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Different Skins For Each Gender
Topic Started: Jan 23 2009, 12:14 AM (589 Views)
Mysty
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I'm making a Black Lemur and the male needs a black skin and the female a brown one. How do I code it so the male uses a different skin? I know that someone made a topic about this but I couldn't understand what the person who answered meant.
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Penguinman
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So, in the file containing the dds links, you will find the following tag:

<BFNamedBinder binderName="texController" required="1">

You will then need to copy all the text including that tag until:

</BFNamedBinder>

and then paste it into the M and F files after the tag:
<binder>


Then, you change the dds names and it should work out :) If not, let me know! (be sure to open the xmls in a web browser after editing - its easy to mess things up when pasting huge chunks of text ;))
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Mysty
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I just tried it, now the female has no skin and the male isn't even placeable. :smack: it's confusing with the lemurs, they don't even have F and M, just "adult". I didn't even have to make the baby a skin, it somehow uses the mothers.

Do you think looking at an animal that uses different models would help me?
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HENDRIX
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look at the utahraptor xmls for example. ;) It has m and f skins.
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Mysty
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Okay, now the female has a skin, but when I try to adopt a male one the icon for it disappears and the bong replaces it. and I checked the male xml, it doesn't have <binder>. could that be effecting it?



after a lot of experimenting, I got the male icon and model to show up ingame! but I'm afraid that what I did is gonna have problems - it involved using the utahraptors m and f xmls, making a nif and bfm for the male, etc. do you think it'll mess up my lemur?
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Penguinman
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That should probably work. As long as the lemurs can be adopted I dont think it would cause any problems later.
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Mysty
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Yep the lemurs appear to be fine. Thanks penguinman and dinosaurman.
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