Adding Color to objects QUESTION

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Adding Color to objects QUESTION

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How do you add color to objects so they arent gray?????

I REALLY need help!
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Skins.
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what do you mean skins. I am trying to add color to objects in my map, like the arena thing from mos eisley.
and if skins is really how you do it, please explain how to.

I REALLY need help. :( :(
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Post by SBF_Dann_Boeing »

They should be colored/textured to begin with. You must be forgetting to copy over the tga files (skins) along with the msh files. If you wish to change the color/texture, you would edit the tga with GIMP (Free For Download, there's a link for it in the everything you need thread) or Photoshop (If you've already bought it) or a similar program.
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Yeah. If you copied over the textures, then I dunno what to say. Maybe you accidentally renamed them.
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Ok thanks guys ill try to add textures and stuff using gimp or whatever its called.
Btw love ur maps, dann
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I did copy over the msh texture files, but when i place the objects, they are gray, not the color they are supposed to be please help me. :x :x
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Are they in the same folder? Did you do something to the msh files other than copy them?
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no i tried again and they all work except the mos eisley arena thing. there is color on it but just a couple little blocks in certain spaces.......
could anyone tell me what files i need to copy over for the arena thing to show up?
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Doing it for you won't help you to learn.
What you need to do is to use a hex editor to open up the "arena" msh and search for all instances of tga. Make sure to copy over all textures referred to in this file, not just the tga with the same prefix as the msh.
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what is a hex editor :cpu:
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In the FAQ, under the Model / MSH section:

http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/f ... /xvi32.htm
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Post by MercuryNoodles »

Hex editors are programs that allow you to peek inside a compiled file and edit the contents, basically. It's all displayed in code, and getting something wrong can corrupt the file, but it's an easy way for us to deal with reskinning models and a handful of other things.
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