NewB Skinner needs some help

Hi there,

I'm new to the whole skinning idea. Actually I've never done it before but I really want to give it a try. With that in mind I would really appreciate any help that anyone could give me to get myself started. What tools do I need? What do I do? How do I do it.

Thanks

- Mystus

Well, here's a thread where i asked the same questions, and there are all the ansewers, check it out and youll understand everything
If you need some more ansewers just ask

lol, ye-Olde Reaper help thread.
Thats when us(The skining comunity) helped reaper start of.. youve been going what... 3-4 weeks now reaper?

Just check out the challenge thread for his now ace skins!

It dosent take as long as you'd think to become good, but it takes AGES to become GREAT!
(Define great: Siakainnn(However u spell it) final tyrant, enterwerpler, Horusrouge etc.etc.)

really, to beocme good, look in the WIP skins sections.... people give advice there that you can pick up on your skins!

BTW, welcome to the comunity! when you think your ready, drop by the skinning challenge thread! great stuff hapening there now!

-Garith

Yup. Welcome. Get photoshop if you can. If not acquire gimp.
ANd look alot more then post. Takes time and inspiration...or a contest dedline...:S

Hey thanks guys!

Its great to be a part of the community. I've been reading up on skinning now for a while, thought I'd start off small and get better. I got photoshop and I downloaded the necessary tools from the site (such as WinMPQ and W3CViewer etc.) but I am having a problem importing my new skins without overriding andy old skins. For example, I have reskinned the ArthasWithSword.mpx using the Arthas.blp file found in the w3 mpq file. it looks fine (how I wanted it to) and now I want to import it as a totally new model? How do I do this?

Also, if I import my new skin as a texture which would overright an old texture would that physically override my old texture and change throughout the game wherever I use that character? Or would it just be for that map only?

Thanks for your help!!

- Mystus

"sigh"

ok.. well.. generally we skin TO overide the same model.
There are alternate unit to get away with this (Fel Grunt for grunt etc.) but usually we just overide.

to find a way 2 have moth, look in the tourturials for the: "2 skins on the same model!" thread... should show you what to do...

Oh! and you should start small.. just make custom swords and stuff and recolor faces etc untill you can do better things... Check out the skinning challene thread like i said for some kool insights and techniqes etc. a good thing to do....

-Garith