I'm trying to learn how to skin and I ran into a problem. I'm working on a simple re-skin for my clan; putting our regiment patch over the screaming eagle on the E Company para models. I decompiled and edited the skin fine, but how do I recompile the new skin into the model?

Save the edited skin the same name as the original. Overwrite the original and then compile. :)

right but how do I compile?

Ok, i figured compiling out but when I did, my para models looked like this...
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/Iromknight/skin.bmp

anyone?

Are you using the DoD compiler?

yeah the one recomended in the stickies, anyone know where I went wrong?

Looks like to me that you got your transparency, additive and/or chrome checked in the model viewer before you saved the model.

you do not need to decompile/recompile the model to edit the texture. click the link in my sig , the one that says make your own flags it will help you