Byzantine's H3-ODST Elite Master Jmad(Animation Graph)

“Once again this fixes the Elite's Death, Berserk, Melee, and many other animations while providing Equipment, Troophog and Scorpion passenger support. Also includes the cut Halo 2 animations not covered in 3 which contain vital hardping(stagger) posing, hoist, rifle melee, and for those who wish to add them: All H2 vehicle animations for the ai and player. Pulling animations from the Halo 2 elite/dervish graphs, h3 dervish graph and phantom passenger animations from the ODST elite graph. Also them sick ass H2 Sword Readys"

If you have a Halo 3 or ODST mod with Elites and aren't using this resource as a base...what are you doing with your life and to your mod users?

PSA:

I am a Sangheili preferred species player that has been playing Halo since I was 4 and I enjoy nothing more than seeing Halo Elites act as competent allies and enemies in every game. Unfortunately Halo 3 Elites the fourth most based Elites have been slandered by the community for having bad ai...and ngl this is pretty objectively true, seeing how shit they are in 3 has always annoyed me for almost 2 decades now.

But what players don't realize is that 1. Halo 2 Elites have bad ai too its just masked by insane ai globals with Halo 3 Elite's copying almost every percentage and checkbox they have identically to H2 Elites but without global aimbot and 2. While Bungie did in fact add many animations to H3 Elites that benefit the player and ai, they removed many vital ones and broke existing ones at the same time. This is why Elites use a player animation for carbines that doesn't even do damage. It is why they instantly ragdoll when killed, and why they're the only elites in the franchise that don't play their berserk animation or have stagger animations so they eat rockets and a sword to the face with no reaction!

Which is a damn shame cause allied Elites are based and Halo 3 Elites look pretty good if not 2 good. Their ai modded can actually be made to be pretty damn good too, far above vanilla h2 and 3 elite ai. So I spent probably a hundred hours at this point, far longer than Bungie ever did looking at H3 Elites and using my knowledge of the other game's Elites to fix all their existing broken animations and readded the cut animations from 2 (they share skeletons and already reuse 90% of the H2 Elite's animations) plus took the new created phantom animations created by 343 indentured modders for ODST Elites( thank you) so they can function properly in any scenario as proper Halo ai.

Download Instructions: 

1. Extract the file to the tags<objects<characters folder in 3 or ODST

2. Replace the Elite jmad(animation graph) in the elite, dervish ai and if you wish for the player, dervish/elite_sp/mp_elite  model tags with the elite_h3_byz jmad.

3. Now just compile a selected scenario and or go into tag test to see the vastly improved Elites on your map!”