Well,Don't say I just colorized a couple things and copy and pasted,'cause I already know that,just tell me if my tank looks good,I don't care how hard I worked on it. I care only for how it looks!
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May I present to you,The Electric Zap!

Here's the field veiw:

And the neat little writing on the bottom:

Like? Please tell me!

And the layout!

I spent twenty minutes on it for those who care, Iwas going to make it darker,but I like it the way it is! XD

Rate on a scale from one to ten,and make sure not to spam... 8o

I'm very proud of it!

Last edited: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 8:40:24 AM

I like it. Has a midnight neon kind of feel. Nice camouflage for the spooky maps..

Napalm

Thanks! 1 outa' ten,rate it please,rate it on theme,creativity,and it's overall look.

Is there any place I can improve?

Not bad. I'll give it a 5. Middle of the scale. Nice work.

Where can I improve TMO?

I always want to know that! So Ican biuld off your idea's and acually make skins worth using,though this one is pretty cool.

On my scales, there are three kinds of Custom skins:

1) Decals - basically the same as another skin, but with individual graphics added (such as your Lightning Bolts, or personal logos)
2) Colored/Filtered - No change to another skin except to run it through a color filter or other SFX filter (in your case, the blue coloration)
3) Sculpted - Brand-new texture - no trace of the original skin remains.

Using decals and filters is a great place to start with creating your own skins. As an example, see my Hi-Visibility Skin set in the Skins Library. Doing this gets you familiar with the skins, and how a skin will turn out after placing graphics.

The pinnacle of skinning happens when you build everything from scratch. There are many Skin Sculpters out there now. The first person I applied the term to was Rabban - take a look at his Beast heavy skin as a good example. My Crusader skin is another example, although it's not as good as quite a few others out there. Evil Twin's TRON set is a beautiful example of sculpted skins for all objects, not just the tanks.

As far as your skin above, the main thing you could do is try to get the lightning bolts to wrap around the tank correctly. You have bolts that jump from place to place on the tank because you're crossing the boundaries on the sides.

Last edited: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 6:12:33 PM

Exactly, but it's not good to continue using filters even when you get the hang of the set of tools. That's why I don't like tank_master's skins...I like skins with a bit of soul put in them, not just "Oh yeah, this filter is cool, let's use it again."

But as a beginner filters are just fine. The ambition should be to move Filters as an Final Product, and Filters as a method of producing Art. ;)

Last edited: Thursday, October 28, 2004 at 1:26:49 AM

I tried strategetly placing bolts,That was the best I got,I guess I'll make A new texture skin....

Thanks for your help!

But what you didn't do was chop up the bolts. For instance, in the bottom right corner of the skin, you've got a bolt that starts on a fender and ends on the side of the tank. What you do is cut the bolt in half, and move the bottom half down to the next section of fender so that it lines up on the final tank with the top half.

That is a 10, awsome job

Hmm,I'm not exactly an expert on where things go on tanks,But I'll try! Thanks for your suggestions!

@KODIAK1 Aw shucks,thanks man.

Cool, pretty similar to ur other one ;)

I'M BACK!!!!!!!!

Don't go reviving every topic saying that,Or you'll soon be packing your bags.

BTW,isn't this the hundreth time my topics have been revived? Why me? Why can't my skins JUST DIE!!!

Last edited: Friday, November 19, 2004 at 1:14:54 AM

I'll give it a.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001

Zoon,I want this topic to die,and that was just mean,shut up and sit in a lonely corner for two weeks.

I give it a 7.

I give a a 10-10-10-10-10-10-000000000000000000000000000
JK it is good XD ;)