Posted October 15, 2019 (edited) I find myself still playing the original release of Halo for PC a lot rather than just Custom Edition, so I decided to put together a set of maps for it with recent enhancements. This includes all maps for both Campaign and Multiplayer, with the following changes applied: Every bitmap that was released with the Halo Editing Kit for Halo CE has had its source extracted and recompiled as uncompressed 32bit textures replacing the DXT compressed versions, invader-bitmap was used to do this. These bitmaps account for 860 of the 1488 odd bitmaps in the game. Note that explosions may look wrong without a current mod installed that fixes a bug in halo when using these textures in some places. Jesse's HD halo HUD has been included with a few updates Some fixes from the Refined tagset have been updated and included, like the shader replacements and Xbox music. unneeded workarounds intended to fix Custom Edition bugs that do not apply for the base game have been excluded. Many invalid tags are now fixed Download for Halo PC full version: Uncompressed - 8.6 GiB installed, works on stock clients (Updated 2020 07 07) Download for Halo PC full version: Chimera compressed - 2.17 GiB installed, requires Chimera 1.0x (Updated 2020 07 19) Download for Halo Trial - 8.1 GiB installed, Chimera highly recommend to load the extra maps. (Updated 2020 07 22) Screenshots: UPDATE 2020 07 07 A sound bug has been fixed that would cause music to sometimes play incorrectly. Edited July 21, 2020 by Vaporeon Update link. Vuthakral, Kavawuvi, MrChromed and 7 others like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted October 15, 2019 It looks so clean! It looks so much better than what they managed to do with Refined on Custom Edition. Thanks so much for taking the time to make this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted October 15, 2019 As someone who almost exclusively plays PC campaign: You're a fucking legend Kavawuvi and Krazychic like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted October 19, 2019 This was updated once to make the maps a decent amount smaller with no other changes. The only difference is file size and the fact the current maps now require English Halo as a base. Same link. Takka and Kavawuvi like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 27, 2019 There has been another update to fix lens flares that were broken on all maps using MEK tags. Also the "Assault on the Control Room" and "Two Betrayals" glass workaround was removed as the original shader works on full halo provided you use a d3d9 wrapper like dgVoodoo2. Since this is better than the fake glass used in refined I changed it back. Sunstriker7, DSalimander and Takka like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) I have completely rebuilt this with invader-build since campaign maps are now fully supported. This allows me to move away from using a hacked tool.exe, greatly reduces final map size, and also some invalid tags are now fixed. If there are any issues please let me know. Just in case I have the old hacked tool.exe version archived here. This should not be used unless necessary. Current maps use tool.exe for the campaign again for now. Edited June 10, 2020 by Vaporeon ShikuTeshi likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 7, 2020 How do you get these to run Am new here Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 7, 2020 6 hours ago, Joash said: How do you get these to run Am new here Extract the .map files from the download archive with 7-zip and use those files to replace the original .map files that are in your "Halo" installation maps folder. The compressed maps need the mod "Chimera" to run, the uncompressed ones do not. I recommend the mod anyway is it fixes many bugs in the game. Takka likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 8, 2020 On 7/7/2020 at 11:10 AM, Vaporeon said: Extract the .map files from the download archive with 7-zip and use those files to replace the original .map files that are in your "Halo" installation maps folder. The compressed maps need the mod "Chimera" to run, the uncompressed ones do not. I recommend the mod anyway is it fixes many bugs in the game. How does chimera work tho... I have it but I don't see how it works Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 9, 2020 22 hours ago, Joash said: How does chimera work tho... I have it but I don't see how it works https://opencarnage.net/index.php?/forum/78-chimera/ Oddly, this is familiar to you... as if from an old dream. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
