So, for those of you who missed it - in 1.5.x, King Lemming and his crew brings us the capability to change skins ingame via a chat command. And: those skins don't have to be Minecraft's standard 64x32 - they can be higher resolutions too! HD skins, if you will.
The question is though... how does one go about making a skin? Especially a HD one?
I've so far been using this online editor for standard skins: http://minecraft.novaskin.me/ because it conveniently allows me to edit the figure directly (though I only edited existing skins a bit). It cannot do HD, though. So I tried loading a texture sheet into Paint (for lack of a better software), and well, I didn't even try to make changes. I have no idea how that mess of pixels could possibly translate onto an actual model, and I cannot imagine how any changes I make would actually look ingame. Whatever texture artists do, my brain cannot follow that kind of mental acrobatics.
So do you guys have any recommendations for a complete artistic failure like myself?
Failing that, are you guys at least excited about HD skins to match your HD textures?
The question is though... how does one go about making a skin? Especially a HD one?
I've so far been using this online editor for standard skins: http://minecraft.novaskin.me/ because it conveniently allows me to edit the figure directly (though I only edited existing skins a bit). It cannot do HD, though. So I tried loading a texture sheet into Paint (for lack of a better software), and well, I didn't even try to make changes. I have no idea how that mess of pixels could possibly translate onto an actual model, and I cannot imagine how any changes I make would actually look ingame. Whatever texture artists do, my brain cannot follow that kind of mental acrobatics.
So do you guys have any recommendations for a complete artistic failure like myself?
Failing that, are you guys at least excited about HD skins to match your HD textures?