Soffish Halo 2 Content Editor :: Open Beta :: Topic Thread

[JacksonCougar]

In recent months I have been working with Grimdoomer, DemonicSandwich (Ze adviser!) and Xzodia on a new Halo 2 modding program, although at the time of this writing the actual implemented code features are few (one actually), it should progress fairly steadily from here on out.



Soffish Halo 2 Content Editor :: Open Beta Details

I need anybody who wants to help download the latest builds of the application and do thier best to find any and all errors or bugs in the program, posting back here with what you find.

I will not be directly taking feature requests, but if you feel you must share you feelings with me just post anything along those lines in this thread. I may or may not act upon any ideas I see posted...

Latest Build Information:
Meta Editor Code, Beta - Needs heavy debugging (I do not want any bugs getting through on this code!)
Bitmap Editor, Alpha - Bitmap class needs to be updated a bit, most bitmap types should work, (again needs to be debugged)

Latest Build Download:
http://acemods.org/remnant/Remnant%20Fi ... elease.zip
http://acemods.org/remnant/Remnant%20Fi ... ersion.txt

[XZodia]

IMO if you took the meta editor out of this an put it in CC you'd be on your way to one awesome editor.

[JacksonCougar]

I dislike the UI of Ceiling Cat :\
But yea... I will be using you Bitmap class since I cannot seem to fix Grims.

[Grimdoomer]

Mtea editor looks great

[neodos]

Nice, needs perfect tag builder with external tag creation :p

[Grimdoomer]

Shader tags don't have bitmap raw, bitmap tags have bitmap raw

[Gary]

it crashes when you try to open the mutiplayer and melee weapons...
it does have a nice UI and it looks great!

[DemonicSandwich]

Those who find errors should copy the error type and error details and post them here.
Just make sure to use small font (size 70 or less) when posting the info.

[Aumaan Anubis]

Cool app.

But ugh. Looks like Microsoft designed it.

[Grimdoomer]

Cool app.

But ugh. Looks like Microsoft designed it.

Well Cougar makes good UIs

[JacksonCougar]

Thanks for the comments guys, but yes, if you run into an error I need the debug information in the window (if its a critical error at least) so I can find the error and fix it.

[JacksonCougar]

v2, small update.

[Gary]

neat, beta testing now...

[Gary]

hey, who all is working on this project?, also is this going to be like a super Entity without all the bugs?

[JacksonCougar]

Grim had been supplying a lot of source code for the project, as well as putting a few hours now and again working on it over LMI.

Xzodia has also help me for a good several chunks of time over LMI, helping me fix certain things.

So in reality it's just us three I guess...

My goals for the project right now are as follows:

Match or beat entity in anything it can do if what it does is the best way to do things.

Bring new features into Soffish which will increase productivity, and decrease chances of map corruption.

I'm toying with an idea right now that is getting me pretty excited: if I can pull it off it would set Soffish aside from entity in a fairly important way.

Not going to even mention what this idea is in case I cannot pull it off: it could be that it takes too much processing power and is not worth doing at all.

[Gary]

also, i notice some plugins kill the chunk cloner, i think it should have a plugin that is for chunk cloner only, when you need it

i sure hope this does well, if not i may stop modding, right when i am coming up with a bunch of ideas...

[Grimdoomer]

also, i notice some plugins kill the chunk cloner, i think it should have a plugin that is for chunk cloner only, when you need it

i sure hope this does well, if not i may stop modding, right when i am coming up with a bunch of ideas...

THe only thing the plugins should be used for is the offset and chunk size of reflexives.

[JacksonCougar]

Alright so continuing our efforts to make the modding process as seamless and functional as we can

we have run into a slight hiccough: the User Interface, or GUI, depending on how your thinking about it.

We have some ideas of our own, but we would also like to hear what you think the perfect way would

be for an application to layout its controls so that you, the modders, can best do your jobs, modding.

One of the ideas floating around is to make everything free-floating so the user can drag windows

wherever they want to optimize their workspace the way they want it.

Another idea being thrown around is to use integrated context-sensitive controls and tabs like Visual

Studios uses: for those non-programmers think tabs + docked windows that update thier content

based on the selected tab.

If you can post your ideas through a detailed description or a nice drawing, or even a screen capture

of an existing application maybe? Anything really should do as long as it clearly gets your idea across

to us. Post here with your UI designs/ideas and we'll see if we cannot come up with a nice solution

that makes everyone happy.

- The guys.

[Dragonfire]

Be able to set a duplication number (like when u right click dup in entity)

[DarkShallFall]

Add an option labeled "Destroy Map", then have it open entity.

lawl.

[JacksonCougar]

Just finished researching the last of the unknown Halo 2 bitmap types.

Things Added/Fixed:
U8V8 Format - Previously known as BITMAP_TYPE_UNK, it's a two channel normal map format.
A8Y8 Format - Previously incorrectly shown as a doubled image.
A8R8G8B8 Format - Proper Preview of all bitmaps: this includes those images in the UI bitmap family that would appear corrupt in all previous applications. There was nothing wrong with the way people were previewing them: there has even been code developed to help fix the issue, but the code was very simplistic and would fuck up in most cases. I wrote a new method to fix the width values of these bitmaps so they preview properly.

Code: Select all

private int CalculateTrueDimensions(int Height, int width, int Rawsize, int BitsPerPixel)
        {
            Rawsize = (int)(Rawsize * (8F / (float)BitsPerPixel));//Size directly related to Dimensions.
            int Width = (int)(Rawsize / Height);
            if (Width % 8 != 0)
            {
                float Remainder = (float)Width % 8F;
                Width = (int)(Width - Remainder);
            }
            if ((Width - width) >= 16 && (Width - width) % 8 == 0) 
            {
                Width = (Width - (Width - width));
            }
            return Width;
        }

Cubemap Format(s): Added Cubemap preview code for X8R8G8B8, and DXT1 formats.

[neodos]

Jackson = win.

[JacksonCougar]

Thanks Neodos :p, This is my testing app: if anybody can find any bitmaps that are wrong let me know: I think I might have messed up a view formats when fixing ARGB8

[JacksonCougar]

It appears I have the following to repair/fix:
AY8 - WTF kind of bitmap is this anyways XD, lawl.
A8Y8 - Need to figure out how I am going to handle the depth values of this format still...
A8 - Width fixer code need ;]
ARGB4 - Width fixer code... just nvm, I broke mkay ;p

So all in all about 10 minutes of work and I should be donezies :p

Then I can move on to extraction & injection, yayz.

[Grimdoomer]

It appears I have the following to repair/fix:
AY8 - WTF kind of bitmap is this anyways XD, lawl.
A8Y8 - Need to figure out how I am going to handle the depth values of this format still...
A8 - Width fixer code need ;]
ARGB4 - Width fixer code... just nvm, I broke mkay ;p

So all in all about 10 minutes of work and I should be donezies :p

Then I can move on to extraction & injection, yayz.

Wow, you need to stop breaking things