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HunterXI wrote:...and a whole fuckin lot of time

HEY YOU COULD PUT MULTIPLE BSP'S INTO A LEVEL

HunterXI wrote:...and a whole fuckin lot of time

Ollie wrote:You will need:

-Photoshop with the .dds plugin

Dan!! wrote:Tell me, why is this stickied?

Ollie wrote:Many people were looking forward to HEK because they thought they could import custom models etc. into The already existing maps. Once it came out people' hopes went down. so I decided to write up a tut on how t edit existing levels with HEK.

This is something I quite like, because it uses the old school tools that Gren and Mono worked so hard to make.

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You will need:

-Photoshop with the .dds plugin
-Sparkedit
-HMT
-the 3 HEK progs
-3dsmax, and a Blitz exporter
-a .obj importer for 3dsmax (Obj2Max is a good one, googlet.)

STEP ONE:

Open up a standard Halo PC map in SparkEdit, for this example I'll use Blood Gulch. Click file, andthen hit export mesh to .obj , select whatever file you want and hit O.K.

STEP TWO:

Open up Bloodgulch (or the map you are modding) In HMT. Under bitmaps, extract all the textures that involve terrain (e.g. the cliffs, the grass, and the bloodgulch overhead view type thingy)

STEP THREE:

Open up every texture in Photoshop, save it as a .tiff instead of a .dds

STEP FOUR: Import the mesh into max, apply the overhead texture, and (I don't really know how to do this) work the other textures into the map... I think this is done by.. actually I don't quite remember , check the existing tuts on the detailed texturing.

NOTE: REMEMBER TO TEXTURE THE TELEPORTERS, LADDERS, ETC.

STEP FOUR:

Edit all tags in guerrilla, I won't go about on ow to do this, that's what the HEK tut is for. Do your thing with Sapien as wel, again remembering to apply the walk up walls thingy on the ladder, placing vehic spawn points, teleporter stuff, player spawns, etc.

NOTE: Creating new actor and actv tags, maybe even ew biped tags is how to really and truly put you own AI into MP levels.


STEP FIVE:

Compile the structure, bitmaps, and map files.

SIN52 wrote:

Ollie wrote:Many people were looking forward to HEK because they thought they could import custom models etc. into The already existing maps. Once it came out people' hopes went down. so I decided to write up a tut on how t edit existing levels with HEK.

This is something I quite like, because it uses the old school tools that Gren and Mono worked so hard to make.

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You will need:

-Photoshop with the .dds plugin
-Sparkedit
-HMT
-the 3 HEK progs
-3dsmax, and a Blitz exporter
-a .obj importer for 3dsmax (Obj2Max is a good one, googlet.)

STEP ONE:

Open up a standard Halo PC map in SparkEdit, for this example I'll use Blood Gulch. Click file, andthen hit export mesh to .obj , select whatever file you want and hit O.K.

STEP TWO:

Open up Bloodgulch (or the map you are modding) In HMT. Under bitmaps, extract all the textures that involve terrain (e.g. the cliffs, the grass, and the bloodgulch overhead view type thingy)

STEP THREE:

Open up every texture in Photoshop, save it as a .tiff instead of a .dds

STEP FOUR: Import the mesh into max, apply the overhead texture, and (I don't really know how to do this) work the other textures into the map... I think this is done by.. actually I don't quite remember , check the existing tuts on the detailed texturing.

NOTE: REMEMBER TO TEXTURE THE TELEPORTERS, LADDERS, ETC.

STEP FOUR:

Edit all tags in guerrilla, I won't go about on ow to do this, that's what the HEK tut is for. Do your thing with Sapien as wel, again remembering to apply the walk up walls thingy on the ladder, placing vehic spawn points, teleporter stuff, player spawns, etc.

NOTE: Creating new actor and actv tags, maybe even ew biped tags is how to really and truly put you own AI into MP levels.


STEP FIVE:

Compile the structure, bitmaps, and map files.

ok i have the ce the hek and the hmtp now just e-mail me the rest cause im a poor lil girl