need to know how to make reticles on mac

[timmy42]

it doesn't suck... eschaton is just easier to use and better to use for mac users...

[Altimit01]

HMT mac can only do some d-swapping, it perfects models during PMI after their injected and does bitmaps. That's about it. How do we know a model or bitmap was injected correctly? Because HMT then crashes if you try to do anything else. Missing most of the usefulness of the PC version. But that's neither here nor there as the issue is bitmaps. HMT doesn't import for that format which means DDS. Which means no fun but doable.

[thinkreddie]

Just change the stored format of the bitmap, and save/import it as DXT4/5 -- it's more reliable, and HMT fubars some of the bitmap formats that aren't DXT.
I believe Allister did a good job of explaining how to convert it: http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=8558

[Altimit01]

That would indeed work. Although IIRC, you have to find which image out of the meta data you're working with since I think they can store multiple formats per bitm meta. Also hoping that the DXT compresses to something as small as the original filesize but that's probable.

So to recap for those playing along with hex editors:
(basically a reflexive)
Bitm tag + 0x60: image count
Bitm tag + 0x64: offset to first image (subtract magic)
Image chunk size: 0x30
Bitm tag + offset to first image + (desired image-1 * 0x30): offset to chunk
offset to chunk + 0xC: image format

Format chart:

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A8		0x00
Y8		0x01
AY8		0x02
A8Y8		0x03
R5G6B5		0x06
A1R5G5B5	0x08
A4R4G4B4	0x09
X8R8G8B8	0x0A
A8R8G8B8	0x0B
DXT1		0x0E
DXT2AND3	0x0F
DXT4AND5	0x10
P8		0x11