Skin Help PLZ!!!
 

Hey guys, I recently created a basic skin(used the Tankcommander model). I just replaced the face and fixed the shader and tiki file so that it pointed to all the correct files. This skin turned out fine(worked in gameplay), but i still wanted to change the color of the coat and hat. The program I am using to edit the textures is Photoshop CS(v.8). What I have been doing is just opening the coat and hat file and then going to Edit->Fill. When that window came up I selected the color I needed in the Contents section under Color. Then under the Blending section I selected Overlay and 100% opacity and pressed ok. I repeated that step about 2 more times to get it to a tanish color, saved the 2 files as tga files and renamed them from the tc_coat and tc_hat, fixed the tiki and the shaders file and made a pk3 file, and put it in the mainta folder. However, when I went the Multiplayer options and select my new axis skin, only the new face showed up....What am I doing wrong. I have looked at many skinning tuts. and have the correct locations of the files and renamed them. Please help. Thanks.

oOo: if you have kept the names the same try turning texture compression off although i dont think this matters in player skinning try it any way.
also if it is the same name and its the wrong size it will use the original.

I keep texture compression off anyways because I have moded gun skins. Right now i have a working model of the tc model with a Mushroomhead face. here is a screenie of it.
[img]http://img72.photobucket.com/albums/v218/The-G-Man/501%20Mohaa%20Clan/My_Mushroomhead_Skin_05_25_2004.jpg[/img]

If u look in this pic, this is how i want the tc_coat to look like(person in the middle).
[img]http://img72.photobucket.com/albums/v218/The-G-Man/Mushroomhead_group_photo.jpg[/img]

When i edited the coat and hat but filling it will a color and saved it i renamed it mushroomheadcoat.tga and mushroomheadhat.tga.

Here is my shader and tiki file so if any find a mistake tell me.
Shader:

Mushroomheadcoat
{
qer_editorimage textures/models/human/germanmaps/Mushroomhead/Mushroomheadcoat.tga
{
map textures/common/reflection1.tga
rgbGen lightingSpherical
tcgen environmentmodel
}
{
map textures/models/human/germanmaps/Mushroomhead/Mushroomheadcoat.tga
rgbGen lightingSpherical
blendFunc GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA GL_SRC_ALPHA
}
}
Mushroomheadcoat_c
{
qer_editorimage textures/models/human/germanmaps/Mushroomhead/Mushroomheadcoat.tga
cull none
{
map textures/common/reflection1.tga
rgbGen lightingSpherical
tcgen environmentmodel
}
{
map textures/models/human/germanmaps/Mushroomhead/Mushroomheadcoat.tga
rgbGen lightingSpherical
blendFunc GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA GL_SRC_ALPHA
}
}
l_gloves
{
qer_editorimage textures/models/human/germanmaps/Mushroomhead/l_gloves.tga
{
map textures/common/reflection1.tga
rgbGen lightingSpherical
tcgen environmentmodel
}
{
map textures/models/human/germanmaps/Mushroomhead/l_gloves.tga
rgbGen lightingSpherical
blendFunc GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA GL_SRC_ALPHA
}
}

Mushroomheadhat
{
qer_editorimage textures/models/human/germanmaps/Mushroomhead/Mushroomheadhat.tga
{
map textures/common/reflection1.tga
rgbGen lightingSpherical
tcgen environmentmodel
}
{
map textures/models/human/germanmaps/Mushroomhead/Mushroomheadhat.tga
rgbGen lightingSpherical
blendFunc GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA GL_SRC_ALPHA
}
}

Mushroomhead
{
qer_editorimage textures/models/human/faces/Mushroomhead.tga
{
map textures/models/human/faces/Mushroomhead.tga
rgbGen lightingSpherical
}
}

Tiki:

TIKI
setup
{
path models/human/german_panzer_tankcommander // Set path to set skelmodel from
skelmodel panzer_tankcommander.skd // Set body model

surface coat1 shader Mushroomheadcoat
surface pants shader obershutze_pants
surface coat2 shader Mushroomheadcoat_c


path models/human/heads // Set new path for head model
skelmodel head7.skd // Set head model
surface head shader mushroomhead

path models/human/hands
skelmodel hand.skd
surface hand shader l_gloves

path models/equipment/germangear




skelmodel tankofficerhat.skd
surface hat shader Mushroomheadhat
}


//
// define what folder to get specific sound from for the player model
//
$define pulloutdir sound/weapons/pullout


init
{
client
{
// Cache sounds here
}
server
{
voicetype axis5 // set the voicetype to use for multiplayer instant messaging
}
}


//
// include the base player model definition
//
$include models/player/base/include.txt

// need to indicate the end of the tiki file because we have a tiki command at the end
//end

Ok guys after hours apon hours of testing and editing the shader and tiki files, i did the simple thing of renaming the textures from mushroomhead_coat.tga(this was the name of the coat texture in v1) to mh_coat_v2.tga. IT WORKED...it was that simple too lol i feel like a dumbass now. Anyways, thanks for the help sephy2005.

I would like to submit these skins, but I cant figure out where to submit them. On the main page alliedassault.com, I sent my stuff to the "Submit" link. After a day or two i got a return e-mail saying it didnt go through. Then I looked in the forums and tryed to post under the MMS submission and approval but it said only moderators could. Where do i sent my stuff???
Thanks.

you need to send it to a file moderator so he/she can upload it for approval.

no can do, adir (the file submittion system) is down and has been for sometime. Sorry to say but we can't approve anything right now.

ouch.

Well send it to http://www.mohfiles.com then.

are they even accepting, i've had two of my philadelphia eagles fans skins wwaiting forever to be accepted.

i've given up on sending stuff to mohfiles, even bfvfiles sux for posting and getting info right annoy:

That Mushroom Head skin is pretty cool

well give it to me then PKM and i will add it to the =Fs= site.
I'm lazy about uploading files but i'll hook you up. biggrin:

Nice avatar creeping pretty cool skins too.

tony montana rock:

"hey fock u mang, who put this thing together...me..thats who...who do i trust? me."