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Alright, I know that you can do the EoF trick with Eschaton, but I cannot figure out how to get a larger file to replace a smaller file.

I have tried just injecting it but it will tell me that it is not a scalable size, or it will scale it down to whatever the bitmap's size is. I want it to stay the same size.

I have tried SquishDDS, but I cannot figure out how to set it to take the image I want and the mask. Is there some other way of doing this?

It'd require some editing of the bitmap data since information like width and height is stored in the meta data. I assume you want something like a different dimension image? That would cause some problems with how Halo used the bitmap.

For example what sort of problems?

Like Halo stretching it back into the dimensions it expects. There's a picture in the Harbinger thread where a CE map allowed a different dimension but normal Halo didn't and it caused some weird issues.

Alt, could you allow the inject DDS feature in Eschaton use larger files? because I am trying to inject this as an experiment, but it will not let me.

The inject method is very very very straight forward. Halo stores bitmap data as the raw image data. Basically a DDS file without the header. All of the DDS header data is stored in the meta data. Bitmap data like everything else is stored in a one large file so to inject something larger would mean moving all the addresses of the bitmaps images (and correcting offsets to that bitmap data in every bitm tag). It might be possible using an EOF related injection. I'll see about it adding that kind of functionality.

If your experiment is to see if you can make an object more textured by having a bigger bitmap, IM me I'll walk you through it.