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How do you edit the actual skins instead of just swapping shaders?

Alx wrote:How do you edit the actual skins instead of just swapping shaders?

you extract the bitmap...

I extract, but i get no .bmp files.

of course you don't... The extraction process produces .dds files that you edit in photoshop.

Photoshop doesn't want to open .dds files. Any details ?

I've been searching for about an hour, so don't tell me to go and look somewhere else.

well you have to have the dds plugin for photoshop. I have a link to it in my skinning tutorial on my site...

Click on the silly looking picture in my sig for your salvation.

thank you, it's a real pain to look for something this small.

np

i wish you would just look around a bit before asking questions like this

I second that motion

ok, sry, but do i extract the .dds files from saving the meta of the object or skin? (if so, recursive, or not recursive?) Do you batch extract the map to get the .dds? Do you get something from bitmaps.map?
sorry, i'm a total n00b at skinning.

check out Lebowski's website, there is the tutorial.

ok "hypathicly speaking" if someone has photoshop but they just downloaded it off kazaa how would one apply the plugin cause that person wouldnt have the right folders and stuff


also is there anything i could use instead

one has to have the right folder structure in order for photoshop to function correctly.

ah well would one be able to use another program instead