[Tigersan]

I love City of Vilains so much , and my character Anarchya, that I made a
model in Poser.

[Atariboy]

Damn it if only they had let you use your Skin Mapper 😆

[ultimatealien]

Great job like always and with all your work.

[Bass]

Ahh, very nice character, and an awesome render :D.  Can you give us some background about your character?

[Cowprobe]

Yeah CoV is much fun.  👿

I'd love to see your takes on the other Archtypes as well.

Whose to say there isn't a Corruptor out there with Fitness.  😀

[Leonardo]

Niiice! We need fmme-muscle mods for that game! O_O

[TC2]

All right…

Being that I am ex-avid COH fan I'm going to give tigersan the necessary clues to make skin mods for COH/V

I don't remember how to do the process completely, but I do know it requires a program that can turn DDS files into PSD files and then back into DDS.

So, acquire a DDS viewer and then turn it into a PSD file.

I think you also need an unpacker to unzip the files, just look for the file format it reads and then find the program which lets you unzip the files.  (I'm trying to do this off memory.)

Whichever skin you choose to modify should be consistent with your natural costume selection, otherwise people are going to be wondering why your character is walking around with pink polka dots (others won't see your skin.)

Next, has something to do with Alpha channels, I never fully got the hang of it but if you try to copy and paste female body builder muscles it seems to make your skin either completely black or completely white.  You'll have to figure that one out as I never got it to work properly.

Once the skin is completle, turn it back into a DDS and then it should go back into the directory you unpacked it from.

I.E.

If you extracted from

C:ProgramFilesCityOfHeroesDataPlayerTexSkinsMetallic

Then it should go into

C:ProgramFilesCityOfHeroesDataPlayerTexSkinsMetallic

I'm sorry I don't remember the steps… normally I'd still be a COH/V fan, but certain things have happened in the game that made me completely uninstall it.  I won't be playing again.

If you would like to find a reference skin look for Manic's deviant art page and download the skin from his deviantart account.  (I would upload it but I don't have the files anymore.)

Good luck, I hope you can figure it out Tigersan!

P.S.

(Modding is not condoned by COH or COV, so whatever changes you make you must keep amongst this forum and not share it on the official COH forum.)

[bigGirl]

I play CoH and it would be absolutly AMAZING if there was a female-muscle patch or something…

[mikazuki]

Awesome texture and proportions. The details are just amazing!

[Tolan]

WOO!  Now that's awesome!  Good work there!

If you  could change the model in the game, then (provided CoV uses normal mapping) use a normal map.  😀  It'd look awesome!

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