-Basic skinning 101-

Setup

1. Find the basicskinning.zip within this guide.

2. Open it, select everything inside, then extract all to your "USER" folder in your Soldier of Fortune game directory. If you do not have a "USER" folder yet within your SoF game directory then make one. The ZIP files are path relative so they will place everything were it need to be automatically.

3. Go to the "SOF/User" directory ***If you already have "CUSTOM.GPL" then edit it and add "basic101"*** ***If you don't have "CUSTOM.GPL" then rename "basic101_custom" to "CUSTOM"***

4. Now the basic template along with skins will be installed in your Sof game. Go into Multiplayer mode and look for the "skinlab" team and find "basic101". He should be there in all of his half-naked glory. Ready to edit the skin now?

5. Open up your graphics program (i use photoshop, icarus uses paintshop pro...use whatever you want but make sure it can read/edit/save Targa format files (.tga).

6. Once your graphics program is loaded, you need to open the individual skin texture files. These are located in your in your SOF game directory now under c:/sof/user/custom/basic101 folder. The file names are: a_skinlab.tga b_skinlab.tga f_skinlab.tga h_skinlab.tga

 

If you are having trouble finding these files manually, you can search for them by using the "FIND" command under the "Start" menu.

7. Now that you have the skin textures themselves, you can change them however you want to! To help with anatomy you can also load the anatomy.jpg that is in the same folder as the skin textures themselves that you just loaded.

8. Wanna go step-by-step through the actual process? Read on true believer!