Changeing Skins?

[Grail]

How is everyone.......I'm knew at this game,But I have worked on skins for games(weapon skins,player skins,and environment skins)....I would love to make some new weapon skins..ect.........but I have no Idea what the file names are called and or how to open them?I have a pff viewer but all the tga's in their that I've seen are not the Main weapon skins?.........Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.......The sooner I can Find out...the sooner I can make some nice high quallity skins for everyone





Thanks

[Lakie]

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

[Grail]

Thanks for the heads up man....I understand about the colored models.......But I would love to do some nice weapon skins or realistic building textures for BHD(that's what I'm playing now).....any further help with this and I'll get ya some nice results back

[Grail]

This is a little sample of what I can do weapon skin wise,and I had to reduce the res and quallity greatly just to put it on here....It's the mp40 for MOHAA........It looks alot better ingame with the right res.I have alot of other things I've worked on that are unfinished...but i don't want to bore ya any further with them .............I need to get into the weapon skin files for DFBHD or it will drive me back to Drinkin!!

[Steve]

hiho

what u need is to look in the respources pff file

then you will see a bunch of files with the extension of .dds

to view 'em download THIS [Adobe PhotoShop DXT Compression Plugin - This is a DXTC texture compression plugin for PhotoShop or PaintShop Pro that allows you to open and save .dds textures from Delta Force]

also THIS is useful [Allows you to view .dds files in Thumbnail view in Explorer. ]



now make sure you show us what you make

[Steve]

crackin skin for the mp40 btw

[Steve]

hmm actually i dont see the gun textures there at a glance :/ but that is very useful as there are a lot of skins in there. i'll brb if i can find the guns

[Steve]

yeah they are there i was just being dumb

[Grail]

AAAHHHH!!!.....Thanks man!....I allready had the plugin for photo to view dds files but that was the last thought in my head that they would be.lol.......thanks btw for the mp40 compliment and the DDS thumbviewer(thats something I didn't have .......................Well I'm off to work,but as soon as I get home it's skinnin time




Thanks for you guy's help I appreciate that,and I will surprize ya with some goodies shortly

[Steve]

sweet