Skins @ Hive World Terra

Crystalking's Army Painter mod update

Crystalking has now released a new version of the Crystalking Army Painter. v1.1 is still designed for Winter Assault, but a new version is also in the works for Dark Crusade and should be available soon.

By IBBoard on 2nd December 2006, 21:19

Texture Tool v1.6 and Golden Eagle Buildings

Version 1.5/1.5.1 of the Dawn of War Texture Tool has turned out to be quite buggy. Having been told of a few bugs, and then discovering one or two myself, I've now updated the tool and released Dawn of War Texture Tool v1.6. As well as the bug fixes, the 1.6 Texture Tool also comes with an improved Options dialog.

Also newly released today is ezekeil777's Golden Eagle Buildings. Designed to compliment Hangar-8's Golden Eagle Space Marines, the buildings add the same gold eagles to all of the Space Marine buildings.

Thanks to ezekeil777 for his first contribution. Hopefully we'll see more from him soon.

By IBBoard on 2nd December 2006, 18:06

Skins@HWT needs extra bandwidth in November!

With the release of Dark Crusade in Europe at the very end of October, November was a busy month for downloads from Skins@HWT. Where as July, August and September used 21GB and October used 24GB across all sites, November used over 28.5GB on Skins@HWT alone!

Adding the site's bandwidth to the usage from Hive World Terra, IBBoard.co.uk, HWTSkins.co.uk and Perfect Imagination meant we ran over 20% over our bandwidth allowance for the month! Luckily the guys at A Small Orange hosting are great and we stayed online after buying a little extra bandwidth.

Thanks to everyone who visited, especially those who commented on downloads. Hopefully the site will continue to thrive with the latest Dawn of War expansion pack.

By IBBoard on 1st December 2006, 18:49

Large screenshot update

It took a while for me to get round to it (at least two weeks in some cases) but I've finally had a chance to update many of the skin/texture downloads and add screenshots.

Some downloads (such as a couple of applications and some of the .teamcolour downloads) are still missing their screenshots, but they'll be added soon. Forty images taken, cropped, resized and thumbnailed is enough for one night!

By IBBoard on 30th November 2006, 21:47

Dark Crusade Force Commander emerges without gold!

It was only a matter of time before someone removed the crazy amount of gold bling that the new Force Commander had gained in Dark Crusade, and Mattastic has done just that - a fully team colourable Force Commander.

Screenshots have yet to be taken, but the change list sounds very promising and I'm sure it'll be an improvement on the overly-gold commander that came in Dark Crusade.

By IBBoard on 30th November 2006, 17:43

New FAQ section and questions for Dark Crusade

Following a comment on one of the downloads from a visitor, I have now updated the FAQ section with two questions about texture usage in Dark Crusade in the Using Skins FAQ as well as creating a new Dark Crusade FAQ section.

More questions and answers will be added as people suggest them or as I think of them.

By IBBoard on 27th November 2006, 19:30

New skins and screenshots

Okay, so the new screenshots aren't for the new skins, but there's a little of both.

Despite having taken a back-seat from the modding community, Havoc has released an Alternate Tau Commander skin and a full pack of team colourable Necron buildings.

Also added this evening (but slightly delayed from their original posting on the Relic News Forums) are HorusHeretic's Cleaned Defiler and Trimmed Grey Knights.

I've also added some screenshots for some of the recent downloads, although the list of downloads needing screenshots is still quite large.

Thanks to both for their contributions, and I'll be getting screenshots up for all of the downloads eventually!

By IBBoard on 26th November 2006, 20:02

Black Templars and foul xenos witch scum!

Having disappeared for a long time, the release of Dark Crusade has seen the return of MadMaffMan to skinning. To complement his original Black Templars Neophytes and Initiates, MadMaffMan has now released a Black Templars Rhino.

Also released is a new set of Eldar team colours from the new Eldar Codex. (The Eldar are considered xenos witches by the Black Templars, in case you wondered about the title!) The new set contains four new Craftworlds, plus a re-work of Il-Kaithe to match the colour scheme found in Codex: Eldar.

Thanks to both for their submissions, and if you want to know what MadMaffMan is planning next then check out the Dawn of War Skinning forum.

By IBBoard on 25th November 2006, 14:12

Two of Havoc's skins released to the public

Recently Havoc, a skinner and modder at Relic Forums with skins hosted here, has announced he's leaving the community due to personal reasons.

Previously, Havoc had created some skins on request for Crystalking52. Havoc then gave his permission for the skins to be released to the wider community.

So, without further ado, the Warp Spider Exarch with colourable Death Spinners and Fire Prism with Teamcolourable Prism skins are now available. Both add minor changes, but changes that add the finishing touches to the skins.

By IBBoard on 19th November 2006, 19:16

Texture Tool v1.5.1 - Bug fix

Apologies to anyone using the Dawn of War Texture Tool v1.5, but a bug has been found when using badges/banners in WTP files.

This bug (which causes the badge/banner to always be in the bottom-left corner of the texture) has now been fixed in the Dawn of War Texture Tool v1.5.1. All functionality other than badges/banners remains unchanged.

The latest version of the Texture Tool will always be available at skins.hiveworldterra.co.uk/TextureTool/.

By IBBoard on 18th November 2006, 12:29