skinning issue or a shader file

[dark_apprentice]

I was wondering if someone who's more into this, than me - is it possible to use on a model that has only 1 texture for an entire object and make it as two different to use and i am not talking about making a right hand and left use same texture. For example i will use this two models that i wanna work on:

1. JKA's TIE Fighter vehicle, I made already a version based on the First Order design, but i want to improve it a little bit. The problem with it's body is that it has only one texture for the entire body and when i put the red on just one side, it will automaticly go mirrored on the other side.

2. DT's Episode 7 Stormtrooper helmet. Same problem as with the TIE Fighter, but now with his helmet I wanna make a good reskin of Finn with the blood mark from the hand of his former "friend" in the Order. Do i need to make some extra texture and am I missing a line in the .skin file, or it could be done with a simple shader file and if it's a shader, than how does it work?

 

[Langerd]

Hmm.. The one method here i can think of is just make a copy model part (just little model fix) that add small patch of faces that would be decal with this blood mark.

[mrwonko]

You need to edit the model to change the textures being used. My blender plugins would be well suited for this since they allow you to import, change and re-export the model.

[dark_apprentice]

I believe they are here in JKHub so i can try them? By the way @@mrwonko i tried last night a method suggested above, I just duplicate part of the front helmet and added it as an "extra" part on the model, so I came up with this. Not very good, but it works for me. Let me know what do you think .^^