i've tried and tried and i've tried....

units\critters\VillagerMan\VillagerMan.blp


is the path i use... and i am skinning that unit... i have skinned it 9 times now... STILL NOTHING

i save the map with the imported.blp close WE reopen it

and STILL NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!


i'v tried 9 times 9 99999 9 TIMES 9 JESUS I CAN"T BELEIVE I DID!!!!

And the lil thing mocks me everytime i sit there in pain wondering what pops up after its dun loading AND ITS HIM PLAIN WITH NO SKIN!!!!!!!!!! I"MA GO NUTSS WHAT COULD BE WRONG!!! I asked my friend and he said alpha channels are messed up...

I paint teh whole thing down with regular colors on normal... then i use dodge and burn midtones and highlight THATS ALL I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!

also just realized a skin a did like 2 days ago were parts of a image i took off another image and put them on the skin... i didn't do any doging burning solids... SO it has to be one of those things can you not use solids or burning or doging in skins anymore what what? i don't get it

What did you use to convert the skin from tga to blp?
Also, what exactly do you see in the editor. Is the model all black ? Or can't the model load the skin so there is a green box ? Or do you only see teamcolor ? Did you modify something to the alpha layers ?

I told you exactly what i did i just use solids and some dodge and burn...

But when i didn't use dodge or burn or solids (jsut normal paint) the skin worked...

what comes up is the regular unit as if no skin

Regular unit as if with no skin ? You mean the normal one with the game's normal skin, or a black model with teamcolor but everything else black ?
I don't know which converter you used but try using another one, it works for me sometimes. Also check that the modifications you've done have messed no alpha layer, this could be the origin of the problem.

i use wc3 image 2

and the normal one with the game's normal skin

Then I guess you must have entered a wong path. I don't know if capital letters count, but in War3Viewer it says the path is "units\Critters\VillagerMan\VillagerMan.blp", not "units\critters\VillagerMan\VillagerMan.blp", so this might be the problem. Also check you're using "\" and not "/".
If it still doesn't work, you might try to extract the model from the mpq, convert it to mdl, rename the skin path inside the model to something else (like Textures\VillagerMale.blp), reconvert to mdx and import the new model + the skin (with the new path for the skin).

COuld anyone do this for me and i upload the blp ?

You have the path wrong... its
Units\Critters\VillagerMan\VillagerMALE.blp
Or
Units\Critters\VillagerMan1\VillagerMALE1.blp

I checked it in wc3viewer and capitilized the part you had wrong. It doesnt matter if the path is lowercase or upper. There are two different villager male skins (one with a brown shirt, and one with a blue shirt and beard) so try both paths and see which one is the one for your model.

Edit: You and i were typing at the same time, try it. I'm positive this is it. If it doesnt work then you're doing something wrong.

that waz one of the first things i checked

You said you put in the path as villagerman.blp, im saying to put it as villagermale.blp. Are you sure you checked it?

Thank you so much it worked