Photoshop Skinning Tutorials.

[julianus heraclius]

I have a question.

I've been developing new skin textures but they seem to be 345KB size files rather than the 85KB ones like the originals. What happens is that when i loaad a battle that has most units with the larger texture file, it fails to load. I assume that this is a graphics problem. I'm wondering if there is a way to compress the files down to 85KB.

Can anyone help me hear, as it is driving me crazy.

Thanks

[Halie Satanus]

I use 345KB (512x512) textures all the time and never had a loading problem, suspect it's something else, do you have -show err activated?.

If your textures are the same layout as vanilla then you should be able to resize without losing quality. 345KB files are 512x512 pixels, you need to resize them to 256x256.

[julianus heraclius]

I use 345KB (512x512) textures all the time and never had a loading problem, suspect it's something else, do you have -show err activated?.

If your textures are the same layout as vanilla then you should be able to resize without losing quality. 345KB files are 512x512 pixels, you need to resize them to 256x256.

Hmm, your right. I managed to reduce the size of the files by reducing them by 50% then saving. But this doesn't seem to have solved the problem.

Could be a graphics problem or a problem with the CAS files?

I do have -show err activated and I don't get any error message. It just starts to load and then just freezes.

[Hannibal Smith]

Are you using the DXT5 compression?

[julianus heraclius]

I found the problem, it was a bad cas file for one of my auxilia sagitarii units. of course it is a common unit which is why i was having so much trouble. I found it by trial and error. After I fixed the cas file the game now works fine.

Thanks for all of your assistance.

Cheers

[Jabbawockeez]

good tutorial

[♔Sherlock♔]

Halie, one more question (seems like I'm asking you everything here ) where is the black alpha tga.dds located :hmmm:

[Halie Satanus]

It's in the textures layers, see part 4 of the tutorial..

[♔Sherlock♔]

What? I don't get it, there's only the background in layers, there's an alpha channel, but I can either have it open RGB or alpha, not both :hmmm:

[Halie Satanus]

If you select the alpha and either R,G, or B the alpha appears red so you can see it's position in relation to the texture..

[=NF= Vasileios_the2nd]

Wanted to ask something...
When I open a dds file with Photoshop, I am prompted this:

What is best to choose?

Thnx in advance!

[Mithril]

thats ok use the default when loading them

[=NF= Vasileios_the2nd]

thnx

[Tzu]

Hey guys new here, just wondering where i can find the rome total realism skin texture files so i can reskin those ? Probably a dumb, obvious question i apologise but i cant seem to find the files

Thanks in advance!

[helmersen]

Do I have to unpack the files for kingdoms also (Im making models for a kingdoms mod)? And how do I unpack?

[Halie Satanus]

I'm pretty sure you do, but this is in the RTW forums. You7'll probably get more help in the MTW2 workshop.

[helmersen]

Oh, sorry

[Takumi Fujiwara]

just read this tutorial

[bessus]

I would like to say a big thank you to Halie for taking the time to write just about the clearest tutorial I've ever come across! If I can understand it and get skinning it must be good! Heres some of the stuff I've rushed out so far....









Not really historically accurate but hey........

[Lü Bu]

Very good indeed but everything should be darker a bit