Editing Ship Models/Skins

Mittelwaechter · 03-03-13, 06:06 PM

Color the different areas of the TGA's in significant colors and fire them up to see where what goes. Then watch the steel colored rectangle changed to pink in your TGA making a pink colored 10.5 cm barrel...

If you stay with this stuff and stand the learning curve I suggest you switch over to PhotoShop CS2 sooner or later. It's a ~700.- $ pro tool from 2005 - iirc - and freeware since a few days.

The directory is Data/Textures/TNormal/tex, because its where the game searches for the textures in the first place. You may extract TGA files from different other locations and files with S3D.

Feuer Frei! · 03-03-13, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Mittelwaechter

Then watch the steel colored rectangle changed to pink in your TGA making a pink colored 10.5 cm barrel...

I don't quiete understand this line?
steel colored rectangle? You're talking about a tga file here for the gun? deck gun file is named? I assume uflak high is flak gun? what name is the deck gun tga?
Sorry for my ignorance.
PS: Thanks for your help.

Mittelwaechter · 03-03-13, 06:37 PM

It's just an example.

Open your desired TGA with Gimp and color the areas.
There may be a steel colored rectangle, or a brown colored circle, or whatever...
You don't know what it's good for, but if you color them in pink and purple and reinsert the changed TGA into the game, you will see the pink and purple areas representing the changed areas of your TGA.

03-03-13, 06:58 PM

Use S3D to save an image of where the textures are for each part.
It's a UV map that shows you where to 'paint'.
Just know this.
Some parts use the same areas all over the place.
The Hull being a great example.

Mittelwaechter · 03-03-13, 07:10 PM

Deckgun TGA is in Guns.dat in ...Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Library

Feuer Frei! · 03-03-13, 09:00 PM

Thanks for the info Gentlemen

03-03-13, 06:06 PM	#1
Mittelwaechter The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,304 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Color the different areas of the TGA's in significant colors and fire them up to see where what goes. Then watch the steel colored rectangle changed to pink in your TGA making a pink colored 10.5 cm barrel... If you stay with this stuff and stand the learning curve I suggest you switch over to PhotoShop CS2 sooner or later. It's a ~700.- $ pro tool from 2005 - iirc - and freeware since a few days. The directory is Data/Textures/TNormal/tex, because its where the game searches for the textures in the first place. You may extract TGA files from different other locations and files with S3D. __________________ 10 happy wolves rear 90 blinded, ensnared sheep. 90 happy sheep banish the wolves. Arrest the 1% - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ6hg1oNeGE

03-03-13, 06:37 PM	#3
Mittelwaechter The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,304 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	It's just an example. Open your desired TGA with Gimp and color the areas. There may be a steel colored rectangle, or a brown colored circle, or whatever... You don't know what it's good for, but if you color them in pink and purple and reinsert the changed TGA into the game, you will see the pink and purple areas representing the changed areas of your TGA. __________________ 10 happy wolves rear 90 blinded, ensnared sheep. 90 happy sheep banish the wolves. Arrest the 1% - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ6hg1oNeGE

03-03-13, 07:10 PM	#5
Mittelwaechter The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,304 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Deckgun TGA is in Guns.dat in ...Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Library __________________ 10 happy wolves rear 90 blinded, ensnared sheep. 90 happy sheep banish the wolves. Arrest the 1% - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ6hg1oNeGE

03-03-13, 09:00 PM	#6
Feuer Frei! Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Valhalla Posts: 5,295 Downloads: 141 Uploads: 17	Thanks for the info Gentlemen __________________ "History is the lies that the victors agree on"- Napoleon LINK TO MY SH 3 MODS

03-03-13, 06:58 PM	#4
Madox58 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Use S3D to save an image of where the textures are for each part. It's a UV map that shows you where to 'paint'. Just know this. Some parts use the same areas all over the place. The Hull being a great example.