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Robot Arena => General Support => Topic started by: Ben Purse on June 18, 2011, 03:31:57 AM

Title: Skinning with photos?
Post by: Ben Purse on June 18, 2011, 03:31:57 AM: How can I skin components with photos? I have seen people do it for replicas and I want to know how to do it.
Title: Re: Skinning with photos?
Post by: JoeBlo on June 18, 2011, 03:42:07 AM: Open the RA2 folder
Open the folder called tutorials
Read
???
Profit
Title: Re: Skinning with photos?
Post by: Ben Purse on June 18, 2011, 04:27:10 AM: Doesn`t help.
Title: Re: Skinning with photos?
Post by: Squirrel_Monkey on June 18, 2011, 04:29:43 AM: He wants to skin components,not the chassis. Best to mak a copy of the component and rename it. Then just edit the map.
Title: Re: Skinning with photos?
Post by: JoeBlo on June 18, 2011, 04:42:15 AM: Quote from: Squirrel_Monkey on June 18, 2011, 04:29:43 AM
He wants to skin components,not the chassis.

Oops let me add some steps..

Open the RA2 folder
Open the folder called components
Open the desired component folder
Open the folder called maps
Edit image
???
Profit

Edit: or this

https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,2358.0.html (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,2358.0.html)
Title: Re: Skinning with photos?
Post by: Ben Purse on June 18, 2011, 05:09:04 AM: Ok. I want to skin a DSL Disc with the disc in this picture.
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/53530afterthought.jpg)
In the game though it shows as a black disc with a picture of the Afterthought disc. Ive seen Scrap Daddy do a Afterthought rep with what I suspect with a photo disc. I know how to do decals. Most BBAI reps do the same things with photos.
Title: Re: Skinning with photos?
Post by: Naryar on June 18, 2011, 02:15:06 PM: It is INCREDIBLY EASY for anyone using it's brain...

Simply find a photo of what you want on the web, and paste it in the component image skin.

Make sure the statistics of the image are like they were before. Most notably, it's size must be unchanged else it'll screw up.
Title: Re: Skinning with photos?
Post by: Sparkey98 on June 18, 2011, 02:53:01 PM: Hell, I could just draw that blade by hand :V
Title: Re: Skinning with photos?
Post by: 123savethewhales on June 18, 2011, 09:25:13 PM: This photo is bad and will not work at all. You need images as flat and forward facing as possible.

Quote from: Sypher878 on June 18, 2011, 02:53:01 PM
Hell, I could just draw that blade by hand :V
It won't look good, at least it won't look anywhere near as good as an enhanced photograph.
Title: Re: Skinning with photos?
Post by: Clickbeetle on June 18, 2011, 10:45:51 PM: If you have a fancy image editing program like Photoshop, there are some nice skew/perspective correction tools you can use to get a flat skin out of an oblique photo like that. But it's still better if you can find a photo that's already at the proper angle.
Title: Re: Skinning with photos?
Post by: JoeBlo on June 19, 2011, 05:58:23 AM: Quote from: 123savethewhales on June 18, 2011, 09:25:13 PM
This photo is bad and will not work at all. You need images as flat and forward facing as possible.

I could edit that photo no problem to get a straight image..

Also could redraw it up no problem with all the correct bevel effects, etc