Sijun Forums :: View topic - Skinning is digi-art or not?

Ian · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2000 11:27 pm

I believe that skinnning is indeed digi art! What do y'all think? Lately I have been playing more and more Unreal Tournament and decided that having a cool name is not enough. I would also like to create a skin for my digital online presence in UT. I have the artistic skill to create one I just haven't the foggiest Idea of how they need to be set up or how to convert it to that strangeass format that UT uses utx. or .utn???? I dono. all i know is that it don't say .bmp and im stumped. Do you have to DL some kind of ap or what? I know there are probably plenty of you here that do lots of skinning, (for UT or Quake or whatever) any help you could offer would be very much appreciated. Thanks again.
Happy Gaming!
Ian

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One man's hill is another man's mountain.

CapnPyro · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2000 11:42 pm

Ian · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2000 12:11 am

Ok, help.

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One man's hill is another man's mountain.

ScoobyDoo · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2000 1:46 am

Go to www.polycount.com

Its the perfect website for skinning & modeling characters for realtime games(fps mostly). They have utilities for conversion, UV Mapping, etc, and tons of tutorials. Plus hundreds of other Playermodels and skins available for you to browse and learn from.

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Scoobydoobydooooooo!

shahar2k · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2000 7:37 pm

I once did a 3D self portrait of my head... wanted to use it on a model, but I hate the freaking time it takes, especially for laying out a texture page and then drawing on it and pretending you know what your doing... it's much harder doing textures than it is actually drawing.... at least in my feeble experience

coconutmonkey · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2000 7:43 pm

Yea i think skinning is a digital art i do it all the time. You can also check out www.planethalflife.com/coldfusion for help on skinning.

FaithInChaos · member Member # Joined: 27 Aug 2000 Posts: 183

this is my first skin ever...its for a game called half-life

being tired and not fully aware of what i was doing i went over board with the cloud filter...please forgive me

Haarg2 · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2000 1:56 am

no, i'll never forgive you. no no no. absolutely no. okay, then.

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Gambit · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2000 10:19 am

Hey Ian, that is great you want to try your hand at making your own character in UT. Here are a couple of links that have tutorials, they might help you on your way

This page explains how to get your model skinned on to one bitmap: http://www.cschell.com/tutorials.html?skinmaxtut

Here is another link with great info on how to get the skin going and getting in UT: http://www.unreality.org/mooseskins/skintut.html

And of course check out Mr.Caudles webpage

He works at Epic: http://home.hiwaay.net/~scaudle/Skins/UTSkins.htm

Like coconutmonkey said, Polycount is great source for ideas and all kinds of info.

If are just going to download a free model and then skin it - Polycount would be the place to get some neat models. People are always submitting their work for review and most let you download the model and skins for free

Anyways, good luck to you!

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