Ok, im sure alot of you have waited for one of these... i know i have. the default sten skin is just plain ugly. it looks like plastic!

well i increased the BMP's to 512x512 for better detail. and ive been workin on this thing non-stop. but im almost done.

the one thing thats really getting irritating, is this transparency trick, i just cant get it to work, no matter what i do.:confused: i put in the last pallete of blue (neon) and i put in the line in the QC for the texture that needs to be maksed. and it compiles fine, but then it just doesent work. =\

but anyways, heres a picture of my progress. remember, this is only the second weapon re-skin ive done. hope ya like it. (this should hold ya all off until someoen makes a better one ;))

PICTURE (http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/Stenreskinbymelooksgood.jpg)

That looks really nice! Great work!

Unfortunately, I have trouble too with the stupid transparency, I have a scoped FG42 that matches my regular FG42, but the transparency won't work, so I can't release. I hope you find out what's wrong so you can release this! :D

Looks cool mate, I'll use it.

I've been having similar problems with transparencies. Some times it'll work fine and other times no matter what I do it'll not work.

Hope you fix it soon,

Ska

If you still can't get the transparency to work when you finish the model, send it to me (wfoy04@yahoo.com) and i'll see what i can do.

i really like this, doug the head im gonna send you my Bren re-skin, cus i released without transparency and just changed all blue to pretty much whatever was gonna be behind it, so exxpect an email if thats ok... btw u can find my bren at www.dodsupply.co.uk

which Bren is yours? the darkened one?

Awesome! I've got my own 'lil something on the way too ;)

HEY!! I'm reskinning the sten too... I've almost finished replacing the deleted backfaces so we'll have some high poly p and w models too :)
Render (http://students.washington.edu/jnilsen/stenrender.jpg)

A side note on tranparency.. you have to make absolutely sure the color you want to have transparent is the LAST color in the color table. Otherwise it will not work.

n1 bots ;)

btw, what exatcly does the text say on the little Clip-insert thing

"numbers here"
STEN MK II
>what does this say?<
1944

the text says LONGBRANCH, I know it took me a while to figure it out and I couldn't find alternative references anywhere else.

yeah doug, the only bren skin :) btw i love the sten release it please i love it

russ that looks so nice. very smooth, urs too bots keep it up

Originally posted by Bots
the text says LONGBRANCH, I know it took me a while to figure it out and I couldn't find alternative references anywhere else.

ok thx :)

@Doug the head

Ok well i dont know what to do with this thing, so im gonna send it to you. thx very much for the help. and if you have AIM, id' be great if i could get ur SN, this might make things easier

the skin is looking very good russ. conscript, keep up the good work :)

http://www.dodsupply.co.uk/images/hurray.jpg

Ska

jesus if its not one thing, its another. i finally get it to be transparent (thx devin) but then, the skin that has the transparent parts, ends up looking like **** in-game.

if anyone can help me out, id be very grateful as this transparency BS is a pain in the ass. :(

picture (http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/POSsten.jpg)

yeah I know.. I basically made a seperate smaller mesh for only the transparent portions because of that. Don't worry about russ... I got it covered :) I don't know why the transparency makes the rest of the skin look like **** though.

Originally posted by Bots
yeah I know.. I basically made a seperate smaller mesh for only the transparent portions because of that. Don't worry about russ... I got it covered :) I don't know why the transparency makes the rest of the skin look like **** though.

hey could you e-mail me the meshes & model so i can stick my skin on it?

esteen@adelphia.net

thx
-Con

check your pms

transparency is fubared because of texture misalignment, the skin looks weird ingame because Russ hasn't set gl_max_size to "512" or bigger.

no that has nothing to do with it.. if you will notice, any of the textures that are told be recognized for masked tranparency share the same qualties as russ's skin.. The encoding for transparency seems to degrade the texture quite a bit... the same thing happened to me, and now that I've sectioned off the transparency to a seperate mesh, the rest of the skin is left untouched...

i want this. thx.