've added a list of issues that I am working on. You can see the list here: https://github.com/Kavawuvi/Invader/issues I've already solved one issue since posting the source code, and that was an issue with antennae missing some values that weren't calculated, resulting in no antennae being easily visible. There are more issues to fix, and more issues may be added onto this list in the future. Also, model data is now deduped, similar to bitmap and sound data. This saves around 0.18 MiB on tutorial.map. Other things are now deduped, too, such as animation data and tag paths, saving a total of 575 KiB over tool.exe's tutorial.map. ShikuTeshi likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted June 4, 2019 I've gotten back to working on Invader and I've made a bunch of improvements lately. Here is a short list: 1. The file size in the header is no longer set. Setting this is actually a bad idea because Halo PC, for some reason, opens up the map multiple times if the value is at least 128 MiB (this leaks and eventually Halo will max out in file descriptors). Also, Halo will only load maps where the file size in the header is less than 384 MiB. Therefore, not setting it means the map file size limit is now 4 GiB and Halo will only open the map once as expected. 2. Scripts work. Scripts in the game work now. There may still be some work to be done here, but levels like The Pillar of Autumn no longer crash and play properly. 3. Nearly every tag class is implemented. Most maps should build now. 4. Doors work properly (mostly). No more doors rapidly opening/closing. That said, there is still an issue with the door in The Pillar of Autumn in the first room. If the engineer reaches it before you reach it, then the door never opens. I'll be looking into fixing this. 5. AI works (mostly). The .actor and .actor_variant tags are properly compiled. However there are some issues with how they behave, and many AI will stay in place and not move around behind cover. I've also fixed T-posing issues for most encounters but this isn't 100% fixed. 6. BSP tags with mirrors build. Basically, The Silent Cartographer and Two Betrayals build now. 7. Animations work [better]. Many animations that didn't work properly (e.g. certain stock and custom animations such as reload animations) now work properly. tl;dr: Every stock map now builds. It's not perfect (yet), but they are playable and you can probably complete the game using only Invader-built maps. As before, you can get Invader's source code on GitHub. It's still in early development and will not be released in binary (.exe) form for a little while longer. ST34MF0X, Ryx, Sunstriker7 and 1 other like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted June 8, 2019 I haven't done benchmarks since last October. Here is Invader vs. tool.exe building all of the multiplayer maps: Here is what you can take away from this: Invader is faster than tool.exe (around 411% faster on Linux and around 213% faster on Windows) Invader is around 15-17% faster when compilled for 64-bit depending on the operating system Invader is around 82% faster when compiled for Linux, but it is still very fast on Windows I don't recommend using these for anything serious as Invader is very far from completion. Also, when Invader is released, only 64-bit builds will be released. If you want to run Invader on a 32-bit operating system, you will have to compile it yourself. ST34MF0X and Takka like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted June 8, 2019 You make the best graphs. Is there a tool for that, or do you make them by hand? Oddly, this is familiar to you... as if from an old dream. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted June 8, 2019 Another update! What is new? I (probably) fixed lightning tags. Stuff like the monitor tapping into The Pillar of Autumn looks correct now. What isn't done yet? I'm still trying to figure out navigating the collision BSP tree so I can place AI encounters accurately. Strangely, Invader isn't correctly setting some encounters to the correct BSP on certain maps such as d40 and b30, so I'm going to spending a great deal of time fixing some of these issues. I've spent a few days on the issue, and I've come very close to the bottom of this. Sadly it's not close enough! But if I fix these issues and I fix other AI behavior issues, campaign maps should, in theory, work perfectly. Invader is almost done, basically! What is planned? I'm planning on introducing deduping to more types of tag data. This was done with animations and tag paths for a while, reducing tag space by over 1 MiB in some maps. To those who don't make maps, this probably doesn't sound like a lot, but the stock engine only allows up to 23 MiB of tag data that can be loaded at once, including the currently loaded BSP. Saving 1 MiB means saving over 4% of that space. For example, you could use that for better animations, better BSPs, or more tags, and it could mean the difference between the map filing to build and the map building successfully. What's great about this is that I can do this without requiring Open Sauce. On 6/8/2019 at 4:10 PM, Tucker933 said: You make the best graphs. Is there a tool for that, or do you make them by hand? Thank you! You can make these graphs by just using Microsoft Excel (or LibreOffice Calc if you're going the free route like me). Put the data on a spreadsheet, generate the graph you want, and make sure the data on the graph looks correct. The default graphs look really boring, but you can very easily change the colors and fonts until it looks good. These programs allow for a wide variety of customization. ST34MF0X, WaeV, Takka and 2 others like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites