H2 - Easy - How To Edit H2 Lightmaps for Noobs

Gabs · Post by **Gabs** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:27 am

Here a tutorial that i wrote up for editing lightmaps. Now go on and make some sweet mods! If there and any questions about the tut, ask here, and some feedback please

Edit- I have simplified the tutorial in a few steps, so its now abit easier to understand.

Spammy · Post by **Spammy** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:11 am

Awesomeness

madmodder15 · Post by **madmodder15** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:22 pm

can anybody tell me what programs allow you to edit .dds files.

Aequitas · Post by **Aequitas** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:24 pm

I use Photoshop with the nVidia DDS plug-in.

Beast96 · Post by **Beast96** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:25 pm

photoshop but u need the plugin which is in the utilites section

Gabs did u ever figure out how to turn on the flashlights and warthog headlights

Dead XXX Matt · Post by **Dead XXX Matt** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:27 pm

sweet.. even if i cant mod xbox

Stunna_X · Post by **Stunna_X** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:25 pm

man it took me forever to learn this in halo1.. but this is a good tut for anyone who wants to learn.

GodzSF131 · Post by **GodzSF131** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:46 pm

Awesome tut, you told me it wouldn't be out by today, but it is. Thanks a ton.

emerica6708 · Post by **emerica6708** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 4:47 pm

i tryed to do it to zanzabar and it said "the specified search string was not found" when i did the replace search in hex workshop are those only for burial mounds and if so what are the other ones?

GodzSF131 · Post by **GodzSF131** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:01 pm

I just did it for zanzibar. You probally didn't start at the top. Also, you need to "Replace all". You should fix that gabs, all instances of that need to be replaced to work.

Gabs · Post by **Gabs** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:14 pm

Do the meta injecting of the changed formats with ADI. CH2R always seems to give me errors. Oh, you can just use Paint to make the textures, then download "The Compressonator" and convert it to DXT.

emerica6708 · Post by **emerica6708** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:22 pm

i have no option on to start at top when i press ctrl+H it looks just like his screen shot and i clicked up on the directino instead of down and it did the same thing so i dont know whats up and i dont have it were it says replace all instances either

Gabs · Post by **Gabs** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:32 pm

Get HexWorkshop then. Thats what i was using.

emerica6708 · Post by **emerica6708** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:12 pm

ok sry i was extracting the bitmap instead of the .meta file its working now but one thing THIS TAKES SO FREAKING LONG TO EXTRACT THEN PAINT THEN SAVE THEN INJECT THE BITMAPS theres 112 of them for zanzabar and it takes a while or am i being a noob and i dont have to do all those if not how do i do it faster??

Gabs · Post by **Gabs** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:28 pm

Just create 1 for each size.

sir salami · Post by **sir salami** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 9:27 pm

ok im a major noob at this so could u give me some info on where 2 get a halo 2 map, a hex editor(a good 1), and what a good texture editing program and where it is i know it noobish and lazy but i dont know where 2 find em

emerica6708 · Post by **emerica6708** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:13 pm

get photo shop with a .ddsp plugin u can get the plug in in the resorces section of this forum u can use H2edit or ch2r to get the bitmap u get the halo2 map off the xbox hard drive under games/halo2/maps then find w/e map u want and put it on comp

swese44 · Post by **swese44** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 2:04 am

Ok cool. This is basically the same process I used to do the new lightmaps in Hangem In Hell (which helped that mod kick a lot more ass by the way. I had known this process of changing the bitmap DXT type, but didn't realize I could do it for light maps until thinkreddie told me it was probly possible).

I haven't tried this for Halo 2 yet, but from the tutorial it looks like the images get garbled pretty bad. I'm assuming this is because they are an unknown image type, but if SW IronForge or XIU get it figured out then we can probably get the lightmaps without so much distortion. Which means that as of now we can basically only make a level's lightmap one shade of darkness (like the original lightmap tutorial by what's his name-can't remember at the moment).

Spar13 · Post by **Spar13** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 2:00 pm

NoobTacular!!!

XIU · Post by **XIU** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:46 am

swese44 wrote:Ok cool. This is basically the same process I used to do the new lightmaps in Hangem In Hell (which helped that mod kick a lot more *** by the way. I had known this process of changing the bitmap DXT type, but didn't realize I could do it for light maps until thinkreddie told me it was probly possible).

I haven't tried this for Halo 2 yet, but from the tutorial it looks like the images get garbled pretty bad. I'm assuming this is because they are an unknown image type, but if SW IronForge or XIU get it figured out then we can probably get the lightmaps without so much distortion. Which means that as of now we can basically only make a level's lightmap one shade of darkness (like the original lightmap tutorial by what's his name-can't remember at the moment).

yea i thought IF mentioned something about it in his white paper, havent had much coding time lately

but ill add them whenever i can

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