After making a hat for one of my skins ( viewtopic.php?f=53&t=2698 ) I figured I might as well provide templates for others so that they can do the same. It's not a perfect method of making hats, since the model limitations are still there, but it can make certain skins look a little more accurate. Please note that this tutorial was made with Paint.NET in mind, but can be tweaked to work with other editing software.
To use the templates in your skin you must paste them on a separate layer above the skin texture you are editing, then merge the layers at the end.
Here's a a gameplay screenshot of the templates placed over the basic skin:
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As you can see, the hat uses the hair in it, so it means if your skin is intended to have hair, it must be drawn onto the skin texture. Here is a template for hair to be added to the skin texture, you will have to adjust it a bit to match the style you want:
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For the hat part of the skin texture, the template must be placed on a layer above the hair part of the skin texture (which I provided above). Here is the hat part of the skin texture template:
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When both templates are added to the skin texture it should look something like this:
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For the hair, you must set the hair to hair 5 for males and hair 1 for females. This is the hair texture template:
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Color and edit each template however you want. Here's an example of a finished version, please ignore the highlighted text in the image:
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If you use the templates don't forget post a link to this tutorial and leave a thanks, it would be greatly appreciated. Let me know if any clarification is needed.
