HMTv3.5 tells me bitmaps.map is not a file - not a valid map

[Krewz]

Hey I'm wanting to skin the primary warthog bitmap, and when I tell HMT to open bitmap.map - it tells it's "Not a valid Halo map file". Anyone ever experience this and whats the work around.

TIA

[Waverunner]

Thats not a map, in the terms of a level, although it is still a .map file. It is a collection of all the bitmaps you use in halo. Don't worry about it, you are not supposed to be able to open it.

[theguy2042000]

open any other map except ui,bitmaps, and sound i think
open bloodgulch and go underr bitmaps the warthog is there.

[BEEF!!!]

This will also apply to every other map too, regardless of which one you put the skin in.

[ExileLord]

bitmaps.map, sound.map, and loc.map

you can still hack ui.map

[Krewz]

Under Extract, there is five types. Which one do you use to extract the warthog by it's lomesome?. Down in RESOURCE BROWSER, I highlighted the Warthog. Then went up to the menus and clicked TOOLS/EXTRACT. Which one of those extracts do I use? I got one to extract it as a .dds file. I was expecting to create a bitmap file, but I don't guess that's the case. Am I suppose to expect a .dds file to be extracted? Well I pushed forward anyway and used Photoshop to load up the warthog as warthog.dds. It was odd the layout of the photo - of coarse. Like your looking at a photo that's half of everything and laid out flat. It's too bad we can't skin real 3D shapes, since that's what I've been doing in Microstation for about 15 years.

Thanks for the help guys, I'm sure I'll piece this together pretty quick.

[MasterNeoChief]

What is loc btw? I've never figured that out

[kornman00]

Its the localization map file. It has all the ui elements needed for a certain language. In this case English

[x13igDudex12]

the bitmaps file is EASY to use......if you like change everything to gold in bloodgulch...(i might do that) you would send a friend the bitmaps.map file or put the bitmaps.map file in a ppf and put it on the files forum.