Help with assembling skins

Thrifty · Post by **Thrifty** » Sun May 21, 2006 9:50 pm

Okay, So I've made a pretty nice skin for the AR that I'd like to release.

The problem is in the compass and number displays.

My queston is, do I have to include every single number display and compass thing into the .rar, or can I just make them like 1 file? Because it was really frustrating to install each and every bitmap file...

[users]Leg0 · Post by **[users]Leg0** » Sun May 21, 2006 9:55 pm

Just make a patch out of bitmaps.map

Thrifty · Post by **Thrifty** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:04 pm

Explain...? I'm not hip with you kids' new slang

[users]Leg0 · Post by **[users]Leg0** » Sun May 21, 2006 11:11 pm

Thrifty wrote:Explain...? I'm not hip with you kids' new slang

Iight dawg.

Download this program: PPF Studio
Then follow this tutorial: http://files.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=22553
Just whenever it says bloodgulch.map, replace it with bitmaps.map

Make sure all of the bitmaps that you want are injected into any map through HMT. All of those bitmaps that you do inject over any map would be saved into bitmaps.map, and when you create a .ppf patch (A smaller, compressed file) out of that, the patch will contain all of your skins jammed into that one file. So when users download your skins, all they have to do is inject it over bitmaps.map via ppf-o-matic (A .ppf applier). It benefits for you, the user, and Halomods (Helps by saving bandwith if you do plan on hosting it over on the files forum ;p)

Thrifty · Post by **Thrifty** » Mon May 22, 2006 12:48 pm

Thanks, I'll *try to* do that.