gbMichelle's Halo CE Resource (Tutorial Index)


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5	Last updated:	2019-08-12
6	Essential 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	HaloCE3	ModDB	Vaporeon.io
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	HaloCE3	Bungie	Vaporeon.io
10	Dedicated Server 1.10	The files needed to run a dedicated server for CE.	Bungie/Gearbox	2014	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	Vaporeon.io			Online version of the tutorial that comes with the HEK. (Mirrored on Reclaimed)
13	Refined Singleplayer Maps	The Halo 1 Singleplayer ported to Halo Custom Edition fixing visual bugs in the process.	MosesOfEgypt Jesse Vaporeon Mortis Waffles AltSierra117 gbMichelle stunt_man	2019	Vaporeon.io	Proxeninc.net	Google Drive	Google Drive 2
14	Refined UI	The Main menu, but with shader fixes and an option to launch single player maps.		2019	Vaporeon.io	Proxeninc.net	Google Drive	Google Drive 2
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17	Client mods:
18	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:				Documentation / Demonstration:
19	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, Msalerno1965	Unknown, autoupdates without notifying.	Wiki				Official page of commands	YouTube video by Storm & Blackbird	Old Documentation on secondary website
20	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	AmaiSosu (Easier installer that doesn't have as many issues)			Bitbucket Wiki	YouTube Playlist of Demonstrations
21	Chimera	This mod 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.	Kavawuvi		Opencarnage forum post	Release -581 by gbMichelle			imgur gif
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23	Server mods:
24	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:				Documentation / Demonstration:
25	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
26	Forum for SAPP LUA scripts	The SAPP LUA script forum sections. You can make requests here.			OpenCarnage	SAPP Forum
27	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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30	Modding tools:
31	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:				Documentation / Demonstration:
32	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				Reclaimed
33	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	2020	GitHub	Non-Python Version
34		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.
35		Convertor-Mode_to_Mod2: Converts a directory of xbox models to gbxmodels.
36		Convertor-Coll_to_Mod2: Converts a directory of model_collision_geometry tags into gbxmodel tags so they can be imported into 3dsmax.
37		Updated GBXModel importer for 3dsmax: Improved compatibility with newer versions of 3DSMax.
38		Refinery: The best tag ripper, the only tag ripper you should use. And more...
39	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
40	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
41	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
42	Deathstar Map Deprotector	A powerful map deprotector, which also has the ability to deobfuscate tag paths.	002	2014	OpenCarnage Forum post	Sourcecode on GitHub
43	Aether	Serves to simplify the process of lighting a Halo map using a 3D modelling program.	TheFieryScythe	2009	Reclaimed				HaloCE3 Wiki
44	Adjutant	A powerful tool for ripping models, textures and sounds from all halos before the xbox one.		2016	Mega.nz
45	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
46	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	Reclaimed
47	Batch Bitmap Extractor	A tool to turn multiple CE bitmap files into viewable image formats.	TheFieryScythe	2006	Reclaimed
48	Multiclient	Allows you to run multiple instances of Halo at once. Extremely useful for testing server scripts.	Oxide	2012	Phasor.proboards	Reclaimed			OpenCarnage Forum post
49	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
50	Xbox ADPCM Codec	This is for if you want to compile sounds with tool in the Xbox ADPCM format	Giraffe	2016	OpenCarnage Forum post	HaloCE3.com (32+64bit version)	HaloCE3.com (64bit version)
51	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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54	Tutorials (Beginner):
55	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
56	Mo's Halo tutorials	A set of tutorials on how to do things for CE, the modern way.	MosesOfEgypt
57		1 - Setting up your environment		2019	YouTube
58		2 - Refinery introduction \| Extracting tags from protected maps		2019	YouTube
59		3 - Mozzarilla introduction \| Making a basic custom weapon		2019	YouTube
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61	How to easily share tags/assets	How to easily share tags/assets using Refinery	gbMichelle	2019	YouTube
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64	Tutorials (Special):
65	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
66		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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68	Tutorials (Level Creation):
69	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
70	Halo Editing Kit Official tutorial	The official tutorial that comes with your HEK install.	Gearbox	2004	Reclaimed
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72	Complete Mapping Tutorial	An old, but still relevant beginners tutorial on making a map from start to finish for CE.	LlamaJuice
73		Part 1 Setting up the enviroment		2007	YouTube
74		Part 2 Modeling (1/3)		2007	YouTube
75		Part 2 Modeling (2/3)		2007	YouTube
76		Part 2 Modeling (3/3)		2007	YouTube
77		Part 3 Texturing (1/3)		2007	YouTube
78		Part 3 Texturing (2/3)		2007	YouTube
79		Part 3 Texturing (3/3)		2007	YouTube
80		Part 4 Sapien, Tool, Guerilla (1/3)		2007	YouTube
81		Part 4 Sapien, Tool, Guerilla (2/3)		2007	YouTube
82		Part 4 Sapien, Tool, Guerilla (3/3)		2007	YouTube
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84	PopeTX28's level creation series	A discontinued tutorial that has a bunch of videos that are pretty interesting to watch on their own	PopeTX28
85		01-Setting Up Halo CE for Map Editing		2015	YouTube
86		02-Setting Up 3ds Max for Halo CE		2015	YouTube
87		03-Tag and Bitmap Extraction, Open Sauce		2015	YouTube
88		04-Level Design Layout		2015	YouTube
89		05-Level Modeling(Part 1)		2015	YouTube
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92	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
93		3ds Max - Strip Texture Unwrapping (P.1)		2014	YouTube
94		3ds Max - Strip Texture Unwrapping (P.2)		2014	YouTube
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96	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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98	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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100	Phantom BSP tutorial	A simple tutorial to help you fix invisible walls that only block bullets and vehicles in your maps	Siliconmaster	2010	YouTube	YouTube
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102	Making a waterfall	A simple tutorial that explains how to make a halo 1 style waterfall.	TheGhost	2005	Google Drive
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104	BSP Errors explanation	A little image illustrating BSP error types.			Imgur	Google Drive
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106	Detail objects tutorial	A tutorial on how to make and place detail objects like little grasses and tiny rocks.	ZexGX	2007	Reclaimed
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108	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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110	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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112	Tutorials (Lighting):
113	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
114	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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116	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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118	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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120	Tutorials (AI and Scripting):
121	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
122	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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124	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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126	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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128	Halo Scripting Bible	A lot of all the scripting commands for vanilla CE.	Kornmann00		Modacity
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130	OpenSauce Scripting Interfaces		The OpenSauce Team	2015	OpenSauce Bitbucket Wiki
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132	A few scripting tutorials	A few tutorials by the person considered the master of CE scripting.	Kirby_422	2012	Reclaimed
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134	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		Reclaimed
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136	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	Reclaimed
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138	Making marine AI more agressive and useful		Rododo	2014	imgur	Google Drive
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140	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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142	Tutorials (UI and HUD):
143	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
144	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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146	Custom Reticle tutorial	A simple tutorial explaining how to make a custom reticle for your weapon.	Yoda73811	2013	YouTube
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148	UI Overview	A simple overview to get you started with making menus and such.	Giraffe	2015	OpenCarnage forum post
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150	Create basic lineart from photos	A tutorial covering how to make lineart for hud weapons.	Melissa Evans		www.melissaevans.com
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152	Scope Masks	This video will demonstrate the rules and settings applicable to scope masks used with zoomable weapons.	Jesse	2019	YouTube
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154	Tutorials (Objects, weapons, bipeds, scenery, vehicles, etc.):
155	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
156	Physics/vehicle tutorial	Explains how to make physics tags for vehicles in Halo CE.	aLTis94	2015	YouTube
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158	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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160	Custom Projectile tutorla	A simple tutorial on how to make a projectile for your weapon in CE	Yoda73811	2013	YouTube
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162	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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164	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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166	Scenery Tutorial	A basic tutorial covering how to ingame a static scenery piece.	Yoda73811	2013	YouTube
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168	Tutorials (Effects):
169	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
170	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	Reclaimed
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172	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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174	Tutorials (Animation):
175	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
176	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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178	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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180	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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182	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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184	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	Reclaimed
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186	Animation export types	Helps you export animations with the right filetype	CtrlAltDestroy	2009	Reclaimed (Scroll down)
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188	Recorded animations tutorial	Tutorial for recording you playing the game for stuff like cutscenes.	{NP} Final	2012	Reclaimed
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190	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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192	Stuff about animation types	A little explanation on how certain animation types were used in TSC:E	t3hlag	2013	Google Drive
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194	Tutorials (Misc.):
195	Name:	Description:	Author:	Latest version / last updated:	Download links / Websites:
196	LODs	A short and simple tutorial on how to import LODs (Level of detail models) into CE.	aLTis94	2016	YouTube
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198	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	Google Drive
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200	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.	gbMichelle	2017	Google Document Spreadsheet
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202	Tag manipulation in SAPP	How to edit tags in SAPP.	002	2016	OpenCarnage forum post
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204	Saving space by making portals fully coplanar		MosesofEgypt	2014	imgur
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206	Extracting models from Halo Online	No talking, just someone showing you how to do it.			Google Drive
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208	World units explanation	An explanation of the size of world units and their equivalents.	Ki11erFTW		Imgur	Google Drive
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210	Aim Assist explanation	An explanation about how aim assist in Halo CE works.	t3h m00kz		Imgur	Google Drive
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212	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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214	Colorchange mask explanation GIF		Giraffe		Google Drive	Imgur
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216	Shader transparent rundown	An extensive rundown of how shader_transparent based shaders work.	MosesOfEgypt	2019	Google Drive
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218	How to easily share tags/assets using Refinery	This is a simple tutorial showing you how to easily share your tags and everything they depend on.	gbMichelle	2019	YouTube
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