How to import skin and NOT replace anything?

[IronForge]

I've checked out several of the tutorials and they were not very upfront about it. PRoblem is I want to import A LOT of skins without replacing any of the existing ones. This is a mod of another (dead) game and I aquired lots of skins recently. Please, any help appreciated. THanks

 

[Fingolfin]

So, you mean you want to be able to use the same model with different skins?
ie, do you want to be able to use both the original model, and the one with replaced texture?
In that case, there is a tutorial for this.
Just make a copy of the model and replace it's texture in magos. Then you import it to your map.

 

[IronForge]

Yes that is exactly what I want. Can you point me to the tutorial, and what is magos?

 

[Fingolfin]

Tutorial: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/3d-modeling-tutorials-282/how-make-one-model-use-many-skins-11119/

Magos: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/tools-560/war3-model-editor-62876/

But actually, you don't need to follow the whole tutorial, just open the model in magos, open texture manager, and right click>Import, and select your skin.
Then you open the material manager, and click on the materials until you find a window with a skin path in a drop down box. If it is the model skin, replace it with the path of your own skin.
Make sure you change the skin path in ALL materials that have the original skins path.

After that you can delete the original skin from the texture manager. But you don't need to.

 

[IronForge]

Why is it when I imported my skin to a model, it looks messed up, not the way I intended it to be...

 

[Raj91]

Why is it when I imported my skin to a model, it looks messed up, not the way I intended it to be...

The skin was not made for that model, so you need to UV Map the model that you are trying to apply the skin to.