HMT: How To Make And Apply Skins

[infamouslink]

here is a huge tutorila on what you need to know
Download Photoshop Here
http://www.soft32.com/download-Adobe_Ph ... 346-5.html
DDS Plugin here
http://www.bhmotorsports.com/download/6088
If you dont have photoshop here is a few tools.
http://download.filefront.com/3829638;8 ... 6f94cabd12
How to put the plugin in the plugins folder
First download the DDS Plugin
Locate you Adobe Photoshop folder.
Drag the dds.8bi like this

Copy it
Go in your photoshop folder and open your plugins folder
Paste it in File Formats
Go in your Adobe Photoshop Only folder
Paste it in File Formats

Paste it in Import-Export

How to extract the skin to Edit it
First open bloodgulch.map in HMT
Go to the bitmaps branch

Find what you want to be edited ( i will be doing the pistol)

On the right click Save texture

Save it to a folder or your desktop

How to edit with photoshop
Go to the file and right click and open with Adobe Photoshop
Go to the folder and right click and open with Adobe photoshop

Im just gonna make it black so.

File Save As DDS
Replace it over the other one

OK For the pistol it is dxt 1
It will be on DXT3 but for most textures its DDS 1. Go on the upper left corner of the thing that popped up and select dxt1 no alpha.

How to Edit using some other thing like paint
1. I will be using convim
2. select your pistol you saved from HMT and convert it to Jpeg NOT GREYSCALE

4. Hit Convert
5. Locate the file you converted(the Jpeg)
6. Right Click Open with MS Paint
7. Edit it how you want and save
8. Convert it back to DDS

How to inject textures
1. Open HMT
2. Go to the bitmaps branch

3. Locate the file you edited it From ( for me that would be the pistol)
4. Double click the file you edited it from

5. On the left click inject texture
6. Find the edited DDS file.

7. Double click the edited DDS.
8. If it says this Hit YES

9. It should say texture succesfully imported
10. Look at the left and the texture should appear instead of the regular

[Danke]

You won the internetz.

[Excal]

Nice. I added it to the Index.

P.S. - Dan!!, you might want to take that link out of your sig, UltraMagnus almost hanged me for a link I had to some bad stuff...

[Spartan--117]

Yo this tut worked grate i loved it.MY weps look extreamly powerful and your links were exactly what i needed thnaks dude.

[VOiD_SKiLLZ]

Crap. Can someone give me the original pistol bitmap, i thought i had a back up of all my maps but i gues skinning goes to all .map files.
Ifeel like such a newb

[infamouslink]

open My computer
Right click Halo (not the folder)
Explore
Files Cab
Its in one of the Cabs i think its four and just extract bitmaps.map

[chicken nob]

Is there anyway to use the Lasso tool on Paintshop pro?

[Hiei3]

i tried this but used a different .dds plugin, one that i got from another site. so either that 1 was for xbox only, or perhaps it was for blood gulch but i used death island...? neway, i recommend every1 uses the 1 uve provided for this tut.

EDIT: ahhhh, ok, wats rong with it? ok, after i did the stuf that i sed above, it wuldnt let me play on death island (like i sed, i probably used a blood gulch dds for death island which prolly wont work). so i completely reinstalled halo. my mods on blood gulch rnt there nemore (which is wat i intended). but wen i try to play on death island, i cant select it. plz help!!

ANOTHER EDIT: so when i save do i gotta check Recursive? or leave that unchecked?

[Hiei3]

ok i got it, lol. not sure wat i was doin rong but its workin now. dude u rock, thx a bunch for this tut. u make skinning noobs like me feel like theres still hope, lol. thx a bunch. but, wat if i wanna skin weapons/vehicles on a different map? how do i do that? can i do it the same way? or do i need a different dds?

[PS2Homie5]

I'm trying to add a few tags to my Halo PC game, and they will not work or I will not comprehend HMT version 3.5. They're very simple tags

1) Civi-Ghost Tag
http://www.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=1615

2) Civi-Warthog Tag
http://www.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=1569

Can someone tel me over AIM how I do this... I can't afford Photoshop...

[-spartan-187-]

OMG!!! plz help i dont have photoshop so i converted it using the same tool that u used in the tutorial. i made my new skin and converted it back and when i import it its normal until a popup says " the image being injected must be dxt2 or dxt3" nwhat does that mean?

plz help

[Havocwielder]

The DDS tool you gave the link to won't open my texture, and I have no idea why. Any helpful ideas?

[Havocwielder]

I used GIMP, which basically is free Photoshop. I did everything in the tut, but when I start up Halo, it says there is an exception. Help?
Edit: Sry about the double post. Didn't remember about the post before.

[supersayon]

OMG!!! plz help i dont have photoshop so i converted it using the same tool that u used in the tutorial. i made my new skin and converted it back and when i import it its normal until a popup says " the image being injected must be dxt2 or dxt3" nwhat does that mean?

plz help

some skins must be dxt1-dxt5. before you extract the file look at the right. it will say what it is. most tags are dxt1, but be careful

[jak7997]

IM SAD i cant find the import-export file so it wont work PLZ HELP ME

[TheMonsterPie]

ok i open the map got to my bitmap tag click on the pistol and getting a error saying

Error accessing bitmaps.map-make sure that it exists in
the same folder as the map you are trying to open


PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Andrew_b]

is your map in the same folder as your bitmaps.map?

[UntalkativeBunny]

the error message is self explanatory



please don't bump... if you have a question regarding the tutorial, pm the creator.

[TheMonsterPie]

how do i get the maps in the bitmap file like where is it??

[Cryticfarm]

It's ok to bump in the tut section.