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Robot Arena => Discussion => Topic started by: russian roulette on September 20, 2009, 06:44:49 PM

Title: Robot Skin Crisis
Post by: russian roulette on September 20, 2009, 06:44:49 PM
A ton of robots have boring, bland, uninteresting, or lazy paint jobs. This tutorial will fix that. When I see a perfectly painted bot I see graffiti, digital, colorful, or something out of the ordinary. You might not know it, but you could be lazy AND have a kick-ass paintjob too! I get my paint jobs by simply typing in on google pictures either "graffic art" or "(3D) digital wallpaper". Now just choose the best part of the picture you see, cut it in your favorite art program, and paste it in the desired place in your bot. A good example would be my raw 2 bot, Mercury (see my stock showcase) it uses my method to give it a liquid metal look. I will get some pics later.
Title: Robot Skin Crisis
Post by: Reier on September 20, 2009, 06:46:53 PM
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Mercury's skin is bland.
Title: Robot Skin Crisis
Post by: russian roulette on September 20, 2009, 06:52:07 PM
Oops! that was the other mercury skin. It is ALOT better now.
Title: Robot Skin Crisis
Post by: Jack Daniels on September 20, 2009, 07:10:40 PM
I was supposed to write a skinning tutorial last year... but, I got a bit tied up.  I hope to do it someday though.  I agree with you on looking for unique pictures online and using the best parts for the design of the bot.
Title: Robot Skin Crisis
Post by: Urjak on September 20, 2009, 07:43:01 PM
I personally enjoy bland paintjobs. The robots I build very rarely look good.
Title: Robot Skin Crisis
Post by: GameKing3 on September 20, 2009, 08:50:15 PM
Quote from: Urjak;67551
I personally enjoy bland paintjobs. The robots I build very rarely look good.

Yea maybe they look bland but they are always pretty formidable opponents.
Title: Robot Skin Crisis
Post by: Reier on September 21, 2009, 08:25:09 AM
I like a good paintjob a lot. Click's always are awesome. Personally I'm lazy, and made a bunch of skins like Sage and just paint the whole chassis...but it still looks cool. :P
Title: Robot Skin Crisis
Post by: RedSawn on September 21, 2009, 08:31:50 AM
I'm curious about this new Mercury paintjob. Because building on what Reier said about blandness, a bad skinner making a skinning tutorial.. doesn't really work.
Title: Robot Skin Crisis
Post by: Reier on September 21, 2009, 08:32:36 AM
Red's a sweet skinner too.
Title: Robot Skin Crisis
Post by: JoeBlo on September 21, 2009, 08:36:34 AM
yeah I have always liked reds skinning :-D
Title: Robot Skin Crisis
Post by: Condor33 on September 21, 2009, 09:16:52 AM
I just use the painjobs that come with the game, you can make it look pretty good, actually.
Title: Robot Skin Crisis
Post by: JoeBlo on September 21, 2009, 09:22:28 AM
I have made a few DSL paint jobs using only what came with the game, after layers and layers of decals and edging I made a really cool design