Foundry is a Blender addon that facilitates a complete 3D asset import pipeline for Halo Reach, Halo 4, and Halo 2 Anniversary Multiplayer. By integrating with the Halo Editing Kits, Foundry allows you to easily transform your Blender creations into game-ready Halo assets.
Foundry can:
- Export Blender scenes and build tags in a single click. No intermediary steps required
- Create Halo Models, Animations, Scenarios, Skies, Decorators, Particle Models, & Prefabs
- Lightmap Halo Scenarios and Models
- Integrate with the Halo tag editing API "ManagedBlam" to allow tag editing and creation directly from Blender
To install the afformentioned editing kits, you must own the respective MCC title on Steam. Links to these titles are shown below.
| Games | Version | Editing Kit | Platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halo Reach | MCC | HREK | PC |
| Halo 4 | MCC | H4EK | PC |
| Halo 2: Anniversary (Multiplayer) | MCC | H2AMPEK | PC |
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Go to the releases page and download the latest release's zip file
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Open Blender and navigate to Edit > Preferences. Switch to the Add-ons tab and click Install in the top right. Select the Foundry Addon zip file using the file browser dialog
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Activate the addon and follow the guide below to get started with using Foundry
- Open Foundry Preferences and input the paths to your Editing Kits. You can either paste the paths or use the folder icon to open a folder browser dialog
- If you see a asterisk next to Save Preferences, click this button before proceeding
- Click Install ManagedBlam Dependancy to install the the python module necessary to allow Foundry to communicate with the Halo tag API.
- Restart Blender
- Navigate to the right hand side of the 3D View. If you cannot see the Foundry Panel, click the small arrow facing away from the outliner or press N. Now select Foundry from the Tools Panels
- To create your first Halo asset click the New Asset button inside of the Asset Editor sub-panel. This will prompt a file dialog to specify a location and type for your new asset. Once your Blender scene is ready to export, use the Tag Export option in the Foundry Toolbar to export your asset to your preferred Halo Editing Kit
- Crisp - Addon Developer
- Alexis Jonsson | WyvernZu - UI/UX/Icon Design
- General Heed - Scale models
Testing and reporting bugs: