EDITING LOADING AND BACKGROUND SCREENS
By Shakahn, member of the elite Jedi Secret Service

Editing JK's background screens is ridiculously easy, yet very few people  
done it, so I guess it is up to me to give back to the JK editing community
and tell you how it's done. Here we go...

Programs needed: 

Bmut
Conman
These can be downloaded for free at the JK Outpost 
(http://outpost.simplenet.com/JediKnight) or the Code Alliance
(http://www.ddarkjedi.com)
a BMP file editor(you can use Microsoft Paint, which is free with most PCs
that are able to run JK)

How to do it:

First of all, the files that control the way the loading screens look are
called BMs. You need to go into Conman and open the Res1hi GOB in the Resource file in the
JK directory. Click on bm. Extract the BM of your choice to a new directory 
(Bkbuildload.BM, Bkmain.BM, Bkloading.BM, Bkmulti.BM, and Bksetup.BM are a 
few good ones) and exit Conman. Then go into Bmut. Open up the BM that you 
extracted and convert it to a BMP file. Open it up with a BMP editor, and change it 
however you want. Then go back into Bmut and create a new BM. Click on the 
box that says Include Palette. Insert a converted BMP file and click Create BM.
When Bmut asks you what name to save your new BM under, type in the name of the 
original BM. When asked if you want to write over the existing BM, click
Yes. PRESTO! INSTANT NEW BACKGROUND SCREEN ART! But we are not quite done yet.
Go into the Resource folder in your JK directory and create a folder called 
ui. Inside that folder create a folder called BM. Put all your BMs in there
and launch JK as normal. If you didn't bungle something, you should see your
new screen art. If you don't see your new art, and you can't figure out what
went wrong, email me at pmanuel@worldnet.att.net and I will try to help you.