Tutorial - How To Make Tattoos..

This is a tutorial on how to make tattoos for the players of NBA Live 2005.
Ill start off by saying that the better the pic of the tattoo reference the better the tattoo will come out. So ill start off with this pic of Sean Mays Tattoo:

Crop out a little piece of the tattoo to be easier for you to make and create a new layer:

Then zoom in to where you best can make it:

Then grab the pen tool and start drawing the tattoo and then go to paths and hold Ctrl and click on where it says work path and it will be selected.

Then go to Edit - Stroke - and use these settings:

Then click ok and deselect by holding Ctrl and pressing D or going to Select - Deselect. Then youll get something like i have below:

Now you see how theres some black inside of the tattoo selection we made. To color that use the pen tool and select the black inside part of the tattoo selection and then go to Edit - Fill and use these settings:

Then use the pen tool and finish the tattoo and keep on doing the same thing and youll get something like this:

When you're finished go to File - New - and use these settings:

Now drag the layer where you made the tattoo on to the new document you just made and free-transform it until it looks similar to this:

Now your done. Tto put the tattoo to a skin file drag the tattoo layer to the skin picture and set the tattoo layer to multiply and you're done:


*Thanks to Kuttan for teaching me kinda how to make tattoos*

MLM5423's- Tattoo parlor now open!

This kid don't give up until he learns how to do it!

Last edited by Dirtdog1- David on Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Nice Tut For those Who don't know how to make tats this should be S-T-I-C-K-I-E-D Fo real

Good tutorial Titi
It will be very useful for beginer patchers out there..

Good tutorial

Great tutorial Mello .

Stickied.
Another nice little tutorial

great tutorial

great tutorial man..

Awesome tutorial
btw where can I find skin files

Extract them with this tool. You can find skin files at /NBA LIVE 2005/sgsm/common folder. They are named xplrtex.viv.

Good tutorial Melloman

It's real hard finding a picture of the tattoo up close...

Extract them with this tool. You can find skin files at /NBA LIVE 2005/sgsm/common folder. They are named xplrtex.viv.

Thanx

and what do next then I inport tatto on skin how set tatto on player

How do you import tattoos though?

I have them on the skin file...but I dont know what to do with that???

How do you import tattoos though?

I have them on the skin file...but I dont know what to do with that???

open appearance dbf or players and change muscel texture number and color number
if your skin number is like 17 then changse color to 1 and musceltexture to 7 and but that skin file to the sgsm folder.
Just use FSHx editor to import that bmp on that fsh file and save.

Should I change the file name? or should I simply leave it as
skin00 or whatever the case may be?

Should I change the file name? or should I simply leave it as
skin00 or whatever the case may be?

change it what ever you want put skin17 and its all ok
But look that number doesnt exist,or some other guy in the game have that same skin.

editing muscles in the skin picture, is it possible ? i think the default's quality is poor


edit: i dont know, but something like this may be better...


i cant import this so if anyone do it i will be great (if its possible send me screens in a pm) !!!

thanks and sorry for the english of a brazillian guy !!

How To Put This In To The Game ??

is there a way to edit tattoos in sgsm/players/plyrtat.viv

I would give a try on this. Where can I get the program the guy used in the tutorial. I believe it's something that has to be paid for. Can anything else be used?

No one?

u mean photoshop? pm me about it