[Tutorial] Skin Tutorial

[felida 1653]

i've decided to make a 7:30 min long video explaining certain things, to help those creating skins. as my other posts just tackled minor things.

Changing loading screen:

http://www.realmodscene.com/index.php?/topic/5378-changing-the-loading-screen/

Why so many frames?:

http://www.realmodscene.com/index.php?/topic/5379-why-there-are-alot-of-frames-in-the-skins/

 

Thanks to Swizzy, Gavin_darkglider, Team Phoenix, and everyone else who has helped!!! and begal for his tut on animating BG's..

the stuff i type in cmdprompt is: xuipkg /r /o <skinname>.xzp *.*

Now the major Tut:

[gavin_darkglider 1561]

Dont forget to thank skin master begal.

[felida 1653]

Dont forget to thank skin master begal.

found it.. sorry lol updated op

[begallegal1 271]

Dont forget to thank skin master begal.

Not sure I even come close to qualifying for "master" LOL ,, everyday I learn more and more that reminds me im still a noob

 

Nice job on these tut's felida  

[gavin_darkglider 1561]

Not sure I even come close to qualifying for "master" LOL ,, everyday I learn more and more that reminds me im still a noob

 

Nice job on these tut's felida 

You have made more skins then anyone I know of for the xbox, which makes you a master in my book. Take the compliment and like it. lol.

[felida 1653]

Not sure I even come close to qualifying for "master" LOL ,, everyday I learn more and more that reminds me im still a noob

 

Nice job on these tut's felida 

thanks m8.. no problem in that.. as it was a learning experience in doing them too!! lol

[darkforce97 15]

Thanks for the helpful video! Will help those grasp the basics!

[felida 1653]

Thanks for the helpful video! Will help those grasp the basics!

no problem man.. figured this was easier as Swizzy suggest i document stuff for other people to see.. not every technique.. but pretty much covers the basics..

[2Ceedz 40]

Thank you sooo much for these vids!!! Will help us n00bs out alot, and keep the pm's down.  Thanks!!

[felida 1653]

Thank you sooo much for these vids!!! Will help us n00bs out alot, and keep the pm's down. Thanks!!

People can pm me, I'll just send em to here, I'm out of the "skin game".. But you're welcome

[kyletempest 7]

and where do we got tools for it???

[Atifkazia 222]

and where do we got tools for it???

You need xzptool from this site to extract the base skin..

Then you need to edit this extracted skin to your liking and in order to do that you need to have XDK which you can find on www.google.com

Then when you have finished editing the skin you need to repack/rebuild the skin using xzptool.

Then in between many other softwares may be used depending upon your editing requirements ...

[bundito 5]

Hi there.

 

I'm just trying to change the loading screen in XUI tool. I know how to insert my new image, size it, etc., set the keyframes, but they don't stay set. I export as binary, but when I reload, my keyframes are blank again.

 

Any ideas, guys?

 

(Sorry for the x-post, but  the "changing the loading screen" thread has been dead for more than a year.)

[felida 1653]

Hi there.

I'm just trying to change the loading screen in XUI tool. I know how to insert my new image, size it, etc., set the keyframes, but they don't stay set. I export as binary, but when I reload, my keyframes are blank again.

Any ideas, guys?

(Sorry for the x-post, but the "changing the loading screen" thread has been dead for more than a year.)

I can use teamviewer to help.. but yeah other option would be to see a video of what you mean

[bundito 5]

I can use teamviewer to help.. but yeah other option would be to see a video of what you mean

Okay, I'll find a screen recorder and go through it step by step. 

 

Thanks for the help.

[felida 1653]

Okay, I'll find a screen recorder and go through it step by step.

Thanks for the help.

My ez video is free.. and can upload to youtube for ya as well http://ezvid.com

[bundito 5]

Here's my video. I started from Step Zero - unpacking the .xzp file. I hope you can see what I'm doing. More than that, I hope you can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I feel like an idiot.

 

https://youtu.be/_7pSZvHg2BQ

 

I can't figure out how to embed it either... maybe I need to use raw BBcode, but anyway... there's my video.

 

Thanks for the help. You rock.

[felida 1653]

Here's my video. I started from Step Zero - unpacking the .xzp file. I hope you can see what I'm doing. More than that, I hope you can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I feel like an idiot.

 

https://youtu.be/_7pSZvHg2BQ

 

I can't figure out how to embed it either... maybe I need to use raw BBcode, but anyway... there's my video.

 

Thanks for the help. You rock.

i am unable to re-create your error mate.. maybe the version of xdk you got has bugs in it??

 

EDIT: as for the youtube thing, if it is the actual www.youtube.com/.... address.. it will automatically bring in the video, the short links aren't supported like that

[bundito 5]

i am unable to re-create your error mate.. maybe the version of xdk you got has bugs in it??

 

Damn. Ah well. I'll search around for a newer/different version of the XDK. It's not like I've got anything better to do - ha!

 

Thanks for trying, anyway.

[Su1cid@lM0nk3y 8]

Great tutorial guys!   
I'm just getting started on my skinning adventure...as soon as I've got some stuff to show I'll post it.