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Another Bungie.net update, another revision required

Feb 15

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The latest changes to Bungie.net broke Halo 3 Asset-O-Matic again. I’m working on a new build featuring:

Search Matchmaking or Custom Games
Direct linking to the files page
Faster searching (5 times more grabbing threads)

A problem with increasing the amount of network activity is that the thread checking for the next page of results sometimes times out. It’s fine if a grabber thread times out because there’s 24 more left to continue to continue the work but there’s only one thread looking for the next page. I’ll have to see if I can add some fallback code to reinitilise the thread if it falls over.

Tags: Asset-O-Matic, Halo 3

Halo 3 Video Rendering is here!

Feb 14

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Well almost..

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Beta 3?

Feb 8

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Halo 3 Asset-O-Matic Beta 3

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Halo 3 Asset-O-Matic Beta 2

Oct 18

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Halo 3 Asset-O-Matic Beta 2 is finished, tested and confirmed working with the redesign of Bungie.net

This is a hot fix build, all previously created databases are fully compatible with this version. I’m considering implementing support for Custom Games and Campaign game history but this will require the existing code being refactored, something I haven’t yet had time to do…

Tags: Asset-O-Matic, beta, Halo 3

Bungie updates website, Asset-O-Matic still required

Oct 18

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I’d been holding off on doing more work on the Halo 3 Asset-O-Matic due to Bungie’s announcement that the File Share system was going to get a major overhaul. Bunige have done a great job of improving the basic system they had in place before but it despite all the improvements they have made it’s still not possible to bring up a list of Assets taken from games you were in, making the Halo 3 Asset-O-Matic still the only way to achieve this.

However
During the refit of the website Bungie made some major changes to the way Assets are displayed which break Asset-O-Matic I’ll be making a quick fix version to replace the current beta ASAP, a new beta with more features and bug fixes will be available in a month or two…

Tags: Asset-O-Matic, Halo 3

Selected Asset-O-Matic databases

Sep 7

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I’ve collected a few Asset-O-Matic search results from a few names you might find familiar I’ll add a few more from Team Bungie when I get chance

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Halo 3 Asset-O-Matic FAQ

Sep 7

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As people have been playing with the newly released Asset-O-Matic BETA I posted last night some common questions and problems have popped up..

You must extract the files from the zip before running the program.. You cannot run the file from zip as it may not be able to access the SQLite DLL and the search results are saved in the application directory, if this is a temp directory then there’s a good chance you won’t be able to find it or it might get deleted!
Once a search is complete the results are not automatically loaded, you must use the Load DB button to open the saved results.
Search results are stored in the application directory and are named gamertag_date_time.h3
Searches do take some time, to scan my game history of 1774 games takes approximately 20 minutes. Leave it running in the background, you can always load up some other search result files to keep you interested
If the staus bar is stuck at Scanning Bungie.net game history… and hasn’t changed after 5 minutes try closing the program and restarting the search

Tags: Asset-O-Matic, beta, FAQ, Halo 3

Game History Spotlight – Ferrex

Aug 3

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Ferrex was part of the team working on Halo 3′s multiplayer option and has a short but interesting Game History. Most importantly his list happens to have one of my favourite videos so far; check out the Betraytacular clip from the 2nd ever publicly recorded Halo 3 game.

I’m including Ferrex’s old Game History which includes Custom Games, future posts will be based on the current Bungie Game History with the Custom Games Filter applied.

Game History provided by the Halo 3 Asset-O-Matic:
One Flag on Sandtrap (21:07 19/09/07)
Team Slayer on The Pit (21:16 19/09/07)
Territories on Last Resort (21:39 19/09/07)
Vip on Valhalla (21:17 26/09/07)
Territories on Valhalla (01:21 27/09/07)
Elim Snipers on Valhalla (01:56 27/09/07)
Team Slayer on Isolation (03:53 28/09/07)
Team Slayer on Construct (04:02 28/09/07)
Slayer on The Pit (19:59 29/09/07)
Team Slayer on Narrows (05:20 30/09/07)
Territories on Valhalla (23:27 30/09/07)
Infection on Sandtrap (22:07 07/10/07)
Slayer on Sandtrap (22:34 07/10/07)
Save One Bullet on High Ground (08:13 31/10/07)
Save One Bullet on Last Resort (08:23 31/10/07)
Creeping Death on The Pit (19:22 31/10/07)
CreepingRockets on High Ground (19:59 31/10/07)
Team Slayer on The Pit (00:43 10/01/08)

Tags: Asset-O-Matic, Halo 3

Game History amnesia

Jul 28

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I was preparing a new post that listed Ferrex’s game history, it’s a short list but more importantly it also has one of my favourite videos in it. It’s been over a month since I last scanned Ferrex’s Game History so I thought I’d best run a full update.

I was somewhat suprised when the latest scan came back with less results than the one I did in June. Comparing the two it appeared that some of the earlier games were no longer being listed on his Game History page. After a brief comparison it was clear what was missing; Custom Games. At some point in the last month it appears Bungie has stopped listing custom games in your Game History, I’m not wholly sure why this is but it’s somewhat of a disappointment as some of the best pictures and videos have been found on these games.

Tags: Asset-O-Matic, Halo 3