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Moogie's First Custom Skin
« on: June 16, 2003, 03:48:41 pm »
Hey all!

This wouldn\'t be my first ever post if the bugs forum would let me alert the codies of the \'admin console\' hack. But anyways, ever being the eternal fiddler of files and such, I decided to do something useful now and create a skin.

Starting simple, of course. Seeing how it works and which files are used/how. I\'ve pretty much figured how just 4 skins create all those different skin/hair/eyes/clothes combinations... very clever, well done PS artists! :)

Now, on to the skin... I was a little disappointed there was no \'snow leopard\' appearance (yet), so, that\'s what I did. This is a female Enkidukai with snowy white fur and starry black clothes. It goes suprisingly well and looks just as good as those that come with the current PS release.

Click here for a screenshot, or
click here to download the file.

(Note that only you will be able to see the custom file; everyone else will see you using whatever *their* female enkid\' 3 file looks like.)

The file goes in C:\\Program Files\\PlaneShift\\art\\textures\\races\\fenkidukai and overwrites the current Female Enkidukai \'3\' appearance, so back up your old file just in case. For the full skin, all relevant character appearances, meaning eyes, skin and clothes, should be set to 3.

If you like it, I\'ll create more, so throw me some feedback! :)


[EDIT: Fixed broken screenshot link... Geocities only lets you link to .txt files and the file was still a \'.jpg\' Silly me.]
[EDIT2: Damn, this forum is wierd. When you click the download link, the URL gets added to the end of Planeshift\'s. Just remove that first bit and click the remaining URL and it should work. Silly forum.]
« Last Edit: June 16, 2003, 03:54:48 pm by Miss_Moogie »

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« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2003, 04:02:00 pm »
Ok, here\'s a better idea, let me just TYPE the URLs. The forum screwed up both links.

Screenshot: http://www.geocities.com/vmoogie/planeshift_skin1.txt

Download: http://www.geocities.com/vmoogie/FEnkidukai3.zip


I hope that works now, otherwise I\'m gonna start throwing things...


[EDIT EDIT: Ok, that\'s it. This forum boggles my mind. Geocities has nothing to do with the download link not working. Just copy the link somewhere else and click it, this forum sucks beyond description... sorry, but it\'s got the anger levels rising with frustration :P]
« Last Edit: June 16, 2003, 04:07:34 pm by Miss_Moogie »

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« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2003, 04:08:26 pm »
It looks nice!
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« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2003, 04:15:41 pm »
Thanks for the link, Caldazar.

So, if the Geocities link doesnt work, try this:
http://equinox.homelinux.net/public/uplfolders/upload4/FEnkidukai3.zip

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« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2003, 06:03:13 pm »
no offence but all youve done is colourised and put the clothes in plane black, its not exactly a masterpiece and no more than five minutes work, sorry, i dont mean to be offensive.
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« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2003, 06:10:34 pm »
That\'s quite true, apart from the clothes part. I\'m sorry, the screenshot isn\'t very good, the server appeared to be offline so I couldn\'t actually go into the game to take it.

But yes, it is just a plain 5-10 minute play around. It\'s more of a \'getting used-to\' thing. :)

Tell me, do many people here do skinning? I\'d like to have a look at what\'s on offer, if anything.

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« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2003, 06:19:31 pm »
Ive done quite a few but nothing id consider release standard, mostly just me having a laugh, like monkeys on ropes instead of washing and things.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-6/226286/custom.jpg
I was part of the skinners guild for tribes so i have loads of top quality tribes skins i made i could show, but that doesnt really count :/
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-6/226286/heh.jpg
^batman

Its not easy to make completely original skins in planeshift due to the unusual mask shapes which make models look odd with different combinations. This also means originality is a hard thing to accomplish.

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« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2003, 06:36:35 pm »
Some nice stuff you have there. :)

I\'m gonna play around for a while with the skins... I need to learn the peculiarities of the models (I\'m nothing of a 3D artist and have no means to preview them in any apps).

I wouldn\'t mind seeing more of your work, doesn\'t matter what game. How about it? Everyone loves to show off from time to time. ;)

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« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2003, 07:04:38 pm »
well seing as tribes is now 6 years old ive had a few problems finding any pics of my skins, cant believe skinners guild has gone, gutted bout that, a few dl or my skins i found though so im quite proud :D

heres a couple that were mine i got off one site.
http://soulassassins.homestead.com/files/VuDuKImage.jpg
http://soulassassins.homestead.com/files/DAN.jpg
chubbses old site.
i cant seem to find any working links to a version of the gta TC i helped with either, wish wed completed the thing maybe it would have got more publicity.
sorry i cant seem to find anything to show off at the moment, ive not worked on anything for a few years :/
heres an image i drew from an rpg that never took off.

sorry i guess ppl move on without me, nothing much to show off, everything i did has become old and ppl have forgotten, i live in past too much :)

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« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2003, 08:27:32 pm »
hmm, that looks interesting, I\'d like to try skinning some cats myself ;) but don\'t really know anything bout it yet, start college tomorrow, and am gonna try learning bout all this kinda thing. anyway, I was wondering, would it be possible, instead of replacing the skins that you have, to add new ones to the game, maybe you\'d have to submit them to the devs or something... don\'t know...
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« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2003, 10:23:55 pm »
I\'m sure it\'s a possibility. Might need to change some values somewhere along the line though, sometimes games define how many/what name skins they use in a configuration file, sometimes even hardcoded into the game. That would be a pain...

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« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2003, 07:27:12 pm »
Adding skins is something id really really love to see, guilds could have their own custom skins (which other people who\'ve downloaded could see)
oh just thought id share my latest too, its work in progress

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« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2003, 07:53:12 pm »
I\'d like to see a good looking tyger skin, and a better wireframe for one... the wireframes for the cats on here look like my neighbors 8 year old fatcat
I\'d like to be able to do this stuff, but I just don\'t know how, I have enough trouble with my algebra homework :p
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« Reply #13 on: June 21, 2003, 03:22:14 pm »
well skinnings extremely straight forward, ill whip up a quick tutorial sometime nxt wednesday, changing the models is quite a bit more complicated however.
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« Reply #14 on: June 21, 2003, 03:30:37 pm »
well, i noticed that skinning would be really easy already before i started PS the first time when i browsed a bit through the PS dirs :) ...i\'ll add what i wanted to add later :]
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