Skining on The fastest WAY

asif333 · Post by **asif333** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:25 am

Skinning Halo2 MP maps
You will need
Dxtbmptx- http://files.filefront.com/dxtbmpxEXE/; ... einfo.html
Dothalo-

1) open up your map in dot halo
2) go to the bitmap tag [BMP]
3) select the bitmap you want to edit
4) in the prewiew dialogue, select extract- note the file type such as 'DXT
5) open up dxt.., open the extracted bitmap i.e: floor_wall.dds
6) image> send to editor
7) edit it with your editor such as paint and save it (ctrl + s)
in dxt slect image> reload after edit
9) save it as a .dds bitmap and the type of dxt noted i dot halo (step 4): it should overwrite
10) In dot halo go back to your original bitmap, select inject
11) select the edited bitmap, it should say ' done injecting bitmap'
12) fix encryption on map and close map
13) FTP it back
14) enjoy

This tut Works 100%!

mr_penguin · Post by **mr_penguin** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:52 pm

you left out one tiny, tiny detail in the beginning.
INTERNALIZE THE BITMAP, HOW CAN YOU MISS THAT!

This tut Works 100%

plattypuss · Post by **plattypuss** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:59 pm

mr_penguin wrote:you left out one tiny, tiny detail in the beginning.
INTERNALIZE THE BITMAP, HOW CAN YOU MISS THAT!

This tut Works 100%

lol

SpecOp44 · Post by **SpecOp44** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:19 pm

That's alot like a tutorial I made awhile ago...

asif333 · Post by **asif333** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:41 am

i never saw one of your tuts... and sorry for that thing that i forgot lol

Prey · Post by **Prey** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:18 am

Dothalo for bitmaps? Oh dear.

asif333 · Post by **asif333** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:11 am

i skinned my maps that way i extracted the files from DotHalo.... it worked i didn't got problems

patchesreusch · Post by **patchesreusch** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:08 am

Prey wrote:Dothalo for bitmaps? Oh dear.

entity extracts with mip so you have skinning troubles

theycallmechad · Post by **theycallmechad** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:02 pm

Prey wrote:Dothalo for bitmaps? Oh dear.

I use dothalo almost exclusively for skinning. I use entity only for duplicating shaders. Other than that, I'm 100% a dothalo guy. Entity is great, but it's not a skinning app by any means.

Ch2r is my second choice.

kibito87 · Post by **kibito87** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:46 pm

theycallmechad wrote:
Prey wrote:Dothalo for bitmaps? Oh dear.
I use dothalo almost exclusively for skinning. I use entity only for duplicating shaders. Other than that, I'm 100% a dothalo guy. Entity is great, but it's not a skinning app by any means.

Ch2r is my second choice.

I am exactly right there with you.

DJ_Gnomey · Post by **DJ_Gnomey** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:15 pm

kibito87 wrote:
theycallmechad wrote:
Prey wrote:Dothalo for bitmaps? Oh dear.
I use dothalo almost exclusively for skinning. I use entity only for duplicating shaders. Other than that, I'm 100% a dothalo guy. Entity is great, but it's not a skinning app by any means.

Ch2r is my second choice.
I am exactly right there with you.

Me 3! lol. Entity extracts mip maps and all and also easily extracts bumps but I stil lthink DotHalo is faster when it coems to quickly getting bitmaps out of a map in bulk.

Alex201 · Post by **Alex201** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:26 pm

I use drakmatter so I don't need to save in .dds. I can just open it up in paint or photoshop CS2 without any other downloads (can't get plug-ins to work right)

smokey · Post by **smokey** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:05 pm

Ok anyways back to the tut.

I think it is very mediocre, and many people do not look for the fastest way to skin, more of the best way to skin. We don't like 5 min mods >_<.

DoorM4n · Post by **DoorM4n** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:07 am

Wow, sounds a bit brief.

asif333 · Post by **asif333** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:17 am

smokey wrote:Ok anyways back to the tut.

I think it is very mediocre, and many people do not look for the fastest way to skin, more of the best way to skin. We don't like 5 min mods >_<.

its easy, fast and good its not 5 min mod i writted it short....
for me , i did 20 min to get one skin...