Remnantmods

Sunfish is a new Halo 2 modding program for the Xbox version. It works by decompiling a map into source-files which are imported into a project directory. You edit these source-files in the application using various tools (meta editor & specific tag editors) and build maps from the source-files.

The goal is to create a Visual Studios style program for editing the source-files.

Source Code:
http://code.google.com/p/halo2x-sunfish/source/checkout

Current Features:
Solution Explorer

• lists all tags in a project by folder heirarchy

Lite Meta Editor - Probably discontinued

• allows for large tags to be edited with minimum memory usage (no crashing!)
• minimal in design because the focus is not on meta editing in this application

Map Decompiler

• implemented as Project->Import->Map'
• decompiles all tags in the map into seperate isolated resource file-format that's proprietary to Sunfish

In-development Features:
Map Compiler

• creates a .map file playable on the xbox from decompiled tags
• initial release should be decently fast

Bitmap Studio

• Imports all DXTn formats used by the engine
• Exports as DXTn formats

Model Studio

• Imports a WavefrontObject mesh into a model tag Code in-place
• Creates a new model tag from a WavefrontObject file
• Exports model meshes as WavefrontObjects Code in-place
• 3D Model Viewer Working

It would be good to see a list of features, current and future

A little bit of progress

Where does that material come from?

Xna effect

Looks very cool! Yet could you post the binaries?
Also do you think I could delete a lot of tags (taking care of not breaking anything) and recompile?

Yea, that should work. I'll post a download when there's a stable build and compiling works.

After getting hung up on a bug with my BasicEffect for XNA, I have made headway

I put my hog on a pallet, it ships better that way

That. Is. Awesome.

Nice work, I hope to try this APP out soon.

Woosh, any chance you could add marker placement/rotation? that'd be even more epic.

Was already thinking of it Neodos

Damn, nice. Get a public build going once you've model and bitmap injection to a stable point. <3

*Edit: How is the model injection working btw? Does it support multiple child objects (shaders) within a single model/chunk?

If I remember what I was coding, yes: it does make shader groups based on the materials in the OBJ file.

NotZachary82 wrote:Get a public build going once you've model and bitmap injection to a stable point.

I think compile is perhaps more vital

I'll just leave this here..

bumlove wrote:

NotZachary82 wrote:Get a public build going once you've model and bitmap injection to a stable point.

I think compile is perhaps more vital

Or, whatever ends up working first.

My goals with this studio are pretty much as follows:

• Allow markers to be added, deleted, and transformed (moved, scaled, and rotated)
• Allow bones to be added, deleted, and transformed (moved, scaled, and rotated)
• Allow mesh to be assigned to bones
• Allow mesh to be transformed (moved, scaled, and rotated)
• Render textures
• Import mesh from OBJ files

Bones!

I committed my latest changes to the repository tonight, and this will probably be the last update I can post for a while because I am moving and won't have access to internet right away (I may push updates through my phones )

This is looking very promising, you seem get the job done pretty fast =P

JacksonCougar wrote:Image
I'll just leave this here..

What are we looking at here?

Looks like normals to me.

Markers, lul

Why do they only have 2 directions?

Each arrow is a seperate Marker, so they only have a single direction...
These ones are the AI pathfinding markers or something.

XZodia wrote:Why do they only have 2 directions?

Well you have two disconnected edges you get that, but its not normals in this case anyways then xD