Making tifs, to bitmaps, to tags

gamble · Post by **gamble** » Sun May 23, 2004 7:56 am

I missed that somewhere in kirks videos. First he had it as a .tif. Then he had it as a bitmap in video 7 which he compiled into a tag. how did he get it to a bitmap or tag?

gamble · Post by **gamble** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:22 am

anyone? how do i change a .tif to a bitmap?

Deceptoris · Post by **Deceptoris** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:27 am

i never compiled a tif or anything. i think tool.exe makes it for you, im not sure.

Blaze · Post by **Blaze** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:31 am

Open a command line, navigate to your Halo CE folder. Type, "tool bitmaps <bitmaps directory>". <bitmaps directory> This is the directory of the bitmaps in the data folder, for example, "levels\splinter\bitmaps".

gamble · Post by **gamble** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:49 am

when i do that it just says can't read toolbeta whatever. nothing else

BTW, how do i navigate to different directories in the command prompt (i had to mirror my whole CE folder in the directory it was already on)

Blaze · Post by **Blaze** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:52 am

The can't read toolbeta.map is not a problem it will always say that. It says nothing? Absolutely nothing?

gamble · Post by **gamble** » Sun May 23, 2004 1:15 pm

yeah, i know the toolbeta thing is just a glitch. it just says nothing. where would it save the bitmaps to if i did make them? maybe im looking in the wrong place.

Blaze · Post by **Blaze** » Sun May 23, 2004 1:42 pm

It would save them to tags\levels\splinter\bitmaps I believe. If it could not find them it would say it couldn't but if it just sits there and nothing comes up that's' weird.

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:57 pm

You need to set up your development environment correctly, its that simple.