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Title: Wire frame or Wire map skinning?
Post by: Outcast on September 23, 2007, 06:54:29 PM
Most of the tutorials i see in skinning involves a skin base. I was wondering, how do you make a skin when you have only a wire frame or wire map to begin with?  :unsure:
Title: Re: Wire frame or Wire map skinning?
Post by: Lunarman on September 23, 2007, 10:09:27 PM
You download a skin base that matches a wireframe from the FFbaseskins1 yahoo group.

If you only have a wireframe then you either have to adapt a baseskin to fit the wiremap, with a lot of cutting and pasting. Or you make a new base skin (only for experience skinners)
Title: Re: Wire frame or Wire map skinning?
Post by: Outcast on September 24, 2007, 02:30:33 AM
Quote from: Lunarman on September 23, 2007, 10:09:27 PM
You download a skin base that matches a wireframe from the FFbaseskins1 yahoo group.

If you only have a wireframe then you either have to adapt a baseskin to fit the wiremap, with a lot of cutting and pasting. Or you make a new base skin (only for experience skinners)

Thanks for replying Lunarman. A lot of cutting and pasting eh,will try that.  Maybe some of the experienced skinners here would like to give some tips or tutorials...on making a new base skin? :rolleyes: Well, will try and experiment more for the meantime. :P
Title: Re: Wire frame or Wire map skinning?
Post by: Night Dragon on September 24, 2007, 03:30:03 AM
 Check the pinned topic at the top of this forum. It has loads of tips and tricks for skinning.
Title: Re: Wire frame or Wire map skinning?
Post by: JKCarrier on September 24, 2007, 07:39:25 AM
What mesh are you trying to skin, Outcast?
Title: Re: Wire frame or Wire map skinning?
Post by: Outcast on September 24, 2007, 09:27:18 AM
Quote from: JKCarrier on September 24, 2007, 07:39:25 AM
What mesh are you trying to skin, Outcast?

Well, the idea first came to me when i read in some threads here, that a few people are requesting the wiremaps of certain meshes/skins/skopes as an alternative, when the mesh/skin/skope they wanted couldn't be released by the one who made them. :unsure:

Also,while i was attempting to skin an alchemiss_straighthair_nocape mesh/sailorvenus and a female_amazon mesh, I was a bit confused with the way the skins were displayed.It was kinda jumbled  :wacko: and unlike most skins i'm familiar with,like C6 base skins,Gryphon's base skins. So I was probably trying to find an easier way of understanding how to skin these types of meshes. :blink: Anyways, i'll try to review the available tutorials here. Then maybe just start with something more simple instead.  :P