hi welcom to dfhq.net
This is for LW:
Skinning anything but weapons is a no-no due to the fact that you could use them as cheats ie. It's alot easier to see a lime green character than a normal character.
Skinning weapons is different all you are doing is making an image that you see in 1st person view, the 3rd person view and others is unchanged.
A good tutorial for skinning by stevieB used to be at:
http://stevieb.dfhq.net/dflw/tutoria...01/satch01.htm but the link is down
If you can hang on a bit ill bug stevieB until he posts it