Skinning Tutorial Addendum, of sorts


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Posted by CosmoDNA on July 24, 1998 at 23:28:44:

Brian, thank you tons for posting the tutorial...nice to see my
name up in lights =)

I've already gotten 5 e-mails about it! Unfortunately,
they were all from one guy...Apparently he kept switching from
reading the tutorial to his mail program to keep me updated
on all the things he thought were wrong...*sigh*

Just to clear something up to those of you who have read the dang
tutorial: It is possible to convert mats to bmps with MatMaster.
I chose to use MatEdit to do this for several reasons:
A) It's what I use, usually, so I'm familiar with it.
B) It's a good way to see what mat you're converting before you
convert it, just in case you picked the wrong one. I admit that the MatEdit
saving functions leave something to be desired, but whatever...
C) When MatMaster converts a mat to a bmp, it creates two files: the bmp, and a
little file with information about the mat. I figured it'd be easier to
use the MatEdit method in the tutorial simply to avoid having to
confuse the reader with all the worthless info about MM's conversion methods
and the extra file thing...

This guy also made a point about the jk.pal and jk.cmp. It's true, you don't
need to have the two palettes necessarily. Apparently MatMaster can rip the
palette from a previously made mat, or something like that. I personally prefer
having the palette at my disposal, ready to be loaded up at any time. And this is why
I included them with the tutorial: so the reader can have the palette to look at
and all that crap...

He also mentioned that black ISN'T transparent, that SOME .cmp's make it show up. I guess if this
is true, then it's really only useful when making mats for walls n' stuff. To the best of my
knowledge, jk.cmp's black is transparent.

Babblebabble...Well, I hope I got all that info right...Just figured I'd mention it for all who care =)

thanks,
CosmoDNA


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