GoofballMichelle's Halo CE Resource (Tutorial Index)


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4	Special thanks to aLTis for sending me a lot of links to tutorials			Btw, please warn me about broken links and links that do not lead where they should.
5	Last updated:	2019-01-14
6	Official Files:
7	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:				Documentation / Demonstration:
8	Halo Custom Edition game 1.0	The base game you need to be able to play. (Requires a valid CD-key to install)	Bungie/Gearbox	2004	OpenCarnage	HaloMaps	HaloCE3	ModDB
9	Client 1.10 Patch	You'll need this so you can see the serverlist and so that recent addons that modify the game will work.	Bungie/Gearbox	2014	OpenCarnage	HaloMaps	HaloCE3	Bungie
10	Dedicated Server 1.10	The files needed to run a dedicated server for CE.	Bungie/Gearbox	2014	HaloMaps	HaloCE3	Bungie
11	Chat console fix	Use this if you can't see or type in the CE chat. This file comes with CE, but for ease you can get it here too.	Microsoft	2003	Microsoft	Mega.nz
12	Halo Editing Kit (HEK)	The Halo CE Editing Kit includes all the necessary external exporters and proprietary tools needed for editing and creating Halo content. In addition, the Halo CE Editing Kit also includes documents, tutorials and example content to help get end users editing and creating game resources quickly.	Gearbox	2004	OpenCarnage	HaloMaps			Online version of the tutorial that comes with the HEK. (Hosted on HaloMaps)
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15	Client mods:
16	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:				Documentation / Demonstration:
17	HAC2	A mod that adds things like the ability to change fov, save server bookmarks, cache maps for a quicker gameload, halo reach style medals, custom chat and more. (Suggested use: multiplayer)	Btcc22	Unknown, autoupdates without notifying.	Official Website	198.98.120.174			Official page of commands	YouTube video by Storm & Blackbird	Old Documentation on secondary website
18	OpenSauce (OS)	A mod that adds extended graphical capability, memory enchancements, scripting addons, and much more new functionality to the game. (Suggested use: Singleplayer)	Kornmann, TheFrieryScyte, others	4.0 2015	Official Bitbucket	GameBanana			Bitbucket Wiki	YouTube Playlist of Demonstrations
19	Chimera	GET THIS. This mod improves netcode on chimera only servers and also adds interpolation to the game so that animations look smooth on framerates higher than 30. Frequently check for updates though as the mod is still heavily in developement and has no autoupdating feature.	002		Halo1Hub	Opencarnage forum post			imgur gif
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21	Server mods:
22	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:				Documentation / Demonstration:
23	SAPP	A mod that adds many server management tools, event scripting, lua scripting, removes cd-key check and makes life a lot easier.	Sehé	(Auto updates) 2017	Official Website (Unstable link)	OpenCarnage			002's Comprehensive SAPP Documentation
24	Forum for SAPP LUA scripts	The SAPP LUA script forum sections. You can make requests here.			OpenCarnage	SAPP Forum
25	Memory Adresses for SAPP LUA scripts	Useful Addresses and offsets for use with SAPP LUA scripting.	Wizard		aLTis' updated version on Pastebin	Devieth's updated version on Pastebin
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28	Modding tools:
29	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:				Documentation / Demonstration:
30	Halo Editing Kit (HEK)	The Halo CE Editing Kit includes all the necessary external exporters and proprietary tools needed for editing and creating Halo content. In addition, the Halo CE Editing Kit also includes documents, tutorials and example content to help get end users editing and creating game resources quickly.	Gearbox	2004	OpenCarnage	HaloMaps			Online version of the tutorial that comes with the HEK. (Hosted on HaloMaps)
31	Mo's Editing Kit (MEK)	A collection of useful tools. (Most of these require Python 3.x.x) Mozzarilla: The highlight of the library, Mozzarilla is essentially a replacement Guerilla with some huge improvements.	MosesofEgypt	Comes with an updating script. March 2017	Bitbucket				HaloMaps Forum Post
32		Halo_TeXource: Capable of ripping the uncompressed source textures from a directory of tags to tga files. Halo_Bitmap_Optimizer_&_Converter: Quick batch conversion for your CE bitmap tags, mostly used to optimise map files that are too big. Also used sometimes to get around Tool's bad compression quality.
33		Convertor-Mode_to_Mod2: Converts a directory of xbox models to gbxmodels.
34		Convertor-Coll_to_Mod2: Converts a directory of model_collision_geometry tags into gbxmodel tags so they can be imported into 3dsmax.
35		Updated GBXModel importer for 3dsmax: Improved compatibility with newer versions of 3DSMax.
36		Refinery: The best tag ripper, the only tag ripper you should use. And more...
37	HEK Plus (HEK+)	A tool for ripping tags from map files. Handy for if you want to learn how something works, or if you see something you want. Does not work for opensauce tags. And corrupts certain pieces of tags, like weapon zoom levels, animation functions and such. Use at your own risk. Old and deprecated, don't use.	SteelIXB	december 2006	Get Mo's editing kit and use its tool called refinery instead
38	Realtime Tag Editor	Allows you to edit tags during game runtime, you can also save the tags. (Does not work for tags with raw data in them like Bitmaps)	Sprinkle	april 2014	MediaFire				HaloMaps Forum post
39	Realtime Tag Editor Updates	(Requires Realtime Tag Editor) Allows you to edit previously unsupported tags like OpenSauce Shader_Model, Shader_Enviroment and some hud meter pieces. (Might be condensed into one download containing everything one day when it gets updated more.)	GoofballMichelle / SBBMichelle	december 2016	OpenCarnage Forum post				OpenCarnage Forum post
40	Deathstar Map Deprotector	A powerful map deprotector, which also has the ability to deobfuscate tag paths.	002	2014	OpenCarnage Forum post	Sourcecode on GitHub
41	Aether	Serves to simplify the process of lighting a Halo map using a 3D modelling program.	TheFieryScythe	2009	HaloMaps				HaloCE3 Wiki
42	Adjutant	A powerful tool for ripping models, textures and sounds from all halos before the xbox one.		2016	Mega.nz
43	JMS Exporter	Exporting script for 3dsmax to turn your models into files tool can understand. Now updated to support marker sizes.	CtrlAltDestroy, TheGhost & Rododo	1-0-2-r 25-3-2017	MediaFire	Mega.nz	Google Drive
44	CAD Animation Exporter	A script for 3dsmax that both bakes and exports your animation into files tool understands. (Try compact one if the standard one fails you)	CtrlAltDestroy	2008	HaloMaps
45	Batch Bitmap Extractor	A tool to turn multiple CE bitmap files into viewable image formats.	TheFieryScythe	2006	HaloMaps
46	Multiclient	Allows you to run multiple instances of Halo at once. Extremely useful for testing server scripts.	Oxide	2012	Phasor.proboards				OpenCarnage Forum post
47	Animation Importer	Lets you import model_animations into 3dsmax. (Updated to support bigger animation tags)	TheGhost & MosesOfEgypt	1-0-6 22-3-2017	Google Drive	Mega.nz
48	Xbox ADPCM Codec	This is for if you want to compile sounds with tool in the Xbox ADPCM format	Giraffe	2016	OpenCarnage Forum post	Halomaps Forum post	HaloCE3.com (32+64bit version)	HaloCE3.com (64bit version)
49	OGG DLL Files	These are so you can compile OGG encoded sounds for CE. These also are the proper DLLs to use to make sure that your sounds don't cause crashes. One problem with these dlls though is that the client crashes if an OGG sound was played that has been compiled with a set of bad DLLs. So keep this one strictly in your modding install.			Google Drive
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52	Tutorials (Special):
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54	The Black Arts of Halo Modding	A PDF version of the famous book that some hardcore halo modding fans used to have. Is likely a bit outdated by now.	Stephen Cawood & Patrick Chin	2006	Google Drive
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56	Tutorials (Level Creation):
57	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
58	Halo Editing Kit Official tutorial	The official tutorial that comes with your HEK install.	Gearbox	2004	HaloMaps
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60	Complete Mapping Tutorial	An old, but still relevant beginners tutorial on making a map from start to finish for CE.	LlamaJuice
61		Part 1 Setting up the enviroment		2007	YouTube
62		Part 2 Modeling (1/3)		2007	YouTube
63		Part 2 Modeling (2/3)		2007	YouTube
64		Part 2 Modeling (3/3)		2007	YouTube
65		Part 3 Texturing (1/3)		2007	YouTube
66		Part 3 Texturing (2/3)		2007	YouTube
67		Part 3 Texturing (3/3)		2007	YouTube
68		Part 4 Sapien, Tool, Guerilla (1/3)		2007	YouTube
69		Part 4 Sapien, Tool, Guerilla (2/3)		2007	YouTube
70		Part 4 Sapien, Tool, Guerilla (3/3)		2007	YouTube
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72	PopeTX28's level creation series	A discontinued tutorial that has a bunch of videos that are pretty interesting to watch on their own	PopeTX28
73		01-Setting Up Halo CE for Map Editing		2015	YouTube
74		02-Setting Up 3ds Max for Halo CE		2015	YouTube
75		03-Tag and Bitmap Extraction, Open Sauce		2015	YouTube
76		04-Level Design Layout		2015	YouTube
77		05-Level Modeling(Part 1)		2015	YouTube
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80	3ds Max Strip Texture Unwrapping	A tutorial that explains a lot of important and handy things about the 3ds Max UV tools, focussed on texture strips for your level.	PopeTX28
81		3ds Max - Strip Texture Unwrapping (P.1)		2014	YouTube
82		3ds Max - Strip Texture Unwrapping (P.2)		2014	YouTube
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84	A10 Architecture Modelling	A tutorial that teaches you a lot of handy tricks for modeling high quality level geometry in the style of the pillar of authum's inside.	PopeTX28	2015	YouTube
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86	Terrain Modeling tutorial.	An indept look at how Higuy (One of the Lumoria devs, models his outside terrains).	Higuy	2010	YouTube	Vimeo
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88	Phantom BSP tutorial	A simple tutorial to help you fix invisible walls that only block bullets and vehicles in your maps	Siliconmaster	2010	YouTube
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90	Making a waterfall	A simple tutorial that explains how to make a halo 1 style waterfall.	TheGhost	2005	Google Drive
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92	BSP Errors explanation	A little image illustrating BSP error types.			Imgur	Google Drive
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94	Detail objects tutorial	A tutorial on how to make and place detail objects like little grasses and tiny rocks.	ZexGX	2007	HaloMaps
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96	Intro to water	Explains you how to make a water plane. Note that you can make your own water material. "water" is a shader from b30.	Wildrender	2013	Youtube
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98	Weather poly tutorial	This tutorial will help you make what can basically be regarded as weather regions for your map.	Dsalimander	2018	Mediafire
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100	Tutorials (Lighting):
101	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
102	Doing custom lighting in 3dsmax using Aether	Explains how to use Aether so you can render lightmaps for CE in 3dsMax	Siliconemaster	?	HaloCE3 Wiki
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104	Doing custom lighting in 3dsmax using aether (Video version)	A little less detailed than the written tutorial, but is defenitly helpful for the people who are better at listening and watching than reading.	MattDratt	2014	YouTube
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106	Setting up OpenSauce 4.0 Directional lightmaps	An extensive explanation on how to set up directional lightmaps/radiosity normals in Halo CE to give your levels more visual depth.	The OpenSauce Team	2015	OpenSauce Bitbucket Wiki
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108	Tutorials (AI and Scripting):
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110	Dropship Tutorial - Custom Animations	A tutorial that teaches you very basic animation, combined with how you can make a dropship fly into the level without having it use a recording of you flying it in. Also teaches you how to load a dropship with enemies and how to make it open and close it's doors.	MattDratt	2016	YouTube
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112	AI that follow the player	A tutorial that teaches you how to set up ai that follow you. You also learn how to make firing positions and some basic scripting to make it work.	MattDratt	2014	YouTube
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114	Setting up a singleplayer map and scripts	This is a starting tutorial for those who are getting into SP mapping for Halo: Custom Edition.	MattDratt	2013	YouTube
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116	Halo Scripting Bible	A lot of all the scripting commands for vanilla CE.	Kornmann00		Modacity
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118	OpenSauce Scripting Interfaces		The OpenSauce Team	2015	OpenSauce Bitbucket Wiki
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120	A few scripting tutorials	A few tutorials by the person considered the master of CE scripting.	Kirby_422	2012	HaloMaps forum post
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122	The Halo CE campaign source scripts	With these you can see how bungie scripted things, if you want to compile them in a scenario though you'll have to rename their extension to hsc though.	Z-team		HaloMaps
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124	Using TSC:E and SPV3 scripting features in your own map.	A tutorial that goes over a lot of things to help you set up the TSC:E abilities and vehicle scripts.	FtDSpartn	2015	HaloMaps forum post
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126	Making marine AI more agressive and useful		Rododo	2014	imgur	Google Drive
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128	Scripting tutorial	It is an introduction into the value types, the if statements, the cond statements, and script types (startup, dormant, static, static value-producing, continuous), and it dives into how these things work. The goal with this tutorial is to expose some halo scripters into some terminology that helps you really learn how to program, and gives the tools to the modder to develop whatever they want.	Nickster5000	2017	Dropbox	Mega.nz	Google Drive
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130	Tutorials (UI and HUD):
131	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
132	HUD tutorial	A tutorial that covers a lot of the basics about creating a HUD for Halo CE. While this covers a lot, it does not cover everything.	Jesse	2010	PDF hosted on HaloCE3.com
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134	HUD Extensions Tutorial	The tutorial covers shows creating and using a Backpack weapon icon. A basic SP backpack weapon script is included in the tutorial, with a list of optional changes, as well as what to add to make a OS MP verison.	kirby_422	2013	HaloMaps forum post
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136	Custom Reticle tutorial	A simple tutorial explaining how to make a custom reticle for your weapon.	Yoda73811	2013	YouTube
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138	UI Overview	A simple overview to get you started with making menus and such.	Giraffe	2015	OpenCarnage forum post
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140	Create basic lineart from photos	A tutorial covering how to make lineart for hud weapons.	Melissa Evans		www.melissaevans.com
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142	Little note for when making huds	Interface bitmaps are a lie, don't use them. Only have power of two bitmaps outside of sprites	Michelle
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144	Tutorials (Objects, weapons, bipeds, scenery, vehicles, etc.):
145	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
146	Physics/vehicle tutorial	Explains how to make physics tags for vehicles in Halo CE.	aLTis94	2015	YouTube
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148	Custom Weapons tutorial	A playlist of 29 videos where Yoda models and makes a weapon fully functional in Halo CE.	Yoda73811	2012	YouTube
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150	Custom Projectile tutorla	A simple tutorial on how to make a projectile for your weapon in CE	Yoda73811	2013	YouTube
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152	Custom Character tutorial	A playlist of 3 videos where Yoda skins, imports and makes a model work as a character in CE.	Yoda73811	2013	YouTube
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154	Custom FP Arm rig tutorial	Basically the same thing as the Custom Character tutorial, but I guess it might help some people. (This is not a tutorial for an animation/IK rig, check the animation section for that)	Yoda73811	2013	YouTube
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156	Scenery Tutorial	A basic tutorial covering how to ingame a static scenery piece.	Yoda73811	2013	YouTube
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158	Tutorials (Effects):
159	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
160	Creating a Custom Muzzle Flash Bitmap	This tutorial is how to create a custom muzzle flash, or anything else that can be applied to this.	Advancebo	2009	HaloMaps forum post
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162	Custom Muzzle Flash Tutorial	This tutorial covers how to get a custom muzzle flash into halo custom edition. It does not cover the creation of the bitmap itself.	Yoda73811	2013	YouTube
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164	Tutorials (Animation):
165	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
166	IK Controllers for FP Arms	A tutorial on how to set up simple IKs for the halo fp arms.	t3hlag	2010	YouTube
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168	t3h lag's FP animation tutorials	A playlist of multiple tutorials which should get you to know all the basics of first person animation.	t3hlag	2010	YouTube
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170	Link constraints in a reload animation	Helps you get to know more about link constraints, you need to know how they work before that though...	ImBrokeRU	2012	YouTube
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172	Automatic Forearm Twist	Not really applicable to any of the current CE rigs, but I am sure someone will find this very useful.	ImBrokeRU	2012	YouTube
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174	Third person overlay name and frame schemes	Useful for setting up vehicles that have turrets or completely custom bipeds that need new aiming overlays.	Advancebo	2009	HaloMaps forum post
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176	Animation export types	Helps you export animations with the right filetype	CtrlAltDestroy	2009	HaloMaps forum post
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178	Recorded animations tutorial	Tutorial for recording you playing the game for stuff like cutscenes.	{NP} Final	2012	HaloMaps
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180	Dropship Tutorial - Custom Animations	A tutorial that teaches you very basic animation, combined with how you can make a dropship fly into the level without having it use a recording of you flying it in. Also teaches you how to load a dropship with enemies and how to make it open and close it's doors.	MattDratt	2016	YouTube
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182	Stuff about animation types	A little explanation on how certain animation types were used in TSC:E	t3h lag	2013	HaloMods forum post
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184	Tutorials (Misc.):
185	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
186	LODs	A short and simple tutorial on how to import LODs (Level of detail models) into CE.	aLTis94	2016	YouTube
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188	Proper LOD cutoffs	Will teach you how to easily figure out when an LOD should switch to make it not look too bad to the eyes.	MosesofEgypt	2014	HaloMaps forum post	Google Drive
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190	Importing non-power-of-two textures + improving normal map compression quality for dxt1	A simple tutorial with many purposes. One of the most notable ones is that it will help you improve compression quality so you don't get ugly blocks everywhere, and you don't have to compile the textures at 32bit for it, which saves a lot of space. You can also import textures that are not sized with the power-of-two (stuff like 256, 512, 1024, 2048)	GoofballMichelle / SBBMichelle	2017	YouTube
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192	Halo CE Bitmap compression stuff	Not really a tutorial. Just a bunch of statistics and tips for people who want to get the most out of their bitmaps. Also interesting for nerds.	GoofballMichelle / SBBMichelle	2017	Google Document Spreadsheet
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194	Tag manipulation in SAPP	How to edit tags in SAPP.	002	2016	OpenCarnage forum post
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196	Saving space by making portals fully coplanar		MosesofEgypt	2014	imgur
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198	Extracting models from Halo Online	No talking, just someone showing you how to do it.			Google Drive
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200	World units explanation	An explanation of the size of world units and their equivalents.	Ki11erFTW		Imgur	Google Drive
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202	Aim Assist explanation	An explanation about how aim assist in Halo CE works.	t3h m00kz		Imgur	Google Drive
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204	Open Sauce shader model tutorial and discussion.	And interesting read if you want to get a better understanding on the Opensauce Shader model tag.	Waffles	2012	Google Drive
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206	Colourchange mask explanation GIF		Giraffe		Google Drive	Imgur
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