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Minecraft can be a great creative tool. It allows you to explore, create and play the game the way one chooses. However, one of the most rewarding ways of interacting with Minecraft is by creating custom skins for the game characters and other assets. While this previously required some tinkering with the file system, the newest builds of Minecraft now feature an easy way to swap out and upload your player skin.
Many users are already familiar with Minecraft, and some will have already tried altering their player skins using one of the many online repositories available. This lesson aims to provide students with the tools to create their own skins from scratch and integrate them into the game or share them with others, and understand the structure of the texture file itself.
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This module provides an opportunity to address curriculum expectations in Art and Computer Studies for Grades 5 to 8. In particular, students will be introduced to the software GraphicsGale, possibly expanding on skills they have learned in the Pixel Art modules. This assignment will also examine spatial relationships when a 3D object is projected onto a 2D plane.
A skin is a 2D computer-generated file that is applied to the surface of a 3D wireframe to give it form and colour. Sometimes generally called a “texture map, ” a skin matches to the geometry of a 3D model and is folded around it. Papercraft is the art of cutting, folding, and gluing paper templates to create figures and objects in a manner similar to a skin. Working with a slightly edited version of the official “Steve” skin from Minecraft, students can cut, fold, and glue their own paper Steve.
The resource file “Steve_Papercraft” is included with this module. Print out copies in advance to accommodate the number of students. Once in hand, students cut out the four shapes, then, carefully along the dotted white lines. Folding in the tabs and along the black dotted lines, the shape of the model will start to come together. Once all fold lines have been creased, apply a small amount of glue to the front face of the tabs, folding the shapes into place and applying the tab to the opposite edge where it meets. Once all four pieces are folded and glued, students can glue the head to the top of the body, and the legs to the bottom of the body.
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The default Minecraft characters use two files called “Steve_skin.png” and “Alex_skin.png” to generate the textures for the player character, called a sprite. Both of these files are included with this module. Working with a graphics editing program we can alter the files and create unique skins for our characters.
Before editing these files it can be helpful to understand how Minecraft arranges the various parts of the file, and how the parts are displayed. Here is a map of the basic skin template:
By default, only the “core” areas of a skin are visible. The “accessory” areas are transparent, but they can be used to place things like clothing, hats, glasses, and other elements directly on top of their corresponding parts. Any pixels drawn in these areas will be displayed in the same spot as the core texture, but slightly larger and floating slightly away from the base model.
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Students should be encouraged to share and show their edited skins. If possible, a group server game of Minecraft is perfect for this. Once comfortable with modifying basic skins, students can practice with the accessory layers. The next step from this is modifying resource packs, altering the in-game blocks, npcs (non-player characters), and enemies. Modifying skins is a simple way to take control of game content and make it one’s own.
In this module students will create a pixel art sprite with physical media and then transfer that image into a freeware program called GraphicsGale to make a useable PNG image file.
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Students should be encouraged to share and show their edited skins. If possible, a group server game of Minecraft is perfect for this. Once comfortable with modifying basic skins, students can practice with the accessory layers. The next step from this is modifying resource packs, altering the in-game blocks, npcs (non-player characters), and enemies. Modifying skins is a simple way to take control of game content and make it one’s own.
In this module students will create a pixel art sprite with physical media and then transfer that image into a freeware program called GraphicsGale to make a useable PNG image file.
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Do you like building in Minecraft? If so, then this lesson will be useful to you! Learn how to create an Adventure Map and share it with your friends!
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