Editing the wallpaper for the halo menu. to put halo 1.5

xboxhaxorz · Post by **xboxhaxorz** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:48 pm

i was thinking about changing the halo menu, so that it is halo 1.5 since this community has gathered alot of stuff and contributed so that it is basically not halo but not halo 2 either

so i am asking how i may do this or if it has been done yet

Shadow_Fox · Post by **Shadow_Fox** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 5:47 pm

nice idea but im clueless. lol

mrhyperpenguin · Post by **mrhyperpenguin** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 6:16 pm

well in the ui it isnt one where u can just replace and with a wall paper
its made up of 4 or 5 things

thinkreddie · Post by **thinkreddie** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:59 pm

cant you just change the bitmaps with photoshop? you should be able to... I think... Just edit the ui. save the textures with hmt3.5, edit the with photoshop, and put em back in.

Shadow_Fox · Post by **Shadow_Fox** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:34 am

for osmeone who didn't understand any of that, it sounds like it might just work, but you know all this computer Shit has to be more complicated than that!

rabiv88 · Post by **rabiv88** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:21 pm

Actually u can just extract it from the ui.map in hmt and edit it in photoshop. The actual bitmap is called ui/shell/main_menu/halo_logo

xboxhaxorz · Post by **xboxhaxorz** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 7:23 pm

im pretty new to modding. so i have no real idea how to get this to work.
is there lamens tutorial

also, if somebody does this, can i get the image perhaps. i am horrible at drawing and artistic stuff too.

xboxhaxorz · Post by **xboxhaxorz** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:13 pm

i found the file, and i have it loaded in htm. how do i go about extracting or editing the pic now.

Stealthy · Post by **Stealthy** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:29 pm

you gotta get a dds plug in so that you can convert the photoshop file into a dds file, then just replace the background file.

Stealthy · Post by **Stealthy** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:08 pm

You guys might also be interested in this.

http://halomaps.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=178

Juggalo 420 has basically made different options for the halo logo on the startup screen, he also goes over how to do it (these have been changed to dds files):

To apply them just open your cache002.map in (HMT3.5). Then go to bitmaps and find ( ui\shell\main_menu\halo_logo ) and inject the new dds bitmap over it.

after youre done with this, just open the cache up in spark edit, save it as a compressed map labled "ui.map" then replace the one thats in your halo maps folder.

It was actually a LOT easier than I thought it would be to put em in. If you wanna edit the actual background, just follow the steps above but replace the background file instead of the halo_logo file!

hope this helps

Just read that topic cause he goes on to talk about how it may not show up if you dont fool around with your alpha channel

xboxhaxorz · Post by **xboxhaxorz** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 5:12 pm

kewl thanks, that is so great. i did it.

now i have a ?, i made a full backround, not just a image to be +ed.

i basically changed the full thing. which would i change for that. i know the ui\shell\main_menu\halo_logo is just for the halo logo

wut about the full backround thing

rabiv88 · Post by **rabiv88** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:06 am

stealthy wrote:You guys might also be interested in this.

http://halomaps.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=178

Juggalo 420 has basically made different options for the halo logo on the startup screen, he also goes over how to do it (these have been changed to dds files):

Sweet love the MC bachgroung, awesome