skinning

[[SK]Nick[A]]

can someone make a video tut on how to change the skins of warthogs or apply them yourself cause im to noobish to under stand anything else

[Ketchup_Bomb]

There is a difference in "Making skins" and "Applying them yourself".
Are you referring to actually making them in a program such as Photoshop? or are you referring to just applying them in game?

[[SK]Nick[A]]

i can get as far as opening it up in photoshop and do everything i want to it then i get stuck

so basicly applying it to the game

[PEACEFUL_JOKER]

Basically the vehicles in any map are gonna be externally located. Meaning you cant just apply the skin to your warthog then ftp the map to your box and expect to see your skin. When your in Dot Halo and under bitmaps tag, look at the location of the bitmap your skinning. If it says Internal that means it is just for that map. If it is External, it is also located in either mainmenu.map, shared, or single player shared.map. The warthog will say External(shared.) This means that bitmap is also in the shared.map. So you have 2 choices. 1.)Internalize the bitmap with the Halo 2 bitmap internalizer program(found in the utilities section. 2.) To see your skinned warthog without internalizing the bitmap, also FTP your shared.map after you have skinned in whatever map your skinning. Well I hope this helps you and good luck.

[[SK]Nick[A]]

ive tried both of those and i still cant see my hog this sucks ima try to see what im doing wrong

my friend says that you have to save it on photoshop the right way or it wont work so i dunno what hes talking about

[Ketchup_Bomb]

Here is a tutorial on how to add internal bitmaps.

[arc18]

Sometimes when you try to inport a bitmap texure it says " needs to be DXT1 or DXT3" or something like that... So texures dont really work... Oh and kethup bomb There is a battery inside the xbox, on the mother bourd, it's on your coumputer mother bourd to...

[[SK]Nick[A]]

aww thanks alot man i got it working o yea