What program do you recomend to skin in Halo PC?

Banshee Ace · Post by **Banshee Ace** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 7:21 am

What program do you recomend to skin? I already have a modeling program but I don't have a skinning program...

-You can still post trial versions here...

Demonic Spartan · Post by **Demonic Spartan** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 7:53 am

Photoshop is probably the easiest, but it costs alot of money.

TsukasaZero · Post by **TsukasaZero** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 12:00 pm

Photoshop Elements runs from $80 to $100 bucks, cheaper and better (IMO) than just plain Photoshop.

Floyd · Post by **Floyd** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 12:25 pm

If I'm wrong, correct me, but I think Photoshop is the only graphics program availible that offers the .dds plugin.

Beastman · Post by **Beastman** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 12:34 pm

no photoshop, paintshop, elements, and one free one have the dds plugin but i dont remeber the name someone will post it. but elements is good for skinning but not as good as photoshop in the long run still.

quaglinoman · Post by **quaglinoman** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:29 pm

I may be wrong, but isn't one of the diffrences between Photoshop Full edition and Photoshop elements that elemnets does not have the History bar? what else does it lack? History bar has saved me so many times.

FlakLikaDuk · Post by **FlakLikaDuk** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:49 pm

Beastman,
I think the free one is WinGimp

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Beastman · Post by **Beastman** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:55 pm

that would be it thank u

halofan141 · Post by **halofan141** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 6:03 pm

Wingimp? As in The GIMP? You could use that but there is no dds plugin.

Beastman · Post by **Beastman** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 6:06 pm

i believe there is, well at least i was told there is, walka might know ask him, i believe he was the one telling me how powerful a program it is for being free

halofan141 · Post by **halofan141** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 6:21 pm

I know it's and awesome program and I'm learning with it but I really want a dds plugiin, I'll ask him tho thanks. And I already tried google yahoo ask jeeves and sutin else not long ago.

Demonic Spartan · Post by **Demonic Spartan** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 7:21 pm

quaglinoman wrote:I may be wrong, but isn't one of the diffrences between Photoshop Full edition and Photoshop elements that elemnets does not have the History bar? what else does it lack? History bar has saved me so many times.

Yeah, but Elements has the back button which is effectively an easier way to delete from history.

FlakLikaDuk · Post by **FlakLikaDuk** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:15 am

Yeah WinGimp has a .dds plugin at the same site you get the photoshop plugin, nVidia http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_t ... tools.html[/url][/code]

IH8LAG · Post by **IH8LAG** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:44 pm

Photoshop is WAY better than Photoshop Elements...IMO. Especially if u know what u're doing. Elements doesn't have some very kool features that Photoshop does. Trust me, i've been using Photoshop for roughly 6 years now.

halofan141 · Post by **halofan141** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:21 pm

FlakLikaDuk wrote:Yeah WinGimp has a .dds plugin at the same site you get the photoshop plugin, nVidia http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_t ... tools.html[/url][/code]

Um, I see no dds plugin for gimp on that site? I checked before too. And I just checked it again.

FlakLikaDuk · Post by **FlakLikaDuk** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 9:36 am

I've never tried it but this should work http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/%7ecocidius/normalmap/ try that and if it doesn't i don't know you could try googleing it.[/url]