Hey guys

I'm sorry for asking this but I have asked a few people and no one was able to help me. Recently I got a new computer which will not allow me to run,the halo reach bitmap ripper, 'Ascension'.
I have been working on these halo reach Spartans (and have completely made the shaders myself from scratch apart from the cubemaps) and would like the detail maps extracted from reach that is used for the rubber and armor. Without these two bitmaps my shaders look bland and plastic so it would be awesome if you could help me :). I will credit you for helping me in the end :).

Thanks

From cheddars
Edited by Cheddars on Jan 8, 2012 at 05:43 AM

Dear Cheddars,

I have not played with 'Ascension' myself before, but what exactly happens when you attempt to run it? Have you tried going into the shortcuts and make it run in Windows XP mode, or Vista? That could possibly work.

Sincerely,
Higuy

I lol'd. yeah i did but for some reason it doesn't seem to want to work with me :(. The directory of the bitmaps in ascension are:
objects/bitmaps/detail_maps/Spartan_armor_detail
objects/bitmaps/detail_maps/rubber_detail
Edited by Cheddars on Jan 8, 2012 at 09:05 AM

Try viewing it as other formats like CXT
take a PrtScrn
put it into paint, crop it, resize, then edit color values.
OR USE HALO 3


E: Found Rubber; no Spartan

Rubber was ripped successfully
Edited by TauSigmaNova on Jan 8, 2012 at 10:42 AM

I was able to extract the Rubber detail, like I said, into ,tiff, but I couldnt even find the other kind.
All normals are CXT5 I think is called
But yeah, just do that, recolor manually using Photoshop/Program of choice

When I rip, I only rip the alpha. So I just add a black background, press it, and... what am I supposed to do then? The texture I end up with is so dark!

I tihnk you guys are doing it wrong, when I rip the textures they open up fine, even normals.

PrtScrn is bad btw.


Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Jan 8, 2012 at 03:47 PM

Samething for me, majority of the time
Only on some textures do I do that, like the Forge pieces

For some reason though when I click on things it says I need mainmenu map which is stuffed or something. Would you be able to send me the detail maps?. Thanks guys

I can't download the mainmenu.map because the download link is broken.

I went there but the campaign.map link is broken so I can't get a lot of the retail bitmaps..

Multiplayer maps

I went there but that's the one that's broken.

Worked for me.

oops just realised that these are the right ones. xlzqwerty would you be able to extract these for me please?

Unfortunately my ascension could not extract the rubber detail map. It could only get the metal_detail and the rubber bump. I suggest you just greyscale the rubber bump to replace the inextractable bitmap

ok thats fine. it would be awesome if you could send those to me. thanks man :).

http://www.mediafire.com/?uvw43hyb9cpgygh


Spartan Rubber Detail map in .tiff format.
Enjoy.

thanks man. still i need the metal detail map. maybe when your online qwerty would you please be able to give it to me?