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Skins or no skins?
Good afternoon, dear readers Stopgame. I have no idea how you went to this blog (maybe, like me, sit in the subway and eat in our important matters), but today we will study the topic of creating skins in CS 2. Superficial.
Why Printstream has a too high price? Why Legion of Anubis is at times better and more complicated? We sit more convenient, our guide /lecture begins.
Let’s start with trump cards. The stream of information is an extremely competent coloring consisting of two primary colors (black and white + a little mother of pearl), in which the alpha channel is completely black. Anubis Legion is an incredibly complicated project in which there is no living place on the Normal map, hundreds of man-hours were spent on drawing details. Why the pricing policy on the trading platform is just such? Hype.
Well, now we are really starting. So, we are a young man/boy/woman/girl, and you are bored in the evenings, and the series do not bring the former pleasure? Climb into Game Dev. You will forget what a healthy sleep is, and your brain will be even stronger if you began to solve crosswords (people who know the Blue India Henryla, God forbid you happiness and well -being)
Start
Programs:
1.1 CS 2 in Steam
1.2 Workshop in add. Casts CS 2
1.3 VTFEDIT
1.4 Substain Painter
1.5 Photoshop
Upon request:
1.6 Any program for 2D/3D drawing (if you are the god of Photoshop, everything is fine, we miss, people are skins and draw in it).
1.7 Cinema 4D/ Unreal Engine 5
Paragraph 1.4 We can find an alternative, the same. But, since I have been using S since Unreal Engine 5 for a long time, since.P., It was easier for me to start in it.
Downloaded? Bought? Great, now we can begin to show imagination. We begin with the idea: what is the subject of the skin? Neutral? Or maybe related to the ‘gods and monsters’? Or ancient Egypt?
I have not just focused on this attention. The fact is that Valve produces skins ± in one topic for the collection. Skins with approximately similar style (M4A1-S MUD-SPEC, AK-47 Steel Delta, USP-S Desert Tactical-just neutral, although they contain ‘deserted tones were released under the ANUBIS card.
Therefore, in order to have a chance to ensure that your skin is approved, you need not only quality, but also the quantity – on a variety of topics, a variety of colors.
Well, we have decided on https://sportsbettingmedia.co.uk/ the topic. For example, we wanted the following: I love birds … animals … Call of Nature? Wild Light? Foggy Glimpesses?. Yes, it will be so (30 seconds for a stupid name – a great result). But it pulls to nature, so two topics are tilted at once at once. I can tell the whole process of creating the skin itself in s.P., But on the Internet there are a lot of different guides for this (if you still need, say, stored with creamy beer and arrange).
As a result, we have a ready -made skin, in which this time I did not want to change the map of the normals, but worked only with “boost” (lol) (Ropehhness), and basic color (Base Color).
The drawing process was approximately 2 hours.
This time I was more important to create an example for this blog.
We export our texture in .PSD, choosing the settings below.
And it all just started ..
Oh, one of the most amazing stages. In addition to the fact that we are now pulling Base Color and Rouness with separate cards in the format .TGA (TARGA), we start working with alpha channel. Here more details:
Skin wear occurs towards the displacement of alpha canal. Preserving the color texture in .tga format, we again throw it into photoshop, then select the channel tab and delete the white card, creating a completely black layer.
A bit of the base: black will prohibit us with a change, while white will allow it.
A man from YouTube said so in a language unknown to me
Yes, even if we have a completely black alpha Canal, the skin will still wear out, but there will be no scratches on it, but only the darkening of the main color (AK-47 Empress, M4A1-S Printstream), AK-47 Legion of Anubis).
In our case, I want smoke and feathers to remain without scratches and only get dark with wear, and the rest had a relatively quick wear. What are we doing: on top of the black square of Malevich, we create a dark – the gray square of Malevich. In the end … I buried myself in my own laziness and shortsightedness. Since I wanted, even for the blog, to make a simple skin, Alpha Canal threw me into the inevitable 5 hour journey of selection of shades of gray.
If I decided to do it all over right now, then a wise solution would be highlighted on a black background that would wear out.
And I’m not wise.
Final marmalade
You read it until this moment? Urgently a joke from Google:
Stirlitz opened the window, there is a muzzle
Stirlitz closed the window, the barrel disappeared.
Hooray, we finished the creation of our skin by 90%! :). Forgot to remind you that the skin in s.P. And in the game itself it looks a little different, so to search for our jambs, we throw off the creation of the alpha channel and immediately throw the cards into the game and watch the result. Something is wrong? We redo it. Everything is cool, like the result? We are gorgeous, we can brag from everyone who is nearby (Well, or get a disgust from friends for a tasteless selection of flowers)
We throw all our cards in VTF EDIT (Import, after Export) and save.
What is the result for the painstaking hours of our lives?
Is it worth it?
As I said, if it were creating 3D models in Blender, dressing an avatar in Marvelous Designer, or the creation of skins/cards for the community Counter Strike, this is primarily (at least at the first stage) should be your hobby. If you manage to turn this hobby into a source of income – you are God in your life.
As a result, we ran fluently at the main stages of texture of any objects in 3D. Leave links to work, the total costs of which amounted to 1 evening – I do not see the point. But the question is already to the rich community SG: And you are interested in this topic? Would you like to see monthly work with a detailed description of all actions?
On this I say goodbye to you and wish only pleasant moments in life. You will definitely succeed!