ROT: TTAS Apache Skin.

I made this a few minutes ago on photoshop, starting with the original, addidng the camo, and then the other stuff...

It is particularly for ROT Clan but anyone can use it.

screeny below.

How to install:
put the 'tobruk_705.rfa' file in Battlefield 1942\mods\DesertCombat\Archives\bf1942\levels folder.

In the root Battlefield 1942 Folder, Make a new folder called DCTextures, and a new folder in that called Tobruk. Put the AH64.dds file in Battlefield 1942/DCTextures/Tobruk/ folder.

Download it here

Play.

:) enjoy.

wow thats pretty nice :) (1st custom skin ive seen)

Ive always disliked the cel-shaded looking apache skin. Ima grab that one. 8)

Edit: That link doesnt work, says I have to go thru ur site, and I cant find the link to it on there.

Not bad at all :)

looks cool... its got teeth :)

Beautiful work smiddy.

Would you be interested in making a pack?
Im sure there would be alot of people out there willing to use it!!

Might be one way of getting your artwork known mate!!

Also, are you willing to make a few customized skins (Unique skins) for the ROT clan? If so, can you contact me please?

Nice work there! :D

Hmm... now I wanna make my own skin... but I suck... gah. :P Hmm...

Oooo nice smiddy. I think the normal apache skin sucked arse going to use yours now.

post more screenies of it please

more screenies

i also did the a10, but i burred out the f16, youll have to wait for that ;)

more

question smiddy: how did you open the original up so you could edit it?

i want to give that a go i reckon :P

hmmmm its a bit hard to explain...

i just told milenko, ask him :P

BlueDonkey when ya find out tell me to.

Use a program called gmax (made by the dudes who made 3dsmax).

Its an excellent editor will pretty much do most "popular" fps games. Also model, skin, map(?).

Registration for a serial number may take a lil bit of time but well worth it when you get it.

Yes it is free.

http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/

good news: the f16 is almost done, and i made a sig out of my current skins :D

Quote from Jono:
Use a program called gmax (made by the dudes who made 3dsmax).

Its an excellent editor will pretty much do most "popular" fps games. Also model, skin, map(?).

Registration for a serial number may take a lil bit of time but well worth it when you get it.

Yes it is free.

http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/

nope, you cant edit the actual model, unless you dont want to play on multiplayer servers... you can only edit the skin of the plane unluckily...

Ok i got all set up. How do i get the DC/BF models in the program?

read the above post... you cant do it in that. u can only do it in photoshop

Yeah. What i meant was how do i get the models in the program. I have an rfs extraction program but what do i need to extract to jsut skin the models?

the rfa file that has the actual models inside it cant be extracted, if you extract it, you cannot play multiplayer...

you extract the maps and get the nVidia DDS PS Plugin and open them up.

thats all you can do.

I found a thread on this topic while searching google for info about the nvidia PS plugin, it has people listing how to do it in a number of different ways just try them till it works :).
http://www.gamingforums.com/showthread.php?t=9727

Hehe i found the same thread well searching google on this topic to :shock:

Smiddy how do i get the extracted .dds files back in the texture.rfa file once i have finished editing them?

Edit : Ohh never mind i think i got it.

Edit : :x DC crashes to desktop when i activate the mod.

Yeah WD, They look nice man

Quote from smiddy:
[quote:09374705b4="Jono"]Use a program called gmax (made by the dudes who made 3dsmax).

Its an excellent editor will pretty much do most "popular" fps games. Also model, skin, map(?).

Registration for a serial number may take a lil bit of time but well worth it when you get it.

Yes it is free.

http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/

nope, you cant edit the actual model, unless you dont want to play on multiplayer servers... you can only edit the skin of the plane unluckily...[/quote:09374705b4]

Err did I say it was specifically for BF/DC ? No...
I was referring to the program being able to do those things.
Any gamer could use common sense and realise of course you cant modify the model for everyone to see. Let alone the BF engine able to accept the model (may have some restrictions which in this case seems the prob).

So there you go - i win ;)

again

Woot i made an apache skin. Not finished but yeah...

Nice skin, a little bright tho.

BTW, Go The Jaggies LOL :lol:

its pretty cool :)

Quote from Wrathlon:
Nice skin, a little bright tho.

BTW, Go The Jaggies LOL :lol:

How dare you insult my leet laptop :evil: . It took long enough for the map to load with all details up. Would take even longer with AA on :(. And the game was actually running smooth when it loaded.

Not insulting, just commenting LOL, it's a good job 8)

wrathlon, do you play BF?

if you did, youd know that aa screws up the edges of the text to make it unreadable. and blurs all the textures.

Or AA makes the edges of things smooth and doesn't affect the textures at all. Don't know about the text thing but who cares its only text.

AA blurs the text but its still readable, for me anyway.

If your having probs with the textures then why not turn on some 16x AF ;)

Anyway back on topic, I love the skins they look really cool.

Good work.

Quote from Tachi (aka KILLER):
Or AA makes the edges of things smooth and doesn't affect the textures at all. Don't know about the text thing but who cares its only text.

I wasn't talking about jaggies on the textures, I was meaning the ones on the rotors

Quote from smiddy:
wrathlon, do you play BF?

if you did, youd know that aa screws up the edges of the text to make it unreadable. and blurs all the textures.

No i don't yet and I didn't know that, Thanx for info :)

Killer: It might look better if you chose a a really dark green (nearly black) and a mid ranged green (bit darker than your current choice) and maybe a browny colour too, then make them into big solid blotches in random patterns similar to the style on this drawing (you'll have to copy the link cos its gay geocities :)http://geocities.com/alvmaia/Mig/29ub/UKR3.gif.

Yeah only reason its bright is i made it on my laptop screen which makes it dark :(. Making it darker is easy.

ill do it.

Woot made a new cockpit and finished up the rest of skin to. Just have to mess round with the cockpit a bit more.

theres no real need for a new cockpit, the current one is more that fine.

Quote from smiddy:
theres no real need for a new cockpit, the current one is more that fine.

So whats your point? The original skin is more than fine. So now I'd say theres no need for your new skin. gg

Not really i think it looks like crap. I have got a high res photo of a cockpit just mapping the required parts to it :)

Edit : Above post was not aimed at jono.

The looks really go on preference and personnally i think the apache in DC was the worst looking thing there.

yeh i thought it was the worse looking thing aswell... thats why i skinned it first!

Quote from smiddy:
theres no real need for a new cockpit, the current one is more that fine.
Quote from smiddy:
yeh i thought it was the worse looking thing aswell... thats why i skinned it first!

hmmm lmao

i keep getting the message from photshop that it is missing the driver

MSVCI70.dll

I CANT FIND THIS THING ANYWHERE AND IT IS SHITTING ME BIGTIME!!
can someone paste a link for me because my best efforts just arent good enough....