Pro Skinning

[TheFuzz2]

When i open the bitmap internalizer i get an error: Error reading Bitmap. then it will internaliz it, but it clears what the bitm looks like and i'm left with nothing to edit when i open it up in adobe, it like clears the details when i when look in Entity 1.4. also, if i do inject it, when i scroll over it, i get that error message thats says it doesn't work then closes out of entity.

[haloguy]

I cannot save in any other format other than .psd, And I need to save it as DDS.



Any help? The format Entity Gave me was DXT 4 and DXT 5.

[Not Zachary88-2]

You do have the .DDS plugins installed, right? <_>

[haloguy]

Downloaded and installed, yes. Do you have to open it separate with Photoshop? Or is it in it? (sorry, never skinned before) When ever I open the DDS Plugin I get this


Epik Ghey

[Not Zachary88-2]

1) That's not Photoshop, that's Imageready <_>.
2) You install the plugins to your Photoshop directory. You did that, correct?
3) Try opening Adobe Photoshop from now on. <_>

[haloguy]

Stupidity on my part, Thanks Zach ^_^ Now to skin like crazy.

[SeeingNight]

sorry to bump but it is a pinned topic so i hope it's ok
well i skinned an elite and added illum to it and also skinned that
and injected all that stuff back in and fixed encryption and saved changes
then put the map back on
but there is no skin just illum :/
i didn't use that bitmap internalizer because i didn't think i needed to because it didn't say i needed to so do i need to use it for the skin to work or what?
plz help and if you do i will add thanks

[Not Zachary88-2]

Bumping this is fine.

Internalising bitmaps is necessary because otherwise, that bitmap will be injected into all of your other maps, instead of that one. To fix this, gather new shared maps.

Care to get a picture of what is happening?

[SeeingNight]

well i don't actually have the shared or sp shared maps, but im waiting for them(i posted in the clean maps topic asking for them)
and well the only thing i've done to the map is add illum so that the elite is glowing and i skinned it
i did the head,arms,legs,torso,illum and what not all skinned but the skin dosn't show up in the game :/ and i don't know why but was thinking that it was because i didn't internalize them is that why?

[Not Zachary88-2]

No. Internalising has nothing to do with how bitmaps appear.

Your illumination is probably just covering your Elite's skin. Just try to remove it. =/

[SeeingNight]

I really don't think that's it but I just got back into modding and it's not all like never forgetting how to ride a bike :/
I wasn't really sure how to do things because i never skinned a biped
and im not sure i skinned the right stuff :/
I went to the bitm tag class
and skinned the Object\Character\elite\bitmaps\head, arms, torso, legs , arms self illum, legs self illum...... is that the right place to skin the elite?
sorry for all the questions and stuff but i really want to get back into this

[LegitModZ]

yea.. iv never done that.. but i guess u did it right =D