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| Star Wars to Renegade TC in need of skinners [message #67656] |
Fri, 20 February 2004 18:39   |
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Aircraftkiller
Messages: 8213
Registered: February 2003
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Skinners remove the skin of animals... Texture artists create texture maps for 3D games.
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Textures? No, a texture is something in the real world that gives something an embossed feel or appearance. A texture does not literally exist in a digital world.
Digital representations of actual materials are what are applied to the digital depictions of polygonal shapes composing figures and icons in an electronic setting - Literally, they are neither skins nor textures.
Of course, that's if you're going to take everything literally - as you were. If you're going to behave like a normal person would, skinning and texturing are both homonymous jargon and properly used in the context of this thread.
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Not really, says dictionary.com
1 entry found for skinners.
skin·ner P Pronunciation Key (sknr)
n.
One that flays, dresses, or sells animal skins.
Western U.S. A mule driver.
skin P Pronunciation Key (skn)
n.
The membranous tissue forming the external covering or integument of an animal and consisting in vertebrates of the epidermis and dermis.
An animal pelt, especially the comparatively pliable pelt of a small or young animal: a tent made of goat skins.
A usually thin, closely adhering outer layer: the skin of a peach; a sausage skin; the skin of an aircraft.
A container for liquids that is made of animal skin.
Music. A drumhead.
Informal. One's life or physical survival: They lied to save their skins.
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texture
<graphics> A measure of the variation of the intensity of a
surface, quantifying properties such as smoothness, coarseness
and regularity. It's often used as a region descriptor in
image analysis and computer vision.
The three principal approaches used to describe texture are
statistical, structural and spectral. Statistical techniques
characterise texture by the statistical properties of the grey
levels of the points comprising a surface. Typically, these
properties are computed from the grey level histogram or
grey level cooccurrence matrix of the surface.
Structural techniques characterise texture as being composed
of simple primitives called "texels" (texture elements), that
are regularly arranged on a surface according to some rules.
These rules are formally defined by grammars of various
types.
Spectral techiques are based on properties of the Fourier
spectrum and describe global periodicity of the grey levels of
a surface by identifying high energy peaks in the spectrum.
Texture\texture artist is the correct form. "Skin" and "skinners" and any variant thereof is not.
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| Star Wars to Renegade TC in need of skinners [message #67665] |
Fri, 20 February 2004 19:18 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
Messages: 1756
Registered: November 2003
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While we're on the topic of the subtle nuances of internet lingo, and since skinning/skin/skinner is an inappropriate term, here are some other words/phrases that should be banned:
lol
rofl [or any variants of this, like roflao]
brb
ttyl
cyaz
plz
Any word that uses numbers to replace syllables or letters, such as "4M" or "L33T"
n00b or noob, the correct term should be "newcomer to the game/map/mod/whatever"
If I missed anything, please post it, as this thread really isn't about anyone wanting to SKIN!!! anyone's models.
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| Star Wars to Renegade TC in need of skinners [message #67734] |
Sat, 21 February 2004 01:35 |
PiMuRho
Messages: 494
Registered: February 2003
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http://www.skylabgames.com/jobs_art.php
(senior texture/skin artist)
http://www.scionstudios.com/jobs.htm
(Character Modelers/Skinners )
Are these companies wrong too?
What we have here is a colloquialism. While it may not be technically correct (by dictionary definition), everyone knows what it means. Certainly it's a well-used term within the games industry. Any artist, if asked "Hey, can you just skin this flying penismobile model for me?" would find themselves pretty quickly replaced if they responded with "It's not a skin, it's a texture"
I've spoken to numerous Westwood staff over the years, and guess what? They call it "skinning" too! Go figure!
Anyway - someone help this guy out. His thread's been hijacked by a bunch of pedants 
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