Halo2 skining

[FlareT]

Is it really difficult to skin weapons or mess around with terrain skins?

what programs would you need?

[FlareT]

ok I guess ill just answer my own crap. after a day of googling and testing I finally figured it out.

Skinning isn't as hard as I thought it would be. You just need to be familiar with dothalo, but it is a pain when waiting for that big ass shared.map to ftp to your xbox. what you need is dothalo and a dds converter. http://eliteforce2.filefront.com/file/DDS_Converter;29412


open up your shared.map in dothalo and click on the bitmap tag

scroll down and click on the skin that you want to mod.         ex. ...worthog_standard

open up the raw data editor and select Extract Bitmap and choose a directory.

open with ms windows picture viewer or any other picture viewer that can read .dds images.

If your using ms pic viewer right click on image and choose edit.

It should open in ms paint.

either edit the skin in paint or copy it over to photoshop or any other image editing program.

save as a Bitmap image.

open the dds converter and open open your new bitmap as the input and choose any output directory you want.

convert to a *.dss and close the program.

go back to dothalo-raw data editor and choose inject bitmap.

choose your new skin (.dds not bitmap) and press ok

save changes, fix encryption, and close map.

its that easy.

*Before you test out your skin make sure to clear your xbox cache or your new skins will not show up.*

!Happy skinning!

SMDFlare.

[SMD]

Flare happens to be the Man! I will definitaly be trying this when I get home. Excellent. I love this place. I learn like 10 new things every day.  Keep it crunk and

HAPPY MODDING!!!!

dude. anyway you can post a screen shot of somesort? or a pic of yor skin?

[Boost]

I just want some Pimped out rims

or my lil civ running around coag! lol

Good stuff

[Kyla666 (zzk2001)]

Flare  you should Have set this in Halo2/moding

[Kyla666 (zzk2001)]

does not work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

been trying this for some time now and the Damn DDS coverter does not open so i can't convert back to a .dds

[jebus989]

cool the my viewer doesn't support .dds so i used this

same here about the dds converter

theres an error in dds converter 2.exe apparently
theres like no alternatives that ive found as yet

[edit]ive now tried earlier versions of dds converter which open (wow) but still fail to convert, have tried loadsa different extended bitmap formats... maybe some graphics dude can help me out at emp...

[editedit]haha im an idiot. that program (^^this^^) allows you to save as dds.
its perfect. allows you to op-en the image, edit it and save as dds. all in one!
BTW it needs to be DXT 3 .dds when using this amazing program... ill upload to someones ftp if the maker wants it

[FlareT]

hhmmmmmmm. ya I should have posted this in Halo 2 modding...sorry guys.

umm do a google search for a better dds converter if that one doesnt work.(those of you who havnt givin up....zzk)

*correction* make your new skins .jepg so you have better quality skins instead of those crapy bitmaps.

And if you edit your dds right after extracting it, it wont work. you need to change the format then convert it back, thats only way it seems to work for me.

[FlareT]

Forget everything I said! the "this" program (DXTBMP) is an awsome program and has everything you need to skin flawlessly! Its very easy to use and makes the skin editing very fast organized. Good job Jebus!!!

*back up original dds images*

[kingyiff]

I am very glad someone finally cleared this up. I have been searching for a while now just to figure out how to do something so simple. Thanks a lot. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!