What is Halo Modding?

Forums

The forums are a bit messed up. They have been relocated, but still has problems logging in, posting, etc. And the few newest members aren't there any more. Please hang tight for a bit while I'm going to try and get a hold of LiveWireHost.

Please visit the forums at http://modhalo.livewirehost.com/index.php instead of http://67.18.145.138/~modhalo/index.php

Phil Janurary 2, 2005


ModHalo

Sorry, it's been awhile since I last posted news here. But so you all know, ModHalo is not for sale anymore, and I'm still here.
ModHalo is sponsored by LiveWireHost
ModHalo will be taking on a new look, as soon as the owner of LiveWireHost gets some things taken care of after his computer got messed up.

Phil December 6, 2004

ModHalo

Well I'm sorry to say guys I'm probably leaving ModHalo. If anyone is intrested in buying it, just tell me.

We started out with a crappy DreamWeaver template and some forums. Than we got a new template thanks to Pete and it's stayed. The forums got wiped and we rebuilt them, and got most of out members back. Than Peter left... and that was very discouraging, since he is my brother and been a Halo pal since January.

It's all been fun, but since April or so it's pretty much just been downhill from there, so many people have left, HEK came, now no one really mods anymore, and lots of people feel left out because they can't map.

It's all been fun, but it's been very very very discouraging, watching everything that we spent so much time and effort on just fall apart. Me, just like everyone else probably wants the good ole days back, back in January where modding was hard, but fun. Everyone was still around, no one had really left. Websites we're in their prime, modding contests we're going on. Halo modding is a dead cause. It came and it went and for the time it was a blast.

If I have any buyers, if anyone wants to try and keep it going, just contact me, and this whole page, the forum, everything is yours to do what you want with it. I'm done, I'm out.

Good bye.

Phil August 20th, 2004

What's the big talk of ilovebees.com?

Well there has been a lot of talk about ilovebees.com
Let me clear it all up. ilovebees.com was flashed in the Halo 2 trailer, when the Xbox.com shows.

Well everybody has been trying to figure it out. As you know, Bungie likes to be tricky. Well with all the trying to figure out ilovebees.com several dates popped up. One of those dates was August 24th.

Well now we know what's so special about August 24th.

August 24th

For more information, you can read this article.

By the way you guys, if you have been wondering why I haven't been doing any updates, it's because I have been on vacation, been getting lazy, and don't get any help from Peter.

Phil August 2, 2004

Duel Wielding

Veegie and Madrox at Halomods have accomplished duel wielding (holding two of the same weapon at once). Although it doesn't look good in first person, it does like very good in third person.
The article

Phil July 6, 2004

Forum Wiped out

ModHalo's forum has been wiped out. We have restored it the best we could. Please help bring back more members, by maybe posting a link in your signature. Thank you.

Phil July 3, 2004

Halo 2 Update

Bungie has just written up some more info on Halo 2 along with some renders, Have fun discovering some of the new capabilities in Halo 2.
Halo 2 Update

Phil July 1, 2004

Faster loading page

We have just made a seperate webpage with minimal images, for slow internet users. You can get to it from anywhere on the site (except from the forum) by clicking the link on the left frame entitled
Slow internet users click here

Phil June 24, 2004

Peter leaving?

I have had a great time modding halo. I have spent time, too much time, on halo. I need to move on. I am addicted, and I am trying to stop playing. I will remain an owner of the site with Phil, and will remain an admin at the forums. I will still work with photoshop, and may make some website designs. No promises. I tryed to leave the halo modding scene a while ago, but I am in too deep. Who knows, maybe I'll come back. Thanks everyone for a great time.
Say your good-byes?

Peter, June 22, 2004

Zanzibar

A team of Halo modders have pulled together and will be doing a map remake of Zanzibar, the level featured in the Halo 2 in game multiplayer video. This is just their first update, they haven't done much work at all, so don't expect this level to be done any time soon.
Zanzibar update

Phil June 14, 2004

Have you been using our images?

I recently changed some access issues on our site. You will no longer be able to directly link to our images. A Mod Halo logo will pop-up if you do. Sorry for any inconviences. Please contact me if there are any problems. Thanks

Peter, June 14, 2004

Halo-mods.com Three Week Mapping Contest

The halo-mods.com staff have begun a new contest over at their boards. This contest will be held annualy every three weeks. This is a mapping contest (maps only, no mods).

The winner of the mapping contest will be put in the Spec-Ops mappers group and will receive a few other perks.

Good luck, happy mapping, and get your map submitted!

Captain June 7, 2004

This contest is not part of our modding contest.

Our New Custom Site Design

We are using a new site design. Further Reading

Buttons

For all of you that have a button on our website with scanlines (excluding FR33K) we need you to make another button 100 px wide, height doesn't matter. But if you want your button on this site, we need you to make another one, because when you try to size down a button with scanlines, it looks all messed.
Thank you

Phil 6/7/04

Our New Custom Site Design

Phil and I have been wanting to do this for a while. The beta version for our design was a tables design, which we learned about tables and image mapping. I bought the Adobe Creative Suite, and am proud to be getting good with it. The old design was a Dreamweaver standard template, which is why I didnt like it. We cleaned up our server a little bit, and put the new design together. I got to do the fun part- I custom designed every image and slice that is on the page, I got the rollover effects, and I made the tables look rounded. I showed Phil how frames work, and I left hime to do all the tedious, time consuming work, of going through every single page, and completly updating it. Thanks Phil. We had some arguments about design, and this is the final product. We dont have any major site design ideas for the future, but we wont be using a template, as custom webpages are more fun.

Designs

My purebreed notepad Frames document is available here.
The beta design is still available (probably for a limited time) at This Section of our website.
I am looking for the original one, the first real HTML doc that I really made, since sixth grade when I used expage.com for my personal webpage.

In Conclusion:
It is amazing how far we have come. We appreciate you guys sticking out the simple design, and non-functional forums. We really do, and that is why we host a number of sites and do free email and redirecting. Get Yours.

Peter, June 6, 2004

Parasites

Phil has a Parasite on his computer. It is not a virus. I am doing some research. Check
here for information on what parasites are, and find out (for free) if you have them
installed.
What is a Parasite?

3D Screenshots

I was browsing by Bungie.net when I saw this broad advertisement of the newest
Halo 2 Screenshots. They are 3D (sort of). They paused the game, then took a
bunch of high resolution screenshots. They then assembled them into a video, and
you can control the video back and forth, the speed, and the zoom levels (Thats
my interpretation of it). It is really neat. Check it out for youself, and make sure
to look at the High resolution one.

Read the Article
Lo-Res 3D screenshot
Hi-Res 3D screenshot

Pete May 30, 2004

Mr.L's Website

Ok, I just wasn't sure wether he wanted me to tell people about his site until it's
done, but he does want me to. You can get to it at http://halopc.simgames.net/exhm/
or http://halopc.modhalo.com
We have an affiliation, I'm just waiting for him to give me his "button". He has
also been so kind to give us a template for the site, but he will be busy working
on his site, and school so he won't be able to give it to me until next weekend
(6/5/04).

Phil 5/30/04

Some Site Updates

Some major issues fixed
I fixed the tricks section and also the about us section. Some picture and designs
were not working properly. Check em out.

Peter
May 28, 2004

E-mail addresses

ModHalo is now offering e-mail addresses (name@modhalo.com). If you would
like one, go talk to me or Peter. For more information, you can go to Website Community
and there is a section in there concerning e-mail addresses.

Phil 5/27/04

Chimp exporter

Well for those of you that don't have 3d Max, you can now use gmax, a free
program. An exporter game out yesterday called Chimp...

Chimp

Phil 5/25/04

Halo modding contest

I'll be having another Halo modding contest. It will start on June 1st and go to
July 1st. I will have a list of rules coming soon. I will not be opening up the
Contest Mods section until the contest actually starts. This time, aside from
just an add on our front page, we will also be having a prize to give to you
(not sure which it is yet, but it looks like it will be a strategy guide for the winner)
sponsored by Steve at Cortana Org .

Ok it looks like my brother wanted to get a head start on things, so we already
have the Contest Discussion and the The Rules .

Phil 5/22/04

More Halo 2 Multiplayer footage.

More Halo 2 Multiplayer footage has been released. It's short but sweet.
Halo 2 Multiplayer Footage

Phil 5/12/04

Halo 2 and more Halo 2!

There have been eight new Halo 2 screenshots all dated 5.10.04
And there is a Halo 2 that captures a view of muliplayer play in Halo 2.

Phil 5/10/04

HEK is out!

Our very long wait is finally over! After the release of Halo CE, HEK is now
out also. Sorry, but many of the servers are going extremely slow because
everyone is trying to get HEK and Halo CE.
HEK

Phil 5/5/04

Halo CE is out!

Yes that's right, Halo Custom Edition is out. Our wait for HEK is nearing every
day! (This download is at FilePlanet, so make sure you are a member)
Halo CE

Phil 5/4/04

New HEK tutorial is out.

A HEK Tutorial has come out at Cortana Org. With this tutorial out, it is promising
that HEK will be out very very soon.

Phil 5/3/04