Halo 2 UI

(GT)Juggler · Post by **(GT)Juggler** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:58 pm

why do u have to use sparkedit 2.5? why that version only?

adam07 · Post by **adam07** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:57 pm

I used the latest version.

BTW I tricked my friend lol but he was never that excited.

HaloDude · Post by **HaloDude** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:45 pm

fezzman wrote:Okay, I tried to make it permanent on my lunchbreak. SUCCESS!!!

Just patch the cache002, compress it with SparkEditor2.5, and save it as ui.map. Works perfect and will stay.

Cool Good job. I was thinking that I could take out the Halo Ring or something and put a bit more in the background bitmaps like some Covenant Cruiser thingy. That'd be cool

fezzman · Post by **fezzman** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:15 am

(GT)Juggler wrote:why do u have to use sparkedit 2.5? why that version only?

I was having compression problems with 3.0. I think there is a newer version/fix but 2.5 has been working great for me so far.

adam07 · Post by **adam07** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:25 am

HaloDude wrote:
fezzman wrote:Okay, I tried to make it permanent on my lunchbreak. SUCCESS!!!

Just patch the cache002, compress it with SparkEditor2.5, and save it as ui.map. Works perfect and will stay.
Cool Good job. I was thinking that I could take out the Halo Ring or something and put a bit more in the background bitmaps like some Covenant Cruiser thingy. That'd be cool

Yes do that do that do that! And try to make some buildings or something stick out of earth, or maybe your friend can do that.

HaloDude · Post by **HaloDude** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 10:43 pm

haha! I'l try to get to it sometime. Right now I'm busy trying to win this Battlefield Veitnam contest going on till the 30th (Tomorrow) for a GeForce 4 and I think I'm in 1st so far!

But ya after tomorrow If I still know how to do this I'll try and see what i can do! But dont expect me to do it soo soon, LOL.

Bassist-X · Post by **Bassist-X** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 10:47 pm

Hmmm, I think I'll try this on one of my gullable friends. I'll tell him it's a beta version that got released, I have him convinced that I ran to Discount Auto Parts the other day to pick up some headlight fluid. Speaking of which, anyone seen the latest Red vs. Blue?

Redspike · Post by **Redspike** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 4:45 am

nice mod i want to convert this to pc and pal can some one post the bitmaps ? also if u want to remove the halo ring open hht and reaplce senery ring with grenade

JoePo · Post by **JoePo** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 8:29 am

you can also use replace the ring with a grenade using HCE, and can also edit the sky color with it, althought outerspace looks kinda weird with any color other than black.

thescottishguy · Post by **thescottishguy** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:14 pm

at the risk of sounding stupid (likely i know) how do you swap out the bitmaps, I've loaded ui.map (compressed version) in sparkedit, but all it shows is the ring, i can see in the dialog box that it has loaded a stack of bitmaps and i want to swap some of those out (namely the level preview ones) can anyone help?

KWJK · Post by **KWJK** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 1:51 pm

Ha yea im gonna freak out my friends. They will really shit themselves haha.

"OMFG L33KED HALO 2 WTF BBQ?!!!!1@@@"

Redspike · Post by **Redspike** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:37 pm

so could some one be nice and post up them bitmapS ?
- thnx

Redspike · Post by **Redspike** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:39 pm

thescottishguy wrote:at the risk of sounding stupid (likely i know) how do you swap out the bitmaps, I've loaded ui.map (compressed version) in sparkedit, but all it shows is the ring, i can see in the dialog box that it has loaded a stack of bitmaps and i want to swap some of those out (namely the level preview ones) can anyone help?

use hmt and swap the offests , or using hmt export them imort the .dds to replace each other, either way u can replace and swap the level priveiw bits

thescottishguy · Post by **thescottishguy** » Sat May 01, 2004 3:29 pm

Redspike wrote:
thescottishguy wrote:at the risk of sounding stupid (likely i know) how do you swap out the bitmaps, I've loaded ui.map (compressed version) in sparkedit, but all it shows is the ring, i can see in the dialog box that it has loaded a stack of bitmaps and i want to swap some of those out (namely the level preview ones) can anyone help?
use hmt and swap the offests , or using hmt export them imort the .dds to replace each other, either way u can replace and swap the level priveiw bits

i tried opening this map in HMT 3 but it says unsupported

i've tried both the compressed and the cache version

Redspike · Post by **Redspike** » Sun May 02, 2004 9:09 am

thescottishguy wrote:
Redspike wrote:
thescottishguy wrote:at the risk of sounding stupid (likely i know) how do you swap out the bitmaps, I've loaded ui.map (compressed version) in sparkedit, but all it shows is the ring, i can see in the dialog box that it has loaded a stack of bitmaps and i want to swap some of those out (namely the level preview ones) can anyone help?
use hmt and swap the offests , or using hmt export them imort the .dds to replace each other, either way u can replace and swap the level priveiw bits
i tried opening this map in HMT 3 but it says unsupported i've tried both the compressed and the cache version

hmm strange , with me i open hmt open ui.map and i can see all the bitmaps :S try to open it with hht if u do get to extractin the textures could u post them here 4 me so i can use them in halo pc , i attached a screen to show u what ui.map should look like in hmt

thescottishguy · Post by **thescottishguy** » Sun May 02, 2004 5:21 pm

is it possible that HMT is not compatible with the xbox ui.map? i keep getting overflow exceptions, it opens bloodgulch and other xbox maps fine, just not ui.map, anyone have any ideas or suggestions? or if anyone can get this working are they willing to help me out, i have 15 or 16 .bmps that i want to switch out, if i can get someone to extract them and send them to me i can send back the ones i want them replaced with.

Anyone willing to help me out with this it would be greatly appreciated.

HaloDude · Post by **HaloDude** » Sun May 02, 2004 6:12 pm

ya I can only open it in HMT 3.5 and you said you tried 3? Try 3.5, it works. I hope it does for you too

thescottishguy · Post by **thescottishguy** » Sun May 02, 2004 7:47 pm

HaloDude wrote:ya I can only open it in HMT 3.5 and you said you tried 3? Try 3.5, it works. I hope it does for you too

nope, still getting the "arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow" error
i'm trying to open the cache of the map, i'm gonna try to re-install 3.5 see if that helps.

thescottishguy · Post by **thescottishguy** » Sun May 02, 2004 7:47 pm

HaloDude wrote:ya I can only open it in HMT 3.5 and you said you tried 3? Try 3.5, it works. I hope it does for you too

nope, still getting the "arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow" error
i'm trying to open the cache of the map, i'm gonna try to re-install 3.5 see if that helps.

thescottishguy · Post by **thescottishguy** » Sun May 02, 2004 7:48 pm

HaloDude wrote:ya I can only open it in HMT 3.5 and you said you tried 3? Try 3.5, it works. I hope it does for you too

nope, still getting the "arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow" error
i'm trying to open the cache of the map, i'm gonna try to re-install 3.5 see if that helps.