texturing shields

hi,

i was wondering how to make shields not quartered but halfed. i want to have an "Alpha" letter on my shields. how do i do that?

This would require you to re-map the shields in 3DS Max. You could then make the shield any way you wanted, provided there is room for it on the texture DDS file!

There is no way to do this with just a paint program though

Or you could choose a model which already have a halved shield.