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xxteakxx
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_ 		3. September 2006 @ 20:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I like skinning the levels with paint, but the range is so limited. photoshop looks really professional, but the trial for it ran out for me and the link to download it is broken, Are there any free programs that are like photoshop? (besides gimp) (Hate gimp)
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frkydkybb
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_ 		3. September 2006 @ 20:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I think I just went to photoshops main site to get it. There should be a free version of it on there. If not Google it. Google can pretty much find anything except a free downloadable version of Final Fantasy VII for the PC. Take that Bill Gates.
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FuZ3
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_ 		4. September 2006 @ 03:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I think you can just re-install Photoshop and it will work fine.
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frkydkybb
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_ 		6. September 2006 @ 12:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ok well back to my original thoughts. How do I get other people to see the cool stuff that I do. Like I said before I have one map were people actually see a scarab moving arround, but its just a ghost that the modders can drive. No is this becuase somehow they injected an object into the map and somewere gave the ghost a dependency for it. Although wouldn't that make the modder see the scarab as well. If anybody as any input that would be great.
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SwordsG
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_ 		14. September 2006 @ 13:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
it comes up in the raw data screen
for the same map as this tutor

There is no raw data editor for this tag
and a white box with no picture in it

what am i doing wrong?
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FuZ3
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_ 		14. September 2006 @ 16:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@frkydkybb
No. Just the non-modders can see it. There is no injecting involved in the drivable scarab.

@SwordsG
What are you talking about?
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xxteakxx
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_ 		14. September 2006 @ 17:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I just realized that DxtBmp can send it to any editor so you don't need a dds plugin or anything :D
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frkydkybb
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_ 		15. September 2006 @ 02:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@Fuz3 Exactly thats what I want to do I want to get non-modders to see crazy shit like that but i dont know how.

@SwordsG check to see if the shared.map and the mainmenue.map files are in the same directory as the map you're edditing.
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frkydkybb
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_ 		15. September 2006 @ 02:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
and yea basicaly the only reason you need the dds plugins is for when you're using photoshop instead of DxtBmp.
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FuZ3
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_ 		15. September 2006 @ 11:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@frkydkybb
Most mods, unlike the scarab one, only the modder can see. But the drivable scarab mod is just for non-modders.
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SwordsG
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_ 		15. September 2006 @ 14:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i got them all in the folder
when i try to extract the skin thers nothing?
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FuZ3
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_ 		16. September 2006 @ 03:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@SwordsG
Explain yourself. Make sure your replies are percise and make sense. What do you have in a folder?
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SwordsG
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_ 		16. September 2006 @ 03:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i have all the maps from halo 2 in one folder
every one of them
but when i try to do this tutor on dothalo
i get problems

basicly
i go to tags [bitm]
then
scenarios\bitmaps\multi\deltatap\deltatap_cliffs
i open the raw data editor
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8472/4sr6.jpg
but theres no image to extract
nothing just white instead no skin?

so i cant extract the bitmap
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FuZ3
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_ 		16. September 2006 @ 03:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@SwordsG
I know what your problem is, lol. Just download the DotHalo I provided you with. You may think it's the same but it really isn't.
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SwordsG
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_ 		16. September 2006 @ 09:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok i fixed it
i think it was dothalo there same version but diffent plugins

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FuZ3
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_ 		16. September 2006 @ 12:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@SwordsG
Woah! Your probably right. I never even thought that it could have been the plugins. Gosh I'm dumb.
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SwordsG
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_ 		16. September 2006 @ 13:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
nah you ant dumb you got this tutor working
anyways i think all people should know theres a chance thats theres 2 vrsions of dot halo that are called the same
this could also lead to other problems in moding
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FuZ3
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_ 		16. September 2006 @ 14:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@SwordsG
Thanks!
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SwordsG
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_ 		17. September 2006 @ 11:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok i had my chance to day to do this
so i put halo 2 on hd
copyed the maps to pc
i then followed this tutor
it all went well untill puting back on xbox
so i put it back on xbox i deleted every thing in x y and z
i then rebooted run game picked map
it then says waiting for map to load for all players
something like that

then it stoped and said
failed to load
what did i do wrong i followed and done it all like this tutor but it just dint load
i tryed seveal times

now my x y z have no files
but when i play halo 2 from hd it rembers the the last map i picked as if the files are still there
so i cant see the files in x y or z ?
and cant get level to load with my golden warhog skin i made?
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FuZ3
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_ 		17. September 2006 @ 14:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@SwordsG
Make sure instead of resigning maps you fix their encryption.
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frkydkybb
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_ 		17. September 2006 @ 21:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wow fuz i dont think sword knows sarcasm. Anyways yes do u know of any other mods that are like the scarab one or how to do them. Cuz i know wat ur saying with the non modders can see that one but usualy only modders see the different stuff, and thats exactly wat i want to do when i mod i want to make it so non modders see it. without skinning the sentinal beam. its obviusly possible in some way to get a non modder to see something. they do it with the scarab. all i want to know is how they did it.
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SwordsG
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_ 		18. September 2006 @ 05:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i did fix their encryption
but it still ant working
plus i cant see what files are on x y and z now?
boy am i confused
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FuZ3
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_ 		18. September 2006 @ 12:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@frkydkybb
The only two mods I know of that non-modders can see are the Scarab and the sentinel beam. Other than that, I believe all other mods can only be seen by the modder.

@SwordsG
It depends what you are trying to skin. What is the bitmaps name? If they say scenarios then you just follow my tutorial but if they are anything else you have to use Halo2IB to internalize the bitmap.
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SwordsG
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_ 		19. September 2006 @ 13:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok i not worryed about that now just
how do i get the files in x y and z to show there not showing no nmore but they are they becuase halo 2 dectects them
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Coolio92
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_ 		19. September 2006 @ 18:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hey im kinda new at this whole thing and i was wondering nick if u could help me my xbl user is vV Master Vv and if u could i would really apreciate it alot my main question is do i have to have a regular xbox to do this cuz i have a 360 well reply bak plzz

Coolio
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