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I know.. I'm asking a lot of questions, but I'm running into a lot of walls. Most I figured out, but I cant figure out what I'm doing wrong here.

I want to extract the warthog bitmap with entity. I internalized it, and saved it as warthog_standard.dds. I tried opening it in photoshop, and photoshop gave me an error.

'Could not open "C:\Documents and Settings\Me\Desktop\Halo 2\Skins\First Hog\warthog_standard.dds" because the file format module cannot parse the file'

You need the DDS plugin for photoshop.

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/phot ... ugins.html

I downloaded it before doing all this. In fact, it was that same one.

Did closed photoshop) before installing that?

If not there's another way to import/export DDS:

this:
http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.ph ... 06&t=63218

or this:
http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.ph ... 06&t=67542

I'm not sure if my idea will help but don't use entity... use Ch2r or Dothalo. I've never once had a problem extracting/injecting bitmaps on those programs. Like I said, this may not be the answer you are looking for but it may save you time/work in the end.

JK-47 wrote:I downloaded it before doing all this. In fact, it was that same one.

Did you place it in the correct folder?

It was the Nvidia plugin so it just installed it automatically. I have the DDS option in photoshop, it just wouldn't open. I'll try using dothalo or Ch2r, and if that doesn't work I'll try neodos's thing.

Edit: It was just entity, I got it in just fine with dothalo.

when are you supposed to internalize a bitmap file before extracting or after injecting?

I don't remember which program did it but it would corrupt the bitmap that it internalized. Injecting the bitmap again after internalization, would fix the problem.

So i'd suggest saving the bitmap first. Then internalize it, then go ahead and inject any other bitmap over it.

thanks for the help

RedFox4 wrote:thanks for the help

Always glad to help. Don't be afraid to ask away buddy!