[Godlike Assassin]

People would say why and call me a fag and whatever but modding ss is purely ok until you put it on your fileshare. As soon as that happens its your own problem not mine.

Anyway, ~-

Modding Halo 3 Screenshots

What you will need:
- Microsoft Paint

Ok, firstly, find your picture.
- Resize the blank paint picture to 1536x1152.

1) Create your screenshot in that size.

2) Save the image as a JPG.
Reason -Many other programs such as photoshop will use a compressed algorithm to save the image. Paint will just save it as the required raw jpg format, which is what is needed.

3) Open your screenshot you extracted using (XPlorer 360 / XPort) in hex workshop.

4) Go to the offset 0xE148. (This is the start of your JPG data)

5) Navigate to the bottom, and find "_eof". (This marks the end of the JPG data, [The line/point right before "_eof" is the end])

6) Open up your picture (You created in Paint) in hex workshop.

7) Copy the data from offset 0xE148 to the beginning of "_eof", and paste it in the original screenshot.

8) Go to your picture again, and look at the bottom of HxD where it shows how much you have selected. (Such as one of my pictures showed 0x2B868 which is roughly 286kb) (00 02 B8 68 from my picture) -- Copy those 4 bytes.

9) Go to offset 0xE144 of your screenshot.
This is the length of the picture data.

11) Paste your copied bytes (picture length) and Overwrite the data, not insert new data.

12) Go to offset 0xE10C, and Overwrite using the same bytes again. (00 02 B8 68 from my example)

13) Now add 0x10 to the offset (Which would turn 00 02 B8 68 INTO 00 02 B8 78) and write this over the 4 bytes at offset 0xE13D.

14) Finally, navigate to the very end of the file, and fix the NULL padding. Each 4kb block is exactly 0x1000 bytes in size, so null padding is simply * the file into a size that is a multiple of 0x1000.

(So if I had a file that was 0x1B628 bytes long before NULL padding, I could either fix it by 2 different ways depending on how much NULL padding there is already. If there is enough NULL padding already to round it down to 0x1B000, then that would be preferred. However if there is not, you must add NULL bytes (0x00) until it rounds up to 0x1C000.)

** Once this is done, simply rehash and resign. **

Please Note: The file must still be within the same 4kb area as the original picture. So if my original screenshot was 116kb in size, and I made one that is 120kb in size, it would not work. After fixing the null padding, the screenshot must be the same size as before.


~Credit to Snayke of HaloSource.net
~Posted by Dark Slipstream

[Quitter]

How are you suppost to find the offset.. I'm sorry but i'm confused if I rated that I would rate it a 3/10 because I had trouble understanding what was going on... No offense.

[I AM TNT]

Quitter, on Sep 29 2008, 11:13 PM, said:

How are you suppost to find the offset.. I'm sorry but i'm confused if I rated that I would rate it a 3/10 because I had trouble understanding what was going on... No offense.

you do know he didn't make this right?

Anyway, the offset are the numbers and letters you should see on the left of the page whenever you open something in a hex editor. Then simply go to the one(s) he had mentioned.

[Godlike Assassin]

If you don't know how to search for a simple offset, thats one more reason to the major list of reasons why you shouldn't be doing this.

Hit Ctrl+F

[Quitter]

Godlike Assassin, on Sep 30 2008, 01:41 AM, said:

If you don't know how to search for a simple offset, thats one more reason to the major list of reasons why you shouldn't be doing this.

Hit Ctrl+F

No I know how to use the search feature but when I search it, it goes to like every letter it says everything is the offset that's there.

[Godlike Assassin]

Then search for _eof

[Will Dignazio]

cool

[I AM TNT]

By any chance is there a possibility of putting animated pictures in?

[Godlike Assassin]

No, sorry.
Its due to the file types of the image, and when you hex edit a .gif - It doesn't work.

This post has been edited by Godlike Assassin: 04 October 2008 - 06:32 AM

[I AM TNT]

ok, lol

would have been wicked though... XD

[USSR Sniper 01]

I AM TNT, on Oct 4 2008, 10:21 AM, said:

ok, lol

would have been wicked though... XD

There are jpeg images that have animation in them.

[Godlike Assassin]

Orly?
Can have link?

[Detchro]

Very sorry for the bump

Is there a program that can extract the image, send to paint, let me edit (I would usualy copy and paste and image over the original) and inject back to the screenshot?

I tried to follow the instruction, but I get lost at step 7. I go to the image, and there is no _eof, I can't find it no matter what. Until I can do this succesfully, it's more useless than glueing a paper to my tv to look like a screenshot.

[The Quief Before Christmas]

Blood Demon, on Mar 15 2009, 09:22 PM, said:

Very sorry for the bump

Is there a program that can extract the image, send to paint, let me edit (I would usualy copy and paste and image over the original) and inject back to the screenshot?

I tried to follow the instruction, but I get lost at step 7. I go to the image, and there is no _eof, I can't find it no matter what. Until I can do this succesfully, it's more useless than glueing a paper to my tv to look like a screenshot.

http://www.modhalo.n...showtopic=16575

[Necrofitzia]

someone should make a program like con edits v2 except with a built in picture editor and it nulls it for you... that would be so awesome

[TC AP0CALYPSE]

Thanks for the help man.... Iv'e been seeing pics online and always wondered how to do it....thanks to you i know.

[MrOxygene]

Realy usefull:) THx:P

[alpha]

Please don't bump really old threads.

[peeweehermen]

do u need a modded 360 to be able to do this?????

[Gruntlord6]

alpha, on 08 April 2010 - 02:10 AM, said:

Please don't bump really old threads.

peeweehermen, on 21 May 2010 - 11:41 AM, said:

do u need a modded 360 to be able to do this?????

No, its for retail.