http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpQEIR1AZLY
Start from 14:30.
The guy says to type tool bitmaps levels\beginner\bitmaps.
If you watch the whole video you understand. The "beginner" thing is just the name of his map. We just name it the name of the map we want. I did the gmax stuff but I am stuck on tool.

My problem is that tool says " 'tool' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. "
Can anyone help?

did you save your textures to data\levels\your_map\bitmaps as .tif ?
example:data\levels\test\tutorial\bitmaps\example_tutorial_ground.tif

did you copy cmd to your halo custom edition folder?
make sure that your tool command is something like this:
tool bitmaps levels\test\tutorial\bitmaps
"tutorial" is map that is in folder called "test"
Edited by afD2345 on Aug 12, 2011 at 03:47 AM

Watch this tutorial:
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2481
It should help you set up tool right so that you can type the command.

" did you save your textures to data\levels\your_map\bitmaps as .tif ?
example:data\levels\test\tutorial\bitmaps\example_tutorial_ground.tif

did you copy cmd to your halo custom edition folder?
make sure that your tool command is something like this:
tool bitmaps levels\test\tutorial\bitmaps
"tutorial" is map that is in folder called "test" "
I used the tutorial ground for my map. Yes it is a tiff file. I used the tool that the other persons tutorial showed. It still shows the same error.

tool wasn't recognized because the current path wasn't ...\program files\...\halo custom edition

personally I like making a batch file for tool commands, since the same command is usually repeated a few times till it's right
right click and make a new text document
rename as bitmaps.bat (confirm, yes, change type)
right-click & edit
and then make it something like

cd "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition"
tool.exe bitmaps levels\beginner\bitmaps
pause

Then you just run the batch file to run tool in CE's program folder

I don't get it.

"personally I like making a batch file for tool commands, since the same command is usually repeated a few times till it's right
right click and make a new text document
rename as bitmaps.bat (confirm, yes, change type)
right-click & edit"
Right click what? Right click tool? Also, What do I put inside the batch file?

sorry - right click the background of the folder where you want the batch file to be. I put it with the jms, but it don't matter.

the batch file gets the 3 lines of code - cd, tool, and pause

Can you make a video? I dont really understand fully

Just put those 3 lines in a text document. Save it somewhere handy. Change the extension from txt to bat, and launch the bat file. Thats it.

Yep im sure there's something wrong. The 1st and 3rd lines r working but the 2nd line says "tool is not recognized blah blah blah" again.

if your halo ce is installed elsewhere, change the first line to reflect the correct location
Take a look and see if tool.exe is in ce's program folder

Yeah my directory is C:\Program Files\Halo Custom Edition but it still says that error