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Thanks for the tut, I've been wanting to switch to C#, but there was never an initiative. Now I think I'll go buy a book on it or something . Also, yes, I agree, ASM = pain, don't ever try to make a program with that without a degree in rocket science.

Ok, sorry for being a noob, but I don't fully understand the link. I can probably figure out the width, height, depth, and mipmap count, but other than that, I don't understand. Also, do I just write these values directly to the beginning of the dds? If you could, relate the values from that link to...

Well, as of right now, your xbox has to be modded in order to get anything on/off of it. You can get more information at http://xbox-scene.com. Discussion about this is not allowed here, check the rules next time.

Ok then, last question (I hope). How can I write the correct headers to the files? I can determine what format the file is in, but what do I need to write? I'm guessing there isn't a static header for every dds file.

I used to know, but I've forgotten over the years, (Proud user of a hardmod ). But anyway, You can find an answer at http://xbox-scene.com. Also, for future refrence, you can't talk about this here, it's in the rules.

Nobody knows? If not, just don't reply, and I'll let this die.

Also theres a bunch of tutorials for this stuff on http://www.xbox-scene.com/, They would probably be helpful.

Thanks :D EDIT: Sorry, I have a couple more questions, 1. Do I need to do anything to the offset, or does it point to the right place already? 2. Size needs to be rounded to the nearest 512, right? 3. Can I just extract the raw data at the offset and save that to a file, and that would be the bitmap...

Ok, I seem to have found an inconsistency, Here is a bitm tag from zanzibar, with my interpretation of the structure:
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Some values look right, but others don't.

:) Thanks a lot man. Now I can get back to work. EDIT: ok, just so I can make sure, concerning the below: struct bitmMeta { byte[68] data; struct image { char[4] bitm; ushort width; ushort height; ushort depth; ushort type; ushort format; ushort flags; ushort regPointX; ushort regPointY; ushort mipM...

How is the information about the raw bitmap data stored inside the bitmap tags? I think I found where the offset is kept, but how can I tell, just from looking at the hex: that the map is kept internal/shared, the size of the raw data, and what the dxt version is. I've checked the insolence website,...

Fine, I'll change it, but still, I need to figure this out

No idea, I've never worked with treeviews before. That or vb 2003.net. But the dll I refrenced will load all the tags into memory, it's up to you to find out what to do with them from there.

Ok, I've seen the binary representation of a floating point number, and let me just say it's not pretty. Is there a simpler way to convert a floating point number into its hexadecimal equivalent without having to find out mantissas and 2s compliments and stuff? It would really help if I could get th...

Try another voice chat software program and see if it works. One I use to use while I was playing online games was ventrillo (http://www.ventrilo.com/download.php). If this doesn't work either, then I don't know what's going on. And also, it might be better if you post questions like this in the Hal...

In my opinion, VB is a great language to use if you are just starting out and have never done any programming before. If you want to use it for modding purposes, first you should learn how to open/modify/close files (do a search for system.IO assuming you have VB 2005). Then, just look through this ...

See the post a few lines below for info and code on how to load halo 2 maps into vb 2005. It's named "[DLL] loadtags and addbytes *example proj*"

I'm trying to switch a string refrence from one string to another. What I think I need to do is load the string table and index, and for() through the table, then use the index value to load the correct index from the index table. Thing is, I don't know how to go about loading the string table/index...

Ok, i fixed the problem, the string is fixed when it is loaded into a text box and then re-extracted. Thanks anyway for your help. And btw, the hlmt part works fine, I can get it to parse through all the tags and only load up hlmts or bipds.

Still not working, here is the code I am using: For i As Long = 0 To loadtag.realtagcount - 1 If loadtag.TagTag(i) = "hlmt" Then If loadtag.tagnames(i) = replacedtag Then bipdoffset = loadtag.TagOffset(i) bipdid = loadtag.TagID(i) End If End If Next I put in the "If loadtag.TagTag(i) ...