skining

Hey its me Half-dude,

Hey all, I just got the HL model viewer and it lets me import custom skins. But I don't know the first thing about making skins. Does anyone know how, or know of any titorials?

www.polycount.com

Modelling, skinning, animating for lot's of games, its all there..

www.valve-erc.com

If you're using only the model viewer, you're limited in what you can do, but it's really easy to make custom skins. First, export the texture maps. Second, change these. Finally, import the new textures and save the changes. The textures will line up exactly with the ones they are replacing. Easy as cake. Bada-bing.

Hey I'm back,

Hey I use adobe paintshop pro and when ever I edit a skin and save then try to inport that skin it says "error opening BMP. texture" do you know how to edit skins use paint shop without cousing this?

Make sure its divisable by 16x16

All .bmps are imported and exported as 8-bit uncompressed. To convert a Photoshop file to this format:

• Convert your document mode to "Indexed Color"
• File >> Save As... .bmp
• (a window will come up, you'll have to most likely select 8-bit. do NOT check the RLE compression checkbox.)
• And import! As easy as that. 256 colors might wash out a lot of the richness of a texture sometimes though, so be careful.

onthanks, it works now

but now I wanted to know how to (if possible) to change what gibs come out when its blown up, like make it shoot computer gibs insted of shoot bloody body parts? and how to change the blood color of ONLY ONE particular model same goes for the gibs. thx