It all started when I watched a little girl on tv play with a barbie doll, and how she put all kinds of different clothes on that doll.
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Already curious?
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I fire up Ued and had a look at the player skins. I noticed that every skin can be seperated into a "natural" and an "artificial" part (clothes), more or less.
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It doesn't end here, so read on.
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I recently discovered the power of Alpha textures (had bought a new GForce5600, complex shaders wouldn't work on my old GForce2), and figured that a proper Alpha texture could be used as a mask to seperate those parts. This way it should be possible to paste different textures, or overlays, depends on how the Alpha is made, upon a player model.
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Yeah yeah, I'll cut to the point.
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There are hundreds of standard textures already, the number of possible combinations is immense, think THOUSANDS of possible skins from 1-4 alpha textures (semi-, anti- and the respective head textures). I've created the necessary textures for a male Gen Mo Kai model and tried out a few combinations, and I'll probably start with different player models right now, as it's just so much fun to have a completely new skin in under 2 minutes
A few screenies of the first test subjects below.
By the way, is there a console command to rotate the camera so you can see your player model front?
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Already curious?
...
I fire up Ued and had a look at the player skins. I noticed that every skin can be seperated into a "natural" and an "artificial" part (clothes), more or less.
...
It doesn't end here, so read on.
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I recently discovered the power of Alpha textures (had bought a new GForce5600, complex shaders wouldn't work on my old GForce2), and figured that a proper Alpha texture could be used as a mask to seperate those parts. This way it should be possible to paste different textures, or overlays, depends on how the Alpha is made, upon a player model.
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Yeah yeah, I'll cut to the point.
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There are hundreds of standard textures already, the number of possible combinations is immense, think THOUSANDS of possible skins from 1-4 alpha textures (semi-, anti- and the respective head textures). I've created the necessary textures for a male Gen Mo Kai model and tried out a few combinations, and I'll probably start with different player models right now, as it's just so much fun to have a completely new skin in under 2 minutes
A few screenies of the first test subjects below.
By the way, is there a console command to rotate the camera so you can see your player model front?
Besides, Idoubt I would find such a texture in any of the default utx packages.
