Skinning questions for the community:

[xrayjay]

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[Trackmaniack]

I don't know if I'm doing this wrong--but once I've made a skin using the skindiffuse.dds as a template, then I -delete- that lower layer and thus, the prelight info that goes with it, make the alpha channel the shininess I want--import that into my zip file, and make a new prelight using the in-game painter...