Can someone walk me through on using MED to make this costume?? or tell me what to do to get it done..

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The only time you will use Med for this is to export the original mesh and textures to a work folder, then when your done, to save it as a new costume. The majority of the work will be done in a graphic app like Gimp, Gimpshop, or Paint dot net.(all free) The quality of the look will depend on your graphic mastery. Rename the textures following the game's naming convention and save. You might want to scoot over to DCMF.com for the latest Med tutorials (we built the darn thing after all )

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Baby we were Boing to run...

Ok I've got it done but I'm having a hard time trying to get it in game. I was hoping maybe you can help me??

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ok I think I got it but why did it turn out like this all shiney insted of just plane looking,how do I get rid of the shine? and I'm still working on the hat... still can't get that right!!

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That is a very start Things need to be lined up a little bit and yea it is a little shiney but it looks very you did a job.

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You need to add an alpha layer to the texture. And maybe make sure there is no shiny selection in the costume selector.

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Looking realy !!

In either Med or Mesh manip, check the material and the textures in that material. You only need the diffuse color texture. So if there are any in the other channels, like shinny/specular/ lightmap and environment just set them to none and update/save.

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Baby we were Boing to run...

HighTowerStudios:

ok I think I got it but why did it turn out like this all shiney insted of just plane looking,how do I get rid of the shine? and I'm still working on the hat... still can't get that right!!

That looks great.  Just need to make a white hat now.  Top job. 

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job on that

Ubernewbie & Mikdbobing I'm not sure I follow you guy's in what your saying. maybe I can send it to one of you guy's and you can show me how to do it. hopfully with just a little help I can get better at doing this. at least it's a start I my learnning how to mod I hope.. and I've been working on making it look better....

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take a look at this:

This is like the material you should have in MeshManip or Med, nothing but the diffuse texture.

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Baby we were Boing to run...

thank you Mikdboing, I am beginning to really appreciate all the modders.  As I am seen this is not an easy task but with more practice and time, and of course help from the community I think I will be on the way to getting the hang of this.

 

Now my next question is as far as adding the hat I only see a mesh file and I dont know how to change it for the hat I made. but this is what I've done so far to the costume re-texturing it. still plan on trying to work on it some more to get it as authentic as possible so tell me what you think.

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It looks like you are re-texturing the long sleeve police uniform(my pics assume this).  This should help with your hat.
If you have already made the hat then this should help:

If you click on appearance and look in the costume element box, you should see what type of hat your costume has.  This is important to help you place your new hat.
If you go into the extract meshes wizard, scroll through until you reach hat_pol.  This will list all the hat_pol versions you have in your game.  See below:

In my case my hat_pol goes up to 14.  So I would save your new hat as 15.  That should make it seletable with your uniform. 

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That is amazing. Very details. I am sure the cover will be no problem for you after you got the dress blues so well 

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I'm stuck I don't know how to get the hat done! there is only a hat msh file. I've retextured the hat but can't or don't know how to get it to show up in MED .

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