Contribute™ v1.1

[XZodia]

In a way this program is revolutionary, in that its never been done before in modding...I hope it will solve the current problem of various people all working on there own apps doing the same things...>_<

What I have created here today is a backbone program to try and promote better and easier modding. As it stands it doesn't do anything! However, it does provide tools enough for even novice programs to put a modding applet together. Notice the term applet here.

As far as this program is concerned an applet can be anything you care to add to the program. Applets are loaded at runtime from whatever DLL's it finds in its "Applet" folder. The applets are added each of your map windows for your usage and all the applets in a window share a common MapStream (A custom built map reader/write created by me, which makes it insanely easy to make changes to a map). It also provides a set of classes for dependancies, bitmasks, stringids etc.

It comes with a visual studio template to jump start your applets (Contribute Applet.zip), it should be put in your: "My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates" folder.

I know I said this doesn't do anything, but since I've included a great meta editor which I wrote. It has great RTH features Kudoz to xbox7887 for help and YeloDebug.
Also, Jackson made a Screenshot applet and thats included too!

Ideas for applets:

• Dependacy Swapper
  RTH
  Chunk Cloner
  Bitmap (Internalizer, Injecter etc)
  Model (Internalizer, Injecter etc)
  Sound (Internalizer, Injecter etc)
  ...other RAW things...
  All those single purpose apps you have scattered around your hard disk...

Happy Contributing

32Bit Download: http://www.remnantmods.com/files/xzodia/Contribute%20v1_1.zip
64Bit Download: http://www.remnantmods.com/files/xzodia/Contribute%2064Bit%20v1_1.zip

Applet Repository: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1255

[XZodia]

Meta Editor Preview - (I'm really happy with this cause its the 1st time I've got reflexives to work )

[Eaton]

This looks very nice.

[XZodia]

More updatez...

[Dragonfire]

Those colors are trippy O.o

[Grimdoomer]

There are two problems I see with this. 1) most people code for halo differently, and unless you make the map reading applet extendable, no one is gunna be happy with reading the same info along with anything missed twice. 2) Applet? as in Java? Because I hate java, and even though I am talking a class on it, I for one refuse to program in it.

[XZodia]

unless you make the map reading applet extendable

Of course its extendable, what d'you take me for a noob?

2) Applet? as in Java? Because I hate java

No, a C# dll numb nuts did you even read my post?

[XZodia]

Updated. Made some changes to the basic libraries and made a better meta editor than entity, which loads the SCNR plugin without issues.

Note: Tool and debug options don't currently work

[OwnZ joO]

This is a good idea, hopefully some other people code some stuff for it. The nice thing is that you could use a different "applet" if you prefer one or the other.

[xxpenguinxx]

I can't get the project and template to load in visual studio properly.

[XZodia]

What version are you running?

[xxpenguinxx]

visual studio 2008

[Zieon Eslador]

Needs to be Visual C# Studio 2008, you know, the green one.

[Eaton]

Needs to be Visual C# Studio 2008, you know, the green one.

Visual C# Express Edition is the full name.

[XZodia]

or in my case Pro edition >_>

[JacksonCougar]

Student Discounts ;[

[Gary]

Student Discounts ;[

5 Finger Discount

[XZodia]

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[DemonicSandwich]

Student Discounts ;[

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Left-click discount.

[XZodia]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Contribute™ v1.0!

[Eaton]

YES, a RTH feature!

[Grimdoomer]

Your meta editor is so god dam slow!

[Ogrish]

It keeps telling me im poking the wrong map, so i hit load this map, and it froze my xbox.

[XZodia]

Your meta editor is so god dam slow!

wut =S

It keeps telling me im poking the wrong map, so i hit load this map, and it froze my xbox.

64bit OS Problem, I will do a 64bit build but I don't know if it'll help.

[xxpenguinxx]

Your meta editor is so god dam slow!

I didn't have problems with the meta editor, other then the normal lag, when scrolling which I only get that in vista, but the tag tree view took like 30secs or so to load everything.