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Changing the default weapons with custom weapon skins.

Weapon Skins, by WarPig

Thanks to warpig for the work put into this tutorial.

So you like my skins and want to make your own kick-arse weapon skins :)
THIS IS HOW. "WarPig"

For the sake of this tutorial I will use the AK74 as an example.
Following this tutorial I will list the PATH, FILE YOU NEED & WHERE TO FIND THEM for every weapon in SOF2 multiplayer.

First things first.
You MUST have 2 programs:
1st is WINZIP.
2nd is a graphics program that can handle .jpg format picture files. I use Paintshop Pro.

SET UP PHASE:

To get your AK74 skin to work you must set a few things up first.
- Make 3 folders one inside the other, inside the other.
- 1st folder is called models.
- once you've made it, open it up and make another one called weapons.
- Open it up and make another one called ak74.
- Open that one up and that is where you put your ak74 file.
- So the path looks like:
- models\weapons\ak74.

That's the set up done…

THE EDITING PHASE:

To get your weapon files:
- Open your Soldier of Fortune 2 - Double Helix \ base folder.
- Locate the models.pk3 file and double click on it to open it (must have winzip installed to do this).
- Scroll down the list until you find this file:
- ak74.jpg.
- To open it for editing (in Paintshop Pro) just double click on it.
- This will open up Paintshop Pro and have your file ready to edit.

"STOP right there".
- Now press the [F12] key to SAVE AS.
- Don't change the file name (or you won't be able to use your weapon skin ingame) but browse to find the folder you made in the setup phase: models\weapons\ak74 and hit [ENTER].
- This will save the weapon skin into your folder that you setup earlier and will avoid making changes to the REAL / DEFAULT weapon skin.
- So the path to your weapon Skin will now be:
- models\weapons\ak74\ak74.jpg.
- So now edit the picture to your needs and save it.
- Your picture will be saved into the models\weapons\ak74 folder we created earlier.

You can close Painthop Pro now.

THE FINAL PHASE:

- Locate the models folder that you made before.
- Now RIGHT CLICK on the models folder and select ADD TO MODELS.ZIP.
- This will create a separate file called (believe it or not) models.zip.
- Now to turn this into a .PK3 file to be used ingame simply rename it to WHATEVERYOUWANT.pk3.
- You will get an error message but just click OK or YES.
- All that is left to do now is copy the file and paste it into your Soldier of Fortune II - Double Helix\base\mp folder.

Start up or join a Multiplayer SOF2 game.
Go BESERK with your new weapon skin :)

This is exactly the process I use.

End Tutorial ... GAME on :)

TABLE OF WEAPONS:

WEAPON	SET UP PATH	FILE YOU NEED	WHERE IT IS
M4	models\weapons\m4	m4.jpg	models.pk3
M203 (goes with M4)	models\weapons\m203	m203.jpg	models.pk3
MP5	models\weapons\mp5	mp5.png	update101.pk3
Silencer (for MP5)	models\weapons\mp5	mp5_supressor.png	update101.pk3
M590 Shotgun	models\weapons\m590	m590.jpg	models.pk3
M1911a1 Pistol	models\weapons\m1911a1	m1911a1.jpg	models.pk3
AK74	models\weapons\ak74	ak74.jpg	models.pk3
Bayonet (for AK74)	models\weapons\bayonet	bayonet.jpg	models.pk3
Incendry Grenade	models\weapons\anm14	anm14.jpg	models.pk3
Knife	models\weapons\knife	knife.png	models.pk3
M15 (Smoke Grenade)	models\weapons\m15	m15.jpg	models.pk3
M3A1 Grease Gun	models\weapons\m3a1	m3a1.jpg	models.pk3
M60	models\weapons\m60	m60.jpg	models.pk3
M84 Flash Grenade	models\weapons\m84	m84.jpg	models.pk3
Microuzi	models\weapons\microuzi	microuzi.jpg	models.pk3
MM1 Grenade Launcher	models\weapons\mm1	mm1.jpg	models.pk3
MSG90A1 Sniper Rifle	models\weapons\msg90a1	msg90a1.jpg	models.pk3
RPG7	models\weapons\rpg7	rpg7.jpg	models.pk3
SMOHG92 Frag Grenade	models\weapons\smohg92	smohg92.jpg	models.pk3
USAS12 Auto Shotgun	models\weapons\usas12	usas12.jpg	models.pk3
USSOCOM Pistol	models\weapons\ussocom	ussocom.jpg	models.pk3