Renocraft skin

[-Grendel]

an arachnathid skin i worked on yesterday. hope to see some constructive criticisms.

 

[antihero]

Kept the fur then?

 

[Arowanna]

Kept the fur then?

Sure seems like it

 

[-Grendel]

yes i decided to keep the fur and change it to some other material.

 

[Kimbo]

Hi! Could you post the unwrap/flat texture? ..

 

[antihero]

Sure seems like it

Just looks odd, thought maybe he was still having trouble removing it.

 

[-Grendel]

i really cant remove the fur, im using photoshop. and fur is my main problem in arachnathid skins. whenever i alpha out the fur it looks something like this:





please help me with the fur


heres the unwrap:

 

[Kimbo]

whaoa! Dude o.0..Your lightsource and shading is still out of place... dw.. I will do a draw over to show where the light/shading should be (although it varies per artist opinion)...

Do I have permission to draw over your work to show you?

 

[-Grendel]

sure, if that'll help me. so about the goddarn fur, any solutions?

maybe i'll read some anti noobism tutorials for now, for some reason i think im still a noob.

 

[antihero]

Save your alpha in .bmp format and then convert to .blp
Use the alpha map I posted in your other thread.

 

[-Grendel]

photoshop 7.0 does not have alpha channels. thats why i'm having trouble here

 

[antihero]

I used to paint with ps7. It has alpha.

You can not open or save files with alpha as targa

That is why I'm suggesting you use .bmp

 

[-Grendel]

oh
so should i convert first to bmp?

 

[antihero]

You don't save your main files as .PSD?

 

[-Grendel]

no i dont, war3 extractor doesnt support psd files. i use war3 extractor for the final conversion

 

[antihero]

When I extract a file using wc3viewer, I extract it as either a bmp or tga. However, when I'm working on it, I save my main file as a PSD. This larger file is the least compressed and always saves the most information.

When I apply the skin to a model. I save the PSD as a bmp, then convert the bmp to blp.

 

[Dentothor]

i agree with kim. the lighting is all over the place. there isnt one specific spot for it.

 

[D a w n]

couldn't you change the fur into some kind of cables instead?? Oh and the face looks boring and uncreative to me :/