Changing A Skin

[Ecoli]

I don't have much experience with Halo CE, but I was wondering if there's an easy way to just change a skin on a Halo CE map that I didn't create (I downloaded it from somewhere else).

I don't have the tag files or any of the models, I just want to change the skin on one thing. Since I can't open CE maps in HMT, is there an easy way to do this?

[aa1usa]

Well the easyest way is to convert that map to a halo pc file by using this http://www.halomaps.org/index.cfm?PG=3&fid=1082 and then opening it wish HMT and changing the textures and converteding it back

[Ecoli]

Wow, that didn't work, and it looks like it screwed up my copy of CE.

I converted it and opened it in HMT. I went to the bitmap I wanted to change and it kinda looked like this:



I injected the bitmap I wanted in there and closed HMT. I converted the map back to a Halo CE map.

Now when I load Halo CE, on the screen where I choose my map, I can see a distorted image of the bitmap I injected and I cannot open any map, I get an exception error.

I tried deleting the map and trying again, but the bitmap is still showing as the one I injected, not the distorted one like above, and even with the map completely deleted, I cannot open any map files.

[SnaFuBAR]

you don't mod CE with HMT

[Ecoli]

you don't mod CE with HMT

So how can I change the skin on a model without having the original tag and model information?

[JK-47]

You can mod CE with HMT, just convert the CE map to PC using the halo map converter that can be found at www.levels4you.com or maybe www.halomaps.org I dont know if its at halomaps because ive never looked.

[Ecoli]

You can mod CE with HMT, just convert the CE map to PC using the halo map converter that can be found at www.levels4you.com or maybe www.halomaps.org I dont know if its at halomaps because ive never looked.

I've already done this, read the third post in this thread. It didn't work and it screwed up my copy of CE, I had to reinstall it.

Are there any other ways to change the skin in a Halo CE map without HMT or without having the tags from the original map?

[SnaFuBAR]

not that i know of. you compile that stuff into a map when you run it through HEK.

[PlasmaGhost]

i made a map converter. its in the files forum and my name on the files forum is PlasmaGrunt. it might not work cause of bitmaps.map...

try HEK+ and extract the tag