When Making Requests

Just to clarify... When making requests, try to include pics of exactly what you'd like to see in game.

Remember a good model can take months to make so don't expect it the following day

Skins, however, take a couple of hours and are easier to do so you're more likely to get replies or people who'll do them for you

Above all be patient, you never know when someone will take up your request

 

great advice, but im just hyper, sometimes i post over and over again until some one Creates the model, any way i just want the astray to be done that thing is awesome

 

hey klasnic do u make models?

 

This for all the nubs to requesting stuff, espcially if they dont know what to call it. please make this a sticky, and if there is anything i screwed up on please correct me.

Well it seems to me that alot of people here that are requesting things dont know the difference between a Model or a Skin.

There are 3 main pieces that make up almost every 3D charater you see.

They are the Model, the Skin, and a UV map.

Model - The model is the base. It is the shape. Just imagine your UT2k4/3 or what ever you play, WITHOUT all the colors, just imagine it ALL grey, one plain color, thats what a base model would look like.

Models are made out of Polygons. Basically when you make a Model you take a bunch of triangles and connect them to make the model.

The guns that you use, your character, the vehicles ARE ALL models.

Skin - The skin is what covers the model.

UV map - You make a UV map for a model so you know where to put all the body parts on a model. UT2k4 models only have 2 UV maps, one for the head and one for the body.
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lets say you wanted one of your characters to look like a military guy.

you would ask for a skin of a miitary looking guy. let me repeat. A SKIN

 

The only place I'll be doing modelling in the near future is on a catwalk

I'm reading up on it but I reckon I'll be about a year learning before I'll be able to model