Models Help: Since I'm just now learning models, I don't have much here yet, only links to some programs.
Sections:
At any time I refer to the RETOUCH mode, remember,
the AIRBRUSH can be used for the same thing.
Lighting Effects | This shows 2 different ways to add lighting to a skin (lighting from a light on the skin) |
Visors | Really small tutor showing how I made that visor look like a visor on the break skin. |
Pipes! | You see them on my skins and other things, now see how I drew them. |
Q2 Face | Drawing the Face in Quake2 in 16 million colors. A great tutor for learning faces. |
Q2 Arms | Drawing the Arms in Quake2 in 16 million colors. This is a really good tutor (I think). |
Q1 Help | Quake 1 player skin help, with information on palette, wireframe, in-game, etc. |
Q2 Help | Basically the same as the Q1 help, but for Quake 2 of course. |
FAQ | Question I get in email I've put in here, so look here first. |
Basic Drawing | Simple drawing of a head for the q1 player skin |
Shaded Metal | Drawing techniques for metal, or really anything |
Simple Texture | Basic drawing of a texture, showing a few techniques that I use |
Programs for making Skins and/or Textures:
Paint Shop Pro | I use this for drawing skins and textures, or whatever I feel like drawing. I have used it since I have started, and I think it is great. PSP covers mostly all of the drawing needs that I have. |
Adobe Photoshop | Another great program used by me and
many people for drawing skins and textures. It's has a much better airbrush than PSP. Grab this plug-in for photoshop that lets you open and save .WAL files used for q2 textures (this plug-in also works for Corel Photopaint |
NPherno's Skin Tool | For MD2 files, allows you to draw
directly on the model. What I have linked is to a site, go to the tools section for download. |
MS Image Composer | This program came with MS Front Page, and it's pretty good for making textures and resizing images. It also has a great recoloring tool that I use for adding colors to skins as well. |
AdQuedit (226KB) | You just have to have this thing, it can edit so many things in quake/quake2 and it extracts PAK files, etc. |