MOD-TUTORIAL 4: How to make your own Armor

I've got a confusing problem, I made a chest armor which shows up fine ingame except that it doesn't display the preview mannequin when moused-over. I can't think what the issue might be, except that I used partial transparency (but it appears on the player just fine when worn)?

 

hmm have you tried it without the race mod? maybe the new race is the problem...

 

Other clothes work on them just fine though. After some searching it seems to be a random problem that vanilla items have too (for example, the human sweatshirt that mine was modded from) x_o

 

what program would you all recommend to repaint/edit the image files?

 

Do these armor mods show up online?

 

You should use the cardboard costume images for armor. Probably be a lot easier

 

How did you get past the loading screen issue?

I've got the Hydrolyth Tech Upgrade as one of the default recipes for tier10, so that isn't the problem. I've also tried just putting the frames files in a the location specified, and it still didn't work.

Okay, so I got past the loading screen issue, but now my items are Perfectly Generic. . I'll reupload it here: http://puu.sh/5OMYf.zip

 

maybe you can find the error in the starbound.log file?

 

I would really appreciate a tutorial on creating custom tech because it eludes me so.

 

Could we get a tutorial about creating custom npcs?

 

Is there any easier way then going into player.config yet? Kind of tedious -.-

 

sorry but i just don't have the time yet...

yes you can put your mod in your the starbound mods folder i'm gonna update this tutorial to show you how....

 

Any art program that can deal with pixel work and save PNG does, and that is most of them.
from free programs to high end Photoshop programs.

here are some freebees
http://www.aseprite.org/
http://www.gimp.org/
http://teknopants.com/pixothello/

 

Thanks for that, really appreciated great guides man!

 

I recommend Paint.net over Gimp. It has a much more straight-forward UI and lower technical requirements.

 

I've tried doing this and it doesn't seem to want to work, It doesn't show a recipe in game.

 

same issue

 

Where do you get the MyNewArmorchest.recipe file from? and whats that file called? please help!!!!!!!!!!

 

You make it. It goes into the recipes folder of your mod. You can grab one of the others from assets/recipes to use as a template.

 

Yeah but then it turns it into a notepad. is that still ok?