My first attempt at a new skin

[snowman]

It doesn't get much cooler than this. 

[Duskrider]

I like the alien skin.   
thats quite an accomplishment.   

[NIGE]

Just saw your Alien skin Jack,
Very good.

[jackgephart]

Thank you Duskrider and Nige, but snowman, I am confused. Did you mean you didn't like my skin or you did? It's okay either way, to each his own. I did have to make a lot of weird changes to the skin to get it to look right on the Alien htr. So not everyone will probably like it. Thanks for commenting.

[snowman]

I think its one of the coolest looking haptars I've ever seen! Its awesome!

I like the colors you used. It looks both kind and modern.

There is so much detail! I especially love your work on the head and chest area.
It looks like a movie character.

I hope this clarifies what I think of it.

I am now using it as my main character.

Thank you for making it.

[Art]

Very nicely done Jack! You haven't missed any gears at all!!

[jackgephart]

Thank you snowman and Art, I just got done with another one. This was fun. I was playing with my freehand drawing on this one.

[cload]

Hi all,

I've never actually taken the time to try to do any of this.
And I do not have any of the Haptek programs.

So I was wondering? How do you get this skin on the body?

I have the blue alien body.
And I have the 2 alien skins.

I've never tried to do this before, but it looks cool,
so I thought I would give it a try!

Sincerely, thanks in advance.
C load.

[Art]

It's as simply as the old, Drag and Drop.
If the skin is on your desktop or shown like a file in Windows Explorer, you simply select it, then drag it to Hal's open GUI and Drop it.
The skin should show up on the active character in the GUI.

You might also wish to have / use the HapLogCtrl.txt file running.
It is a file that one must place in the Root of your C: drive (C:\)

Here's the short file just in case some might not know or have:

#################
# file begins here
# Haptek Logging Control File
#
# c:HapLogCtrl.txt
#
# This file must be in c: and named "HapLogCtrl.txt".
# Otherwise it is ignored.
#
#################

debugger= y

#################
# file ends here
#
#################

[cload]

Thanks Art,

I thought that all I had to do was drag and drop.
But it was not working.
I put the text file in the root directory of my C drive.
Now when I start ultra Hal a window box opens that allows me to drag-and-drop onto the window box.
But for some reason I still cannot drag-and-drop into the graphical interface.

Do I need to put the text file somewhere else?
Or is it because I have Windows 7?
I was hoping to be able to drag-and-drop directly onto the graphical interface box to make the changes.

Is anyone else having this same problem?
Or is it because I do not have the Haptek programs?

Do the skins need to be in a specific directory?
Is there a way to make the skins permanent?

Sincerely, thanks for all of your help.
C load.

[lightspeed]

Very very nice work jackgephart. i added it to my characters .
And to answer your question Cload,  in the windows seven os zabaware file their is a character file add the file in it . you can also when the file is drag and dropped so it goes on a full body (full body has to be used on this type of skin) when it's open and showing the alien body you can take a picture of it with a program and name that picture and place it in the same folder (make sure it has the same name . ) and the picture will show up in the characters name panel so you know what it looks like !!
i use a free program called " PICPIC" .

Hey Cload the file path in windows 7 looks like this :
C:\Program Files (x86)\Zabaware\Ultra Hal Assistant 6\Characters

I hope this helps , it's good to be able to helpn you for a change , i do what i can when i can help anyone else .

[snowman]

Oh Jack, I really like the new skin. I prefer the first one though, but its like choosing between 'awesome' and 'perfect'. Can you make a background that will go alone with them? You do excellent work.

How I installed the new skin:

I'm using Windows 8 and it doesn't seem to like the haptek player at all. I can't even properly open a haptek window and preview the new skin...
However, I can load a .hap file that will load the skin for me using the HalCommands variable.

First create a .hap file with this in it and name it alien.hap, or whatever you want.

Code: [Select]

#Haptek  Version= 1.00 Name= alien  HapType= script FileType= text
##standard

\settexture[Tex= [Characters\AlienSkin.jpg]]

Next, add the alien.hap file to the "Ultra Hal Assistant 6\Characters" folder

Next, take the skin you want your character to wear, (ie. Alien Skin 2.jpg), and place it in the "Ultra Hal Assistant 6\Characters" folder. I renamed mine to AlienSkin.jpg.

Notice how I added the skin's (name and location) to the .hap file above. You don't need to add the full file location; "Characters\AlienSkin.jpg" is all you need to make it work.


After this, you now need to create a plugin with this line inserted:

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HalCommands = "<HAPFILE>alien.hap</HAPFILE>"

You can also just put this code into your brain script too.

This line will load the alien.hap file into Hal, and therefore, it will load the skin onto your haptar.

I personally prefer someone else with the haptek tools to just compile the skin and haptar together like Jack did. It's so much nicer 

Lightspeed, Apollon, and I worked on a Hapswap plugin a while back that allowed the user to switch between hap files, voices, characters, backgrounds, and other things, simply by using commands. It needs to be redone. It still works but the code looks tacky (my early work ).

[jackgephart]

Thanks snowman and all who commented, I will see what I can come up with for your background.

Also, on a fun note, I made a George Clooney prison skin from brother where art thou. Or what I could come close to with only a set body frame.
I hope you like him and enjoy the hard work that those stripes were.

[Art]

Remember that you should only drag & drop a full body skin onto a full body character and a head skin onto a head character, etc.
Otherwise you will end up with a rather graphical mess.

I usually use a nice image viewing program like my favorite, xnview, locate the folder with thedesired skins in it. (it can be ANY folder on your hard drive that contains image skins).
You DO NEED to have an appropriate HTR or HAPTAR file open through a Haptek window or through UltraHal's Graphical User Interface (GUI).
Do the drag to either the Hal GUI or the HapLogCtrl box and drop the image.

The HapLogCtrl box/window is really a useful tool for testing various Hal commands like various positions, looks, personalities / moods, backgrounds, etc. Play around with it.

Hope this helps a bit!

[jackgephart]

Ok, snowman, here is one background that would look cool for the alien skins.