The UI Redone.

Loor · Post by **Loor** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:24 am

I have officially got bored of the old UI.
I think it could do with a makeover.

I know this has been done if FTW, etc.
But i want something different.

I was thinking a purple makeover, to take after the convient, but i can't even seem to get the halo logo changed. It comes out all corrupted.

And i plan to change almost everything. Including gametype selections, map, backgrounds, map in the background to maybe the Truth and Reconciliation. (I will need help with this.)

And I plan to do it all on a mac.

For now, i need some help. When i go to inject a texture in HMT, it wont allow me to drag any .dds files onto the well. .jpg will work, but that comes out corrupted.
Any suggestions?

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:40 pm

Truth and reconcilliation background has been done (conure, CE>PC)
When skinning the logo, make sure you save as DXT 5. Then maybe convert to jpg? Not sure how skinning is on mac. Well, good luck, and Pepsi released a UI editing tutorial in the tutorials section, and it uses eschaton, so lucky you. Check the tutorials section.

MoDFox · Post by **MoDFox** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:57 pm

To make your jpg into a DDS use SquishDDS

Loor · Post by **Loor** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:14 pm

And yes, i saw the tutorial. But it doesn't seem to work for the mac version. They never really do..

DeadHamster · Post by **DeadHamster** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:13 pm

I have a solution: Buy a PC.

I can't really provide much help. Hopefully someone on a Mac will read this topic.

Mac should really have it's own modding discussion forum.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:28 pm

there is a tutorial done by "macsforever" on making the UI a bit more interesting.

Altimit01 · Post by **Altimit01** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:42 pm

If you want to use .dds files, you can use the inject texture button. The extract/inject buttons on hmt use .dds while the export/import buttons rely on common image formats like jpg, gif, png and the like. So just press inject texture and select your .dds and it should do the same thing as the HMTv3.5 version sans having the EOF option.

InvaderVeex · Post by **InvaderVeex** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:18 pm

I've made a completely new Truth + Recon UI...only in CE as of the moment.

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:15 pm

For now, i need some help. When i go to inject a texture in HMT, it wont allow me to drag any .dds files onto the well.

Whats well?

Altimit01 · Post by **Altimit01** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:31 pm

Image well.

I also highlighted what you should be using to inject .dds files.

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guysullavin · Post by **guysullavin** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:06 pm

all i can say is, that you work with bitms and it might be the ligh tag that you might change a bit.