skinning gone black question

SoMo · Post by **SoMo** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:01 am

yes i skinned the lockout snow and gave it more of a glossy texture but it turned out black unless im a step away from it. in other words... it is black unless im standing right next to it. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Tain7ed · Post by **Tain7ed** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:10 am

yes its changing lods on you or levels of detail, I suggest you use the machima tool to remove the maps lods.

It can be found in this tutorial pack

SoMo · Post by **SoMo** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:12 am

k...and the program is called?

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:14 am

H2 Machinma Companion.

SpecOp44 · Post by **SpecOp44** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:14 am

Include mipmaps when saving.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:17 am

Don't use the tool. Everyone needs to stop suggesting that.

When you save the dds, turn on "Generate MIP Maps." That's it. It's that simple.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:18 am

But removing the LODs makes it look so preeeeeeetty. >_>

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:19 am

Considering it offers no noticeable quality increase, puts unnecessary strain on the game, and is completely improper, how about just doing it the right way? =x

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:23 am

Quiet you. <_<

Yes, Tural is correct, saving the DDS files the proper way is the way you should do it, I just keep forgetting about that.

SoMo · Post by **SoMo** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:24 am

thank you so much! great help!

DJ_Gnomey · Post by **DJ_Gnomey** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:55 am

G.I.R. wrote:Quiet you. <_<

Yes, Tural is correct, saving the DDS files the proper way is the way you should do it, I just keep forgetting aboot that.

Some xbox's can handle the strain but others can't. I know on a couple of my friends it didn't work for their's, so just in case, save them with mipmaps!

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:31 pm

What are you using? Unless you're using something like MS Paint and that converter program, your editor's plugin should support MIP maps. GIMP is free and its DDS plugin supports MIP maps. It's always a possible solution.

x13igDudex12 · Post by **x13igDudex12** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:13 pm

probably useing DXTBmp.

thats what i had before i aquired my photoshop with the plugin.

blackdiamond · Post by **blackdiamond** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:07 am

in the meta editor for the bitm. tag make the mip maps 1 and lod's numbers 2 and 3, make all those -1. then extract it, edit it, and inject it, see if that works, it does for me

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:32 am

Which, I assume, is the same (Improper) way of editing the bitmaps when you could just do it correctly from the beginning and save the trouble of changing any values.

blackdiamond · Post by **blackdiamond** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:35 am

well, any other ways that i tried didn't work for me, so its what works for me

Prey · Post by **Prey** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:44 am

http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?p=616652

blackdiamond · Post by **blackdiamond** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:47 am

blackdiamond wrote:any other ways that i tried didn't work for me

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:19 pm

It's operator error. If it works for everyone who does it correctly, then the only issue must lie within the person doing it incorrectly.

blackdiamond · Post by **blackdiamond** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:32 pm

when i do it like you guys say to do it, then as i go further and further away, at some point, the skin goes back to the original