Author Topic: Hurricane Component Skins (Attempt) (Read 2991 times)

HurricaneAndrew · « **on:** August 16, 2009, 10:51:13 PM »

I have been making a few custom component skins just for fun and kind of wondered what you would guys think of them.

New skin for the Large Air Tank:

And for the Supervolt:

Well... are they crap? lol

Flying_Chao · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2009, 11:17:40 PM »

What do they look like in game?

HurricaneAndrew · « **Reply #2 on:** August 17, 2009, 12:05:36 AM »

Here is a shot of them in a chassis.

TriTon · « **Reply #3 on:** August 17, 2009, 12:11:46 AM »

Not bad.

JoeBlo · « **Reply #4 on:** August 17, 2009, 12:25:14 AM »

looking quite good... simple and clean.

my only question is (and I ask everyone this) have your thought about proper GMF editing the components so you can have multiple skins in the one game ?

russian roulette · « **Reply #5 on:** August 17, 2009, 12:52:34 AM »

Again with joeblo...
You can also make a txt file that will make a new component but just a duplicate of that so you dont have to loose the skin before that.

JoeBlo · « **Reply #6 on:** August 17, 2009, 03:30:12 AM »

you cant make copies of components without GMF editing .... the game will get confused with multiple BMP's with the same name

only reason I always bring it up is its not only useful but quite a fun skill to have and its so easy using the tutorial on the beetle bros site

Pwnator · « **Reply #7 on:** August 17, 2009, 03:32:48 AM »

Quote from: JoeBlo;60063

looking quite good... simple and clean.

my only question is (and I ask everyone this) have your thought about proper GMF editing the components so you can have multiple skins in the one game ?

Use styles instead like what Sage did to his skin pack.

JoeBlo · « **Reply #8 on:** August 17, 2009, 03:51:07 AM »

if im not mistaken it would still require GMF editing otherwise say if you clicked the standard supervolt first then all styles will appear that way until you close the game

Pwnator · « **Reply #9 on:** August 17, 2009, 04:10:41 AM »

Really? I thought copy/pasting would work. XD

Sage · « **Reply #10 on:** August 17, 2009, 07:49:34 AM »

Its actually more involved than you might think.

First, you make a new skin. Next, you make a copy of the GMF of the component, decompile it, and change name of the .bmp in there to the name of the new .bmp you made. Now one would have to make a copy of the components's .txt file and change the name and GMF that the .txt uses. Rename that .txt and put it in the styles folder. Lastly, in the original .txt, instead of having the line say "Styles = Default" change it to "Styles = Normal, newskin.txt, New Skin."

I'll make a in depth tutorial with pictures later.

JoeBlo · « **Reply #11 on:** August 17, 2009, 08:10:02 AM »

there is a good one on the beetle brothers site (minus the styles part but its fairly easy to pick up)

trumpetguy · « **Reply #12 on:** August 17, 2009, 09:28:36 AM »

I think it looks cartoosh and that is a good thing, well in my books.

Weirdo · « **Reply #13 on:** August 17, 2009, 09:32:00 AM »

If the intention is to make it look cartoonish, then it does work very well.

GameKing3 · « **Reply #14 on:** August 17, 2009, 09:51:17 AM »

Yea the skins really are fairly good.

HurricaneAndrew · « **Reply #15 on:** August 17, 2009, 04:22:16 PM »

I am doing these in a different copy of stock than I build in, so at this point, I'm not worried about having the originals still in the game.

Edit:

I have made a skin for the Nifty 6v battery.

I replaced the original .bmp with the new skin .bmp which had the same file name, but it doesn't show up in the game for some reason.

JoeBlo · « **Reply #16 on:** August 18, 2009, 04:01:47 AM »

doesn't show as it the components is white ? or doesn't show up in the game at all ?

for the former

might have something to do with some programs will save files as .bmp while others .BMP while this doesn't effect programs it may effect the game also the bitmap might be different (does RA2 use 24 bit ?)

Sage · « **Reply #17 on:** August 18, 2009, 12:31:20 PM »

Yea you have to save it as a 24 bit instead of 32.

HurricaneAndrew · « **Reply #18 on:** August 18, 2009, 06:47:37 PM »

I'm pretty sure I saved it as 24 bit, but I'll check.

I mean the component is there, but it's still the original skin.

JoeBlo · « **Reply #19 on:** August 19, 2009, 01:53:40 AM »

did you make a copy of the component ? or edit the original ?