News
Over 100 Space Marine textures!
Following the latest submissions, Skins@HWT now hosts over one hundred Space Marine texture downloads and is very near its 400th file!
The new files in the latest update include a Dawn of War v1.3-style Force Commander and a Team Colourable Force Commander for Dark Crusade. These two skins take us to a total of 101 Space Marine files available for download!
The other new skin is a modification of the Tau Codex Weapons skin to take it to version 1.1. The changes make the guns match the codex but still be colourable, and also reduces the number of textures required.
There's also an update to Crystalking's Army Painter mod with a version now being available for Dark Crusade.
Thanks to all of the contributors, and thanks to Crystalking for submitting Chknslvdrvr's work. Who knows when we'll make it to 500 downloads!
Tau and Human Auxiliary downloads
New for today are a set of Tau Codex Weapons textures and a Gue'Vesa teamcolour.
Ezekeil's texture set is based on Adonis' "Tau with badges" textures (the first set to be released after Relic didn't include custom badges on all models) and makes their weapon colouring closer to that of Games Workshop's models.
Briarus' Gue'Vesa teamcolour takes the colours from the end of the Tau Dark Crusade campaign and applies it as a skirmish team colour. For those who don't know, the teamcolour is for the Imperial Guard, as the Gue'Vesa are the Tau's human auxiliaries.
Thanks to both submitters, and hopefully we'll see more from both of them.
Chopsuey's Chaos Space Marine link fixed
Following a comment in a new download submission, I recently discovered that Chopsuey's Chaos Space Marine texture wasn't working. In this case it was because the download linked to an off-site file that had been removed.
Thanks to MadMaffMan for digging out his download of the texture and submitting it so that we can once again have a working download of Chopsuey's texture, now hosted here on Skins@HWT!
New Black Templars from MadMaffMan
Well, they're actually updates, but they're still new textures for the site.
Following on from the original Initiates and Neophytes textures, MadMaffMan has release an updated Neophyte texture that gives a correctly proportioned badge. He has also taken some of the comments on his Black Templars Rhino into account and released an updated Black Templars Rhino that uses a badge layer so other chapters can use it.
We also have two downloads currently pending - one is a re-work of Chopsuey's Chaos Space Marines and is pending a response from the author, the other is a change to the weapons of Adonis' Tau skin sent in by Ezekeil777. Ezekeil's skin is good to go, but unfortunately time has run out for tonight, so expect to see them both soon!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
