NEED HELP cant extract bitmap

roadkillhalo · Post by **roadkillhalo** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 8:45 am

Hey guys i really want to skin my own warthog so iv been trying to pull the warthog_standard but it says it cant find the shared.map folder. So i tried to re-name the map it's self to shared.map and i dint get the massage any more but when i do extract it it wont open with photeshop and i have the plugin. Also the picture never shows up in dot halo in the raw data editor and i know that it is suposted to.

Please help if you know how to do the shared.map folder
thanks

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:07 am

you have to put the shared.map in the same folder as the map your extracting it from

roadkillhalo · Post by **roadkillhalo** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:11 am

ya but do i just make a folder called shared.map or do i have like dune.map, and the same thing just renamed called shared.map

dazzajay · Post by **dazzajay** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:45 am

ugh... the eaiseast way to extract the jeeps BITM is to load CH2R and go to Objects / Vehicles / Warthog / Bitmaps and in there you will find Warthog Standard.BITM, doupbvble click it, you may get an error message, if you do just click ok, and keep going, tthen change to the Old Bitmap Editor, and extract the bitmap, and wala, done.

you dont rename any maps to shared, ...

go to your halo 2 maaps dir on the CD and you will find a map called Shared.map, that is the only place the Warthog texture is in.

roadkillhalo · Post by **roadkillhalo** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:27 pm

thanks man

roadkillhalo · Post by **roadkillhalo** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:38 pm

does adobe photoshop 7.0 work with the plugin. Because know im getting an error and it cant open the dds file.

roadkillhalo · Post by **roadkillhalo** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:15 pm

ok now i got it to work but i cant see the picture when i open it in photoshop
anyone know what i sould do

dazzajay · Post by **dazzajay** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:16 pm

i only use Photoshop 7.0 cos the CS versions are crap.... if you cant open the images properly, you need the latest Nvidia DDS plugin... i found mine at www.nvidia.com

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roadkillhalo · Post by **roadkillhalo** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:26 pm

Ok im stumped iv put the new plugin in and i never see the image. When i open it in photoshop nothing is there. its just a plain document. When i am exctracting the bitm from ch2r i never see a picture in the preview and when i go to ectract i get the error message saying cant exctract because of null somthing. So i did what you said and continued but nothing is changing. If you have any ideas on what i could be doing wrong plz help.

dazzajay · Post by **dazzajay** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:26 pm

did you extract Warthog_Standard_bump.bitm?

because thats just a bump map.... and only shows up in the alpha channel...

you need Warthog_standard.bitm

roadkillhalo · Post by **roadkillhalo** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:14 pm

I extracted it as a dss and the 2 things that end in 2/3 and i see nothing when i open it in photoshop