How to skin easily

[Eaglebird]

Hey, I'm new...

I was wondering if, in HL2, etc., if there is a way you can just extract a texture from a model, or find its texture so you can change it, or do I have to have a full blown model importer/exporter to do it?

 

[simon]

i do it in HAMMER (open the texture screen) and then take a print screen useing hypersnap DX-5, and then paste it in your favorite drawing program

 

[Eaglebird]

. . . my god, it was right in front of me as a mapper the whole friggin time...

thanx for pointing it out to me

 

[Inflame007]

you convert the vtf to tga and open in photoshop

 

[Some0ne]

you convert the vtf to tga and open in photoshop

thats the proper(best) way

 

[Eaglebird]

ya, but I can't get the vtf out of the model.

I scrapped it anyway, I was retexturing the crow with brown body and yellow beak to make it look like eagle, then re-scale it in the .qc file, but the model was put together a little slackly in detail, and the wings have problems. So now, I'm contracting someone willing to make a model of a bird with brown feather texture and yellow beak, maybe red eyes whenever they have time, because I don't want to pay for it , and I don't want to waste someone elses time.

I would do it, but I've already tried my hand at modeling, and my XSI don't work

BUMP