How do you change the pic of the level?

idiotskater73437 · Post by **idiotskater73437** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 6:33 pm

When you're pickin the MP level, how would you change the pic that's somewhat of a preview of the level?

HunterXI · Post by **HunterXI** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 7:41 pm

its probably a bitmap.

XwitX · Post by **XwitX** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:59 am

would it be in the bitmaps or ui though?

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.................

liquid · Post by **liquid** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:31 am

I'm pretty sure that i have seen it in bitmaps....

maegus15 · Post by **maegus15** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 12:12 pm

I wish I could know too. I can rename easy but changeing the pics is a diffrent thing. I hope its in UI and not Bitmaps.

idiotskater73437 · Post by **idiotskater73437** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 12:45 pm

I found it, its in the UI and its called "ui/shell/bitmaps/mp_map_grafix"
There's 21 images in the set, one for each mp level and one that was in the XBOX version, where you select like system link. I think anyways.

HoboRockAssassin · Post by **HoboRockAssassin** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:02 pm

i think it in UI cuz it shows the preview for every level so it should show them all sumwhere in UI
i downloaded a UI skin mod once and it didnt change the picture but it did change the color of tha background and everythin in the picture

idiotskater73437 · Post by **idiotskater73437** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:10 pm

Now I need to figure out a way to convert my image to .dds, I don't have photoshop anymore, the trial expired, so anyone know how to convert the image? (btw, its a Windows BMP Image right now)

maegus15 · Post by **maegus15** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:10 pm

Did anyone know that the halo in the back round of the main menu is a peaice of senery. I opened it up in Spark edit!

Dave_Linger · Post by **Dave_Linger** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:13 pm

wow- How? what file?

idiotskater73437 · Post by **idiotskater73437** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:14 pm

woah, haha thats weird.

EDIT: yea, its in the ui.map, i rotated it and the main menus kinda weird....

maegus15 · Post by **maegus15** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:20 pm

I tried to dup Halo so there is 5 Halo's shaped like an atom. Got an exseption though.

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:21 pm

Ok, 1st of all, the Halo scenery is completely off topic.

2nd of all, I knew that ever since I explored the Hangar on the POA.

Now then, there are definently some odd things in the UI file... pardon me if they have been mentioned/explained before...

1. "Ruined Pain" text in the group of images next to one another with the names of levels in them.... ui\mp_map_ui\ruinedpain
2. "Bonus level" text in the group of images next to one another with the names of levels in them.... ui\mp_map_ui\bonuslevel
3. In the last 2 images of the images of the preview images for the MP maps, there is a picture of what seems to be a map with a question mark in the center... Quite puzzling, yet somehow makes me think of Halo 2...

maegus15 · Post by **maegus15** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:26 pm

Maybe Gearbox was bored and screwed around with Halo. Then just forgot it was still stored in the Map file.

Zeus · Post by **Zeus** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 2:15 pm

ICEFIRE wrote:I tried to dup Halo so there is 5 Halo's shaped like an atom. Got an exseption though.

Too big, duh. Takes up more room in the RAM than the game con handle. Plus it moves.

HoboRockAssassin · Post by **HoboRockAssassin** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:30 pm

Now I need to figure out a way to convert my image to .dds, I don't have photoshop anymore, the trial expired, so anyone know how to convert the image? (btw, its a Windows BMP Image right now)

IM me the image file ill convert it to .dds for u

halofan141 · Post by **halofan141** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 5:11 pm

MP and SP map select MUST BE CHANGED ON BOTH THE LVL MODDED AND UI. UI change makes the main menu change, lvl change changes the selection when you start a new game in server.

sharkface217 · Post by **sharkface217** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 6:04 pm

HoboRockAssassin wrote:i think it in UI cuz it shows the preview for every level so it should show them all sumwhere in UI
i downloaded a UI skin mod once and it didnt change the picture but it did change the color of tha background and everythin in the picture

It is UI, cause UI is just those pictures.......... I learned this from Mono's Library Mod

halofan141 · Post by **halofan141** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 6:07 pm

Sharkface217 wrote:
HoboRockAssassin wrote:i think it in UI cuz it shows the preview for every level so it should show them all sumwhere in UI
i downloaded a UI skin mod once and it didnt change the picture but it did change the color of tha background and everythin in the picture
It is UI, cause UI is just those pictures.......... I learned this from Mono's Library Mod

It's in both. Look at the post just above this by me.

Zeus · Post by **Zeus** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 6:42 pm

Yeah cause on mono's he didn't change the level's pic or name.