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Careful with the tutorial.. if your gunna do this to other weapons too, make sure you save their bitmaps or *gulp* the bitmaps will never be the same again. yes ive tried, and ive been forced to reinstall halo because after replacing the map file with a backup, it leaves behind a small band of gold ...

Im not sure where to ask this, but is there a plugin or patch available to open dds files (saved textures from HMT editor) for gimp? Or should i look for a file that converts dds files to more accessible files?