A Few Mod Questions

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A Few Mod Questions

just a few nub mod questions.
1 how do i make a skin or cammo shine ?
2 how do i make a cammo not stretch a img so much ?
3 this one is bad but, say i was making a skin for a aa12 and i wanted to put sum picks on it BUT before that i wanted to change the color of the gun. how would i change it i mean all the parts are broken up in the photo shop. is there a way to make all the parts the same color of my choice ? before i add the picks and stuff ? and i don't mean like make everything 1 shade of yellow. i mean multiple shades of yellow blending in together but on everything.
4 where is the acr files at ?
5 if i wanted to put a pic of sum thing over the entire side of the gun without it stretching, just a solid pick of sum thing from the tip to the butt,how would i go about that?

If any of this as already been posted and you don't fill like answering please link me to the post's
Im Hear to Learn

1) You just use textures that appear with a shine on them
2) Get a high resolution picture or texture and if you are limited some features on photo shop such as "content aware fill" and "content aware scale" will help you out.
3) You just need to play around with what is what on the gun, not much to help you out there
4) everything is labeled in alphabetical order, so acr would be in 06 instead of 07.
5) Just take your picture and fit it accordingly, you're getting into more photo shop help but pick a picture that has a good resolution and fits what you want

For other tutorials for Texture Hacking just check around the section and some of those stickies are very helpful too

i have the basics down from the sticky's but the sticky's don't help with any of this.

Originally Posted by ForExile

i have the basics down from the sticky's but the sticky's don't help with any of this.

So did I answer your questions at all?

Originally Posted by ForExile

just a few nub mod questions.
1 how do i make a skin or cammo shine ?
* you Edited more than 1 file.
2 how do i make a cammo not stretch a img so much ?
* make the image size bigger, "edit" > "image size"
3 this one is bad but, say i was making a skin for a aa12 and i wanted to put sum picks on it BUT before that i wanted to change the color of the gun. how would i change it i mean all the parts are broken up in the photo shop. is there a way to make all the parts the same color of my choice ? before i add the picks and stuff ? and i don't mean like make everything 1 shade of yellow. i mean multiple shades of yellow blending in together but on everything.
*first part of your Q's, make the colour first then picture, 2nd part you have to edit a different file but on the same gun to get different shine affects.
4 where is the acr files at ?
*iw_07.iwd, name of file: weapon_magpul_masada_new_col.iwi
5 if i wanted to put a pic of sum thing over the entire side of the gun without it stretching, just a solid pick of sum thing from the tip to the butt,how would i go about that?
* you would need to find a similar image in same length as the gun, or else you would end up stretching it but photo shop kinda fixes up the pixel quality for you.

If any of this as already been posted and you don't fill like answering please link me to the post's
Im Hear to Learn

my answer's are in red.

Originally Posted by Insane

1) You just use textures that appear with a shine
4) everything is labeled in alphabetical order, so acr would be in 06 instead of 07.

^ these 2 are wrong mate.

thanks guys that help out alot

Originally Posted by Skyline.

^ these 2 are wrong mate.

Well the alphabetical order was right I just forgot the name for acr
And im away so I didnt have acess

5 if i wanted to put a pic of sum thing over the entire side of the gun without it stretching, just a solid pick of sum thing from the tip to the butt,how would i go about that?
* you would need to find a similar image in same length as the gun, or else you would end up stretching it but photo shop kinda fixes up the pixel quality for you.

i ges im just confused by all the parts spread everywhere how can i tell whats what and how long it is ?
i pasted a img the same size as the box of parts and well..... everything was mixed up on the gun in game.

sorry i need to get this part worked out. its going to be the major thing in my first project.

Originally Posted by ForExile

it is hard to tell whats what, but your going to have to sus out how the weapon looks ingame to how it looks all everywhere, maybe having those images side by side, and then when you find the part you want it on you can measure it or just put the picture in-between the lines.

what file do i need to edit to get sum shine ? and what exactly would i have to do to it ? ex im working on aa12 im happy with what i have it at right now BUT i want to make the 2 sights, weird thing on the top mid and clip shine.

sorry for all the questions im trying to cover as much as i can with my first skin so i know what to do later.

Originally Posted by ForExile

some of the attachments are in the same file as the gun, "some" tho' many others are mainly scattered in different iw_0x.iwd "x" meaning number, but there mostly in iw_11.iwd, not all tho'

, attachments are with the guns.