? about lighting in maps

[imp pimp 101]

is it possible to make maps darker without using hex?

[blindriotx]

supposed to be able to do it with the lightmap plugin for ADI, yet ive never gotten it to work. otherwise, im pretty sure it must be done with hex

[imp pimp 101]

i cant get the hex to work! when i try to do the replace part it says that the string cant be found

[blindriotx]

Make sure you have Photoshop with DTX plugin, Ch2r, Hex Workshop, and a meta saver/injector



1. Open ADI/Dothalo/anything that can save and inject meta.
2. Go to [bitm] tag and go down to scenarios/multi/"mapname"/"mapname"_"mapname"_lightmaps_bitmaps
3. Save the meta.
4. Open Hex Workshop (important you have this program)
5. Open the meta file (make sure its the meta not the data)
6. Go to Edit/Replace. In the find box enter 12000912. and in the Replace Box enter 10000302.
7. Save and Exit Hex Workshop
8. Back to Meta injecting program
9. Go to the lightmap [bitm] you saved from and inject your new meta.
10. Close your meta editor.
11. Open Ch2r (another important prog to have) and open ur map.
12. Navigate to scenarios/multi/halo/"mapname"/
13. double click on "mapname"/"mapname"_lightmaps_bitmaps.bitm
14. now all these bitmaps must be replaced with a custom bitmap according to how light/dark you want to be. and must be same size. you can do this by extracting 1 of each size into photoshop changing them to a color. black being darkest white being lightest. saving all of them in dds format with dtx5 settings. and finally injecting those files into the map with ch2r. (if I lost you in that step let me know in a pm)

15 Once thats done your map is darker/lighter. Sign the map with your other mods and ur ready to go.

[imp pimp 101]

alright thanks