Flaming Contrails

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:07 am

im sorry if this question has been asked, but ill ask it anway.
1) Is there a way to make the banshee have a flaim contrail when its in the air?
2) Is it possible to have the sniper rifle bullet have a flame contrail?
3) Is it possible to make the master chief walk and make flames as he walks?

If anyone has answers to these questions please tell me.
TYVM

-Tom

inferno · Post by **inferno** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:03 pm

flameing contrail tut.

- open the map in HHT

- in HHT goto the "cont" tag and select rocket launcher contrail. find the bitmaps related too smoke and swap them for the defoliant bitmaps for the flamethrower. this will make flames come out of the rockets contrail.

- open the map in HMT

- swap the sniper and banshee contrails for the Rocket launcher contrail.

- hit save and done!

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:09 pm

ok, on the HMT part do u mean swap the meta's? becuase i dont think i did that and it didnt work. Also on the HHT part i did swap bitm: then the Cloud Smoke or something and that did it, but it when i tried to swap meta's it wont show fire for contrails. so anymore advice would be greatly appreciated.

-Tom

inferno · Post by **inferno** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:12 pm

yes swap the meta's.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:20 pm

ok, whats the exact bitmap i swap? because i dont see flamethrower defoilent under bitmap, i only see that under particl system.

inferno · Post by **inferno** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:29 pm

i dont know what its called exactly ill check though..

*minute later*

i think its

weapons\flamethower\cloud fire

not totally sure but im 99%

fishface617 · Post by **fishface617** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:30 pm

dont swap the bitmap metas, swap the contrail meta in the [cont] tag.

inferno · Post by **inferno** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:31 pm

ya thats what i said...

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:32 pm

ok, im totally lost here, under HHT, you swap the bitmap of the the Rocket Exhaust and use Cloud Fire. i did that and the rocket produced a nice firey contrail. Then under HMT i do what? Becuase when i swapped the metas of the [Cont] tags it still didnt work.

inferno · Post by **inferno** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:35 pm

ok try this.

once you get the rocket contrail nice and firey goto the banshee vehi tag and swap teh cont tag that says vehicles\banshee\wingtip for the rocket\exhasst\ contrail and hit swap and then save.

maybe that will work

and for makeing flames as the mc walks.. not possible i think. unless you attatch flames to his feet in milkshape and make bitmaps

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:55 pm

ok i didnt get the fire right, it turns out that i had the rocket under particle system swapped with the flamethrower defoliant 3. So i swapped the bitmaps in HHT after i reset the effects of the rocket launcher in HMT, im not getting the firey effect. so if you or fishface could maybe demonste this with pictures or something that would be nice. im sorry im totally not getting this and/or not doing this right, but i need lots of help for things like this. Thank you for ur help.

inferno · Post by **inferno** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:08 pm

Lmao!

i dont think this is the result you wanted but ill show you what i got anyway.

i know i screwed something up there but ill work on it. curently i am being forced too do house work against my will.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:19 pm

huh picture isnt working, but i think i know what you got, is it like the contrail in like hundreds of little pictues of fire or some thing? like a 4xn in a long stream of pictures?

inferno · Post by **inferno** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:20 pm

yes

http://infernopyro.sitesled.com/rofl%20 ... 20fire.bmp

use that

im, workin g on a solution too prob check back later

inferno · Post by **inferno** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:41 pm

i think i found the solution

but you need the .dds file importer for gimp get that and post back and ill tell you how too do it.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:34 pm

hey i dont have it, but i do have photoshop CS2, and that had dds in it, so can i do that? wait nvm, i need gimp cus thats how its done, h/o

*few minutes*

i got gimp and dds importer

-Tom

inferno · Post by **inferno** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:40 pm

uhh foto shop works also. but anyway just import the bitmaps for the rocketlauncher contrail and edit them so they look like flames. the cloud fire bittmaps are a different size from the rocket ones thats why they were all messed up.

and if you do get taht too work can you upload em for me ? i would like that.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:45 pm

ok ima do that, but thats not exactly wat i was gonna do, i meant like the actual flame thrower defolaint, but ill have to see what i get.

-Tom

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:54 pm

ok i no im double posting, but how do u get the texture out? cus wen i did full batch extract and checked textures etc. i couldnt find a dds. Could u tell me where to find it or how to get it...wait nvm, do i have to import a new one through HHT?

inferno · Post by **inferno** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:04 pm

heres a tut

open HMT

open the map with the .dds you want too edit.

goto the bitmap tag

select the bitmap you want too edit

click the "save textrue" button
(this will save a .dds image)

edit the image in fotoshop

then hit inject texture and select the edited .dds image.

done