HMT: Cloudy Menu

Tutorials for the PC version of Halo 1.
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HMT: Cloudy Menu

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I was bored one day and was messing around with the UI to see what i could do. I came up with something of a cloud instead of space in the UI. It is kinda wierd, but it beats starind at a ring that i have seen too many times.

Ok, first thing: in my last tutorial, i showed the free program i used for skinning (DXTBmp) You need it unless you have something else that does the same functions. Download it here

Ok now open HMT and open bloodgulch. go to the bitmaps and scroll down until you see one named "sky\clear afternoon\bitmaps\clouds puffy light" click on it and click save texture. Save it in desktop.

Go to the DXTBmp and open the texture you saved. simply do to file, save as, DDS texture, and where it says DDS DXT 1, scroll down to DDS 888-8. Save it.

Now back at HMT, open up UI.map and go to bitmaps. scroll down untill you see one named "levels\a10\bitmaps\chryo glass" and highlight the list of numbers and letters next to "swap" (it should be E6190). Now scroll down further untill you see a small list of textures that all start with "sky\". now click on the first one and highlight the number series next to swap again. paste the one you copied earlier there and click save. DON'T CLICK SAVE META. Now do the same thing with the rest EXCEPT FOR sky\sky_x10\bitmaps\space.
when that is done, go to sky\sky_x10\bitmaps\space. click inject texture and load the clouds texture you used earlier with DXTBmp. Congradulations! you are done with HMT! Close it.

Open up HHT and load the UI.map. go to [scen] scenery and the only thing there should be scenery\Halo\Halo. click on it and click on
Mod2-scenery\halo\halo. click on the same thing above "swap" with the scroll down. Go to weapons\plasma grenade\plasma grenade and click swap. Close HHT, Open Halo, and Enjoy!

And you get this:Image
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Post by Kurroda »

pretty cool
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Post by Spartan III »

Wow. Nice. Original, that's for sure.
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Post by whitey »

is there a way i can put an image from my pc intead of clouds plz tell me if u know how
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Post by fishface617 »

cool, i like it, good job
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Post by fgtbv546b »

i bet that bungie was thinking of having the clouds as the background but they decided not to and put halo and space over it so when you take halo away thenit leaves their original work.
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Post by (sccan)dudz »

i get exception data
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Post by hbomb »

that was cool. Although people better make sure they have backups..
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Post by Boney526 »

whitey wrote:is there a way i can put an image from my pc intead of clouds plz tell me if u know how
Yeah, just inject that texture over the one your overwriting WITH. I think...
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Boney526 wrote:
whitey wrote:is there a way i can put an image from my pc intead of clouds plz tell me if u know how
Yeah, just inject that texture over the one your overwriting WITH. I think...
And make sure you convert it to .dds before you inject it.
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Post by nickzorzz »

i did exactly that but on my main menu in halo it shows that, but really zoomed in. what should i do to fix this?
i also want to know how to put in one of my own pictures of cd and stop the background from moving.
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Post by Farowe »

Just a litlle help, when i try to open ui.map in HHT it tells me that map is invalid, im not so good using HHT well to be precise i had never used HHT
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Post by hell_knight »

stop bumping i dont even think the guy who posted this is still even alive
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