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About this mod
It's finally here! Our ultimate vision for a complete overhaul of the Halo 3 Pelican, both visually and functionally, whilst leaving all base-game features intact
There's far too many changes to list up here, so check the Features list in the description below!
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The Ultimate Halo 3 Pelican Overhaul
By PepperMan & ThunderMG
By PepperMan & ThunderMG
This mod is considered feature-complete, but may not be bug-free!
Please also be aware that this mod is intended as a modder's resource - you are completely free to use this Pelican in any mods you make, as long as you give credit to us
Credits/Special Thanks:
- Huge credit to the co-author ThunderMG who joined about halfway through this mods' creation, and helped me add many of the additional features!
- Thanks to JoeC from The Gaming Hour and SoCyno for helping to test and debug the mod!
- And of course thanks to all of the amazing people in the Halo Mods discord, without their knowledge this mod would never have happened - including but certainly not limited to Arttumiro, Camden, Pyrosocial/Krevil, Gamecheat13, SpacedZed, and Lord Zedd
Features:
Visual Changes:
- Completely reworked interior - extended cargo area that meets the cockpit with no dividing wall, similar to the Halo Reach pelican interior. This includes extra interior seating to use up the new space, and properly modified textures/UV mapping - you can hardly tell its been changed!
- Fully custom destruction - pelican can take damage and fires/explosions will appear around the vehicle, eventually it will explode into large debris chunks
- Additional 4 working passenger seats (2 either side) for a total of 14 passenger seats instead of the usual 10
- Landing gear that raise/lower based on the vehicle's distance from the ground (including the door opening/closing)
- Fixed rocket pod wing positioning, the pods now rotate with the wings!
Physics Model Changes:
- Fully walkable/interactable interior collision, including in the cockpit
- Early-mover physics, meaning that you can walk around inside whilst the pelican is moving (be careful of falling out the back under large acceleration though!)
- Proper landing gear physics - no more pelican that falls backwards onto its tail!
Weapon Changes:
- Adjusted rocket pods to fire a 6 rocket salvo from each wing pod (pilot controlled)
- Added anti-infantry nose/chin turret (pilot controlled)
- Individual firing smoke effects for each rocket launched
Seat Changes:
- First-person co-pilot seat with custom tweaked animations
- Pilot seat with correct pelican pilot seat animations
- Pilot and co-pilot seat exit animation leave you standing back in the cockpit, not outside the vehicle!
- Cockpit-defender crouching seat, allowing you to shoot out the door to protect the cockpit occupants
- ALL 14 passenger seats are available to use, with the proper animations (inherited from the marines)
- Ability to select the exact seat you want just outside the door of the pelican on the left and right sides (see pictures)
- All seats have custom strings, for example "Hold E to pilot Pelican Dropship" (thanks Pyrosocial/Krevil for the extracted Halo 3 strings!)
Miscellaneous Changes:
- Added red light to cargo bay - light will begin to flicker when the pelican takes damage
- Added additional mongoose cargo marker - that means you can transport two AI mongeese in the cargo bay!
- Tweaked boost functionality with added subtle boost effects to the engines
- AI (Cortana) light effect next to pilot when vehicle is in use
- Probably some other stuff I'm forgetting, there's so much here!
Despite all of the added/changed features, none of the original functionality should have been compromised
That means Marines can use the pelican as normal, including the additional seating! From testing, you should be able to simply replace the original pelican with this one into your mod with no other tweaks necessary - please let me know if this isn't the case for you!
Known Issues
- Elites cannot use most, if not all, of the seats
- Destoyed pelican hull debris uses the old interior design (very difficult to fix, as the debris has no cockpit interior I could uncover by just removing the wall)
- Please feel free to message me on discord at PepperMan#7295 if you find any bugs/issues!
Additional Info
- This mod alters the masterchief.model_animation_graph to add custom animations. If you use a mod that also edits this file, or have edited it yourself, this mod will not be immediately compatible. Only a few animations were added to the file - feel free to append my changes onto your own so that you can use my mods and your own together!
- This mod alters hud_messages.txt - if you have already modified this file, you may want to use a file/text comparison site to find the strings I have added, and simply copy them to your hud_messages.txt
Installation:
Download the .zip file - installation instructions are contained in a README file inside.
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW ALL OF THE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS EXACTLY