I was working on my new (yet very very secret, hush hush) axis pack, and started cursing. The damn default models only have two body sets, so god forbid you'd want to make a skin that is only on the damn Unter, it shows up on everyone. And making the sniper unique? yeah, right.

Then I saw all these frickin cool-ass refrence pics of helmets and hats, and I know they are on some other models, but I cant get them off of those and onto the defaults, I was about ready to give up and do another sub-par reskin/color of like.....Dev's ss4 or something...but then thought to myself.

God dammit, Dev can do it, Trigger can do it....hell, why can't I? I want to become a major skinner/modeler in this community, my two allied reskins and my gun skins have garnered some fans, and If I learned to skin, than I can learn hacking/modeling. So I'm resigning myself to learn once and for all.

I'm reading all the tutorials that are stickied and am downloading Milkshape (No 3dsm for joe :( )

At first, I want to concentrate on taking off things, putting on new things from other models, making it so that I can have like...a new body mesh for the smg class and whatnot....maybe have 4 diffrent body meshes so models can get some more diversity.

Can anyone share some insight? Help me learn? I've only ever used Milkshape once, and I couldn't even make a 3d box....so I'm gonna need some help besides a bunch of tutorials. Any suggestions are welcome.

Also if you have any unreleased headgear, boots, or body meshes that I can somewhat easily attach to the default axis, please PM me, or if you feel brave, post them here. I'd like to get away with a hackjob for my first pack so that I can segway into full modeling.

Thanks...

--V

Yar, come on people. Vandal needs a hand, alot of the tutorials stickied are assuming you know what the hell you're talking about...

I need something writted in plain english :(

You could assign the bodies and gear to the faces, and make the gear and body *.smds blank. Just figure out which faces go to which class.

It works better if you ask specific questions.I for one am not inclined to help somebody who doesn't ask about a specific issue.

Yo. I think you know my Screen name. You sounds like the guy that wants to learn more, and not just beg me for favors. Find me, and I'll tell you anything you need to know.

Yar! Cheers folks. Sorry trigger, lets be more specific you're right.

I don't know what anything means. "Assign blah blah blarg" All I see is babble, I can't find what I should do. Although I was messing with Ms3d, and I made a boat looking thing, than turned it upside down and it looked like a blimp. So I can make shapes. I think. Ehh....How can I take a helmet from say, an american inf soldier and put it on a german inf soldier? (One step at a time)

Dev..its nice to see that you're willing to help. You're right, I'm not gonna sit here and say "I want this gun modeled" or "I want this done" I wanna do it myself. I'll catch up with you, brother.

I have work at 6pm-10pm est. Im here now, and im not sure for how long.

Wow you work the same EXACT time I do. Odd. :P

I don't see you online, maybe when we get home, I can hook up with you?

Fo sho.

You know my Yahoo ID.

Originally posted by Skullz_Vandal

I don't see you online, maybe when we get home, I can hook up with you?

*laughs arse off with immaturity* Did i jus log onto the dating angency by mistake? lol sorry, couldn't resist.

If all else fails, just do what i do. Bug Devin, Trigger or Russ. till they help you lol

Basically what they mean by assign things to blah blah is instead of breaking your model up into head, body, gear etc just make all your model in the head .smd and then in the .qc file remove all the text for the others (e.g. stuido "body.smd" etc) and type 'blank' in the space instead.

You probally dint understand a word of that as I'm crap at explaining things so you'd best just ask Dev lol

Ska