Little basic skin tuto

Legend Posts : 4993

here is a quick tuto for a default model ( no teams ) :

1) Go in base, open assets0.pk3 with winrar/winzip/pakscape, then extract the models/players/***** folder of the skin you want to edit.
2) Go in base/assets0/models/players/******/ and rename ***** to the name of the skin you want to have. For the example we use mickey with chiss
3) Go in base/assets0/models/players/mickey/ and open the file model_default.skin with notepad. You should have this :

Spoiler:

On this file, the line commands tell the game what file ( its location ) is associated with what part of the model. So you want it to lead it to your folder, so you have to replace each chiss by mickey, the name of the folder :

hips,models/players/chiss/boots_hips.tga -> hips,models/players/mickey/boots_hips.tga

and you do that for each line ( DONT TOUCH AT THE STORMTOOPER/CAPS.TGA LINES !!!! )

When that is done you save your file.
then go back in mickey folder, and delete all files with _red or _blue ( to save room, and get the folder more clear ).

4) Now you edit your pics, with gimp or photoshop, what you have ( not paint ^^ ).

5) once that is done, you create a new archive file ( use pakscape, it's better : open pakscape, select new at top left Smile

), select pk3 type at bottom scroll list.
Go in base/assets0, and here select the folder models, copy it, and paste it in pakscape window. Then save in pakscape, with name mickey.pk3 ( DON'T FORGET THE .PK3 !!!! ), in your base folder.

6) Now go in game, and do in console :
model mickey/default

and you got your skin Smile

Legend Posts : 10648

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Sith Lord Posts : 1749

Nice

Jedi Knight Posts : 2697

If anyone needs help skinning I'll try to rip my face away from studying for a few minutes and help too. (:

Jedi Master Posts : 941

Well aju paint works too in skinning but it makes ur work alot complicated.. and u dont need to extract the files, u can just copy them to the desktop and edit them there and when u are finished u can drag em' to the packscape document and save it as a .pk3 and drag 'n drop it in ya basefolder and viola' u're done.

Legend Posts : 4993

did i ever say that paint doesn't work ? it's just that you don't have filters, don't have all effects and etc, it just makes an ugly skin.
And where do you copy the files from ? Can you be a bit more clear pls ? i don't really understand ...

Jedi Master Posts : 941

1. you seems to be very used with the PS programs but i can also make handy skins myself with paint, belive me it does work so relax would ya?

2. about the extracting thing. u can just simply mark the files u need and ctrl + c and ctrl + v in the directory u want em' in. no worries man Smile

Posts : 1143

maybe you could tell them how to do custom sounds to go with there skins or shaders?

Legend Posts : 4993

Boogieman wrote:: 1. you seems to be very used with the PS programs but i can also make handy skins myself with paint, belive me it does work so relax would ya?

2. about the extracting thing. u can just simply mark the files u need and ctrl + c and ctrl + v in the directory u want em' in. no worries man

I'm relax lol. I trust you for paint, but why not using grimp or photoshop (btw i do'nt use PS but gimp Razz

), if they can do much better things ?

And, for the pk3, yes you can do that also Smile

. it's just that i get used to it, so i showed my was of doing it.

Jedi Master Posts : 941

swiftY wrote:: maybe you could tell them how to do custom sounds to go with there skins or shaders?

I have good knowledge of creating custom sounds for player models and replacements with ingame soundtracks, but unfortunately I don't have any knowledge in shader work.

Jedi Master Posts : 941

Ajunta Pall wrote:

Boogieman wrote:: 1. you seems to be very used with the PS programs but i can also make handy skins myself with paint, belive me it does work so relax would ya?

2. about the extracting thing. u can just simply mark the files u need and ctrl + c and ctrl + v in the directory u want em' in. no worries man

I'm relax lol. I trust you for paint, but why not using grimp or photoshop (btw i do'nt use PS but gimp Razz

), if they can do much better things ?

And, for the pk3, yes you can do that also Smile

. it's just that i get used to it, so i showed my was of doing it.

Mate I were just statuing an example how paint would work for skins and it's handy if to edit the game logos and small textures on a player models torso,hood,trousers, etc. But I am using gimp 2.6 for editing textures. I barely using PS CS 4 or CS 2.

Legend Posts : 4993

then where is the issue ? Gimp is best ! Very Happy

Posts : 1143

i know little about shaders aswell but i have got them to work in my skins

Jedi Master Posts : 941

Yeah gimp is the best editing program in picture editing as I know. I learned to use it in 1 or 2 months and it feels so good to edit all the textures to easy.

Legend Posts : 4993

swiftY wrote:: i know little about shaders aswell but i have got them to work in my skins

Shaders is the hardest thing about modding in jk2 ^^. There are only a few mappers knowing well shaders, and so on for skinners / modelers. It's already goot to know a bit about them. Me i just suck with that lol.

Jedi Master Posts : 941

I heard the DARK clan has good modders and shader workers. They are also awesome at coding which is part of the modding work for a map. You know all the locations for a trigger, etc.

Posts : 1143

lol well the way i found out was from looking at other skins with shaders i copied the files from them and renamed it and edited it a little.

i tried looking for help with them but had no luck

Jedi Master Posts : 941

My old friends in JKII he learned how the shader work pretty fast. I still has no idea why it's needed for a skin?

Posts : 1143

They arnt needed from what i know but they can improve a skin dramatically

ever seen a skin with kinda like lightning going around the skin thats what a skin shader can do but there are many different effects which can be used i just dont know how

Legend Posts : 4993

to put glow effects, or others effects like burning ... Have you ever seen the dessan skin all in fire ? It's a shader.

You'll know how a shader works and how to make a good shader only when you'll know all that lol :

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gl ! ( don't say again that shaders are ez roflmao )

Jedi Master Posts : 941

Shaders for maps are very important. The recent editing I've done was about editing the textures and the .map files is connect with the .shader files isn't it?

Jedi Master Posts : 941

Thanks for the link man Razz

Legend Posts : 4993

rofl not at all, the .shader file is just the list of command lines which build your shader : pics / folders / properties

Posts : 1143

who said they was ez? and thanks for the link ill check it out might learn from it

Jedi Master Posts : 941

Oh so that's how the shaders are strucured?

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