Skinning

Hello,
I would like to create some more complex models, but I have problem with skinning. I found just few tutorials, but still do not know how to skin my model effectively. Can anyone give me some advice or point me on a good tutorial about skinning? I would like to skin for example human or animal model. I would like to learn some tricks to do that fast and easy (if it is possible :))

Well... i take a capure of the screen with the skin mapping made on a white skin, on skin editor, then I use the capture to crate a layer on photoshop, so i can draw "on" the skin, so when i import the skin to the model, there is nothing left to do. i think it`s usefull, at least for my.

Thats wise. Does the size also fit?

if you make the layer over a canvas of the same size, ie. a square 256 over a square 256 image, and change the opacity about 50%.

That's the way I did it too - until I found how to use the colorization tools of the skin editor! Try all the buttons under the skin map window!
Select one of the color windows, click the bigger button near them to choose your preferred color, paint with "Fill Selected" for instance, that's the fastest way to mark certain triangles.
Then export the resulting picture as bmp or pcx, and edit it in any grafic program that you like!

O.O so obvious! I never tried that. XD

i`ll see how it works.

Yep, simple and effective And now I need tutorial how to paint textures because everything I paint looks quite stretched and odd

play with the vertices on skin editor or try with bigger skins.
keep the important parts away from the lines that form the triengles.
and remeber that, the model is made of triangles.

Thanks to all. I will try that. Usefull advices