Roesko said: And I tried using an image off the Internet and guess what? It didn’t work.
Pal, you need to download the image. Either that or create your own, (Not that hard, google can help you with that) or go to Pinterest and download a texture file there. If you're lucky, you can even find a bumpmap for the gun as well for better light reflection/refraction. If you somehow don't even get the thing I said above, go to node editor, (Above the timetable, to the far left) and enable nodes while in cycles rendering. Right click and find shaders. From there, you can build a skin, either using bumpmapping, Material texturing, UV projected or baked texturing, or even just a simple setup of three nodes. (RGB shader, Mix shader or Gamma shader, Output. [Output is not considered a node.]) The more nodes you use, and the combinations that you develop, will either improve or degrade the material. For example, if you are doing a rust texture, without a bump, (Suggesting a bumpmap here) you would use a few variable shaders along with lighting, RGB, Noise emit node, gamma node, and around three to five mathmatical nodes. Not that hard. Just play with it for a bit and you'll make a new skin, based off of your preference.
(Note, use Gimp for creating custom Jpgs, bumpmaps, and materials for blender. Bit of a learning curve, but absolutly worth it. Gimp is free and can be found almost anywhere. I know this because I have it, and because I develop games, images, photography, and random projects with Blender and Gimp alone.)
ForbiddenLegend said:DID you have read this thread or others on how to make skins? Obviously not.What about uploading a certain image? Like one you get off of google, you think it'd look cool on a gun and you wanna try it... but it wont work on the create skin thing on warmerise, how do you make it?
You can use any image editing software - even web-based ones like Photopea (which is similar to Photoshop). It's just that Photoshop is more widely known as it's the industry standard.
In the end, you will need a image editing software in order to create your own skins as skins are 2D textures.