Modding Halo Tutorials EP1: Introduction to the Tools

Salutations. I'm The Vengeful 'Vadam, one of the leads of VKMT, and welcome to the first installment of The Library, a series of Halo Modding Tutorials that will help you get started to mod Halo:
the master chief collection. This series will go over just about everything there is to know about making mods for this game, from tagging, mission design, model and texture work, sound editing, animation, and much more. This first tutorial will serve as the introductory course to the world of Halo Mods. I'll be briefly introducing you to the Halo Editing Kit as well as other supplementary material that you'll need to properly get started.

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[MythicJaqui]

Absolute gigachad for making halo modding more accessible for new modders

[EpicGamer]

I opened this video and being greeted be a Elite just saying "salutations" killed me

[MadamLava]

"The Library, a series of halo modding tutorials. Do note that to access this knowledge you must also defeat the waves of Flood about to escape this video."

[defaultgraycat]

thank you for these videos, you guys are a big pillar in the community

[Creepin_Jesus]

Very hyped to learn a few things from this series, when I was a kid I was always seeking out a copy of CE to try to learn to mod on my ancient old Dell Duo core machine but always found it hard to get all the resources to learn and where to find the tools. The term HEK has been burned into my brain from hopping between internet cafes with a 1GB usb trying to find some sort of starting point.

[KazukiIF]

Fantastic video, im very excited to watch the entire series. Very clear explanations, thank you

[nathanaelstevenson]

please please please don’t stop making these. we need a modern modding course in the MCC community so bad.

[ribba]

Been wanting to get into Halo modding but the lack of good documentation and tutorials made that a bit difficult, looking forward to what your series can teach me and others about bringing more to this legendary franchise!

[Heronimon]

Any and all help is much appreciated, especially when it's communicated slowly and clearly(I'm a noob), thank you. Have subscribed and I'm liking all your videos.

[umega]

Amazing, can't wait to see more of these in the future.

[I_SEV_I]

Great stuff Vadam, the community need's more tutorials to make it easier for the new modders.

[isisbarfuss]

Thank you, I think these tutorials will be very helpful!

[BloodGulch]

You guys have the unenviable challenge of making a fully-comprehensible tutorial series for the modding of a notoriously difficult series of games to develop for.
The majority will most certainly be frightened off from giving this a serious shot without big support for a modded custom games browser or significantly effective LFGs; people looking to get in to this would have enough pause for thought to shake the thought away as the veterans will be the ones to either hold the fort and/or eventually choose to retire or move on from this.
One of the many difficulties with crafting a tutorial series is that - especially in this field - one size does not fit all as all learn differently.

A community as fractured as Halo's doesn't stand a good shot in this age - even one in some semblance of healing - without some major, positive enforcement and a healthy dose of incentivization; i.e. official, financial and practical support in the field of game content creation by the publisher and a constantly improving means of distributing content rather than the 'shoestring budget' feeling I'd been getting from this MCC Restoration Project these past few years.

All-in-all my gut feeling's pretty strong that things will fizzle out but I just want to be proven wrong on this and that the community and franchise somehow finds a way to pull through.

[Gee-sbki]

When you used to play Halo Custom edition and realize this will be easy >>>>

[jurassicarkjordanisgreat]

Thanks for this tutorial. Way too used to assmbley and the new tools have confused me

[theyonets]

Dude the elite talkin is so Cool your could make an ngv around elites

[peppinhoITALIA]

I would be very interested in finding the three-dimensional object files, the stl or the obj, so would I find them all in the steam halo mod packages?

[Aimers_fps]

Is it only possible to play together between people who have the same mod or is the mod applied to the map itself?

[Finger]

One thing that is still missing from both Halo CE Tools and Halo 2 Tools is you cannot edit the Anniversary graphics from the campaign missions as I believe the tools are still based off of the original Legacy PC tools from the early to mid 2000s with just the classic graphics. Can you please bug 343 about that, that we still need a way to edit those assets in the tools? Thanks!

[Aimers_fps]

Which programming language need to make halo mod?