PMI tut

[Arbiter Elite]

i looked through the forums and topics and ppl didnt know how to pmi so i made the tut on how to pmi a wraith into BG. remember to BACKUP YOUR MAPS BEFORE U START! so lets begin

You need hmt 3.5

1. make a folder called Project, then make 4 other folders called BG Meta, BG BSP, Wraith and the last called Build

2. then open up b40 in hmt and go down til u see the vehicle section and open it up and find wraith

3. check the recursive button which is just next to save meta button then after u checked the recursive button hit save meta and save it into the wraith section.

4. now go to tools and click generate raw model offset list (CSV File) and save it inside the Project folder

5. now go to tools extract and look for raw model. click it and then itll open somethin up and click the load CSV File and then a list will appear and find the one tat says vehicles\wraith\wraith and hit extract and put it into where the file wraith.mod2.meta is which would be like this go inside Project/Wraith/Vehicles/Wraith and save it there

6. now close the map and open Blood Gulch and click tools near the top and go to the extract part and click batch extract, then somethin will pop up click the extract metadata button and then click browse and find the folder called BG Meta and then hit start batch extraction, then a message will pop up askin Extract BSP? and hit yes, this'll take a long while so just wait patiently and when its done a message will pop up and it will say its done and how long it took

7. then go to tools, go to extract then click BSP/Model section and save the bsp in BG BSP folder

8. now go to tools again and look for Model DeCrapper/BSP Builder

9. now somethin will pop up and at the top there will be a huge empty box right click it and press add and look for wraith.mod2.meta which would be somethin like this Project/Wraith/Vehicles/Wraith and find the file

10. now for the next box its called Existing Vertex Area and hit the browse button and find the file called bloodgulch.vertices which would be in Project/BG BSP and for the other 2 boxes, Existin Index Area hit browse and find the file called bloodgulch.indicies in the same folder, BG BSP and for the last one look for bloodgulch.sbsp in the same folder and then click the button De-Crap These Models and Build a New BSP Chunk While We're At It, wait for a Done message to pop up

11. now open the BG BSP folder and also the Wraith folder. in the wraith folder go in and find the folder called vehicles and find wraith and then click and drag the file called bloodgulch.sbsp.meta in teh BG BSP FOLDER and drag the file into Wraith/vehicles/wraith and put it int here and click yes to overwrite the file

12. now copy all the folder in BG Meta into the Build folder then copy all the folder in the Wraith folder into the Build folder also and click yes to ovewrite

13. now go to your maps folder in halo which would be C:/ProgramFiles/MicrosoftGames/MAPS and click bloodgulch.map and right click it make another one and put it into the Build folder now click tools and find the rebuild map button

14. hit browse at the top and find the map bloodgulch.map IN THE BUILD FOLDER NOT THE ONE IN THE HALO MAPS FOLDER and click yes to the automaticly fill in the boxes and at teh bottom theres another huge box and right click it and hit add now find the file called wraith.vehi.meta which would be in Project/Build/Vehicles/Wraith and then click REBUILD MAP!!

15. then when its rebuildin somethin will pop up and click yes and find the file called bloodgulch.vertices.new itll be in the BG BSP folder and then after tat there will be another pop up and find the file called bloodgulch.indicies.new in the same folder called BG BSP and then after tat there will be another message and click yes now just wait until the map rebuildin is done!!

16. when its doen there will be a new map in the Build folder called bloodgulch.map.rebuild.map and rename it too bloodgulch.map and put tat map into the the halo map folders and click yes to overwrite

17. now open tat map and go dwon to vehicles and find the wraith and change the seat name to G-driver and hit save

18. now use hmt again and swap somethin for the wraith and hit save

[fireinhole8]

i am doing the tut now and i am on the part when u rebuild the map, and is creating map index supposed to take forever?

[fireinhole8]

ahhhh wraith does not show in hmt in BG after all this, second to last step and something goes wrong, waaaa!

[Arbiter Elite]

tat cause u didnt swap a vehicle for it...

Edit: the part wher it says creatin map index is supposed to take a while

[fireinhole8]

now i get an error in sparkedit trying to open BG what is going on arbiter!!!!!!!!????????

[Arbiter Elite]

actually just use hmt its easy and faster

[Arbiter Elite]

now i get an error in sparkedit trying to open BG what is going on arbiter!!!!!!!!????????

use hmt

[fireinhole8]

if i have to swap it, then how do i edit the seat?

[Arbiter Elite]

ok first of swap a vehicle for the wraith and then change the seat name

[fireinhole8]

but how do i swap it when the sparkedit doesnt work

[Arbiter Elite]

use hmt to swap it

[fireinhole8]

hwo do i use hht?

[Arbiter Elite]

hmt=halo map tools

[fireinhole8]

edit: for swaping

[Arbiter Elite]

use hmt and go down and find the ghost and then near the top hit swap and then fidn the wraith and then hit save and then change seat name

[fireinhole8]

ok, i'll try that

[fireinhole8]

now what exactly am i swapin here, there are mulitle things

[fireinhole8]

well?

[Arbiter Elite]

wait

[fireinhole8]

ok