ut2k4 skin recycler

[achromatic]

I decided to get back into skinning with some practice. These skins are made up entirely out of other skins in unreal tournament 2004.

I did a little painting on them to make them fit together. I was trying to make alternate "characters" for the skins rather than just skins, whilst still making them fit in with the game.

Geronimo:

Based on the Brock model

Gorobei:

Based on the female juggernaut (Reinha). It was a challenge to stop it looking like he has breasts.

Snowball:

Based on the Romulus / Remus model.

Hopefully you'll appreciate the time + effort, but more importantly the design and execution.

*first post

 

[-Tj-]

Looks pretty good. The only thing that bothers me is the second one... because of the pink parts, it really does look like a female with a desperate need for a shave . With so many players knowing what Juggs look like, I'm sure they'll recognize the feminine parts. The other two look good. Snowball... reference from Full Metal Jacket?

I'd just work on a little more masculine colors for the 2nd one if you want her.. him to look like a man.

 

[achromatic]

updating Gorobei...

i'm going back over the skin and making it more my own work.

ideas/crits?

 

[daloonie]

Thay look rather good. Actually. I must say you did a good job making that Jugg fem look non-female like.

But why aren't Geronimo's kneepads blue like the rest of his armor?

Give them some more of your own work it'll look better and not so copy/paste, clone/stamp like look it mostly gets with that style

 

[achromatic]

teamskins.

I'm gonna call Gorobei done, if anyone wants him I can zip him up.

 

[SaD]

...
.. if anyone wants him I can zip him up.

---> SkinCity .

 

[achromatic]

download Gorobei (2.29mb)

If anyone knows a way to get the filesize down please let me know. I did an export from upaint and then added the teamcolours manually.
6.98mb seems a bit big.

[edit]updated the download, now it's much smaller[/edit]

let me know what you think.

 

[Maxx]

If anyone knows a way to get the filesize down please let me know. I did an export from upaint and then added the teamcolours manually.
6.98mb seems a bit big.

let me know what you think.

Maybe the Textures are uncompressed? Compress them from RGB8 to DXT5

P.S. looking good

 

[-Tj-]

updating Gorobei...

i'm going back over the skin and making it more my own work.

ideas/crits?

Good job! Already he looks male, the colors really do make a difference. No further crits from me.

 

[daloonie]

You should use DXT compression

DXT1 with an alpha channel should cover your needs. As it's large compression and with a small Alpha channel enough to mask out things.
Use the nVidia Photoshop plugin to compress it to the right specifics. http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_texture_tools.html It should decrease it's size significantly.

 

[achromatic]

Thanks for all the positive criticism and heplful comments.

I compressed all the images to DXT and the file has been cut down to 2.29mb, I've updated the link above so get downloading and tell me what you think of him ingame.

 

[Maxx]

4 Team Battle support would be cool I`ll give your skin a try this eveneing

 

[achromatic]

4 Team Battle support would be cool I`ll give your skin a try this eveneing

what's the naming convention for the green and gold skin textures? _2 and _3?

 

[BooGiTyBoY]

I believe so

_2 is green and _3 is gold I believe but don't quote me on that.

 

[-Tj-]

Yes, _2 is green and _3 is gold. Also remember that CTF4 skins can now be packaged separately in <yourpackname>_4teams.utx, so people who don't play CTF4 and don't want the extra colors don't have to download them.

 

[BooGiTyBoY]

Why i did not know that! Perhaps 4-tc's will be a possibility for the j2 pack after all

 

[Maxx]

@achro: I tried Gorobei yesterday and it did well Yes, the TC can be made seperately, that`s a real cool thing
-TJ- has said all...nothing to ad *g*

Well, you should give your upl also an update:
make the entry sex=female -> sex=male, otherwise it`s still a very very masculine woman *g*
Also a small backgroundstory would be nice, it just rounds things up

@BB: Well, we never should give up hope *g* would be cool, if it would happen