Making A Health Bar
Editing the Health Bar is the easiest modification you can do. For this, you need Paint.net or any other Image editor that supports transparency (Not MSPaint!) and PakScape. Get these here.
Clean Your Work Space!
First things first: Clean your desktop! Here is mine! (I suggest you also listen to music while you are making a health bar)
Making A Directory
Medal of Honor finds your mod by its directory. Don't be frightened by making one. =P It is just a folder.
Make a new folder on your desktop, name it "textures" (It MUST have no capitals, also without quotation marks).
Inside that folder, make another folder called "hud" (Same rules apply as above).
Make a new folder on your desktop, name it "textures" (It MUST have no capitals, also without quotation marks).
Inside that folder, make another folder called "hud" (Same rules apply as above).
Getting The Needed Files
Then open your MOHAA/main file (Usually found here: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\MOHAA\main)
Now drag the Pak1.pk3 file onto the PakScape window. You should notice that it has a folder in it called "textures".
Oh gosh! Can you figure out where this is going? =) Yep, you guessed it! The next folder
is hud. Open that and find these files: healthback.tga, heathmeter.tga and healthmeteflash.tga and put them
into the "hud" folder you made earlier. You can now close PakScape if you wish, but we will be using it again in
a few minutes.
Now drag the Pak1.pk3 file onto the PakScape window. You should notice that it has a folder in it called "textures".
Oh gosh! Can you figure out where this is going? =) Yep, you guessed it! The next folder
is hud. Open that and find these files: healthback.tga, heathmeter.tga and healthmeteflash.tga and put them
into the "hud" folder you made earlier. You can now close PakScape if you wish, but we will be using it again in
a few minutes.
Being Artistic
Now here is the fun part. You get to be an artist of your own taste!
If you are using Paint.net, then you can just double-click the .tga file to edit it. The file names are really self
explanatory. I wouldn't come up with something that has already been created, be imaginative!
Here is what I came up with:
If you are using Paint.net, then you can just double-click the .tga file to edit it. The file names are really self
explanatory. I wouldn't come up with something that has already been created, be imaginative!
Here is what I came up with:
Repacking And Testing
This is the final step.
Now, open PakScape if you closed it. Hit Ctrl + N and put the "texture" folder with the "hud" folder inside and
with the three files in that. It should look like this:
Now, open PakScape if you closed it. Hit Ctrl + N and put the "texture" folder with the "hud" folder inside and
with the three files in that. It should look like this:
Now you can hit Ctrl + S to save. Name it ZzZz_HB.pk3 select .pk3 from the drop down menu. Save it to
your desktop, then put it in C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\MOHAA\main folder and test it!
Here is my result:
your desktop, then put it in C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\MOHAA\main folder and test it!
Here is my result:
Download Mine
Need a reference? Download mine to look off of (Or use!).