This site needs help
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:59 pm
I am by no means, a newbie. I've visited this site off and on since around the release of HaloCE. I always thought of skinning as a really difficult thing to do, including all sorts of difficult stuff. A fellow modder friend showed me how (it was to easy...) and now I work on skins and stuff.
The thing that bothers me is that there are no 'helpers' around here. Most of the newbies arriving here at Halomods just want to mod Halo 2, and some of them are just a bunch of assholes who want to know how to softmod their xbox, for xboxlive. You know, so they can mod against other players and get their rank up?
I can model, and I've made maps. I always thought of the UVW mapping and skinning process to be really... leet. Almost the same as the skinning of vehicles and stuff in Halo PC. I can fix any model error, as long as it isn't a jumble of seemingly random vertex placements. I think the thing about grapihcs is that the really nice stuff you see around you have little knowledge of how to create. The stuff you see is so complex you just don't have a clue, and assume it to be beyond your skill. Well, that's what happened with me and skinning. Fortunately with the help of my friend, I can make a skin for a vehicle.
But, I can't do it very well. Making a simple texture for the MC's back is difficult, because it's hard to get varying colors and depths to make the texture not look like a solid color with 5 other colors thrown on top of it. I visit the Filesforums, and check out those totally awesome sigs. These people seem to be the elite in graphics and stuff. But no one is helping the newbs. I would love to learn some techniques to make skins and stuff, but I just don't know how. My skills now include using a brush and pencil in Photoshop to pseudo achieve what I want.
So could any of you old timers post like some tips and pointers? A couple tutorials maybe? I remember my old buddy Katarn used to have a site up over the summer, but that went down, and I haven't seen Katarn online in almost a month. Tips and stuff towards the less looked upon but still confusing parts, like why your skin won't inject in Halo PC because you get a "injected image must be DXt (1-5)" message. How to create simple effects like a 3d drawing on a skin, or creating actual 'texture' in a skin. For example the mouth speakers inn the MC's helmet, or the 'dirty' effect on his armor.
Please forgive my name, it is ironic, but I have no real ideas for a name.
The thing that bothers me is that there are no 'helpers' around here. Most of the newbies arriving here at Halomods just want to mod Halo 2, and some of them are just a bunch of assholes who want to know how to softmod their xbox, for xboxlive. You know, so they can mod against other players and get their rank up?
I can model, and I've made maps. I always thought of the UVW mapping and skinning process to be really... leet. Almost the same as the skinning of vehicles and stuff in Halo PC. I can fix any model error, as long as it isn't a jumble of seemingly random vertex placements. I think the thing about grapihcs is that the really nice stuff you see around you have little knowledge of how to create. The stuff you see is so complex you just don't have a clue, and assume it to be beyond your skill. Well, that's what happened with me and skinning. Fortunately with the help of my friend, I can make a skin for a vehicle.
But, I can't do it very well. Making a simple texture for the MC's back is difficult, because it's hard to get varying colors and depths to make the texture not look like a solid color with 5 other colors thrown on top of it. I visit the Filesforums, and check out those totally awesome sigs. These people seem to be the elite in graphics and stuff. But no one is helping the newbs. I would love to learn some techniques to make skins and stuff, but I just don't know how. My skills now include using a brush and pencil in Photoshop to pseudo achieve what I want.
So could any of you old timers post like some tips and pointers? A couple tutorials maybe? I remember my old buddy Katarn used to have a site up over the summer, but that went down, and I haven't seen Katarn online in almost a month. Tips and stuff towards the less looked upon but still confusing parts, like why your skin won't inject in Halo PC because you get a "injected image must be DXt (1-5)" message. How to create simple effects like a 3d drawing on a skin, or creating actual 'texture' in a skin. For example the mouth speakers inn the MC's helmet, or the 'dirty' effect on his armor.
Please forgive my name, it is ironic, but I have no real ideas for a name.