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Title: starting help for gear skins?
Post by: Lemiwinks on February 19, 2016, 11:05:41 AM
been scouring the web for days trying to find any tutorial for making gear skins and the best i can find is for bike skins, followed the steps exactly but just on gear wireframes. tried to import to the skin packager and when i import the bmp absolutely nothing shows up
Title: Re: starting help for gear skins?
Post by: Lemiwinks on February 19, 2016, 11:06:50 AM
tutorial based off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgChIDVjiis

this is what im trying to add its just to see where things connect and what goes where, this is the jpeg version. the bmp doesnt load into the packager at all. http://s1272.photobucket.com/user/david_bennett3/media/lemigear_zpszyrgick2.jpg.html
Title: Re: starting help for gear skins?
Post by: Darkslides19 on February 19, 2016, 12:45:27 PM
i'm not rly working with the skim packager but as far as i know it only accepts .bmp..
Title: Re: starting help for gear skins?
Post by: mcm2boys on February 19, 2016, 01:48:27 PM
hmm, there are a few things that might be a problem:

1) For gear you first need to add a gear item to the list on the left habd side (for bikes they are already there) by selecting one of the gear type tabs just on right of the gear list.
  a) Then click on the Blue helmet button to add a gear item. You might need to change the gear type selection tab back and forth to enable the blue icon. Seems like there may be a bug there - it disables itself sometimes.
  b) Then select the gear item from the list you want to add a bmp to.
  c) Then press the open folder button just above the texture preview window - not the green button in the main toolbar.

2) If you did all that then it might be a format issue with the BMP, try using 24 or 32 bit if you weren't already.
Title: Re: starting help for gear skins?
Post by: Lemiwinks on February 19, 2016, 09:08:26 PM
ill record what im doing and post it to youtube. just give me a 6 months do download obs at 2kbps
Title: Re: starting help for gear skins?
Post by: Lemiwinks on February 19, 2016, 10:01:32 PM
https://youtu.be/Q0g-8vZkJoQ
Title: Re: starting help for gear skins?
Post by: Darkslides19 on February 20, 2016, 07:42:26 AM
again i'm not the skin guy but i think that you import your .bmp by clicking that: https://gyazo.com/87f4dcd0d92cbf61c8549bfaeed2d944
Title: Re: starting help for gear skins?
Post by: Lemiwinks on February 21, 2016, 12:30:42 AM
omg thanks dark, feel like such an idiot. got it sorted.
Title: Re: starting help for gear skins?
Post by: Darkslides19 on February 21, 2016, 08:46:47 AM
No problem ;)