Skins by Slayerknecht (Update 19th January 2012)

[sodacan43]

where is the tiger ace skin

[firefish]

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Download

Perhaps someone can help me out with this. The Ostfront_leader looks allright but the soldier looks like in the pic attached. I have no idea left why... I have copied vanilla files into the places the ostfront files have access to but no effect.

Don't know why at every single soldier, vehicle, etc. a new and totally different problem has to come up that take hours, days or weeks to solve... Sometimes this drives me mad...

[VanAdrian]

First step : Be cool

Second step : It seems that your soldier's .abp point to all the correct models, since there is no missing .rgm blue box, but that the fallshirmjager model mess all his textures without exeption. So check in your .abp where is this fallshirmjager model.

Third step : Then open the .rgm and look where must be located the textures.

Now you have to :

- edit the .rgm to make it point to the textures if you already have'em in your files.

or

- move the textures (and maybe rename'em ^^) where they must be.

BTW the texture should be only the leaves and maybe some accs of the fallshirmjager body, so it would be easy to find if at least they are in the pack you downloaded, wich i hope

[firefish]

Thx for reply VanAdrian

The first advice made it. As I thought it over again I suddenly remembered that I changed some folder and file names when I installed them. Normally this isn't a prob as the correct appearance of the Osttruppen_leader shows (wasn't the first file I installed , changed or modified).

But in this particular case the included rolevariation files seem to make the difference. Unfortunately I still haven't learned how to open, read or change .rga and .rgo files. So perhaps there was the need of making some changes there? I don't know..

I now simply copied Slayers files again (without any changes to names nor pathes) and voila: My leader finally has his troops... Additionally the platoon has been reinforced by Panzerfaust, radio and medic.


Perhaps you can help me with my other problem: http://forums.relicnews.com/showthre...post1045375272

Any help would be much appreciated!

[VanAdrian]

Glad you got'em working

[Gamerisin]

Hi there @Slayer...how you been? I hope fine my friend I'm eager to play Pegasus Mod...so far I have liked what I've seen,as I'll help you with anything you need...but I'm writting here 'cause I have a little doubt about your current skinpack...I really like it but I was just wondering if you'll add some more color hehehe...I love the gray the Wehrmacht uses wich I find pretty accurate but I want to know if besides the Stormtroopers you'll make some "Splittermuster" camouflage skins also for the Wehr...the actual RGO or RGM edits gives you/us great variations so I think a little more camouflage will be a very welcome add-on for the troops
just tell me what you think my friend...and it obviously doesn't have to be for the Wehr it could also be used for PE :P

[Rain]

Sir Slay,. where can i download your KingTiger skin from pegasus mod the "211"?? i really like that texture.

[Celution]

You can't, because as you said yourself, it's from his Operation Pegasus mod, which hasn't been released yet.

[Rain]

i see, thanks Celestial.. sad, but well i have to wait,
i really really like that KT skin

[Slayerknecht]

I'm sorry but the texture shown on ModDB is no longer existent. But I did a new version with a slightly increased resolution which I think looks better.

Download

It is for the Henschel model released by Halftrack.

[Rain]

Sir SlayerKnecht,. i do like the KingTiger skin, i really really love this. Thankyou very much.
Cheers sir

[SlipSon]

@Slayer
Amazing quality as always!
I even may start playing CoH again because of your textures. (:

[firefish]

Slayerknecht,

thx for your excellent skins and your tuts...

Unfortunately I wasn't able until now to make normalmaps for my own conversions on some of the inf skins that are around.

Every time I try to make a normalmap with GIMP I get things like this:

http://forums.relicnews.com/attachme...&thumb=1&stc=1

The normalmaps come out so badly dark that my soldiers look all black. This Gebirgsjäger Oberleutnant should have a greyish uniform and not a black one. Additionally I get this black stripe on the figure's nose. At the moment I don't have ideas left how to fix this...

Do you ever did some normalmaps with GIMP?

[Slayerknecht]

Sorry I never worked with GIMP but this looks like you have a problem with alpha channel of the NRM map.

[firefish]

Sorry I never worked with GIMP but this looks like you have a problem with alpha channel of the NRM map.

After finally finding some things out I face a strange problem...#

I tried to make a normalmap for my soldier (with PS and NVidia PlugIn) and this is what came out..

The normalmap still have the right size (1024x1024) but it doesn't fit with the .dif

What may I have done wrong now????

[firefish]

After finally finding some things out I face a strange problem...#

I tried to make a normalmap for my soldier (with PS and NVidia PlugIn) and this is what came out..

The normalmap still have the right size (1024x1024) but it doesn't fit with the .dif

What may I have done wrong now????

My fault... I forgot to convert the.dds into a .rgt

Seems that I finally produced my first working normal map..

Thx a lot for the help

[wehrmacht93]

hey slayer, thnx for your godlike skinpack!! but can i ask you how i can use a single skin from random rolervation since i only want to use a grenadier model with full gear as my grenadier squad members.

[Slayerknecht]

@wm93: Remove the Random_sniper line from the abp. The equiplesss variant should disappaer, but there will still be a variation with the Zeltbahn pack. For more you have to work with set rolevariations, search in the how-to section for this. If this did not help please open the apb, post it and make a screenshot of the model you mean.

@firefish: Just seen that, looks really nice. Good work!

[wehrmacht93]

{
"..\\..\\Common\\CompleteMotionTree.abp",
"..\\..\\Common\\CommonMeshes.abp",

-- Weapons
"Weapons\\Stielgranate",
"Weapons\\Kar98",

-- Mesh
"Wehrmacht\\Volksgrenadier_wh",
"Wehrmacht\\Panzergrenadier",
"Equipment\\equip_para",
"Rolevariations\\RandomRV_PG",
}

okay this is the "wehrmacht.apb" file for the grenadiers. btw i removed the bushes from their helmets since i only wanted the squad leaders to have em

srry for the image you wanted since my laptop can't take a screenshot. but i can tell you what the model is. its the second model from the right of your grenadier pictures.(the one that is turned around showing his back) hope this helps.....

[Slayerknecht]

Remove the "Rolevariations\\RandomRV_PG", line. This will remove the equipless variant (sniper rolevariation). There will still be some with, some without the Zeltbahn. Look for the rolevraitions tutorial to fix this.

To deactivate the Random use of skins replace the volksgrenadier_wh.rgo with a original Relic one.

[wehrmacht93]

thank you mate. ill give it a go

[wehrmacht93]

hmm... when i removed the "Rolevariations\\RandomRV_PG" line, the models are legless with no gears and helmets. its funny to see but i don't want my grens to float around the field like ghosts could you possibly tell me what the problem is??

[Slayerknecht]

What? That's strange, as this means "Wehrmacht\\Panzergrenadier", line is not rendered. Remove "Equipment\\equip_para", and try again.

[wehrmacht93]

thank you so much slayer!! it works just fine!!

[Slayerknecht]

Okay same here:

Gamefront links are not working atm, but the files are available at my Dropbox:

Dropbox Folder

I hope it will be a more persistent method of hosting.