Skinning...

Sid

<div class="IPBDescription">Advice?</div> As you can see, I am not good at drawings, nor am I good at skinning.

Now, I know HOW TO skin, it's just that I don't have the tools TO SKIN. Is there any easy yet powerful tools (programms) out there to aid my skinning?

Thanks for your time,
-Sid

Delarosa

i use a combonation of photoshop and PSP.... both not quite *cough* you know *cough*.... but i'm a student, i can't even afford to THINK about being legal...

a free one is MSPAINT, and IrFanView, the second, you can't actually create things (no brushes or things like that) but it's got all the photoshop effects (if you ever want to use them)

Sid

I already got BOTH of them of of KaZaA <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> But the bad thing is, how am I supposed to edit with this colour format, and how do I do layers?

Wolf_Kahler

Warez is bad. Like it? Buy it.

In the meantime; <a href='http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%2Bphotoshop%2Btutorials&btnG=Google+Search' target='_blank'>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-...G=Google+Search</a>

Sid

Thanks wolf! Man, You're really handy <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

-Sid

PsionicMage

one thing a lot of new skinners dont realize is.... indexed color = bad...
Image>mode>RBG color...

Paint all u want

then switch it back to indexed color

image>mode>indexed color

and save it as an 8-bit bmp....

RBG lets u do so much more than indexed

TychoCelchuuu

Try The Gimp. It's a completely free, ultra powerful program for Linux, but you can also run it on a PC. Search The Gimp on Googel.

Maus

Ah yes - I've heard good things about the Gimp. Also, I thought PSP was free, in a kind of everlasting trial version way.

Delarosa

<!--QuoteBegin--PsionicMage+Feb 7 2003, 09:19 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (PsionicMage @ Feb 7 2003, 09:19 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> one thing a lot of new skinners dont realize is.... indexed color = bad...
Image>mode>RBG color...

Paint all u want

then switch it back to indexed color

image>mode>indexed color

and save it as an 8-bit bmp....

RBG lets u do so much more than indexed <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!!! lol, i downloaded PSP because i couldn't save as 8bit bmp... lol, now somone has gone and saved me the trouble....

Neptalid

It took me forever to find out the color mode thing, I spent a long time in the help file wondering if it was talking about bit depth per pixel or for the whole image. Then I figured it out somehow, would have been nice if when the 8-bit toggle was dimmed on the save dialogue, it gave some sort of hint...I dunno..why?

Oh yeah, and it didn't help that there is a black and white line-art mode called "bitmap."

Sid

Thanks guys <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Sid

Hows this for my first skin? (all I did was reskin the nose and add a gradius. Red nosed grenades for easy tracking.. well is it good for a first try?)

-Sid

Wolf_Kahler

Getting better. But it's "gradient."

Neptalid

The sad thing about the grenade nose, is that the mesh for it isn't continuous. So no 3-click perfect gradient tools <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

Sid

I fixed that problem. I made a gradient that got lighter at one side, and it was seriously messed-up looking. It would go from dark red to pure white and look really wierd, so I put the light part int he middle and it looks awesome! Here's the .mdl file if you wanna download it...