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when you want to start skinning you will always need a good program to make the skins with. here are some of the most popular and most user-friendly programs:
o Paint.net
o Gimp
o mc skin edit
o MCSkin3D
i personally prefer MCSkin3D. it has a wide variety of tools, options, modes etc. to make the user feel well-equipped to make anything! MCSkin3D also includes a way to skin non-player entities such as: all Mobs, armor, vehicles, saddles, etc. Mc skin edit is a simple program that is good for beginners. i made my first 5 skins using mc skin edit.
now, for editors such as paint.net and gimp..... they can sometimes be unreliable. i do not like browser-based programs due to the fact that they are not always accessible and can have unexpected glitches and errors.
Now that you have a program you want to make your first skin. here are some of the basic tools you will have:
o pencil
o fill
o Noise
o erase
o Blur (only on some programs)
o dodge/burn
o darken/lighten
o Dropper
now, some of these you already know what they do, such as pencil (standard drawing, may come in multiple shapes and sizes), fill (fill in a certain area with selected color), erase (duh). but there are some other tools that some people may not know what they do: noise ( will place darker and lighter contrasts of the color you place it over), blur (will [usually] mix the color you place it on with nearby colors/shades), dodge ( will gradually shift the shade of the color you select to be lighter), burn (same as dodge, except darker instead of lighter), darken ( will directly darken selected area by multiple shades depending of exposure setting), lighten (same as darken except... well... DUH), dropper (use this on a color to pick up that color and select it as your 'currently using" color). i hope that brief explanation did you good. I will be doing a further in-depth tool guide later in this course. now we will be moving on to color selectors and types.
There are three basic types of color selectors. Each one can access all colors in the universe when used properly. Some can even determine the opacity of said color. ( However, opacity does not apply in skin making due to the fact that all opacity will show black and PMC will not allow you to upload it ).
o HSL
o HSV
o RGB
now, for what they stand for:
o Hue, Saturation, Lightness
o Hue, Saturation, Value
o Red, Green, Blue
These each are based upon geometric and algebraic equations. But that makes my head hurt so I'm not gong to much into that. All three selectors can be placed into different shapes and forms such as:
o Triangle
o Pyramid
o Square
o Cube
o Circle
o Sphere
o Cylinder
Now that I'm done talking about what they mean I will now tell you how to use them. All three selectors run on basic X, Y, And Z coordinates. Picture a chunk in Minecraft, it runs off X, Y, Z coordinates, X, being lateral blocks, Z, being Depth, and Y, being vertical. Using different sliders/whatever the heck you have can choose which color you want.
If I can get enough diamonds then I will publish a part 2 which will actually go into skinning stuff! This was more of an introduction and what the buttons and tabs and sliders do. Thank you for reading to the very end! Please give a diamond, leave a comment, and favorite! Also remember to check out my skins that I have made. Thank you once again. This is Knapplace, signing off!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
o Paint.net
o Gimp
o mc skin edit
o MCSkin3D
i personally prefer MCSkin3D. it has a wide variety of tools, options, modes etc. to make the user feel well-equipped to make anything! MCSkin3D also includes a way to skin non-player entities such as: all Mobs, armor, vehicles, saddles, etc. Mc skin edit is a simple program that is good for beginners. i made my first 5 skins using mc skin edit.
now, for editors such as paint.net and gimp..... they can sometimes be unreliable. i do not like browser-based programs due to the fact that they are not always accessible and can have unexpected glitches and errors.
Now that you have a program you want to make your first skin. here are some of the basic tools you will have:
o pencil
o fill
o Noise
o erase
o Blur (only on some programs)
o dodge/burn
o darken/lighten
o Dropper
now, some of these you already know what they do, such as pencil (standard drawing, may come in multiple shapes and sizes), fill (fill in a certain area with selected color), erase (duh). but there are some other tools that some people may not know what they do: noise ( will place darker and lighter contrasts of the color you place it over), blur (will [usually] mix the color you place it on with nearby colors/shades), dodge ( will gradually shift the shade of the color you select to be lighter), burn (same as dodge, except darker instead of lighter), darken ( will directly darken selected area by multiple shades depending of exposure setting), lighten (same as darken except... well... DUH), dropper (use this on a color to pick up that color and select it as your 'currently using" color). i hope that brief explanation did you good. I will be doing a further in-depth tool guide later in this course. now we will be moving on to color selectors and types.
There are three basic types of color selectors. Each one can access all colors in the universe when used properly. Some can even determine the opacity of said color. ( However, opacity does not apply in skin making due to the fact that all opacity will show black and PMC will not allow you to upload it ).
o HSL
o HSV
o RGB
now, for what they stand for:
o Hue, Saturation, Lightness
o Hue, Saturation, Value
o Red, Green, Blue
These each are based upon geometric and algebraic equations. But that makes my head hurt so I'm not gong to much into that. All three selectors can be placed into different shapes and forms such as:
o Triangle
o Pyramid
o Square
o Cube
o Circle
o Sphere
o Cylinder
Now that I'm done talking about what they mean I will now tell you how to use them. All three selectors run on basic X, Y, And Z coordinates. Picture a chunk in Minecraft, it runs off X, Y, Z coordinates, X, being lateral blocks, Z, being Depth, and Y, being vertical. Using different sliders/whatever the heck you have can choose which color you want.
If I can get enough diamonds then I will publish a part 2 which will actually go into skinning stuff! This was more of an introduction and what the buttons and tabs and sliders do. Thank you for reading to the very end! Please give a diamond, leave a comment, and favorite! Also remember to check out my skins that I have made. Thank you once again. This is Knapplace, signing off!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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