Seprithro Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Ok as we all know the default saber skin sucks. As most skinners know, the uv map is the reason it sucks. It makes re-skinning the hilt very limiting, and just plain a pain. About 3% of the tga was actually used on the model in the old uvmap, and all of it overlaped somewhere. Recently Chains.2da, gave me an idea of how to solve this problem; re-map it. So i came up with this A brand new complete uv map for the default hilt model. It has each of the 20 layers of the hilt, seperately mapped and seperated for much easier skinning. Included in the zip, the default mdl and mdx(with new mapping), the new tga. file, and a copy of the orignal psd. Use the model files however you want, for anything you want(they're not mine, too cheap looking;) ) If you just drop the files in Over-ride, you will only change the green saber, and it will have the "map" skin. you can easily change all sabers to use this map, or you can use it to make custom hilts that wont overwrite the defaults. Get the files here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Cool stuff, Sep, it would of made my old skin job a lot easier.... now if only someone was nice enough to do this sort of thing for my new model seeing as I am so incapable of doing it myself..... wink .... wink ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Originally posted by Seprithro Ok as we all know the default saber skin sucks. As most skinners know, the uv map is the reason it sucks. It makes re-skinning the hilt very limiting, and just plain a pain. About 3% of the tga was actually used on the model in the old uvmap, and all of it overlaped somewhere. Recently Chains.2da, gave me an idea of how to solve this problem; re-map it. So i came up with this A brand new complete uv map for the default hilt model. It has each of the 20 layers of the hilt, seperately mapped and seperated for much easier skinning. Beautiful Sep! This will help out so many people (me included)! Especially those still daunted by GMAX & modeling, this will at least give hope to some new unique sabers. I look forward to all the new hilts I'm sure we'll see in the next coming weeks (that's your cue peepz... hehehe) Especially since BoL_Stryke has stated that TSL's sabers are the original tube sabers that haunt us till this day This is something that is going to keep helping throughout the run of TSL and it's modding lifespan... Just as a 'supplement' to help everyone out, here's a visual reference of what Sep's new UVmap affects. There's no limitations (and no excuses) now not to have some really fine skins available! Normal Saber (Seprithro) Skin Map Views **- just right click and "Save" to have a copy of this reference. Have it opened alongside Sep's Skin Map to see "what affects what" Awesome Job indeed Sep, and thanks for doing this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T7nowhere Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Originally posted by ChAiNz.2da Normal Saber (Seprithro) Skin Map Views DUDE! that looks awesome you have to realease that... Nice job Sep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Originally posted by T7nowhere DUDE! that looks awesome you have to realease that... Nice job Sep. :lol: Yeah, I think we can call it "Sep's Hippy-Trip Psycho-Derelict Saber" Stats: +5 to hit +5 Damage On Hit - 100% Confusion (or Euphoric Bliss) Side effects - May cause 'the munchies' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkkender Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Thank you sep for this I've got to go and actually make use of this. Are there any plans to release a short & double saber version of this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T7nowhere Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Originally posted by Darkkender Are there any plans to release a short & double saber version of this? That be a bit redundant, the uvmaps for those hilts are decent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkkender Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Originally posted by T7nowhere That be a bit redundant, the uvmaps for those hilts are decent. I was not aware of that T7. The way I see everybody talk I got the impression they all sucked. I'm one of those who this release was designed for.(Somebody who needs a paint by numbers:p ) I've got the screenies of failed retextures of armor to prove it.(They may just find posting later this week. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilles Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Originally posted by T7nowhere That be a bit redundant, the uvmaps for those hilts are decent. Agreed. After messing around to determine how the regular lightsaber was mapped, I was amazed to find that the short saber and double saber were mapped coherently... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T7nowhere Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 Originally posted by Darkkender I was not aware of that T7. The way I see everybody talk I got the impression they all sucked. I'm one of those who this release was designed for.(Somebody who needs a paint by numbers:p ) I've got the screenies of failed retextures of armor to prove it.(They may just find posting later this week. ) Don't you remember a couple days ago when ChAiNz.2da posted the uv maps to be used when skinning those hilts. Agreed. After messing around to determine how the regular lightsaber was mapped, I was amazed to find that the short saber and double saber were mapped coherently... This is why with almost certanty I would say bioware either had a perpetually baked artist or it was his first day ever using 3ds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Stryke Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 I get a server error when trying to download these. Are you planning on posting it elsewhere? Awesome work by the way, definitely will be useful next week EDIT: got the file, disregard the first part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Smaug Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 looking good ! ! ! release a double-bladed version of it! ! ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkkender Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 Originally posted by T7nowhere Don't you remember a couple days ago when ChAiNz.2da posted the uv maps to be used when skinning those hilts. Yeah that's why I made the paint by numbers crack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harker Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Any word if this UV map works with TSL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Originally posted by Harker Any word if this UV map works with TSL? Nope. Unfortunately, Sep's much better UVmap was created by using the new model of regular saber. TSL won't be able to read the old KotOR saber model this was created for... TSL's regular saber UV isn't quite as bad as KotOR's was, and I know somewhere around here T7 had made one... I just haven't had any luck finding it yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harker Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Ahhh... thanks Chainz! Le me know if you find it as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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