Can anyone give me some direction as to the prefered software used to modify and create new skins?

MilkShape Ed (any version) + Pygmalion.
If the force is strong in you, you can use 3DS Max Studio.

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If you have any questions feel free to ask; we have some good skiners here.

Thanks....I will try these out and let you know how it goes.

This is my favorite skin Editor, but watch out it has no undo feature

hmm...

uh i use 3ds but i cant open the mesheseven in rune editor i keep getting a registry error.

After you make the mesh in 3ds you gotta export it in MilkshapeEd where you'll apply it on the standard rune-player skeleton; then split the mesh in groups and assign these to the skeleton's joints.

Just ta let ya know, my off topic/funny response there was a tattoo gun hehe...no way to undo those skin modifications hehe.

ahh, nice fist, nice...

for a moment i thought they were some weird surgical/torture implements i hadn't seen before...

i really should get out more...

Hehehe....ya I know exactly what it is....oh and there is an undo botton, but it is expensive and painful. I would know; I have had a few of them undone myself. Sometimes you can make some really stupid decisions when you have been drinking.


lol

Oki arent you talking about models instead of discussing skins?

I thinkt ehres some tools that allow you to import a model, and paint on a texture and see the modifications at once on the model!

Hmm, better go dig in those chests of stuff I have

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Originally posted by BlackOak:
Oki arent you talking about models instead of discussing skins?

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whops..actualy you're right.
You can modify skins using a graphic tool like photoshop.
My bad

a who has the gladiator model remus. can u email it to me. with the texture pls