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Skinning tutorial by Darkstorm995

Heres how i did it:
First of all you need these tools:
Halo Map Tools
Photoshop
dds plugin for phtoshop(you can get it from nvidia's web site i dont have a link for it)
Halo pc
1)First open up your halo map tools.Then open bloodgulch.
2)Go to bitmaps find the texture you want to edit and press save on the right side
3)Save it to the desktop.
4)open up your photoshop go to open,open up the texture.
5)Do your changes then go to save as .Save it as a dds file.
6)Go to halo map tools click on inject find where you saved your textured dds file and press open.
7)Press update on the top right corner close you halo map tools and you have your texture,

I just told you how i do it,I had no tutorials on it so I came up with it my self.Don't forget to save it as dxt 1 when the save screen comes out.

Hope this helps

THIS WAS DAN'S FIRST POST. REMEMBER IT WELL.

I beleive you forgot the "save using existing Mipmaps" part when you change it to DXT1, but maybe only I do that.

oh sorry i must have forgot thanx

how formal of u... lol... maybe take 30 seconds and go into detail for the n00bs out there that dont know jack shit

lol so what do you guys think is it good

well i havn't ever skinned before but i know alot about computers but i got all of your tutorail except the dxt 1 wut is that about?

Basically A DDS can be saved as DXT1 2 or 3. Halo likes to have DXT1. Its just a format of DDS'.

What versoin of photoshop do you need? I got version 6.0

could you post a link to the plugin your talking about, other than that it seems good

I've done skinning with normal textures in game but how do you import your own?

what do you mean by normal textures the ones you get from the game

Yea, like active camo, jackal sheild, ect...

ohh follow mt tutorial thats what its about

Oh ya, sorry, I must have been really sleepy or sumtin to not have read the topic starters post.

lol i hope the tutorial helps