Sprites for the character editor

[Персиваль де Роло III]

What do I need to create my character?
I'm talking about sprites. The fact that it is necessary to redraw the head/neck/body/limbs is understandable.
But when I took the files from their folder, I found several pictures there of unknown purpose (for me). Is it OK? Or do I also need to do something with them?

[Buggy Boy]

You should be able to see PNG files with body parts (wearing just underwear), then in the jobgear folder you should find individual job roles with their own uniform PNG files. There may be old uniform and jobgear files, you probably won't need these for your character mod.

When making your own mod you should only need to include your own custom graphics and xml files, your mod xml files will most likely still reference the vanilla xml and graphic files for items etc. There are numerous guides around, or feel free to take a look at my Version 14 Uniforms mod and use that as a base (be sure to change the xml files to distinguish it as your own mod). Note my mod doesn't change faces, hair, or things like that, only the uniforms; there are anime mods that change those things so look at one of those for how to change those things.

[Персиваль де Роло III]

Originally posted by Buggy Boy:

You should be able to see PNG files with body parts (wearing just underwear), then in the jobgear folder you should find individual job roles with their own uniform PNG files. There may be old uniform and jobgear files, you probably won't need these for your character mod.

When making your own mod you should only need to include your own custom graphics and xml files, your mod xml files will most likely still reference the vanilla xml and graphic files for items etc. There are numerous guides around, or feel free to take a look at my Version 14 Uniforms mod and use that as a base (be sure to change the xml files to distinguish it as your own mod). Note my mod doesn't change faces, hair, or things like that, only the uniforms; there are anime mods that change those things so look at one of those for how to change those things.

To be sure. When you talking about body parts, you are talking about the Barotrauma/Content/Characters/Human folder, right?

And when you talking about uniforms, are you talking about the Barotrauma/Content/Items/Jobgear folder?

[GwanGwanish]

If you make your own character with PNGs, will they appear for other players in multiplayer?

[Персиваль де Роло III]

Originally posted by GwanGwanish:

If you make your own character with PNGs, will they appear for other players in multiplayer?

I read that yes. But they must take it from the Workshop.

[Buggy Boy]

Originally posted by RomanovPetr795:

To be sure. When you talking about body parts, you are talking about the Barotrauma/Content/Characters/Human folder, right?

And when you talking about uniforms, are you talking about the Barotrauma/Content/Items/Jobgear folder?

I think so, yes. It's been a while since I did anything with it, I just presume the folders are the same as they were in Early Access.

Also, if you wanted others to see your uniforms / character skins and you are hosting a server, you can probably set something so that they will automatically download your character mod (I have never used mods when hosting, except for a custom sub). If you are joining someone else's server then I think the game might disable your mod in favour of the host's server mod list. You could still see your character skins if you just replace the default PNG file(s) with your custom ones, e.g. for one particular class, but keep the originals somewhere safe; only you would see these skins.