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Pepper's Pelican Overhaul Demo Map

An upgraded and feature-rich version of Reach's D77-TC Pelican Dropship. The best pelican I could possibly make within the limits of the Reach engine!

This mod is intended as a MODDER'S TAG RESOURCE. This workshop release is a SINGLEPLAYER/CAMPAIGN TEST SCENARIO designed to demonstrate some features of this tag mod. It is not intended for actual gameplay.

If you have a controller, you can press down on the d-pad to release the warthog from the AI pelican's hook at any time.

Find the tags download on Nexus here: https://www.nexusmods.com/halothemasterchiefcollection/mods/2475

Features:

- Restored "cut" damage states, to give the pelican a full destruction system like other vehicles. With explosions, fire, damaged sections, parts falling off, and no less than 13 separate garbage/gib pieces when it is finally destroyed (see images)!

- Completely custom physics and collision models offering a high degree of accuracy inside and out, allowing full access into the cockpit. Includes landing gear where appropriate.

- Localised physics, enabling passengers to walk around the interior during flight without falling out.

- Dynamic door physics, perhaps a first of its kind in a vehicle pre-H4! Door will actually prevent you from passing through it when the door looks closed, and vice versa, following the animation closely.

- Separate open/close animation versions for both standard opening/closing (just the rear hatch) and full opening/closing (rear hatch and landing gear) animations. Fixed front gear doors from clipping through the body.

- Improved engine effects, including newly added engine effects when the vehicle is boosting.

- Realistically lit interior, no more stupidly bright inside! Interior is also lit by a small blue-white light, that switches to a strong flashing red light under major damage. Accompanied by klaxon :)

- Cannon controlled by co-pilot (can be easily switched to pilot control with a very simple tag edit).

- Completely reworked seats. All 12 interior seats can now be used by spartans (player and AI) as well as marines.

- Custom seat animations for each seat for spartans; marines use the default animations for their passenger seats as they already looked good. Pilot and co-pilot seats feature properly IK'd hands and feet so that they appear to correctly hold the controls.

- Added tracking markers for lock-on weapons such as the rocket launcher.

- Brand new attachment hook/crane regions for carrying warthogs and scorpions into battle! These feature dynamic constraint physics that lets the attached vehicles swing as the pelican flies for added immersion.

- 4 separate vehicle tags for a choice of automatic OR manually scripted door/gear.

Credits/Special Thanks:

- Bungie for their original reach pelican model.
- Discord user Crisp for his amazing blender add-on Foundry, without which Reach+ modding would be dead, as well as general help with bug-fixing, support and testing.
- Discord users Krevil, Arttumiro, J-S and more for their help fixing issues.
- Discord user Zed (SpacedZed) for their help with physics constraint information.