BetterSkin2 aims to be a feature-rich, customizable and easy-to-use Minecraft skin editor.
BetterSkin is my previous c++ project, which is unfinished, so this project is called BetterSkin2
This project is not production ready yet
Some dev screenshots:
There are a lot of MC skin editor out there, but each of them have some issues including:
- Only available online
- Lack modern features that other drawing softwares provide
- Not customizable
- Some are not maintained anymore
Solving these problems is the primary goal of this project.
Main features
- customizable pen tools
- convinient color picker
- supports layers
- reigon selections, copy/paste, transformation
- 3D view
- in-window reference images
- supports higher resolution
Additional (less prioritized) features
- switch camera mode
- grease pencil like blender
- advanced color mixer
- format converting
- filters/effects
- plugins
- paint custom models
This projects is still in its early stage, many api/structure may change.
Contribution is welcomed, simply start a pull request.
You can also submit bug reports or feature request in the issues tab.
Below are some current todo list. Begin with some simple ones to become familiar with the project.
- undo redo
- settings manager
- select&move tool
- add color palette, color mix/gradient generator, palette from image/palette to image, fill with palette etc.
- add region in skins, region fill, auto shadows, mirror, region select etc.
- add noise tool
- region clip option for pen tool
- add support for custom shortcut keys for tool switching & quick tools
- support higher resolution
- add new skin menu
- better appearance
- let 2d camera scale around mouse instead of screen center
- alpha/strength support for tools