Creating a Custom Muzzle Flash Bitmap

Halo Gradients GRD File

This tutorial is how to create a custom muzzle flash, or anything else that can be applied to this.

Step 1:
Download this base picture for the tutorial, or make your own that is similar.
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...orial/base.png

And download this gradient map.
http://files.filefront.com/Tutorial+.../fileinfo.html
It will be used in this tutorial

Step 2:
Open up the gradient in a Photoshop
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...rial/part1.png

Step 3:
Go to Images>Adjustments>Gradient Map...
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...rial/part2.png

Step 4:
Click on the gradient bar
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...rial/part3.png

Step 5:
You will see this:
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...rial/part3.png

Click on the [Load...] button.
And load in the GRD file you downloaded.
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...loadinggrd.png

Step 6:
It will come up with this:
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...rial/part4.png

Step 7:
Congratulations, you created a muzzle flash bitmap based off of the Halo 3 Plasma Rifle's Muzzle Flash.
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...rial/part5.png


You can make other gradients, to create different styles of muzzle flashes. Also other cloudy/puffy shapes can make it look different in shape.

And maybe you should show how to get this in game considering someone (me) would like to know how.. please.

Yeah I thought this was going to be ingame too.

This doesn't really show how to create a CUSTOM muzzle flash. This just shows how to take elements that you made (or not) and put them together. Like the two posts above me said, it doesn't even show how to get the thing in game. Not much of a tutorial.

Im working on it :V

I will try to update constantly with new halo gradients, all in the same GRD file.

http://files.filefront.com/Halogrd/;.../fileinfo.html

I will release a tutorial on getting it ingame, soon.