[Skin/Fix]Explosive's Shader Restoration Patch

Explosive American · Post by **Explosive American** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:31 pm

For Users of Pixel Shader/Shader Model 2.0 Capable Cards Only
Tired of the bland, shaderless bitmaps you occasionally find? This patch fixes all that can be fixed. The cause of the bland look of these objects compared to the xbox version of Halo, is missing multipurpose bitmaps. You all know what they are. They dictate where the shader is to appear on the model, and how intense it should be. If it is missing, the result is an object that looks exactly like it would if you had a graphics card without Pixel/Model 2.0 shader capability. I was told that this has been done before, and take no credit for discovering this error. I simply want to make an easy fix available. These multipurpose bitmaps are made by me, and differ slightly from the shaders of the xbox version of Halo. They do, however, look highly similar, and should work well. Sorry, plasma fields will still look like crap, since I can't find out how to fix them.

Screenshots:

UPDATE: VERSION 1.0:

Restored shaders for:

-Health Pack
-Assault rifle and Pistol ammo
-Sniper Rifle Ammo
-Fuel Rod Gun cubemap, 3rd Person (1st Person ran into file format problems)
-Assault Rifle
-Flag
-Longsword
-Ring

There are more fixes, but they're incredibly miniscule.

Please note that I have altered the field of view to my liking in the "with" sections, so if weapons appear "longer", disregard that. It's not in the patch.

Assault Rifle
With

Without

Ring
With

Without

Flag
With

Without

Longsword
With

Without

IMPORTANT NOTES

-NOT COMPATIBLE WITH HALO CUSTOM EDITION

-MUST BE LOGGED IN TO DOWNLOAD

-Begin with a fresh bitmaps.map. If you use a previously patched bitmap file, you may experience errors with skins. If you want your patched bitmaps anyway, start with a fresh one, apply the restoration patch, then apply the patches you had applied previously. This should take care of any errors.

-Some users have reported problems with the assault rifle and teleporters, saying that multicolored squares have been appearing. I really don't know what caused this, but I'm not having the problem. I would re-upload the rar, but editing won't let me remove the download anymore. If you experience this problem, contact me via AIM, and I will transfer you a new patch.

UPDATE
Users of the European release of Halo can download a (hopefully) working patch from HERE.

SilentKnight064 · Post by **SilentKnight064** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:42 pm

I <3 you
shit...that is fucking awesome
good job glad somebody finally did it..

DLing now

Alchemist666 · Post by **Alchemist666** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 9:05 pm

WOAH! nice 10/10 someone needed to post these.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:14 am

Makes me want to resolder an ATI RADEON X1600 on my motherboard.

RIGHT. NOW.

Explosive American · Post by **Explosive American** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:14 am

Nyah

But really all you'd need would be a Radeon 9600. They're much cheaper.

[NpM]-canno · Post by **[NpM]-canno** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:19 am

should it also work on a ati radeon 9800 pro?

p.s. it's for pc that card

Explosive American · Post by **Explosive American** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:30 am

As far as I know, anything that supports pixel shaders. If you've got the shiny, you're good to go. Why do you PC users always have to make everything simple seem complicated?

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:56 pm

But an X1600 would let me run X-Plane good as well.

But that's enough of that, this is a sweet mod. I JUST WISH I COULD USE IT.

CabooseJr · Post by **CabooseJr** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:27 pm

10/10 the best skin i have ever seen.

Explosive American · Post by **Explosive American** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:10 pm

Will be updated shortly with a MUCH better AR Multi. I discovered that making the multi purple gives it an extra range of shiny for that awesome, light-reflecting look.

Explosive American · Post by **Explosive American** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:56 pm

Updated. Check first post for details.

=Hunter= · Post by **=Hunter=** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:13 am

About time. Awesomeness. Enough to make me actually come here and post for the first time in MONTHS.

CMT fixed the shields, beats me as to how though.

Explosive American · Post by **Explosive American** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:17 am

Well then. It's time I paid CMT a "visit". *COUGH*clingingandpleading*COUGH*

[IA]Paul · Post by **[IA]Paul** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:04 am

AMAZING!!! I love it.

wasserbrunner · Post by **wasserbrunner** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:56 am

awesome job 10/10

Explosive American · Post by **Explosive American** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:16 pm

outstanding/sticky, mb?

caboose___ · Post by **caboose___** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:44 pm

F*** YEAH! This is awsum! Finally, it actually loox KOOL on the computer version. Nice job explosive american!

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:28 pm

Explosive American wrote:outstanding/sticky, mb?

Outstanding can be discussed, but no guarantees....this is a mod that deserves it. Simple but great.

Explosive American · Post by **Explosive American** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:19 pm

I was thinking of a sticky, since it's more like a fix that everyone should have than it is a mod. Stickied in both the PC and Mac forums, so it's accessible to all.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:00 pm

Done.