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H2 - Easy - How To Edit H2 Lightmaps for Noobs
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:27 am
by Gabs
Here a tutorial that i wrote up for editing lightmaps. Now go on and make some sweet mods! If there and any questions about the tut, ask here, and some feedback please
Edit- I have simplified the tutorial in a few steps, so its now abit easier to understand.
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:11 am
by Spammy
Awesomeness
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:22 pm
by madmodder15
can anybody tell me what programs allow you to edit .dds files.
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:24 pm
by Aequitas
I use Photoshop with the nVidia DDS plug-in.
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:25 pm
by Beast96
photoshop but u need the plugin which is in the utilites section
Gabs did u ever figure out how to turn on the flashlights and warthog headlights
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:27 pm
by Dead XXX Matt
sweet.. even if i cant mod xbox
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:25 pm
by Stunna_X
man it took me forever to learn this in halo1.. but this is a good tut for anyone who wants to learn.
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:46 pm
by GodzSF131
Awesome tut, you told me it wouldn't be out by today, but it is. Thanks a ton.
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 4:47 pm
by emerica6708
i tryed to do it to zanzabar and it said "the specified search string was not found" when i did the replace search in hex workshop are those only for burial mounds and if so what are the other ones?
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:01 pm
by GodzSF131
I just did it for zanzibar. You probally didn't start at the top. Also, you need to "Replace all". You should fix that gabs, all instances of that need to be replaced to work.
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:14 pm
by Gabs
Do the meta injecting of the changed formats with ADI. CH2R always seems to give me errors. Oh, you can just use Paint to make the textures, then download "The Compressonator" and convert it to DXT.
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:22 pm
by emerica6708
i have no option on to start at top when i press ctrl+H it looks just like his screen shot and i clicked up on the directino instead of down and it did the same thing so i dont know whats up and i dont have it were it says replace all instances either
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:32 pm
by Gabs
Get HexWorkshop then. Thats what i was using.
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:12 pm
by emerica6708
ok sry i was extracting the bitmap instead of the .meta file its working now but one thing THIS TAKES SO FREAKING LONG TO EXTRACT THEN PAINT THEN SAVE THEN INJECT THE BITMAPS theres 112 of them for zanzabar and it takes a while or am i being a noob and i dont have to do all those if not how do i do it faster??
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:28 pm
by Gabs
Just create 1 for each size.
stuff
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 9:27 pm
by sir salami
ok im a major noob at this so could u give me some info on where 2 get a halo 2 map, a hex editor(a good 1), and what a good texture editing program and where it is i know it noobish and lazy but i dont know where 2 find em
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:13 pm
by emerica6708
get photo shop with a .ddsp plugin u can get the plug in in the resorces section of this forum u can use H2edit or ch2r to get the bitmap u get the halo2 map off the xbox hard drive under games/halo2/maps then find w/e map u want and put it on comp
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 2:04 am
by swese44
Ok cool. This is basically the same process I used to do the new lightmaps in Hangem In Hell (which helped that mod kick a lot more ass by the way. I had known this process of changing the bitmap DXT type, but didn't realize I could do it for light maps until thinkreddie told me it was probly possible).
I haven't tried this for Halo 2 yet, but from the tutorial it looks like the images get garbled pretty bad. I'm assuming this is because they are an unknown image type, but if SW IronForge or XIU get it figured out then we can probably get the lightmaps without so much distortion. Which means that as of now we can basically only make a level's lightmap one shade of darkness (like the original lightmap tutorial by what's his name-can't remember at the moment).
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 2:00 pm
by Spar13
NoobTacular!!!
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:46 am
by XIU
swese44 wrote:Ok cool. This is basically the same process I used to do the new lightmaps in Hangem In Hell (which helped that mod kick a lot more *** by the way. I had known this process of changing the bitmap DXT type, but didn't realize I could do it for light maps until thinkreddie told me it was probly possible).
I haven't tried this for Halo 2 yet, but from the tutorial it looks like the images get garbled pretty bad. I'm assuming this is because they are an unknown image type, but if SW IronForge or XIU get it figured out then we can probably get the lightmaps without so much distortion. Which means that as of now we can basically only make a level's lightmap one shade of darkness (like the original lightmap tutorial by what's his name-can't remember at the moment).
yea i thought IF mentioned something about it in his white paper, havent had much coding time lately
but ill add them whenever i can
