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skinning

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:17 am
by rick6969
hello i have been modding for a while and i would like to tank everebody at halomods for the grate tutorials and apps but here is my probleme i started skinning yesterday every thing was going well but when i am in the map my skins only apper when iam close to them when i back up they become the original skin so please help me if you can tanks

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:27 am
by DarkShallFall
Thats because of bitmap LOD's. Try removing them with this, Here

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:47 am
by rick6969
ok tanks for that but i have another question when i skin the warthog there is more than one pic in photoshop do i mod them all or juste the first one

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:52 am
by ScottyGEE
You could do that...If you don't care about it mutilating your map file.
Plus, the following method is better anyway, and you'd only do it to the bitmaps that you're injecting:

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If you can't read my horrible touchpad writing skillz...I said the following:
Open your map in entity and find your bitmap.
Open the meta editor.
scroll down and make LOD offset and size's 2 and 3 to "-1"

Bam! No more fade in, no more black, much more awesome.


edit: to answer your other question, you seem to be opening your bitmaps with mipmaps on (you then see heaps of mini versions)...Disable it, its not needed.

edit2: (the picture shows I'm entering a "1", ignore that :P

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:45 am
by rick6969
sorry to tell you it did not work do i have to do it to the bump map to or internalize the bump map or is there something else



its ok i got it woking but then i was going black so i did what you sed and all is good now thanks again for the help