Skin Edit HELP!!

[AbsentReality]

im gonna need some help here..i saw a cool skin it was black
an red..an it kinda flickered..i want to do the same..only with different colors...i think im in trouble

[Nemephosis]

that was probably a skin cheat and I posted something along these lines earlier. It ain't cool to skin cheat, as any of these great people will tell ya. Don't do it, you'll be a skin-cheating lamer. I almost was, but only to fight against lamers. Doesn't matter. You cheat, you're lame. :D

Just say NO to cheating! hehe!

[The Lamb]

Don't be such a muppet nightmare.

Absent reality, the skin you saw is known as a fractal animation skin - it uses a relatively simple Ucode to produce computer generated animation frames (like the shield belt animations, or flames). There are a number of good skins which use this technique - namely the Shocker Boss and the Virus Boss.

I can't tell you off hand how to make these skins, but there is at least one tutorial somwhere I have seen.
Try looking at these site:

The Lawgiver's skin site (http://www.unreality.dk/thelawgiver/)
http://www.utskins.com

Both of these sites have tutorials about skinning - and bullitin boards exclusively for help answering your kind of question.