How to make custom units?

[rellikki 7]

How I can make a custom units in OFP? I haven't found any tutorial about it. Please help me!

[jens198 0]

Hm a good point to start at might be one of the sites on the world wide web like

OFP Editing Center

It has a huge archive of tutorials and a large forum withs lots of friendly people around, who are willing to help you (of course if you took some looks at all the tuts and examples).

Jens

[Desert-Rat 0]

Do you want to make a complete new Unit with new 3d file or only change skins of it?

[rellikki 7]

Maybe.. I just want change the textures! Just need to find a model for my works.

It's enough for me..

[Desert-Rat 0]

the first step you have to do is to find a 3d file of an Soldier you like (with permission of the maker) or the soldiers from BIS

than unpack it with an tool "Winpbo"

Winpbo

now you have a lot of paa or pac files which you can save as tga with texview Texview

now you can change the textures and have to convert them back to paa or pac.

[rellikki 7]

Wow, uhm.. I don't understand anything 'bout those textures. What is legs, what is body, I can also see that unit standing.

[Desert-Rat 0]

if i know which unit you want to edit , most you will see what is leg and what is body shouldn't be as hard , well , have you already textures? or do you want to make new?

[rellikki 7]

I don't have textures yet. How can I make my own?

[Desert-Rat 0]

Well , that can you make how you want , example you search the camo you want on a site as jpg file and copy them on the exsist files or you make an new tga file which program you have i don't know and save them under the name of the exsist file. Its hartd to explain

[rellikki 7]

Hmm... I'll try to do something. I'll ask more questions, if I have!

[Geocider 0]

I was just going to start my own topic when I saw this;

I too want to learn how to retexture. I have searched OFP:EC but found only one tutorial (by EJ Will) which sadly said you had to use a malfunctioning program (P3D Texture Swap Utility) so that doen't help very much. I have made retextured legs (gotta start with something) and made it a *.paa file, but just stuffing it together with the rest of the files doesn't work.

I used the civilian model in the model-pack released by BIS a while ago, and I made a config as instructed by the tutorial I mentioned.

I know it's really noobish to ask this, but: What did I do wrong?/What do I have to do?

I would greatly appreciate help in this, and I think our serial killing friend here would appreciate it too. He should, btw, read the tutorial by EJ WILL. It appers to cover some things, at least.

//Felix (Geocider)

EDIT: Image of my new pants. They're only the result of a couple of minutes fooling around with photoshop but then they are only supposed to be an example.

Image size reduced and then hosted by ImageShack

[rellikki 7]

Sorry, can't help you, but here's what I made in one hour. My first infantry addon ever, hehheh..

There was a little problem with textures. I'll send 100% done addon picture in one hour.

[Tomislav 0]

where's that face from

[rellikki 7]

I don't remember.. I found it by google. I can give it for you, if you like. I always use that face on OFP

[rellikki 7]

Damn, those infantry addon textures aren't still working What should I do?

[Bobcatt666 0]

check the texture paths in )2 bet they are still looking at the old ones.

[rellikki 7]

Huh? No, no, I fixed the texture paths!

[Desert-Rat 0]

hmm have all your textures the same size? 128x128 , 256x256 ,512x512 and so so on?

[rellikki 7]

Same size..? Let me look!

Yes, they're all in 256 x 256 size.

[Desert-Rat 0]

if you want you can sennd me the textures and the soldier , i look for some errors

[rellikki 7]

Check your e-mail! Please, send that addon back for me, when you have fixed it. I'll put your nickname on Special Thanks slot, when I'm going to publish it