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Okay I was told from someone at Yayap.com to come here and post my question.

I am looking to create renders and such. I have no idea where to start. I've noticed people off numerous websites with some awsome renders of every character from Halo and Halo2.

When I asked how this kinda stuff was done on Yayap.com, someone told me that the characters were not made from scratch like I originally thought but were actually pulled from the game. When I asked how that was done, I got this answer:

ADI extracts models and textures.

CH2r extracts bumps.

Search around halomods for both.

Okay now I am totally slow so could someone help me out with this? What is ADI and CH2r? And how do they work?

ADI-model ( files.halomods.com ->utilities section i think?)
u need a halo 2 map files to extract models
you must have/find the modelLib.dle somewhere to extract models...




Ch2r-textures ( files.halomods.com ->utilities section i think?)
you need a halo 2 map file to extract bitmaps



i really can't tell ya much...i don't do that stuff.
--Scooby

okay, well, can anyone tell me how to get a Halo 2 Map File and extract from them?

EDIT: I found the ADI and Ch2r thingys but for whatever reason, they wont run on this computer, I'll hafta try someone elses computer but yeah.....what now?