Photoshop Skinning Tutorials.

[Halie Satanus]

I think the plugin is for windows, Not sure if it matters what graphics card you have.

[Riannorix]

for the skins with photoshop cs2 must we being exellent in Drawing?
because with the polygonal lasso it's verry hard for have line perfect!!

(sorry for my english)

[Halie Satanus]

Not at all, I can't draw very well but I'm pretty good with Photoshop. Skinning is dealing with textures and shading mostly, drawing isn't really necessary.


From here.

Vampyre Ancients; Elite warriors of the Vampyre nations.


Semedi spears; Backbone of the Severin armies. (original model by SOR)


Sucubus: Vicious female Vampyre warriors. (original model by Hoggy)


Severin, Dark knights; Powerful knights whether mounted or on foot.


Lycan, Terani spearmen; Strong Lycan warriors of the Terani Clan.


Talamasca Order, Syon Order; Elite Warriors and battle field assassins.


Lycan, Subai Warriors; Powerful warriors of the Subai Clan.


Mercenary's from the heartlands of the Rahala

[Lord Of The Knights]

these pictures are nice you sould make Mortal Combat:Total War.
what is the gloss file for?

[Halie Satanus]

Cheers.

Gloss files add a reflection to the metal parts of your units, so basically they reflect the environment around them. |It's a nice effect a bit time consuming to make for a whole faction though, I think Bi was released with some but not all the gloss files. You can switch them on in the preferences section.

see here also..

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8474

[DaLeGiOnArY]

and...how do i get the file anyway? In vanilla RTW?

ah yes and that mercenary thingy looks badly like a rancor from Jedi Academy

[Halie Satanus]

At the top of the first page....

Ok first off your going to need these little babies.
Vercingetorix,PAK Extractor
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...?do=file&id=43
And this will allow you to view tga. files with windows,You want the utillities and the thumbnail viewer.
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/n...ure_tools.html

DL and run the pack extractor to access the texture files...

[DaLeGiOnArY]

oooh theenks

[DaLeGiOnArY]

I just spent a couple hours on an armoured hoplite skin. this should be good!




w00t. an error or two on the greek one though. Such as the back colour not being visible from the front

left is carthage right is greek

[Pwntality]

did the editing in ps 7.0,got this. http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/9...syracuskz6.jpg

result is:
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2029/omgwtfgc2.jpg

heh?

[Halie Satanus]

Check section 4; Alpha channels, not sure what you've done but it looks like the black isn't solid.

[Pwntality]

did it http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9383/test2mt9.jpg

same effect

[Halie Satanus]

Hmm, are you saving it as DXT5 ARGB interpolated alpha ??

[Pwntality]

um never seen that type before

Edit: ah i follow now,but i could never get the downloadables to work,all of them that is so i jsut freeballed it.

[Halie Satanus]

Ah, right, yeh you need the nvidia plugin's to save textures. They should be downloadable, it's been a long time since I tried myself.

[Hesus de bodemloze]

hi i was wondering how do you do these shields? thy are just shown half on the file so if you want to inport like a dragon ore ship onto a shield how do you fix this? i am realy new at this so :s

[Halie Satanus]

Unfortunately what you want to do can't be done in photo-shop alone, you need 3dmax to unwrap the UV map first.

[Hesus de bodemloze]

oke thx man so you need to design it in 3dmax before you can do it in photo-shop?

[Halie Satanus]

Yeh sort of, this guide will give you an idea of what has to be done.

[Hesus de bodemloze]

thx man and this guide for photoshop even helps me learn how to use photoshop with out skinning great guide