[SKIN!] Checkered ghost!

flea925 · Post by **flea925** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:51 am

What do you think?

timmy42 · Post by **timmy42** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:52 am

maybe if you made it LESS visible (change opacity), it'd come out better...

flea925 · Post by **flea925** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:53 am

what?

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:00 am

Opacity is the visibility of the applied skin (or applied anything). In photoshop, if you look in the layers pallet, there's an opacity meter which you can drag left or right. Left being -visibility, right being +visibility.
So if you drag it left, the applied skin will look see through; more so if you keep dragging it left. But you can only do this if you still have the layer you skinned on. If you try doing it on the .dds, it will make the whole ghost bitmap appear to be less visible.

As for the skin, its not very good. Solid colors on bitmaps don't work out very well.

flea925 · Post by **flea925** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:05 am

But i'm using Paint.NET.

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:08 am

I'm sure that has SOME option for opacity.

MoDFox · Post by **MoDFox** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:12 am

It doesn't look Terrible but it doesn't look Good either.
Solid colours generally don't turn out well.

flea925 · Post by **flea925** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:18 am

JK-47 wrote:Opacity is the visibility of the applied skin (or applied anything). In photoshop, if you look in the layers pallet, there's an opacity meter which you can drag left or right. Left being -visibility, right being +visibility.
So if you drag it left, the applied skin will look see through; more so if you keep dragging it left. But you can only do this if you still have the layer you skinned on. If you try doing it on the .dds, it will make the whole ghost bitmap appear to be less visible.

As for the skin, its not very good. Solid colors on bitmaps don't work out very well.

Thanks for the help. I'll do that in my next skin...

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:51 am

You have the perfect modding attitude, if I may say so.

flea925 · Post by **flea925** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:42 am

lulz thanks.

Teh_Kitsune · Post by **Teh_Kitsune** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:32 pm

meh. Opacity (transparency) would really help

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:04 pm

flea925 wrote:lulz thanks.

No, really. Being able to take critisism and use it instead of saying 'oh no i am crap and your all relly nasty at homolads', is something that few people possess. Sorry for going off topic by the way. The concept of the skin is nice, just give it a new multipurpose, cubemap and clean up on the edges.

flea925 · Post by **flea925** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:56 pm

well i gave it a solid black cubemap. I didnt do anything to the multipurpose though, any advice?

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:02 pm

Dont just have the bitmap be checkered white and black squares.

Cubemap is corrupted also.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:24 am

yuck, that looks bad. there is no flow to the skin over the model.

flea925 · Post by **flea925** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:43 am

Do you know where i can get a photoshop trial?

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:53 am

Google, or Adobe's site. you could try GIMP as well.

flea925 · Post by **flea925** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:17 am

does it have opacity tools like photoshop (excuse me i am new to skinning)

timmy42 · Post by **timmy42** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:31 am

unless the demo/trial disables it, it should...

you might wanna read a few tutorials about photoshop online if you plan on using it... it is really picky...

MC41 · Post by **MC41** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:03 am

paint.net has opacity
-paste your texture onto a new layer
-go to the layer properties at the bottom
-change the opacity
use the help function...it helps

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