Halo 3 Atlas

I have nothing to do with the "Fragmented Gamer" / "ONI XT" YouTube videos pushing this as a remaster and using generative AI slop for the thumbnails. The only "AI" used in the process of making this mod is chaiNNer, which I used to upscale a handful of textures (primarily bump maps). My mod is not a remaster, not Halo 3 Anniversary, not an over-saturated mess of bright colors, and not AI slop.

Halo 3: Atlas is a total gameplay and visual overhaul intended to create an aesthetic more unified with H2A and Reach, as well as to create a heavily CE-inspired experience with a "tighter" sandbox.

Custom sounds in MCC are not perfect. Follow these two rules to avoid experiencing audio bugs.

1. Do not "restart" a level. If you do this, custom audio will not play.

2. Upon finishing one mission and the game loading into the next, quit and resume your campaign. If you opt to allow the game to load directly from one mission into the next and continue, random audio will play until the next time you quit and resume your campaign.

There are TWO exceptions to this second rule:

1. Loading from ARRIVAL to SIERRA 117

2. Loading from HALO to EPILOGUE

Join the discord: https://discord.com/invite/s467zDXSRV

Sandbox breakdown: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yccbKefIWjPPWaMiyFCY3gzCtBc6OFxl6MMLnml20Wc/edit?usp=sharing

To install manually: extract the folder from this zip and ensure that ModManifest.txt, found in the directory Users\USER\AppData\LocalLow\MCC\Config contains the whatever directory you choose to place this mod folder within.

CREDIT (in no particular order):

The Halo Mods discord server as a whole for being such a good source of information. Thanks particularly to the likes of Pepper, AI, and Auswirkungen for consistently helping - from day one - with so much, starting with the very basics.

Also TheChunkierBean for having great videos and livestreams as resources for learning how to port things to Halo 3, particularly with shaders.

Of course, none of this would be possible without Bungie and 343/Halo Studios - not just for making these games, but for the tools, assets, and all of the insight to be gleaned from Vidocs and the like. Credit to Saber Interactive for all of their H2A assets that I've ported as well.

Mod tools - 343

Index - Haus

Halo Asset Blender Development Toolset - General101

Reclaimer - Gravemind2401

Blender AMF Importer - Gravemind2401

chaiNNer - chaiNNer Org

4x GameAI 2. 0 - Tal (image upscaler on OpenModelDB)

MCC Shared Map Compiler Python Script - Pepper-Man

Materialize - Bounding Box Software

Used assets:

Cortana as the Forerunners Intended (Kitbashed with H2A) - Shreddy117 (Nexus)

Workshop upload template - Caleb (Workshop)