Tutorial: Creating your very own unit! [Detailed][Wip]

[Bamdur]

This Tutorial will be divided into several parts including
SCREENSHOTS LATER!

• What you need to get started
• Tips
• Getting Started
• Organization of your unit
• Setting up your unit
• Envoloping
• Texturing/UV
• (Something else here)

Lets Begin

What you need to get started

• PhyscoFreds Unit Template (Link will be posted in these paretnthesissssissi)
• (Optional) A custom mesh
• (Optional) Custom textures
• Familiarity with XSI Interface
• Patience (alot)
• Pandemics MSH Exporter

And xsi of course..

Optional Tools

• MilkShape 3d (link)
• SWBF Msh Viewer
• something

Tips

• Save Frequently (really, if you dont youll be sorry)
• Take your time when adjusting and envoloping
• Make sure if your using a model you didnt make its not copyrighted/illegal
• Some more tips i post later

Getting Started

Before you begin, make sure you have pandemics exporter installed. If you dont, i will post a tutorial how to install it later. you also need what was posted at the top section.

You should put your Custom models, Tga files and the Template in a folder to stay organized.

• Import PhyscoFreds Unit Template Beta into XSI (file,import,model, template .emdl)
• If not using a custom model (recomeneded for first timers) Texture the override texture with rep_inf_trooper (explained later
• Set up the template into layers

Before we do that we need to make layers.
Press 6 on yiour keyboard in xsi.
Make 4 new layers called

• Skeleton
• Rig
• Mesh
• Shadowvolume

(its easiest to press 8 on keyboard and press L to organize it into layers then sort it)
Afterwards Place All objecs that say bone_xxx in the skeleton folder
Place anythign taht says eff_ in the rig folder

[Phobos]

Nice to hear you will be updating this. Once I get XSI installed I will try it.