THINGS WERE GOING TO NEED TO SKIN....
1.PHOTOSHOP CS2 (DOWNLOAD)
http://www.click-now.net/download/Adobe_Photoshop_CS2.htm
2.DOTHALO
3. H2 BITMAP INETIAILIZER( FOUND IN UMP V4 FOUND ON THIS SITE)
4.UR MAP TO SKIN AND A MAINMENU.MAP
~TUTORIAL~
K SIMPLE TUT, MINE ARE VERY EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND ARE VERY EASY. WELL LETS GO AHEAD AND START BY GETTING OUR BITMAP WE WANT TO SKIN? WELL SIMPLE, WITH UR MAP AND MAINMENU.MAP( U HAVE TO HAVE THIS MAP WITH UR MAP IN THE SAME FOLDER) GO AHEAD AND OPEN UP DOTHALO AND LOCATE UR BITM TAG AND SCROLL ALL THE WAY TILL U SEE WAT U LIKE. WHEN U CLICK ON UR BITMAP(ILL B USING WARTHOG_STANDARD) A BOX ON TE RIGHT HAND SIDE WILL SHOW UP WIT A PICTURE OF UR BITMAP. WHEN U ARE SURE U GOT WAT U WANTED, HIT EXTRACT BITMAP, SOME WERE SAFE, AND DO NOT EXIT OUTA DOTHALO.
AFTER U HAVE IT SAVED TO A SAFE SPOT AND DOTHALO STILL OPEN, OPEN UR PHOTOSHOP CS2 AND UR BITMAP YOU JUST SAVED. NEXT JUST SKIN UR MAP TO UR LIKING AND SEE WATS UP NEXT.
K MY BITMAP IS SKINNED AND NOW READY TO B SAVED. WHEN U ARE DONE SKINNING UR MAP, GO TO THE TOP RIGHT AND GO TO SAVE AS.....
A BOX WILL APPEAR SHOWING WERE UNT TO SAVE UR BITMAP AS. LOCATE UR BITMAP LOCATION! AND GO DOWN TO THE DROP DOWN BOX AND SELECT D3D/DDS (DDS*), TEN THERE IS UR BITMAP AND CLICK SAVE AND REPLACE.
ANOTHER BOX WILL NOW POP UP BUT THIS ONE IS VERY DIFFERENT. THIS ONE WANTS TO KNOW WAT DXT U WANT TO SAVE IT AS.... AND THAT IS WHY I SAID KEEP UR DOTHALO OPEN CUZZ IT COMES IN HANDY. SMIMPLE ALLS U DO IS REFFER TO UR DOTHALO AND CHECK WICH DXT UR BITMAP IS. MINE IS DXT2/DXT3 WATS URS? CHECK IT AND REMEBER IT, NOW GO BACK TO PHOTOSHOP AND CLICK THE DROPDOWN BOX ON THAT BOX AND SELECT UR DXT FOMRAT, WHEN IT IS DONE U CAN NOW CLOSE OUT OF PHOTOSHOP.
AFTER THAT IS DONE U SHOULD NOW ONLY HAVE DOTHALO OPEN BUT MINIMIZED NOW, NOW HERE COMES TE H2 BITMAP INETILIZER, WAT THIS DOES IS, IT TAKES THE BITMAPS THAT ARE EXTERNAL AND MAKES THEM INTERNAL. FOR INSTANCE, MY HOG AND THIS IS THE REASON WHY I AM SHOWING U THIS. ITS EXTERNAL (MP SHARED...) WELL SAY I SKINN MY HOG RIGHT AND THEN I GO TO DOTHALO AND INJECT IT. HURRAY IT SHOWS UP BUT...... WHEN U LOAD THE MAP UR SKIN IS NOT THERE. PLEASE DO NOT FEEL SHOCKED BECUASE ONLY H2 BITMAP INTERILIZER NEEDS TO B DONE TO BITMAPS THAT EXTERNAL, THE HOLE MAP IS NOT MADE OF THIS SO UR IN LUCK.
OPEN THE PROGRAM, OPEN UR MAP, SCROLL DOWN TE BOX TILL U FIND UR BITMAP, AND THEN THERE WILL B A DROP DOWNBOX CLOSE TO THE BOTTEM, CLICK AND AND SELECT 1, THEN HIT INTERLIZE BITMAP.
K SO NOW ITS INTERLIZED, WHEN U GO BACK TO DOTHALO GETTIN READY TO NOW INJECT UR BITMAP, U WILL NOW NOTICE UR BITMAP IS BLACK( ON DOTHALO) THAT MEANS IT WORKED IF IT DOES NOT SHOW BLACK JUST SELECT ANOTHER BITMAP AND GO BACK TO UR OTHER ONE. K WELL GUESS WAT WERE ALMOST DONE BECUASE THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO DO LEFT IS????????? INJECT IT!! LOL SO WAT DO U DO? CLICK INJECT AND LOCATE UR SKINNED BITMAP AND HURRAY! U ARE FINISHED CONGRATS!
UPON DOING THIS RESIGN UR MAP, FTP, AND ENJOY
THINGS TO REMEBER WHEN SKINNING!
*BITMAPS THAT EXTERNAL NEED TO B INITERLIZED
*IF BITMAPS ARE INTERNAL U DONT VEN HAVE TO INTERLIZE
*ALWAYS REMEBER WAT DXT FORMAT UR BITMAP IS IN.
TUT MADE BY DRINKI.
