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Models Help: Since I'm just now learning models, I don't have much here yet, only links to some programs.

Sections:
At any time I refer to the RETOUCH mode, remember, the AIRBRUSH can be used for the same thing.

Lighting Effects This shows 2 different ways to add lighting to a skin (lighting from a light on the skin)
Visors Really small tutor showing how I made that visor look like a visor on the break skin.
Pipes! You see them on my skins and other things, now see how I drew them.
Q2 Face Drawing the Face in Quake2 in 16 million colors. A great tutor for learning faces.
Q2 Arms Drawing the Arms in Quake2 in 16 million colors. This is a really good tutor (I think).
Q1 Help Quake 1 player skin help, with information on palette, wireframe, in-game, etc.
Q2 Help Basically the same as the Q1 help, but for Quake 2 of course.
FAQ Question I get in email I've put in here, so look here first.
Basic Drawing Simple drawing of a head for the q1 player skin
Shaded Metal Drawing techniques for metal, or really anything
Simple Texture Basic drawing of a texture, showing a few techniques that I use

Programs for making Skins and/or Textures:

Paint Shop Pro I use this for drawing skins and textures, or whatever I feel like drawing. I have used it since I have started, and I think it is great. PSP covers mostly all of the drawing needs that I have.
Adobe Photoshop Another great program used by me and many people for drawing skins and textures. It's has a much better airbrush than PSP.
Grab this plug-in for photoshop that lets you open and save .WAL files used for q2 textures (this plug-in also works for Corel Photopaint
NPherno's Skin Tool For MD2 files, allows you to draw directly on the model.
What I have linked is to a site, go to the tools section for download.
MS Image Composer This program came with MS Front Page, and it's pretty good for making textures and resizing images. It also has a great recoloring tool that I use for adding colors to skins as well.
AdQuedit (226KB) You just have to have this thing, it can edit so many things in quake/quake2 and it extracts PAK files, etc.