The Silent Cartographer Evolved at Halo Custom Edition Nexus

Version 1.4 (10-27-2021)
- Changes and improvements:
  - Added checkpoint launch menu when developer mode is enabled.
  - Reworded waiting-for-checkpoint HUD message to better distinguish from checkpoint-done message.
  - Increased melee damage for all weapons.
  - Reduced melee damage against Hunters to compensate.
  - Decreased sniper Jackal vitality.
  - Made Wraiths easier to board.
  - Allowed AI to occasionally fire Wraith side guns.
  - Redistributed some weapon and ammo drops to better suit nearby encounters.
  - Allowed the Hunter elevator to crush a careless player. Watch out!
  - Added a checkpoint when leaving the security pit.
  - Overhauled EAX sound environments across the map.
  - Recompressed many textures using better tools, significantly improving quality.
  - Touched up lightmaps across the map.
  - Touched up several Forerunner textures and shaders.
  - Touched up sand textures to hide obvious tiling.
  - Restored gentle swaying animation to foliage scenery.
  - Added buildup effects to weapons that detonate when droppped.
  - Added a new melee hit sound for armor materials.
  - Overhauled Hunter model, textures, and shaders.
  - Added a soft ping animation to Hunters.
  - Added ammunition-based effects to Hunter weapons.
  - Touched up the Grunt's model, textures, and shaders, adding vitality-scaled lights.
  - Added more Marine faces.
  - Added new effects as Auto-Carbine's rate of fire increases.
  - Lightly touched up Auto-Carbine shaders.
  - Made it harder to destroy Warthog regions. (Total vitality is unchanged.)
  - Added more damaged effects to the crashed Pelican.
  - Overhauled Ghost shaders and weapon effects.
  - Overhauled AA Wraith weapon effects.
  - Overhauled Brute pillar's model, textures, and shaders.
  - Reduced intensity of the overshield's light and lens flare.
  - Reduced lightning flash rate in the skybox.
  - Adjusted LZ supply Pelican timings to better highlight the weapon drop pods.
  - Adjusted waterfall sounds and effects for better consistency.
  - Added a timeout to the "Lockout" music.
  - Made it slightly easier to make it down the Cartographer field's upper ridge ramp.
  - Made Brute pool water a little more lively.
  - Allowed beach debris to fall all the way to underwater structures.
  - Restored unique scope masks to the DMR and scoped Pistol.
  - Added a new secret weapon to the map.
  - Added a new bonus exchange if you accidentally save the galaxy.
  - Disallowed assassinating the Master Cheif from behind.
  - Made it easier to survive the Spirit of Halo 1.
  - Many other special-difficulty enhancements.
  
  Bug fixes:
  - Worked around a crash when some dropped weapons detonate.
  - Fixed a potential crash when player dies out of BSP bounds.
  - Fixed dropship camera markers, improving gunner AI, and allowing Phantom teleportation hacks to be replaced.
  - Reduced Covenant crate's bounding radius to improve pathfinding.
  - Redid collision geometry for some scenery and devices to better fit the actual model.
  - Fixed phantom BSP in several locations.
  - Reduced potential hitching when the opening cutscene starts.
  - Fixed LZ units getting stuck in the destroyed Wraith.
  - Fixed crate lids potentially despawning LZ units.
  - Fixed Cortana telling you to proceed down the Cartographer shaft even when bypassing the area.
  - Fixed checkpoints getting saved in compromising locations when sequence-breaking past the locked door.
  - Fixed canyon units getting trapped in a BSP switch.
  - Completely refactored the Hunter elevator encounter for better consistency and stability.
  - Fixed errors in the Hunter elevator area's collision BSP, allowing AI to pathfind correctly.
  - Fixed the server room's stealth Elites getting trapped in a BSP switch.
  - Ensured LZ Marines are dead after returning from the Cartographer.
  - Gave exit Zealot the capability to retreat if player is safely on the other side of the lightbridge.
  - Fixed player action issues during and after the extraction cutscene.
  - Fixed many lighting issues across the map.
  - Fixed Brute flags not always spawning.
  - Reduced potential sound popping during some cutscenes.
  - Fixed undefined behavior in particle systems.
  - Clamped errant sound gain values to 0-1.
  - Fixed animation issues when firing the Auto-Carbine at fully automatic speed.
  - Fixed minor timing issues in Auto-Carbine's posing sound.
  - Fixed potential z-fighting on the Assault Rifle display.
  - Fixed Shotgun's moving animation.
  - Fixed Brute Shot's posing animation.
  - Fixed duplicate flashlight marker on the Sniper Rifle.
  - Fixed out-of-date bitmap in a Plasma Grenade contrail.
  - Fixed DMR firing sound using the wrong sound class.
  - Fixed some minor Warthog animation issues.
  - Increased Warthog's bounding radius to assist pathfinding.
  - Fixed AA Wraith front boarding actions.
  - Fixed some potential collision issues with Forerunner doors.
  - Removed erroneous detail maps from some shaders.
  - Fixed inconsistent cubemaps used by damaged Covenant shaders.
  - Fixed too-small bounding radius for detail stones.
  - Fixed Pelican glass using the wrong sky cubemap.
  - Fixed excessive shininess on Covenant ground barriers.
  - Fixed minor mip bleeding issues in Forerunner glass.
  - Fixed several misaligned scenery and equipment placements.
  - Fixed missing ocean sounds at the LZ.
  - Fixed issues with Hunter elevator holograms.
  - Fixed UV and animation issues with the big bridge.
  - Fixed rotation issue with underwater fog shader.
  - Fixed attenuation on the Cartographer door's ping sound.
  - Fixed minor stuttering in Cartographer projector's animations.
  - Fixed obvious BSP switch when exiting the Cartographer room.
  - Fixed Cartographer projectors being toggle-able after the first use.
  - Fixed excessively large falloff distance for Cartographer projector sounds.
  - Fixed incorrect difficulty-based checks for a couple of easter eggs.
  
  Source release:
  - Added bonus "a50_revisited" campaign scenario, and dependent tags.
  - Added bonus "precipice_h1_spirit" multiplayer scenario, and dependent tags.
  - Added bonus beam_cannon weapon to h1_spirit tags, for use in precipice_h1_spirit.
  - Added bonus new Assault Rifle and Sniper Rifle textures. (Thanks BobTheGreatII!)
  - Added more range_test variants for all tagset permutations.
  - Added new pause and difficulty selection menus for non-TSC:E scenarios.
  - Added MCC-compatible tag patches for globals, HUD, and weapon displays.
  - Removed "human" / "covenant" distinction from tag directories.
  - Consolidated many more non-Evolved-specific tags under _shared.
  - Reorganized lots of tags with more consistent conventions.
  - Removed lots of unused and broken tags.
  - Removed stock duplicates, replacing references with the original stock tags.
  - Reorganized music tags with more descriptive names.
  - Internalized transparent shaders that were converted to shader_transparent_generic in MCC, preserving MCC compatibility.
  - Removed a large amount of useless / broken unit animations that accumulated over the years.
  - Ensured all unit animations tags are now stock-compatible, spinning off new ones where necessary.
  - h1_spirit tags now use stock-compatible animations by default.
  - Added Halo 1-scaled small Hunters to h1_spirit tags, for stock compatibility.
  - Restored Banshee support to default Cyborg animations.
  - Removed use of metal (hollow) for Grunt armor in h1_spirit tags, preserving stock compatibility.
  - Removed unused LODs and variants from Brute models.
  - Added Assault Rifle to h1_spirit Marine bipeds and a missing h1_spirit Sniper Rifle Marine, preserving stock compatibility.
  - Added Assault Rifle to stock cyborg_mp, preserving compatibility with stock multiplayer maps with no starting profiles.
  - Fixed crewmen and marines having incorrect unarmed poses.
  - Ensured weapons that use change color have correct defaults, fixing issues with color change in multiplayer.
  - Disallowed ball, h_skull, and Rocket Launcher ammo from detonating, preventing multiplayer crashes.
  - Optimized Battle Rifle model.
  - Added missing pickup strings for Devourer prototype.
  - Added collision model to Focus Beam prototype, and fixed its bounding radius.
  - Overhauled Fuel Rod Cannon shaders, fixing issues along the way.
  - Fixed h1_spirit Needlers not using our updated ammo crystal.
  - Overhauled SMG LODs and shaders.
  - Restored silenced SMG.
  - Added night vision to h1_spirit Sniper Rifle.
  - Fixed several bad references in h1_spirit Fuel Rod Cannon.
  - Fixed Flamethrower using the wrong collision material.
  - Fixed several issues and inconsistencies with Flag and Ball weapons.
  - Added more multiplayer-friendly vehicle tags.
  - Fixed existing multiplayer vehicles having useless health HUDs.
  - Fixed missing / incorrect rider damage fractions and collision settings for existing multiplayer vehicles.
  - Overhauled Banshee shaders, including support for a crashed variant.
  - Fixed Banshee gun issue that allowed multiple projectiles to be fired instantly.
  - Spun off combined no-script-required model for Shade ball turret.
  - Added Spirit dropship with overhauled shaders.
  - Removed useless Ghost boost references from non-boosting Ghosts.
  - Added yellow-painted skin for Rocket Warthog.
  - Cleaned up h1_spirit Scorpion tags and visuals.
  - Combined regular and crashed Pelican models.
  - Fixed corrupted halo.vehicle.
  - Ensured HUD globals are stock compatible.
  - Restored stock terminal font.
  - Unified all weapon reticles into a single, tightly-packed bitmap.
  - Restored uncompressed HUD pickup icons, using more intelligent bitmap packing to save space.
  - Reorganized pause game UI to make more sense with multiple scenarios.
  - Added a generic pause game UI for stock scenarios.
  - Added comments to b30_evolved.scenario with our internal names for each major area.
  - Refactored scripts to remove the overcomplicated component system.
  - Simplified many scripts to reclaim syntax nodes, needed for other features and fixes.
Version 1.3 (04-22-2015)
- - fix horrible inconsistent map behavior caused when player backtracks footpath approach to cartographer after starting down vehicle path
  - fix some fp view clipping at high FOV for shotgun, plasma rifle and plasma pistol
  - fix ai freezing itself if player is slow to exit server room
  - fix pathfinding sphere radius values on crashed pelican
  - fix over-dark pr in catacombs
  - fix population issues in waterhall - carbine offset and missing door
  - fix duplicate crate in pit
  - fix badly-placed torch in cave
  - add zoomvisr to rl and noble (zoomable) pistol
  - add one final noble feature
Version 1.2 (03-16-2015)
- - add missing credit for axial's contributions to the early days of the project
  - add extra playerclip to reduce chance of clipping into cart interior brute war shrine
  - add easter egg hints
  - add better (not yet perfect) support for out-of-order backtracking among cartographer return paths
  - fix double-spawning dropship door in post-cartographer cliffs area
  - fix units taking damage when unloading from cliff dropship gravlift
  - fix disappearing objects during map activation cutscene
  - fix bug where map room hunters sometimes miss the elevator to the exit if they're still alive
  - fix mysterious shredder crates w/ incorrect ammo counts; standardize to use 8 / 16 rounds
  - fix bad offset of bounding sphere on c_storage_large
  - fix bad offset of bounding sphere on c_regen_station
  - fix bad bounding sphere radius on rock_boulder_large and medium
  - fix another potential issue with interior sequence breaking
  - fix assorted extraneous objects floating around in the map when they shouldn't be
  - fix marines going braindead +/ freezing across bsp switches when riding some wraith wings
  - fix hunters shooting during cart activation cutscene
  - fix mysterious floating lights on player's leg in first-person when shredder is their secondary weapon
  - fix footpath return units sometimes missing their spawn
  - fix zealot potentially going permanently braindead on lightbridge
Version 1.1a (03-05-2015)
- - reduce assault rifle melee animation clipping through camera at 90-degree fov
  - fix grunt occasionally spawning inside a rock during pool fight
  - fix unintended side-effects of 1.1 sequence-breaking logic, affecting "shafted" cutscene and vehicle return path
Version 1.1 (03-04-2015)
- - add minor buff to warthog health
  - add extra volume to c_storage_large playerclip so ghosts get trapped less often
  - add logic to make interior mission more friendly for sequence breakers
  - fix missing death volume in cave pool
  - fix shaft bridge collision model's animation to match render model's timing
  - fix unused heat meter still in gauss cannon hud
  - fix ar, pistol, rocket spawns on noble
  - fix assorted floating trees and other object placement
  - fix covenant vehicle emp system
  - fix mysterious floating phantom dropship pieces when main body is destroyed
  - fix grenade hud icon flash misalignment
  - fix hole in ar/gl model geometry
  - fix compass north not pointing towards threshold
  - fix incorrect damage scale on wraith sideguns
  - fix missing zoomvisr mode for hidden dmr

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