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Ok, I'm using HMT 3.5, and Paint Shop Pro 9. I know the stuff I'm using works, cause I've already skinned the banshee (which I think turned out nice). However, I'd like to make the boring white contrail that it leaves, a different color to match. So, I do the same thing as I did with the banshee and everything else I've skinned; I go to HMT, go to the [bitm] Bitmap section, and then I find the file called vehicles\banshee\bitmaps\banshee contrail. I click it and on the right it shows the picture. I click 'Save Texture' as I always do with other skins, then open it in PSP9. I get the following popup: Image has MIP maps, Display them with the image? Note: You must select "Use Existing Mip Maps" in the save dialog.
So, when I first started skinning, I found that all this does is repeat the image over and over, getting smaller and smaller, so I click 'No', because its easier to edit, and it works just as well. So, when I open the contrail file, the popup comes up, and I click no. the only thing there is to edit is a simple white square....? Do I just giv the white square color? Or should I click yes on the popup, so i get repeating white squares getting smaller, and edit it as 1? or edit them individually? plz help me with this. thx.

export it from game, open up in photo editor ( paintshop pro or adobe photo shop), then paint it and then imort in game again.

i tried that. it sed sumthin bout the alpha sumthin will be lost. last time it sed that, it skrewed up the map if i click ok and ijected it neway. y does it say that?

when it says the alpha will be lost, just say ok or yes and continue.

ok.. ill do it neway, lol. but like i sed, last time it messed up the map and i had to reinstall the game and start all over with my mods and stuff. but ill try.

edit it in HMT

i no that, lol, im way past that. i extract it or w/e from hmt, but then i edit it with psp9, and it says sumthin bout the alphas will be messed up.

He means under the light tag.

o, ok, thx, ill try that.