Cortana UI Editor

What Is This

A modding tool. It lets you edit any text in Halo Campaign Evolved and

spits out a ready to use mod pak.

Armour names, menu labels, buttons, descriptions, subtitles. Around 12,000

strings for the menus alone, and it does every language the game ships with.

No Unreal Engine. No cooking. No FModel. Point it at your game, retype what you

want, hit export.

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HOW TO USE IT

1. Download the zip for your OS and extract it anywhere.

2. Run it. Nothing to install.

3. Point it at your Halo Campaign Evolved folder and press Load.

4. Pick a language.

Game - en is the menus. Subtitles - en is campaign dialogue.

5. Search for what you want. Type customization_armor to find armour names.

6. Edit the New Text column.

7. Export Mod Pak for the language you are on, or Export All Languages

to put everything you edited into one pak.

8. Name it ending in _P.pak and drop it in:

Halo Campaign Evolved\Meteorite\Content\Paks\~mods

The folder must be named exactly ~mods, symbol and all.

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HOW IT WORKS

For anyone who wants to know what it is actually doing to their game.

The game keeps its text in .locres files, one per language, sat inside the

paks. Each one is a list of keys pointing at a big shared string table. The tool

reads them straight out of your install, and when you change something it

repoints that key at your new text and fixes the reference counts.

It then writes a UE pak version 11 itself. Paks in ~mods load after the

game's own, so your file wins and nothing else gets touched.

The writer round trips the real game file byte for byte identical when you

change nothing. That was the test it was built against.

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FIRST RUN

It downloads one file the first time you press Load. The game's text is Oodle

compressed and the game links Oodle in statically, so there is nothing lying

around to borrow.

It grabs the Oodle decompressor from the public OodleUE releases, same one

FModel uses, and drops it next to the exe. Happens once.

Already have it from FModel? Put it next to the exe and it downloads nothing.

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NOTES

Edits are per language. Changing English does nothing for someone playing in

German. Edit each one you care about or use Export All Languages.

The grid shows 4000 rows at a time. Use the search to narrow it. Your edits

are kept even when a row scrolls out of the filter.

Conflicts. Two mods replacing the same language file will fight and whichever

loads last wins. That is just how paks work.

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REQUIREMENTS

Windows 64 bit or Linux 64 bit.

A copy of Halo Campaign Evolved.

Internet on first run, once, for the Oodle file.

No . NET install needed. It is all in the one file.

SOURCE AND LICENSE

Open source, GPL 3. 0. Fork it, break it, improve it.

https://github.com/Omniscye/Cortana-UI-Menu-Editor

Uses CUE4Parse (Apache 2. 0) and Avalonia (MIT). Oodle is not included and is not

mine, it is fetched at runtime.

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Credits

Made by Omniscye/Empress

"Wake me when you need me."

Discord

http://discord.gg/empress