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+# Making Skins/Textures on Minecraft LCE
+Mainly for the Source Code Leak. Written by IveBeenAlone (IBA).
+
+# Section 1 - Required Programs
+
+Firstly, you are going to **need** the following,
+
+- PCK Studio (https://github.com/LCERD/PCK-Studio/releases/latest)
+
+Secondly, you will probably want one (or more) of these.
+
+- PaintDotNet (or any other art/paint that has transparancy) (https://paint.net/)
+
+- Blockbench (if you want custom models) (https://www.blockbench.net/)
+
+- Minecraft LCE Toolkit (used for mainly \*.arc files)
+(https://github.com/RhysEvoo/Minecraft-LCE-Toolkit/releases)
+
+- JPEXS Decompiler (used to edit swf files that can be found in \*.arc
+files) (https://github.com/jindrapetrik/jpexs-decompiler/releases)
+
+- MLCE Texturepack Builder (entirely optional, but recommended if
+making texture packs)
+(https://github.com/romrom83/MLCE-texture-pack-builder/releases)
+
+# Section 2 - Basic Skins
+
+So, to make a skin (or skin pack), you will want to open your root
+directory, this is where the games .exe file is. If you are using a
+launcher like Emerald and on windows, this will be in
+**`%localappdata%\\com.emerald.legacy\\instances`**.
+You want to navigate to Windows64Media\\DLC, and make a copy of Skin
+Pack 1. You do NOT have to do this if you are replacing skins, but keep
+in mind if you replace a skin, it will only show for you.
+
+Once you have made this copy, rename it to whatever you want the Skin
+Pack Display Name to be in game.
+
+Once you have done that, open the folder and PCK Studio. You will want
+to drag and drop the copied PCK file onto PCK Studio, or go File \> Open
+and select the copied PCK file. Once you have done that, you will be
+given something that looks like this,
+
+As you can see, dlcskin######## are the skins in Skin Pack 1. You can
+click on the files to see the skin texture. But we aren't interested in
+any of that. What we want to do is click one, and hold our delete key
+(or right click > delete) until all but one is gone. Why all but one?
+PCK Studio doesn't update and show newly added files all the time
+otherwise, we will delete the last one once we have made our skin. Once
+we have done that, we want to right click where the skin files used to
+be and select Create > Skin. You will be presented with something like
+this,
+
+What you want to do is click "Edit Skin Flags", and UNCHECK "64x64
+Classic Skin". Unless your fork has 64x64 skin support, you WILL have
+to uncheck this!!! (Forks here include Console editions, such as X360.)
+It should look like the following,
+
+Again, this is to make a basic Steve skin, enable and disable what you
+know your fork supports. If your unsure, you can always try it and
+change it later! Once we have done that, click Save, and that window
+will close. Now, we want to select "Auto-Gen" for our Skin ID, if you
+know how this works, you can skip this and assign your own ID. A quick
+summary is that, every skin has its own unique 8 digit ID. I have
+personally used more than 8 digits, but I do not know if it is safe to
+do so.
+
+After selecting Auto-Gen, give your skin a name, and a theme name, These
+will show up here!
+
+Now lastly.. The skin. You are going to want to click anywhere in this
+box and select your skins png file. Remember! If your fork does NOT
+support 64x64 skins, you will have to use a 64x32 skin file.
+
+In some forks you CAN use higher resolution skins via a loop-hole of
+sorts. Minecraft LCE doesnt look at the size of the skin, it looks at
+ratio, so a 2:1 skin or a 1:1 skin. So you can use a 128x64 skin instead
+of a 64x32 skin. This will NOT give you more model/layers, this will
+just make your skin higher quality.
+
+You can also optionally add a cape texture,
+
+But it's not required. When you've selected your skin of choice, click
+"Create Skin". Repeat this for as many skins as you want to make!
+
+When you are done adding your skins, go File > Save As.. And find the
+skin folder we originally copied. We *can* leave the PCK File named
+Skins1.pck, but we should name it something related to the pack itself.
+If you do choose to rename the PCK file, delete the originally copied
+Skins1.pck
+
+And lastly, boot up LCE and see if it's in the game. If not, make sure
+everything is properly done, as this should have made a working basic
+Steve model skin.
+
+# Section 2 - Advanced Skins
+
+To make more advanced skins, ones with custom models and such, you will
+want to use Blockbench and make the model/skin file. This is your job to
+include the bbmodel and skin texture I send you neoapps.
+
+You don't need the full downloaded version of blockbench, the web
+version works perfectly fine for this. But you *may* want the web
+version if you are making these kind of skins regularly, or porting
+stuff from Bedrock, but that's a kinda different thing. If your able to
+follow this and make a custom skin here, you'll be able to port a
+Bedrock skin by yourself.
+
+So, you want to follow Section 1 until you get to the part about
+choosing your skin texture. Instead of doing that, we want to click on
+"Edit Model", and select "Yes"
+
+After a moment, we will get this,
+
+When this opens, we want to select "Import Skin", like the image above
+shows.
+
+When we do PCK Studio will warn us that our work will be lost, but thats
+fine, as there is no work yet. So this is safe to ignore and click on
+Yes. A file selecter window will open up, in the bottom right we want to
+change the selection from PCK Studio Model files, to bbmodel files, as
+well as navigate to your models saved bbmodel file and open it.
+
+The model *may* appear invisible, I don't know why it does this, but
+hit create anyways. When that's done, follow the rest of the basic skin
+guide. you **may** need to reselect the correct skin flags, or
+depending on your model, enable some to hide its armour or Steve models
+body parts.
+
+# Section 3 - Textures (simple)
+
+For texture packs, the same idea applies, copy a texture pack folder,
+rename, and open the pck file. What differs however, is how the file is
+made.
+
+For this simple methood we are going to use romrom83's
+MLCE-texture-pack-builder. As it's a lot easier and simpler than
+editing a pre-existing pack. You are going to want both the
+template_pack_minecraft_consoles.zip and template_pack_MCLE.zip. Unzip
+these where ever you want them, but keep them close to each other as
+youll need both. Open up the template folder and replace/edit the files
+as you need. You can use Common\\res\\\* to view every texture LCE
+supports, and where they should be. Texture packs do NOT use 1_2_2 or
+TitleUpdate folders. If a texture is in res\\TitleUpdate\\res\\mob, it
+should just be in res\\mob in your texture pack.
+
+Once all that is done, open up TexturePackBuilder.exe choose your source
+folder, it should be the one with the README.txt in it. Give your pack a
+name, an ID, and a description, and pick the resolution. Unless you are
+manually making a texture pack (described in Section 4), you are limited
+to 16x or 32x.
+
+When those are filled out, hit Convert! It should make a new folder at
+where ever you put TexturePackBuilder.exe\\output\\\[packname\]. You
+should just be able to now copy the pack name folder into your DLC
+folder. Simple as that!