A skin/mod i need made
 

Hey. I'm new to the Jedi Academy thing but I have already gotten a few mods downloaded and I have to say they are really cool. like the survival mods. but anyway I am getting kind of frustrated with downloading skins just to find out they on't work for singleplayer. Single player is the only thing I can do without the game crashing so I was wondering if someone could help me with a mini-mod to make a new character available in the species select thing. i have Mandos and Commander cody but I really want a Omega squad commando. can someone make one for singleplayer?

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here :
Forge Productions - How to Make a Single-Player Species With Variants

read , understand, do it! :)

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Sure, anyone can!
Forge Productions - How to Make a Single-Player Species With Variants

EDIT: Damn-it, Ashura. I had this one :(

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You need this? As in, it's life and death need?
Oh, want.
Okay, that's different.

my gosh I look away for 3 minutes and POW! anyway yeah i shuda probably said want but I lve commandos so yosh! I have tried to make one but i kinda suck at it. the helmet is always like 2x too big and his arm sometimes phases into the middle of his chest...

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Can you post some screenshot of the problem ?
If we cana ctually SEE what happends somebody here should be able to help you

oh and BTW : next time use the edit funtion ;)

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right...editing always makes it better =)

...ok new problem....my friend on yahoo told me how to fix the distortion problem but in the process I have turned he model completely white and now it just looks like wierd.
heres a screenshot. I use ModView.

my internet is crappy so it takes a while to upload so I will put it in an edit on this post

I lack enough technological brainpower to find out what is wrong but every time I open the model in mod view it shwos the error message ALOT!! then it pops up white

here it is

http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/q...ndofailure.png

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Make sure your .skin file is pointing to the correct paths.
Use base models as a reference.

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....and how do I do tht....I had help to acctually get the model to look slightly commando like but my friend did most of the editing. I just try and put it together but I really suck..thus why I am on here asking for help.

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Ok, listen...

See the .skin file in the folder?


Open it with notepad, then check and see if the folder name matches up with the paths.


EX:

folders name- commando

path-

deltacommando\head.tga

hmmm....all I see in the folder is model_default_icon no .skin...tht might be the problem.

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Well if there's no .skin file, there's no way for the game or ModView to know what images to apply to the 3d mesh. (Hence it showing up completely white)
We can't help you there - you gotta find where it went.

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well tht kinda stinks....well back to the old drwaing board because everything that was not in modview, tht folder, and my documents are completely gone....ok...so lets see. I already have a dark helmet, armor, legs, and gloves for the commando but I don't have a skin file.....if I let someone see them will u help make it? because by now I am losing faith in my orderlyness.

EDIT: something tells me I won't fins much help here....

Re: A skin/mod i need made
 

Buddy, a .skin file is a text file that shows the game where your textures are. If you take a look at one that works (and a closer look at the model it's for), then it takes exactly a braincell and a half to figure out how they work.

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nope. no text files. if I open up the model thing with notepad it just shows a whole bunch of crazy symbols.

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...f/dammit-1.jpg

Alright. I really hoped I wouldn't have to do this.


And if you don't have a .skin file, YOU MAKE ONE.

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hmmm...ok i sorta get it now. but I don't have icons for the torso legs and arms or those folders saying torso_a1 etc. maybe i should re-read that tut....
ok I got the model default changed to Jaicer (which is his name for now) and renamed the parts to Jaicerhead etc but it still shows up white and I still don't know how to make a .skin thing.
Nvm i got one from a friend

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If you are happy with one of the other republic commando models and skins, but are having trouble with the species tut, why not make an npc file for each character you like?

This would give you two advantages:
1. You could bind multiple keys to the troopers you wanted to play as. This would let you change from TrooperA to TrooperB with the press of a button.

2. You could spawn other commandos as friendly allies to fight along side you. Bind them to some keys and you could quickly spawn an army of commandos.

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You have to make them yourself. Easiest thing to do is copy the default icon and simply rename each piece, but that doesn't work well if you have more than one skin per piece.

My suggestion is to take another look at the tutorial. Carefully read each bit of it, and follow each step. The tutorials mentioned in this thread are the ones I learned from, so I can tell you that they work if you pay attention to what you are doing...

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the problem with makeing him an NPC is that whenever I spawn him as an ally then become him he attacks me with the DC-15 rifle and kills me. and whenever I fight him back it says you betrayed your friends and it starts me over

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What is the playerteam in the NPC file?

There are two playerteam fields, one for what team the NPC is, and one for team he attacks.

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both are on my side....I thought I was supposed to put player in both

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Make sure you set him up with this:

playerteam player
enemyteam enemy

Then he'll be friendly.

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ok fixed him and thats good enough for now but now i have been given a task tht i just cant seem to complete. my friends that have formed a clan with me (Black Hawks) want a custom skin for SP and MP of a guy in black cargo pants with black boots with a black hoodie (hood down) black hair and red eyes with a red shoulder pad on the right side with a slightly grayish hawk symbol on it....first off I don't know how to make the model so I tried to test with a reborn but I can't get him to become black in photobucket. I tried following Bael's skinning tutorial but he uses stuff that I can't find.

Picture provided by Black Hawk Artist Lewis....not on forums thts his real name....lewis.
http://s448.photobucket.com/albums/q...f.png&newest=1

this is what it would look like if it were anime but with the hood down.

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Kill the hood completely, and the Dante model would be a somewhat close fit. Actually, it's quite similar to my reskin of the Dante model... But if you want it with the hood, there's no model that I can think of off the top of my head that's close enough...

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he looks cool but I don't know if I can edit him to fit the standards...mainly because I really don't do hair that well.....and his hair is a lil different. plus I can't really use him without permission

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Without permission? The model's author doesn't require his permission for any reskins, and my reskin of that model doesn't require it either. Admittedly, there are differences, but unless you make a brand new model, you're gonna have to deal with differences anyway.

Also, I doubt that someone's gonna make a brand new model for you... This community doesn't seem to do many requests at all anymore.

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Photobucket doesn't have very good image-editing facilities... except rotating...
Maybe you'll have more luck editing the skins in photoshop or paint shop pro. =p

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Or Gimp.

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oops. I do that everytime. I ment photoshop. I don't know why I say photobucket. anyway the only way I can change the color is if I go to layer, new adjustment layer, color balance, then try and make it black or gray but it never comes out black or gray. as for the requests, yeah I just need some advice not someone makeing it now because I think I got the hang of it....except for hair...i still suck at that.

ok the model is for jedi outcast...will that be a problem if I try and put it in academy?

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JK2 models will work for JA, mostly.
And eh, just spend some time learning to use Photoshop's features.

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The only problem that the model has in JA is that if you use two sabers, the left one will never leave the hand.

Other than that, it will work just fine.

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for photoshop. I have used it before to make sprites for someone but never for anything like the 3d models. I only use 1 saber anyway so I guess he'll work.....but can't anyone tell me how to make it dark gray or black in photoshop?

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You mean for skins? Just use a dark gray or black color, or if you want a cool shiny texture, just use a gradient.

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but how do I use a gradient. I don't understand most of the controls for photoshop just the paintbrush.

ok. seems every model i dwonload only works for MP and tht wont work 1. because i don't have internet on tht computer anymore and 2 everytime i try and play i get this page
http://s448.photobucket.com/albums/q...r.jpg&newest=1

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That error is usually associated with a pirate copy of the game. If you do indeed have an illegal copy of the game you'll be banned. Just shuck out the $20 on steam and get the full series including: DF, JK, JO and JA.

If you have a legit game then I don't know how you got that error.

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Last time I checked, we don't ban people who own illegal game copies. We simply don't help them with their problems. That's the forum rule / policy.

And it is indeed possible to get that error with a legal copy of the game. I'm not exactly sure how, but I remember someone with a legal copy of the game (or at least he said he owns legal copy) asking for help with that problem.

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It's usually associated with no-CD cracks, which may or may not indicate an illegitimate copy of the game. However Tricorder is right in that there are (very few) ways to receive that error with a completely legitimate copy of the game without using a no-CD crack.

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I think I've gotten that error before on custom maps.

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It can also be caused by JA's networking buffers somehow becoming corrupt.
I've never heard of such a case in my time.
And if it's happening every time, no matter the circumstances, I'm convinced he's using a crack.

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i have a legal copy. it started happening after i added maps and characters then i removed em all and it still happened

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Well that doesn't make sense. If the game is in its original state, nothing should be wrong.
Try copying your jamp.exe from your CD back into your GameData folder.

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I get the error about once a month, usually though it happens once and a /reconnect afterwards is just fine. Know clue what causes it, but I have too noticed that custom maps/lugormod servers cause most of them, too.

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ok its sorta working now. if I play a solo game on custom maps it still crashes but MP games with other people it works fine. anyway im done with the modding thing. i just got republic commando and im gonna play tht for a while.