[HaloMD] In-game map downloader (WIP)

[002]

When you join a server that you don't have the map for, HaloMD downloads the map. When you join a server that you have the map for, but then the server changes maps to a map you don't have, you get left with an error, forcing you to exit Halo, download the map, then reenter the server. I'm working on a solution to that...



That's what it looks like (so far). Unfortunately, you guys can't test it yet, until nil rolls out the next version of HaloMD. It's fully functional, though.

[Fonzeh]

mmmm. Tasty.

Gotta say though, wish we had this epicness back in the golden days. Oh well, no use in reminiscing.

[nil]

mmmm. Tasty.

Gotta say though, wish we had this epicness back in the golden days. Oh well, no use in reminiscing.

It's now the golden days of playing mods at least, I assure you.

This should be in the next release of MD. I just need to look over 002's code some more.

[Fonzeh]

I actually showed soome friends my zombie mod the other day. was quite nostalgic. id like to figure out why my new mac mini won't play halo with shiny shaders and won't go into true fullscreen or i might get back into it a tad more

[002]

I actually showed soome friends my zombie mod the other day. was quite nostalgic. id like to figure out why my new mac mini won't play halo with shiny shaders and won't go into true fullscreen or i might get back into it a tad more

Halo was apparently originally made for ATI graphics, though it seems to work just fine for NVIDIA as well. However, the Mac Mini has integrated Intel graphics. You'll experience tons of graphical defects if you try to play with shaders enabled including:

• Missing scenery. This seems to be because there's a shader for something with an alpha that seems to be put on the wrong object.
• Water looks like a broken TV.
• Active Camouflage looks like a broken TV.
• Fog won't render correctly, if it decides to render.

In fact, when 10.9 came out, we had to fix a bug that caused Halo to crash because graphics drivers were loaded in the region of memory where maps are loaded. This bug, of course, didn't seem to occur if you did not have any integrated graphics.

Oh, also, if you have Halo PC, shaders will work just fine.