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Ultimate Skinning Tut w/ Pics

This is a discussion about Ultimate Skinning Tut w/ Pics within the Halo 2 Beginner Mod Tutorials section, where you will Learn the basics to Halo 2 Modding. Learn how to properly mod a map, encrypt a map, resign a map and load your modded map on the Xbox.; Programs Bitmap Iternalizer Photoshop tryout Photoshop DDS plugin dothalo Shared.map and mainmenu.map your xbox. Before you beging make sure you have mainmenu.map and shared,map in the same folder. First open dothalo and open a map.



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Old 12-21-2006, 07:44 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Bitmap Iternalizer
Photoshop tryout
Photoshop DDS plugin
dothalo
Shared.map and mainmenu.map your xbox.

Before you beging make sure you have mainmenu.map and shared,map in the same folder.
First open dothalo and open a map. Ill be using warlock then go to the bitm tag and go to the plasma pistol. Just the plasma pistol not the pp lod or anything.
Click the image to open in full size.
Now go to the raw date ediot window and you should see a bitmap preview.
Click the image to open in full size.
Now press extract bitmap and save it to a folder just for your bitmaps. If you dont have one make a new one. A status window should pop up and say it was sucessful.
Click the image to open in full size.
Now open photoshop.
Click the image to open in full size.
Now open the bitmap. You should get a window asking how to open it using default sizes.
Click the image to open in full size.
You should now have a bitmap preview in ps
Click the image to open in full size.
First set the coler using the coler box. Then go to the custom shapes bar on the left hand side and select the rictangle draw a rectangle around the whole image.
Click the image to open in full size.
Now let go and the bitmap should have a new coler over it. Then go the the left hand side in the layer box and swithc the opacity to 20 percent.
Click the image to open in full size.
Now hit save and save it plasma pistol.dds
Click the image to open in full size.
A save tool called navidia should come up.
Click the image to open in full size.
In order to save it we have to know what the dxt is so go back to dothalo and go to the bitm tag and go to the plamsa pistol then finally the raw date edior. You should see a preview again. The number above the preview is what we save it as.
Click the image to open in full size.
Now change the drop down bar to DXT5 and hit save.
Click the image to open in full size.
Now open the bitmap internalizer.
Click the image to open in full size.
Now go to plasma pistol and go to the one on the drop down bar. Make sure you click the non proper method.
Click the image to open in full size.
If it asks you to load the shared map then load it. Now once its fineshed you should get this message.
Click the image to open in full size.
Now close and reopen dothalo and go back to the bitm plasma pistol. Then go to the raw date edior and hit inject you should get this message.
Click the image to open in full size.
Now the bitmap preview should change.
Click the image to open in full size.
Congratz now resign the map and ftp it.


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Old 12-21-2006, 07:48 AM   #2 (permalink)
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what happens if you don't have mainmenu.map or shared.map???
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you rip it off of your disk...
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hey can u help me i skinned the banshee white with photoshop and when the game loads its pink can u help me this is all i need and then the map is done
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awsome TUT. this helped me alot.
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A little advice: Don't skin with Dothalo, it really messes up the map. It injects very improper, you will not be able to open your map in Entity later on. So you should use Entity to extract and inject.

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Argh. I tried to skin the handle on the energy sword.

Steps:
Extracted the bitmap from dothalo
Edited in Photoshop (made the handle red)
Injected the bitmap in Dothalo
Saved
FTP'd to my Xbox
Played Halo, but the sword handle is still grey
(The same thing happened for my skinned pistol, infact, non of the skins I've made have worked yet)
Any reasons why?
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Did you read what I just said.... don't skin with Dothalo....
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Did you read what I just said.... don't skin with Dothalo....
Oh? ..What should I skin with? Didn't read all the posts.
Yeah, I'm new at this. Still learning.

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That wouldn't make the skin change...
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Oh? ..What should I skin with? Didn't read all the posts.
Yeah, I'm new at this. Still learning.
Entity.

Zone you should make a tutorial.
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