anyone good at editing paks?

[l0ckp1ck]

i downloaded "as_best pak a while ago and its a good pak, but i want to change the color of the background to all black with white stripes instead of the yellow orange if anyone is familiar with this pak

so say the texture i want to edit says yellow1_6.wal  what woulkd i need to put to make it black? cause i have no idea what i am doing

[[BTF] Reflex]

You would have to edit that texture,  basically draw it how you want it or use a find/replace or effect to change it in an editor.
I'm not so hot at that,  but some others here are 1337 pak editors.

You can do some visual tweaks in-game to make that orange look better.

Pics of what I mean on dm1.

 

[yahoo]

so say the texture i want to edit says yellow1_6.wal  what woulkd i need to put to make it black?

black 1_6.wal 

[Whirlingdervish]

You can use a program called Wally to paint the texture directly and save it as a .wal file. It will open .wal files and .pak files and it can save them for use with q2.

You can also copy/paste an image you want into the .wal file while it's open in wally, and save it with the new contents.
This is useful if you want to draw something in photoshop and import it into a .wal file. Just remember that standard .wal files have a limitted color palette and that the pink color that looks out of place in the corner of the palette is not really pink. Using that color will make a texture in q2 transparent.

I would recommend not editting stuff that is in your pak0.pak.
If you want to edit something from the stock .pak, copy the whole pak0.pak and rename it to a higher number, then edit the ones in the renamed copy so you don't break your original game files for good. (in case you want to undo it later it will be easy)

If you're just editting the ones in a 3rd party pak, do the same and save a backup elsewhere so you don't have to re-download the whole pak in case you mess it up.

Here's Wally (for windows):

http://dervish.tastyspleen.net/files/wally_155b.exe