Interested in makin skins - help please

On the DVD in the CD6\Extras folder you'll find Upaint which is the program for beginners to skinning. Also you'll find all the character textures there in .PNG format (copy them to your hdd). Then off you go... Open a character and paint away

I havent figured out how to use Photoshop for Unreal yet. BUt that is a great tool to use for making skins!!

I've really only started to read up on modelling. Very complicated by the looks of it. 3DStudio Max and Maya (on the UT2004 CD) are the most common apps used. Then you have things like Lightwave which I've never seen. I plan on modelling sometime ok

Identity Crisis is a great place with many tutorials. They haven´t much UT2003/04-specific , but a lot of general skinning tut´s.You should take a look there.

{GUNDAM}NATAKU said:

Would you happen to hve any tips in skinning that may be of some use. Such as for shadding, detail, or does using the wire frames help with some of the cover skinning etc.

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Umm, the only suggestions I can make are really to only use Upaint when you have to. Use an image editing prog like Photoshop, PSP or something if you can. I've only ever used Upaint to show me where areas on the body are on the image then I've just drawn over it in PS. For me the human ones were the hardest to skin. The juggernaut, skaarj and robot are a lot easier and you can be more creative. Avoid just changing the colour as that's been done 1,000 times before. Take your time doing it. Ask how to do t/c's if you can't figure it out. Then just take a look at other ppl's work to try learn from that. Dunno' if that's any good to ya

Upaint Rock! although theres some limits to it =( i need some differnt texture Brushes cus am not artst!