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Getting skins into warcraft 3 viewer

01-26-2004, 05:23 PM#1
Lost_ally
I have Warcraft 3 Viewer and Adobe Photoshop and I wanted to know how to make skins....

I was able to get the skin into photoshop and color it the way I wanted it but then I dont know how to get it back to Wc3viewer or how to see it in 3D...Can someone give me an understandable and easy to read walkthrough???emote_confused
01-26-2004, 05:42 PM#2
STURMguy22
by 3d do you mean on the unit?
01-26-2004, 05:46 PM#3
Lost_ally
yes, sry, I meen on the unit... :ggani:
01-26-2004, 07:03 PM#4
STURMguy22
Sorry, but Ive been trying to get custom skins onto models in the warcraft 3 viewer, but I have been unsuccessful

The only other alternative is to actually put the skin on the unit in game following the exact steps in the other tutorial I made. You will need to convert what you just edited back into a .blp in order to put it in game though. I've attached A screenshot to show where to do that in the editor its very easy, just follow what it already has clicked for you.

So just find the path in the viewer, import the .blp into the map, then put the path in, reload editor, and it should be there
01-26-2004, 07:05 PM#5
STURMguy22
Heres the pic, when you choose the option to convert, all you do is select the skin, and then save it anywhere as you want as a .blp. then import the newly made .blp into the editor
01-26-2004, 07:25 PM#6
Lost_ally
Ok...so after I convert it into .blp I go into WE and do the import thing again?

Because I was skinning a medivh...and what I did was color his cloak white and his hood white.Would I use the Medivh path?Because when I clicked it it Wc3viewer, the regular Medivh appeard and the flat pic of my skin with the white hood and cloak disapeared.I dont know if I did it right...
01-26-2004, 07:57 PM#7
Aznwhore
here's what came up...emote_sweat

i cant even get the pic up... well, im just gonna tell u, it ended upside-down....
01-26-2004, 08:53 PM#8
STURMguy22
Dont attempt to open your skin in the war 3 viewer, just convert it and then import it into the WE
01-26-2004, 09:28 PM#9
Lost_ally
:ggani: :ggani: ok thanks :ggani: :ggani:
01-26-2004, 10:05 PM#10
Aznwhore
the skin came in backwards...
01-27-2004, 03:25 PM#11
Shadow_Strike
go here for a tut
http://www.wc3campaigns.com/forums/s...threadid=44395
01-27-2004, 04:14 PM#12
Aznwhore
i fixed it another way...
01-29-2004, 06:02 AM#13
Zarniwoop
ujujujujuj... tried doing that. Failed miserable after a few days and didn't insert the WC cd for a month again...