Skinning Tutorial by darkstorm995

Darkstorm995 · Post by **Darkstorm995** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 3:57 pm

Skinning tutorial by Darkstorm995

Heres how i did it:
First of all you need these tools:
Halo Map Tools
Photoshop
dds plugin for phtoshop(you can get it from nvidia's web site i dont have a link for it)
Halo pc
1)First open up your halo map tools.Then open bloodgulch.
2)Go to bitmaps find the texture you want to edit and press save on the right side
3)Save it to the desktop.
4)open up your photoshop go to open,open up the texture.
5)Do your changes then go to save as .Save it as a dds file.
6)Go to halo map tools click on inject find where you saved your textured dds file and press open.
7)Press update on the top right corner close you halo map tools and you have your texture,

I just told you how i do it,I had no tutorials on it so I came up with it my self.Don't forget to save it as dxt 1 when the save screen comes out.

Hope this helps

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:14 pm

THIS WAS DAN'S FIRST POST. REMEMBER IT WELL.

I beleive you forgot the "save using existing Mipmaps" part when you change it to DXT1, but maybe only I do that.

Darkstorm995 · Post by **Darkstorm995** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:21 pm

oh sorry i must have forgot thanx

raz0r · Post by **raz0r** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:37 pm

how formal of u... lol... maybe take 30 seconds and go into detail for the n00bs out there that dont know jack shit

Darkstorm995 · Post by **Darkstorm995** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:39 pm

lol so what do you guys think is it good

jce108 · Post by **jce108** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 6:39 pm

well i havn't ever skinned before but i know alot about computers but i got all of your tutorail except the dxt 1 wut is that about?

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 6:42 pm

Basically A DDS can be saved as DXT1 2 or 3. Halo likes to have DXT1. Its just a format of DDS'.

Juggalo 420 · Post by **Juggalo 420** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 12:55 am

What versoin of photoshop do you need? I got version 6.0

Ang88 · Post by **Ang88** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 3:51 pm

could you post a link to the plugin your talking about, other than that it seems good

raz0r · Post by **raz0r** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 5:20 pm

http://www.halomods.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=480

Darkstorm995 · Post by **Darkstorm995** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 5:24 pm

http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/plan ... ld/dds.zip

Deadly_Shadow · Post by **Deadly_Shadow** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 5:30 pm

I've done skinning with normal textures in game but how do you import your own?

Darkstorm995 · Post by **Darkstorm995** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 6:12 pm

what do you mean by normal textures the ones you get from the game

Deadly_Shadow · Post by **Deadly_Shadow** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 6:30 pm

Yea, like active camo, jackal sheild, ect...

Darkstorm995 · Post by **Darkstorm995** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 12:12 pm

ohh follow mt tutorial thats what its about

Deadly_Shadow · Post by **Deadly_Shadow** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 1:18 pm

Oh ya, sorry, I must have been really sleepy or sumtin to not have read the topic starters post.

Darkstorm995 · Post by **Darkstorm995** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 1:19 pm

lol i hope the tutorial helps

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