How To Make An Amazing Skin.

[UnknowingAcorn]

Alright i will show you a few tricks up my sleeves that get you an amazing looking skin for a vehicle.

Requirements:
Entity 1.3.9
Multiple Bitmap Internalizer
Java
Adobe Photoshop CS2
NVIDIA DDS Photoshop Plug-in
A Multiplayer Map
Mainmenu.map
single_payer_shared.map
shared.map

Alright Lets Do This. I Will Be Skinning The Ghost In My Tutorial.

Step 1. Open Entity And Your Multiplayer Map.


Step 2. Go To Bitm And Find Your Vehicle Or Weapon You Want To Skin. Once You Have Found The Bitmap Close Entity.


Step 3. Open Up Your Multiplayer Map In The Bitmap Internalizer. Find Your Vehicle/Weapon Tag And Select Add Tag Then Hit Internalize.

You Will Get A Completed Box If Everything Worked.

Step 4. Open Entity Again Find Your Bitmap Like Before And Make Sure You Are In The Meta Editor. Then Click The Blue Plus Sign And Hit "Save Bitmap" Then Chose A Location To Save It. (Can Be Saved Anywhere)


Step 5. Open Up Photoshop And Open The Bitmap You Saved. In My Case Im Trying To Get A Metallic Black Look So Ill Just Make A New Layer.


Step 6. Get Out The Paint Brush Select Black As My Color And Paint Over All The Purple You See.


Step 7. Then Change Its Type To Be Overlay. Then Merge The Layers. Save It As A .DDS Depending On The Thing You Are Skinning. Vehicles Are DXT3. As For Weapons It Varrys. Double Check By Opening Entity And Looking At The Meta.


Step 9. Now You Can Save It As The Format Entity Needs.


Step 10. Go Back To The Bitmap In Entity(minimize photoshop). Hit the Blue Plus And Select Inject. And Inject The Bitmap You Just Saved.


Step 11. This Is The Trick I Use To Make The Skins Look Awsome. Hit The Blue Plus And Choose Bitmap Editor.


Step 12. Hit Print Scr On Your Keyboard. Then Open Up Photoshop With the DDS Still In It. And Hit Ctrl+V.


Step 13. Now Move The Pasted Image To Fit Correctly In The Window And Merge The Layers.


Step 14. Resave The DDS Like You Did Before.


Step 15. Back To Entity. And Inject It Again.


Sign, FTP, And Enjoy.

Finished Products



Tutorial 100% By Me =] Any Questions Comments Or Issues Please Post Here Ill Help If I Can. =]

[SkateBoard v2]

sweet job

[toxicdonkey]

nice

[UnknowingAcorn]

okay i finished a few different skins and by following this exact tutorial i wrote. these are some outcomes.




^^This is also a preview for an upcoming mod thats bout 25% done

[I Doughboy]

Nice dude, looks cool.

[Spartan 117]

i would like to skin but it cost 100 dollars just to get the photoshop.

[C4rn4g3]

nice but long
th dh way is a lot faster

[Glory Spade]

Pretty good but im to lazy

[XxMoNkEy42xX]

Quote: Originally Posted by C4rn4g3

nice but long
th dh way is a lot faster

The DH way is the same..Only this is more proper..

[C4rn4g3]

yeah and more direct and faster haha

[B0XED WINE]

Quote: Originally Posted by Spartan 117

i would like to skin but it cost 100 dollars just to get the photoshop.

You could always get it illegally. I'm pretty sure there is a decent torrent with a crack for it out there somewhere. I would do that, but this computer is so old, I don't want to risk anything happening.

[UnknowingAcorn]

This isnt about speed or cost of the program. This Tut Is How To Make A Sexy Skin.

[Mizwax]

nice skins dude, and what i your background on your comp? it looks kinda cool.
and you arent running vista it looks like, what os and skin do you have?
and it says in the pics that the ghost is DXT 2/3, how do you know if it
means 2 or 3? i know nothing when it comes to skinning. lol.

[Venomous Fire]

Very nice tut Acorn A+