H2Tool uses a text file format named JMS or ASS in order to produce the many models used for our levels and objects. A pack containing various scripts for both Blender and 3DS Max can be found in the link below. Also included is a readme that will go over what the file is intended to do.

Download Halo Export Scripts

The H2Codez launcher is a program made by Num005 in order to automatically update the H2Codez DLL and easily add H2Codez features to a user friendly UI. Requires the first released version of the map editor tools in order to patch the exes to automatically load H2Codez.

Download The Launcher.

Notepad++ is a more in-depth editor for text documents. We will be using this to create and edit JMS files so make sure to have this on hand.

Download Notepad++

Due to the lack of an exporter for JMSV2(Halo 2 Specific JMS files) you will need a template for manually creating these files until an exporter is made.

JMSV2 Template

A tag extractor for Halo 2 Vista using Blamlib. Does not work very well but it can be very useful for researching tags. Full description in link.

Tag Extractor Forum Post