[Skin/Fix]Explosive's Shader Restoration Patch

[DrJaul]

so, are there going to be patches to the patch or is this the final awesomness that will have anything to do with this mod?

and a favor to ask. if anyone has a clean bitmap. map file for custom edition could you send it to dr.jaul "AT" comcast.net? i accidentally applied the patch to mine and now my loading screen and UI are psychedelic colored. which is cool but not quite as impressive as the clean version.

BTW i figured it out. my internet browser was having issues with staying signed in to ALL websites so whenever i logged in and it said "welcom you are logged in" it would immediately log me out when i clicked return to forum. NMF

[Explosive American]

I'll hopefully be adding the real H1 AR multi to the pack soon, and hopefully a few others. I've always had a problem with the Longsword, so I'd like to get a new one for that. SuperSunny has a couple, so I could get some from him.

[{SMT}iguana]

is this in the outstanding mods or am i blind cause this is no work -10/10

effortless mkaes me laugh

[Explosive American]

Yes, it is in outstanding mods. That's where this topic is located >_>

In PC because it doesn't work for CE

[jimbi]

is this in the outstanding mods or am i blind cause this is no work -10/10

effortless mkaes me laugh

You're an idiot...

[Explosive American]

is this in the outstanding mods or am i blind cause this is no work -10/10

effortless mkaes me laugh

Your an idiot...

That post made me laugh. A lot. You do know that you're supposed to put an apostrophe and an e on there, right? If that isn't a case of the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is.

[Mourge]

hey for some awkward reason. like i start out with a new bitmaps(checked in game) and then when i apply the patch my old SOTC mod and skins go on there including the shader and there all messed up?....so huh?

[Explosive American]

You're sure you applied the patch to a completely fresh bitmaps file, and then applied the SOTC bitmaps?

[Mourge]

no i didnt apply them at all....i reinstalled and then went inside the game and everything was original. i came out and applied your bitmaps. then i went back in and everything was old mod and screwy

[Explosive American]

That's strange. Make sure you applied them absolutely correctly. I don't know what could be wrong.

[Mourge]

ive been a pro modder and texture artist for halo for 3 years and yea....awkward. i just got back to halomods though.

[caboose___]

i really want this to work. but.....didnt work. you see, i applied it to my copied bitmaps.map, and ppf master said that it was a sucess. wel...sorta. sorta is an exageration. everything came out black. no, the entire screenw as black, with a few dots on the sides. but starnge enough, the menu screens came up if i moved the mouse(the mouse was invisible on the screen, it was hard) so i clicked quit. will someone please post this as a .map file? ppfs never seem to work with me. and my computer CAN handle this, so someone please help me out. halo sucks if it doesnt look like this.

[sf91]

I think this mod is really awesome. It includes stuff that gearbox was too lazy to finish. I hope you make another version. Maybe if someone has a modded
xbox 360 you can extract to halo 3 multis for the guns and characters. I would but Im waiting for the 360 Elite's price to drop a little.

[Explosive American]

What does Halo 3 have to do with this?

[sf91]

wouldn't halo 3 have higher quality shaders, textures, models and such. that was where i was getting at.

[Explosive American]

Halo 3 almost certainly uses multipurpose maps differently than Halo PC, and the Halo engine definitely wouldn't be able to render halo 3's shaders, for sure. It's not powerful enough.

[sf91]

Just an idea. You gotta admit it would be cool to make halo PC have high quality textures and models. I understand that Halo PC uses an older shader model.

[Explosive American]

Indeed it would be, and if Halo 3 comes out for PC, then people might just import improved models of the old weapons and such. For now, it is near impossibility. Maybe through some haxxor-level techniques, someone could photoshop the most awesome shaders imaginable, but that's unlikely.

[SonicMaster326]

At first I wasn't sure how to apply the patch, and then I found ppf-o-matic. I didn't know what file to patch, so I just assumed it was vsh.bin in the shaders folder, based on the ppf-o-matic help page saying to apply patches to .bin files. I started up Halo, and got the error message saying that vsh.bin was corrupt. I looked around this thread some more and found out what I did wrong, and I uninstalled and reinstalled Halo. I applied the patch correctly, but when I restarted Halo I got the same error message. I tried to undo the patch with ppf-o-matic, but I couldn't because it told me it wasn't applied. Can someone either tell how to fix this or send me a clean vsh.bin? Thanks in advance.

Edit: Strange, when I did a clean install of the game it worked fine, but when I applied the patch to bitmaps.map correctly, I still got the same error about the vsh.bin. Still need help...

[Explosive American]

*slaps you*

Come on, man! Use your head! Do you really think you should alter your shader files!? Read the rest of the thread! Apply it to bitmaps.map! PPF-O-Matic was designed for Playstation game files, which are usually of the .bin variety. Ignore that.