PDF HoN Skinning Guide : a complete tutorial to start skinning for HoN

[PogS]

Hi HoNers,

Here is a guide designed to help skinners :

http://pogs.free.fr/HoN/Packages/Skinning_Guide_1.1.pdf

I hope it will help you

[Sephinator]

You can add that thing about HD textures aswell.

I have a number since the beginning of december so I need to create a skin soon.

[MaxGhost]

Nice work. I'll put this in the customs repo and sticky it.

[[S2]S2Ari]

Here are the settings I use for the NVidia Normal Map Filter to convert greyscale images to Normal Maps, hope it helps:

[PogS]

Thank you very much for the tip. I'll try it right now

[PogS]

Thx for the tip
I updated the post adding more information.

[PogS]

Updated with a basic texturing tutorial.

[Sephinator]

Nice Update!

But remove those [/COLOR] at the bottom of the first post. :P

[[S2]BlacRyu]

For those who don't have Photoshop, here is a normal map filter for GIMP which is very similair to the Nvidia one for Photoshop. Once you have it installed just use S2Ari's template above, or go here for advanced instructions.

[PogS]

I updated the guide to add the latest experience I gathered from playing with the skins/material.material and from S2Ari's advice and help.

[ReDsKiN]

I'm having some trouble with the normal map..
At the moment I'm doing a Nero texture for Witch Slayer and wish to make his hair spiky (I removed his hat) as it is just a round and lifeless semisphere

[ShredderIV]

Yeah, I dont quite understand how the normal map is edited or w/e. How do you get it to the pink color it opens under? do you use the filter just from the color.dds?

edit: the only real difference between the one in the folder and the one created by making the normal map from the greyscale color.dds is the one in the folder has no red channel in RGB.

[slocik]

i think its just the red channel is in the alpha channel for some reason, but thats only in game files probly happens when converting to dds, i think when modding you can just usea normal "normal map" ;f

[PogS]

I updated the texturing guides. more will follow soon.

[PogS]

I wrote a full pdf guide that is better. See first post.

[Yuichi]

Should be noted that you can also use blender for getting the uv map.
No need to bother S2 artists this way
Might even write a guide for that if I have some free time.

Great guide btw.
Interesting to read.

[PogS]

Write the guide, I dig it

[Durandal_]

Link is broken btw

[PogS]

I updated the guide to 1.1.

[[PCGC]Mazinkaiser]

Is this still accurate with HoN 2.0?