.::How to Edit the Mainmenu::.

[Rogue Modder]

.::How to Edit the Mainmenu::.

By Call Me Alexx

 

Applications:

Alteration

For the latest Plugins

 

Thanks To:

- DeToX (XeNoN.7)

- DarkShallFall

 

Note:

This is a bitch to do if you don't have a Development Kid in order to Poke the Values in Real Time.

 

Stage 1: (The Optional Stage

Go to sefc and open the tag named "levels\ui\mainmenu\sky\ui". Then go to Editor->Meta Editor. Now Click Options->Show Invisibles. Scroll down until you find; Saturation, Thermal Feather, Brightness, Darkness, Feather Radius, Colour: R, Colour: G, Colour: B.

 

Change them to;

Saturation: 0.1

Thermal Feather: 0.5

Brightness: 0.2

Darkness: 1

Feather Radius: 0.1

Colour: R: 1

Colour: G: 1

Colour: B: 1

 

Poke and Save.

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7682/22498325.jpg

 

 

Stage 2:

Time to move the logo of Halo and Bungie. Go to scn3 and select the tag "ui\halox\main_menu\main_menu". Now change the tag box in Unknown 1 to "1: unknown 1 chunk", then scroll down to widget. This has 2 chunks, one is the Halo 3/ODST logo the other is the Bungie logo.

 

Y Offset is up/down the screen. X Offset is left/right on the screen. Y Scale is the scale of how tall the object is, X Scale is the scale of how wide it is.

 

Now just play around with the numbers, I made this;

http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/7977/33150037.jpg

 

Stage 3:

Now to move the box's that the text is in. So stay in scn3, and stay in "ui\halox\main_menu\main_menu". Now Select "0: unknown 1 chunk", now in Widget, same apply's for the X, Y Offset/Scale. Also look at Blending, you can achieve some cool effects with that. I made this from playing around with Blending and offsets.

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9057/38347559.jpg

 

Stage 4:

Now to Move/Edit the Text. Go to skn3 "ui\halox\main_menu\main_menu_list", and in the Text Chunk, It will have X/Y Offset/Scale. Same as with the Step 2-3 just move them around. Now then go to the Bitmap block and i moved the X offset to make it look good.

 

Swap the bitm in the Bitmap chunk to swap the bitmap of the orange bar. With moving the text, bar and bitmap bar, I made this;

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/1641/63838066.jpg

 

Stage 5:

Now we have that Settings and Friends bar. Time to move i think. Go to bkey and select either "ui\halox\main_menu\main_menu_offline" for the offline buttons or "ui\halox\main_menu\main_menu_online" for the online buttons. Then edit the X/Y Offset to move it to the desired place.

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/4186/64781149.jpg

 

Stage 6:

Now, swapping background lobbies. Go into scnr, and scroll down to "Scrips". Chunk 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53 are the backgrounds, and the "Root Expression Index" s the number you swap.

 

Mainmenu Background: -297858356

Campaign Background: -292680933

Matchmaking Background: -287437973

Custom Games Background: -282260550

Forge Background: -276100072

Theater Background: -270332816

 

Switch them around as you please.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/9489/96918030.jpg

 

 

Afternote:

These are just some basics to help you guys, look around and explore, post what you discover/do. I'm sure the community wants to see pictures . This works for ODST aswell.

 

Before and After - Halo 3

- http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/1480/41866691.jpg

 

- http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/9489/96918030.jpg

 

Before and After - Halo 3: ODST

- http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/5166/beforeed.jpg

 

- http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/710/afterzu.jpg

 

 

Please don't rip or repost this tutorial without my consent.

 

Thanks,

Alexx

[jmdalmighty]

Looks nice

[Kurrupted Ninja]

cool i have to try this on my jtag. and i can see real time would be painfull

[gruntmods]

cool i have to try this on my jtag. and i can see real time would be painfull

I can`t wait either.

[jmdalmighty]

Development kid?