A simple skinning tutorial

[frozenflames]

I've gotten tired of so many "how do u skin" questions, that i decided to make a tut. Here goes...

-Get Adobe Photoshop and HMT
-Get the .dds plugin for photoshop (http://www.halomods.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4192)
-Open up a map in HMT and go to the bitmaps tag
-Find the bitmap u want to edit and click "save texture"
-Open that file in Photoshop
-Edit it however u want
-When done, click save as(to keep an origonal incase u mess something up)
-Select .dds as the file type
-a .dds save menu shud come up, u need to select the same alpha channel as the orig picture(the alpha channel for a pic can b found right above the picture in HMT)
-Save it
-Go back into HMT and find the bitmap uve been working with
-Click "Inject Texture"
-Find the file u messed with in Photoshop and double click
-Save and Enjoy

I hope that this helps.

Edit--
Ive also seen ppl ask what u do with a .dds file.

-Extract it if it was in a .rar or .zip
-Open HMT
-Open a map
-open the bitmaps tag and find the bitmap u want to change
-Click inject texture
-Find ur .dds file and double click
- Save

[XFalloutX]

what do you do if you have Paint Shop Pro?

[frozenflames]

sry - i dont have paintshop pro. I'll look into it and update it later.

[athrman2002]

Uh...can u im me and we go through it step by step cause i don't get this at all.
My aim is athrman2003

[New Age]

arthrman... shutup

anyway, no you cannot with paintshop pro. as far as this tutorial goes, its one of 100000000 tutorials on how to skin. Waste of your time quite frankly

[maca_§]

arthrman... shutup

anyway, no you cannot with paintshop pro. as far as this tutorial goes, its one of 100000000 tutorials on how to skin. Waste of your time quite frankly

rather, but some skinning tutorials may be harder to understand than others. although skinning is fu**ing easy. and same with modelling.

[New Age]

actually i counter my own post... you can use paintshop pro.... just convert the .dds to a .jpeg and then reconvert it.

[athrman2002]

Dude don't be gay man its hard to get this i'm confused on this stuff, I'm not a computer nerd like u and know every god dam thing about computers...
Dam peeps are rude these days...

[paul_phil]

actually i counter my own post... you can use paintshop pro.... just convert the .dds to a .jpeg and then reconvert it.

PaintShop Pro can use the Adobe plugin's too. Just use the same DDS plugin your using for Photoshop in your 'PaintShop Pro/Plugins' folder and you can open and save just the same

In PSP 7 go to;
'File -> Preferences -> File Locations' and then the 'Plugins' tab,
should be similar for PSP8 I guess.

[TS_Poseidon]

i use paintshop pro and there is no reason to convert it. all you do is put the same plugin in the plugins folder and get a few dll's and it works just like photoshop same things happen when you save. if anyone needs help setting the psp way up aim me at TSPoseidon03 im on in the
afternoon-the night

[falcon]

hey guys im trying to get started on skinning ,so i downloaded the plugin fo ppp 8 and tried to download hmt but when i try to open it it comes up with an error ,can someone plz help me ?

[Azuma]

me too

[frozenflames]

wat prog gives wat error?

[Burnination]

did you guys download the windows .NET Framework? to use HMT