Help with PPFs, Skinning, and AI

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Help with PPFs, Skinning, and AI

Post by Seki Ryuu »

ok.....i have no clue how to apply a ppf file after i downloaded it....and i have ppf-o-matic

i want to find out if theres a way to skin without using photoshop, and if i do use photoshop, i tried the dds thing and it didnt work....

i want to know how to make AI....

and i also want to know how to turn maps into day or night or change the weather or whatever u can do with the environment.
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Post by HoboRockAssassin »

1-u take the map that u will apply the ppf to and open it in the top box of the ppf-omatic and then the actual ppf in the lower box
2-there r other programs u can use but i dont kno them cuz i use photoshop, u need a .dds plugin for photoshop if ur gonna skin
3-use the search there r a cuple of tutorials on making AI and if u dont kno how to skin or apply PPF u suggest not tryin to do this yet becuz its extremely long
4-u have to swap textures and stuff in SE i think
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Post by Retro_Boy »

There is a PPF tutorial in one of the forums, I suggest reading it.

I dont know about skinning though.
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Post by Seki Ryuu »

ok, i figured out the skinning...umm.....how do u put in a pic, all i get is something in []

3 more things:

1) i tried to inject a new scenery thing, and a pop up said that the file being injected was too small and HMT would resize it, then it said that the file had to be in DXT1.......but its already in DXT1

2) im trying to make a 'runway' with beacon lights on death island, but i cant seem to get the line of lights strait....is there anything that can help make them strait

3) in SparkEdit, under the models tab, there are a bunch of scenery and vehicles and ammo that arent in the map.....is there a way u can get those in the map[/img]
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Post by Seki Ryuu »

am i the only one who saw [/img] at the end of my sentence?
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Post by Seki Ryuu »

ok, nvm the scenery problem: turns out it needed to be DXT3
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Post by Seki Ryuu »

my first skin:


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Post by Duffman »

it's kinda simple...
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Post by Seki Ryuu »

well i just started....but anyway...the most complicated skin i can think of is forest camo or something.....or covering the whole vehicle with a pic
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Post by Seki Ryuu »

oookaaay.....umm.....i want to do a skin of the tank and both hogs, but the pic is way too confusing......on the hogs the background its the same color as the hog, so i cant tell which peice is which, or where the outline is....with the tank....its just a scrambled mess.....................................................how do u do it?!
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