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Cleb wrote:Sounds cool! Given that I don't have halo (or any other shooter other than battlefront for that matter) and Im a pretty bad modder I don't know how I would contribute to a mod but it would still be cool to see a mod of this as long as there is that helicopter thingy and that huge tank
Also how would you get the assets from halo? I thought you couldn't do that.

Marth8880 wrote:The PC versions came with mod tools.

You can't reverse engineer our games to access the assets or otherwise do things that the games don't normally permit in order to create your Items.

Microsoft's policy wrote:Microsoft grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use and display Game Content and to create derivative works based upon Game Content, strictly for your noncommercial and personal use.

THEWULFMAN wrote:I'm not arguing, but where does it say you can't use the word "Halo" in the mod's title?

In addition, your Items may not use the name of the Microsoft Game in their title. For example, we don't object to "Red vs. Blue". We don't object to "Operation Chastity". But we do object to "Halo [insert the title of your Item here]". We want to make sure consumers don't get confused.

Teancum wrote:There was a long while ago, but it fizzled out due to lack of production assets. Given the permissions MGS (Microsoft Game Studios) has given those walls have now become easier to overcome. It still requires conversion, rigging of models, etc (anything you'd do with even a major Star Wars mod) but the potential is there.