Skin teacher lol

[champy]

Can like somone come and teach me to skin im kinda new to modding i know nothing what so ever about skinning i have what i want it to look like but IDK how to make my vision come true plz respond. thx

[Skrillaka]

Can like somone come and teach me to skin im kinda new to modding i know nothing what so ever about skinning i have what i want it to look like but IDK how to make my vision come true plz respond. thx

Do you have photoshop?
And what do you aim to do with skinning?

Be specific

[Eaton]

Can like somone come and teach me to skin im kinda new to modding i know nothing what so ever about skinning i have what i want it to look like but IDK how to make my vision come true plz respond. thx

I can teach you all you need to know, or you can look at this tutorial because this is the BEST way to skin: http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=66915

[kaywat89]

easiest way of skinning...

things you will need...

photoshop - recommended for good skinning
DDS plugin for photoshop - needed to make your DDS's (DXT1, DXT2 and 3, etc...)


Textures Pack - recomended to keep the skinning from looking like its not patternd...
http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.ph ... 44&t=75588


Prophet - easiest skinning program... fly around map click what u want to skin and inject/eject bitmap just dont inject BUMPMAPS, they dont really inject right with this program...
http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.ph ... 01&t=69628

Entity 1.6 UE - help you skin the rest of the stuff that prophet doesnt have to offer (Skies, Hogs, weapons, etc...) also is the easiest (and i think only) program available to get those BumpMaps injected

[theycallmechad]

I can teach you all you need to know, or you can look at this tutorial because this is the BEST way to skin: http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=66915

Best way for YOU, maybe. It's a great tutorial, but I won't touch a skin with Entity. Dothalo (with Ch2r a close second) is, in my opinion, the best skinning application.

Textures Pack - recomended to keep the skinning from looking like its not patternd...
http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.ph ... 44&t=75588

Why not just make your own seamless textures? I even wrote a tutorial on the subject, but few people seem to use it.


There's a LOT more to skinning than many of you think. Skinning is NOT simply injecting new textures and bump maps. That is only a PART of skinning. My suggestion: Try skinning shader by shader, not texture by texture. If the shader isn't right, find and inject one that'll work for you. Then you have only to edit the shader to suit your needs (including editing its bitmap, bump map, reflection map, and so on), replace the undesired shader for this one via a simple shader swap, and you're good to go. I also recommend using only 512x512 bitmaps in place of 256x256 bitmaps (unless you go all out and do the 1024x1024 textures with the DeToX app, though this can cause other problems).