Skinning - Where do I start?

Liberator · Post by **Liberator** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:45 pm

Im new to skinning. How do I get started? What program do I need and where can I find tutorials?

Lib

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:57 am

skinning what ?
player skins ?
weapon/model skins ?

lizardkid · Post by **lizardkid** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:39 am

Liberator · Post by **Liberator** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:06 am

PKM wrote:skinning what ?
player skins ?
weapon/model skins ?

oh yeah sorry

player skins

Liberator · Post by **Liberator** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:08 am

lizardkid wrote:tut

Thanks...but thats for paint shop pro? Never used it. I use Photoshop...

PKM · Post by **PKM** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:26 pm

for player skins, you'll need three basic programs:

pakscape (creates pk3 files)
text editor (for scripts, notepad works fine)
image editor (textures, any image editor will do as long as it opens .tga files)

hell, i use a freebe image editor called photoIT! 2002.

simple/basice skinning guide/tut i wrote a while back..
http://www.tazcook.com/modules.php?name ... topic&t=18

Salombo · Post by **Salombo** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:25 pm

Liberator wrote:
lizardkid wrote:tut
Thanks...but thats for paint shop pro? Never used it. I use Photoshop...

It's the best tut out there. If you know photoshop well enough ... it shouldn't matter if the tut is for paintshop or Gimp ( another good free image editing software ! )

lizardkid · Post by **lizardkid** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:29 pm

yeah most image editors have all the same basic functionalities, it's easy enough to port them around. Besides, the main difference between them are the higher level wizards and functions they have, which you won't use a lot in skinning.