Skinning vehicles not showing up in H2

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Skinning vehicles not showing up in H2

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I kepted skinning and skinning, but everything i try to make it work doesnt want to work.

as in its not affecting the actual skins in h2.

can someone tell me the true way to skin using photoshop and dothalo?

*I would extract. tweak it a bit in photoshop. Save as a DDS. *in the right DXT format . and then inject it and send the map *headlong* and Shared.map*

Can anyone tell me how!!??!
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this is how i do it, i extract the .dds in CH2R, open it and esit it in Photoshop, then i save in the correct format, and i reinject the.dds to the map using CH2R, then i resign, FTP the map back to the xbox, i delete the cashe's (all files in X:\ Y:\ and Z:\ then i load the game.

that works for me.
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!! the Cache! people were saying you have to delete the cache, but i had so freekin clue where the hell to go for that. thanks!


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Also is it supposed to take so long to load up the map after you clear the cache??
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Maytag1FS wrote:Also is it supposed to take so long to load up the map after you clear the cache??
yes, it takes an uber long time because of the way the XB is proggrammed, its designed to cashe from disc to HDD, its optimized to be fastest that way,

but when it cashe's from hdd to hdd, it reads a byte, writes a byte, reeds a byte, writes a byte, and with a 16MS seek time on the stock hdd, it becomes a 5 minute task for the XB to complete.
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nice though.

it worked :)
*calls friend, :we are modding today!*
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