[Pestilence]

and only palce the .dds file in the art/textures folder for ZH.

[Kelso]

What they're saying is that to view the skin on the model in RenX (and I also think in w3d viewer, someone correct me if i'm wrong) it can't be in dds format. But all you have to do is resave the tga as a dds with the same filename and then only put the dds in the textures folder. the game will read it automatically.

[Straxovich]

what happens if you dont make your skin square?

[Tesla-Chrono]

Anyone know the settings on saving as DDS please?

[Kelso]

@straxovich - It's not pretty, don't do it

@tesla-chrono - I think proclone's skinning tutorial covers this. Have a quick read of it.

[killakanz]

Another way of doing it is using multi pass textures, But that's a complicated way of doing it, I'd just stick to spliting the model up and applying different materials to the different parts.

[Tesla-Chrono]

I would just liek to know the best and quickest way, I got so many models to skin but have not found the right way yet that feels comfortable to me.

[killakanz]

Well, the quickest way, as everyone says, is to do them seperatly.
Detach a bit from the rest of the model and give it it's texture, if u decide to re-attach it again, when the attach options dialog appears chose the 'Match Materal to Material IDs' (middle) option, this will combine both textures into 1 Multi Sub Object material.
If you chose the other options you will just end up with 1 texture on both objects.

EDIT= oh yea, and dont weld the vertecies after re-attaching, that'll just screw it right up.

[Flyby]

Originally Posted by killakanz

EDIT= oh yea, and dont weld the vertecies after re-attaching, that'll just screw it right up.

That's where we differ in opinion...
I always reweld my models

[Pestilence]

yeah, I dont think I have ever had a problem welding after attaching to object like this.