[Tags] Reskinned Plasma Rifle

McJix · Post by **McJix** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:37 pm

You'll notice that the skin has a green hue, and the front "fangs" have a bright green glow. Unfortunatly, Sapien prevents you from adding new weapons, so this will have to replace your Plasma Rifle .bitmaps

To install:

Go to the Directory of C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo 2 Map Editor\tags\objects\weapons\rifle\plasma_rifle\bitmaps

Unzip the bitmaps into the folder, overwriting the current ones.

Since my Halo 2 is acting up, I couldn't get any in-game screens.

Dead Killa \ D · Post by **Dead Killa \ D** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:26 pm

the normal one is better, but hey, first skin!

Sgt.Peppers · Post by **Sgt.Peppers** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:34 pm

H2 Vista's first skin?

Neat.

halo0001 · Post by **halo0001** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:11 pm

how'd you do that

, i think i have an idea, did u make a new shader rename the shader created to be appropriate the changed the name to plasma_rifle_main and delete the orig? thats pretty cool if u did i personally wouldnt of thought of that till now

kibito87 · Post by **kibito87** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:54 pm

ew. I personally don't like it. I realize the screenshots are from a 3d modeling program but from the looks of it, I dun like. It's nice to see skinning taking off in h2vista though.

halo0001 · Post by **halo0001** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:25 pm

its not from 3ds its from sapien...

jordanimal · Post by **jordanimal** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:48 am

If you would explain to me how to exactly import the skin in Halo 2 Vista, I could actually do my first mod =P

killarzachary · Post by **killarzachary** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:15 am

It looks really blocky

McJix · Post by **McJix** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:42 am

It looks a lot better with Super lightmapping. It looks slightly fuzzy becuase the image is saved a a .jpg

Here, I'll write a tutorial on how to do it without any tools (which would be currently). The method is a little unorthodox, as you will never guess in a million years how I did it!

llama_juice · Post by **llama_juice** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:41 am

modded the shared.map?

cloned the current PR and replaced the texture?

McJix · Post by **McJix** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:44 am

llama_juice wrote:modded the shared.map?

cloned the current PR and replaced the texture?

I replaced the .bitmap
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
See my tutorial on how to do this.

llama_juice · Post by **llama_juice** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:49 am

Damn that million years went quick.

McJix · Post by **McJix** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:51 am

llama_juice wrote:Damn that million years went quick.

Lol, cuz I told ya'll. Have fun with the skinning. It was more the process that was hard to guess. Of course you have to swap out bitmaps.

CompKronos · Post by **CompKronos** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:29 am

hey if you copied the plasma rifle item collection file and copied the plasma rifle tag folder and edited the collection filt to use the custom plasma rifle then could you use the custom skin there so you have a regular plasma rifle then another new plasma rifle weapon so you could swap it in sapien? (phew)

BrainEater · Post by **BrainEater** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:10 pm

As by your join date I am guessing your new here. Welcome to Halomods!

However, please read the rules, as you made a Bump. Look at the post date to see if it is ok to post.

Now to answer your question...

No, as of now we cant edit weapons with the tools we have, it is not possible to edit item_collection or weapon tags. We cannot even make our own models! So with a copied plasma rifle item_collection tags, that wont make a difference.

T1xAnton · Post by **T1xAnton** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:28 pm

Looks good man!

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:26 pm

T1xAnton wrote:Looks good man!

HPDarkness · Post by **HPDarkness** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:47 pm

Sweet I like green.