Viper skinning requests

[Viper]

Well i was looking at madmans requests spot and ive been inspired to make my own to help advance my skinning career. I will only to skins for wc3 models(no custom models as i cant do those yet) and with a breif description of what you would like changed.

Peace out

ps also will do sigs but will pm those to you

 

[Falcoknight]

Hey, can you make me a dragon using the paladin model, make his skin scaly and his face reptilian, his clothes should be blue, with a green belt. His moustache could be made into some pincer thing, and his beard could be alpha'd into something. His scales should be green.

Thanks

 

[Viper]

Lol i forgot about this thread ill see what i can do but im making no promises.

 

[Benx_X]

that sounds pretty hard lol

 

[Viper]

Yes i know that's why im not making any promises...then again he probaly posted it just to challenge me.I'll try it except the beard i have no clu what alphaing is or how to do it.

 

[Undead_Lives]

You should look for some skinning tuts somewhere to find out.

 

[Viper]

I have a site for skinning tuts on the program i use but w/e deals with alpha doesnt explain it in context(as in not at all)

 

[Benx_X]

i think alpha is just rubbing it out basicly

 

[Viper]

Perhaps but wouldnt that mess with the model at all?

 

[Benx_X]

it does lol, in an old blade master skin i made i rubbed out the sword a bit so it looked jagged, and it did so you can make some pretty cool stuff sometimes

 

[Dragonskull]

Alphaing is simple, in .blp skins there is a channel called 'Alpha 1', which uses black and white to determine alpha. When you convert to .tga, you will keep the layer. I don't know what happens with .jpg (but I think it goes away) and .bmp is just crap.
What you do; when you want to, say alpha out a sword, you select the sword with a selecting tool, and change channel into 'Alpha 1', then you turn the part you want to remove black. And check what happens in the viewer - either, nothing happens, it changes into teamcolor, or it gets removed. This can only be determined by the modeller, who sets what kind of mesh it shall be.

A little messy, but it should be a fair enough explanation.

 

[Viper]

Kool thx ill have to give it a try sometime