[H2EK] Remote Command Views

[BenSteenson]

In Halo 2 Guerilla (2021), you can see the Remote Command View button working when you have a Sound tag active. RCV is enabled by default and creates this section of the Sound tag properties:

If you click "Remote Command View" in the Edit dropdown menu, this section disappears. Clicking it again makes it reappear. The option only affects the selected tag.

Clicking the buttons (except for Stop) asks for the name of a Running Instance.

The purpose is likely to play audio in a running instance of the game, possibly other types of tags like objects could have been created as well. I have not figured out if it can be used with Standalone/tagtest, and if so what the valid name for the "Running Instance" would be (when running on the same PC).

EDIT:

You can also trigger the "Target Machine" dialog by opening a .model_animation_graph tag and scrolling to animations, which has a button to Play on player.

I spent a lot of time trying to put in various addresses and names, anything that should work threw a lot of network errors looking with WireShark.

[num0005]

Huh so it's actually trying to connect to something in the H2 MCC release? In H2VEK the code was stubbed out and didn't try to connect to anything. I believe it was meant to connect to a dev build of the game running on an Xbox so artists could see what their work looks or sounds like on the actual target system.