HTG George – Custom Armor Texture Resource Pack in Nova Skin Editor for Minecraft 1.18.1

Hi i’m george and i’ll be showing you how to make custom armor using nova skin here for minecraft 118 one if you like this video make sure you hit that subscribe button and let’s go over there and see how this is done in nova skin here we are at novaskin and that’s noahskin.me

I’ll put this link in the description also the resource pack side of this is not complete it’s still in beta mode but it’s not going to be completed if you look at our dates here 2014 this site hasn’t been updated in ages but what’s here is still really

Interesting and really good to use so go down here click into the resource pack creator here we go and then over here left hand side click on armor takes you into the armor section and if i scroll down just a little bit here we have two pieces here iron armor and iron armor

Two the pant legs in here and then iron one is everything else that’s the same for all of these different textures like diamond in here now notice that we don’t have any nether right armor that’s because again no skin is really out of date but what it has works great so

We’ll go ahead and we’ll work on both of these two parts just click on one that then loads it in here and this is what i like about this editor is that you get this 3d view you can edit right here on the 3d view

If i roll the mouse over here you get this kind of a wire frame that shows you where all these spots are and notice up here in the hat there’s kind of a outline outside of the hat that’s because there are two layers up here there is the main head section

Right here and head where so you actually can do two layers on the hat but no place else and if you see over here right hand side the areas that are outlined that’s where you can put content in this is the main area here for the hat there is your main

Body armor and then you have your feet down here and your arms over here the arms the feet are just one texture so you paint on one and it matches on both sides the area over here that’s kind of empty this is that overlay section for the

Hats of the hat and they have the overlay section over here the first thing to do is go up here click on this little kind of a water drop thing right here that gets you into the color picker and then down below you have all of your different color options

Now these are just different colors so here’s a red pencil if i go over here see the pencil is red if i go over here pencil is green here the pencil is blue black white and yellow this is a fill bucket and some other stuff we don’t

Need to go into real detail about how to use the whole program we’ll just do something real simple this time now the best way to do this is to isolate the part that you want to work on let’s say i want to do just the chest area in here

So go up here it says select and this show just the body there it is and it can now work on just the body if you go outside here you can actually pull that around and see all sides there’s still kind of a ghost image so you can see

Right where you are now i want to do stripes on this and i think this time i’m going to be bringing my stripes inside just a little bit but i want to find a couple of nice blue colors in here a bit of a darker blue i

Think that’s kind of nice right down here except for one pixel which is the easiest way to do this you can go higher on your pixel in here once you get about four you can do paint in different textures but i’ll keep mine real simple for this and i’ll come in

Here and let’s just paint and see we have okay that’s a bit too dark so i’m gonna move this back up here sometimes these things move around a bit weird there we go and again it’s kind of a beta version doesn’t really always work perfectly sometimes you have to do is

Redo a couple times get it to work out fine and let’s just put in some basic stripes and i’ll put those just inside like that and i want a lighter blue in here i’ll go a lot lighter somewhere up here and be a nice light blue stripe right

There so real basic and i’ll just keep this one basic for this video but we’ve now repainted the front of the body part of my armor let’s now do the hat up here go up to head this is the inner section and then if i go down here

For headwear that’s the outer section we’ll do both of these on the head i’ll take this lighter blue and let’s just pin a stripe right here and right here and i’ll go one above so i have all three of those painted in move this around same thing on this side

And just like that and we’ll clear around and get the back side there we go and clear around again and we’ll get this side in here there it is and then we’ll go to the other section here the head wear and go to a darker blue and

Let’s paint a dark blue stripe right in here and pull that around and across the back side and around again and across this side if you mess up like that you can always just erase that the eraser tool is right over here and just tap in there to clean that out

Okay go back to select then you see the whole body and there we go so that’s the back side there’s the front side so i have that painted in real nice i’ll do a little bit on the pants leave everything else here the same we need to save this out

Now so we can use it in a texture pack and actually install this in the game so go up here it says save and go over to download and this is the actual texture and the way you do this is you right click if you click on save here

It’s going to tell you the same thing there it is right click and then save image as and save it on your computer i’ll go ahead and i’ll do that right now here’s my working packs folder we’ll be talking about this in just a little bit but i’ll

Save this now if you look over here left hand side this image is called iron underscore layer underscore one png need to use that name down here so i’ll just type that in there we go and it’s png image make sure the file type is png choose save and that’s now

Done all right we can close this down and let’s go back to armor and let’s now go over here and we’ll do the second file here this is the legs bring this up on the legs i’m just putting something at the knee level in here just a little

Detail so you can see that that actually works and go back here to that water drop type look where on the darker color that’s okay go back here to my pencil tool and i’ll put in something just like that now notice how it comes in paints both legs at the same time

And i think that’s all i will do on this one just to give us something changed in here for this particular one same thing to save it out go back to save there’s the file and again if you click on save it’s just going to tell you to do the

Same thing here right click save image as there’s the original one now this is the same thing with layer two so i’m gonna click on that one just give me the name down there then i’ll type over the one and make that a two really easy that’s now done

Now there’s one more thing we need to do this will show up on my character if i place it on the character but it’s not going to show up correctly in the inventory that’s a different image for armor so it’s back up here to textures and over here it says items click into

This and in here we need to scroll down until we find the iron armor and here we go there’s the iron armor the chest plate and we also have the lugs that are separate so you do these things separately so i’ll click over here iron chest plate and notice how it is just

Like the other one i’m going to use the wheel here to scroll back a little bit if i pulse around see it’s just a flat image and go up here to the water drop and click on this little pencil icon i can now draw in here with

This and i’ll find a nice similar color and it was right up in this range someplace and do a dark blue first now put a line maybe right across here and do this again i’ll stay just inside of that outside edge and right up here

And then a lighter blue and i’ll fill in the rest of this with the lighter blue there we go and just paint this on down to get this one image finished now that’s done same exact thing for outputting this click on save right click save image as and right here

This is going to be going into the iron chest plate png so i want to name that correctly down here there it is choose save that one’s done and finally back to items and we’ll scroll down and we’ll find that one last bit that’s the legs and here we go

There they are leggings and again use the wheel on the mouse you can scroll in and out with that that’s good if you go over here you can actually move your image around just by grabbing this little thing right here bottom left hand corner and that’s

Pretty good i can work with that size right there now on the legs we just did little knee things so go back to my blue color in here and back to the eyedropper tool there is that blue and i’ll just put a little knee section just like that okay let’s

Save this one out back up to save right click save image as and this is iron leggings ants png file and choose save okay that’s all done we can now go back and let’s build our resource pack now saving these into a folder i made on my hard

Drive i just called it packs it’s on my c drive and there are the four files we just made plus i have my own custom pack png you can make this yourself it’s just a 256 by 256 png image all that is nothing special about that okay now we need a

Few things i first need the folders to put these into and we also need a pack mcmeta file now that file is not included in the 118 one so either have to get it from an earlier version or you can just download it from my website

I’ll show you where you can get it from an earlier version if you have that if you don’t have that i’ll put a link in the description for you to download let’s bring up the launcher right now here we go go up to installations right here

And click on that file folder and this opens up the minecraft folder right here now bring back up our working folder there we go put that right here and inside of here come down to versions and then find your current version we’re in 181 right down here and you want the jar

File now if you’re not seeing the dot jar part of that and go up to view i’m in windows 11 right now come down to show and make sure that find them extensions is checked if you’re in windows 10 go up to the view tab and

Then put a check mark next to find them extensions all right let’s take this right drag this over here and copy don’t move it make sure you copy there we go now in the jar just click into the name and then type over that and make it say zip instead of jar

Click outside and choose yes it’s now just a zip file now you can do the exact same thing if you have an earlier version 116.5 or earlier will work for this let’s go ahead we’ll grab that there’s a versions folder again and i have 116.5 right up here let’s go inside

Of this and i’ll take this jar file right drag it over here and copy and get that out of the way again and same thing let me just change the dot jar to a dot zip like that okay now we need the pack mc meta we don’t have one inside of here so

I’m going to grab it out of here right click open a new window then you see a big long list of files here you need to scroll way down to get into the section where the peas are that’s way down near the bottom right here there’s the pack

Mcmeta and again this is out of the 116 5. i’m going to right drag it over here and copy there we go now if you don’t have a 1 16 5 or earlier you can also download this from my website i’ll put a link for that in the

Description and then we need to find the folder to put these into and for that let’s go over here to the 118 one right click open a new window and we’re going to navigate into where those files should be that’s in the assets in minecraft come down to textures

Everything is in the textures section and the none of models down here and armor and they’re inside of here let’s just change the view here to medium icons that get lined up nicely there we are and there’s the two iron files so we need to recreate this folder

Structure i’m going to put this right like that let’s bring this window just down below so you can read that let’s now copy that down here so new folder assets go inside of this one new folder minecraft there we go inside of that new folder textures there it is inside of textures

New folder models there we go inside of models new folder armor okay double check make sure this is all spelled correctly i think i got mine right now let’s back up the textures and then up here back up the pictures as well and you want to have the item

Folder right there this is where the items are for the inventory so we need to have the item folder also at this location inside of textures so new folder item and there it is all right let’s go back here to the packs folder these are the armor i’m going to use the

Control c keyword shortcut to copy that let’s go into that folder assets minecraft textures models armor and then ctrl v to paste those in right here there it is it’s back up to our packs folder and then i need this image here hold the ctrl key down and grab that one and the

Same thing ctrl c to copy those that’s in assets minecraft textures and item and then ctrl v to paste those right there okay so that’s all set let’s now go over here to the pack mcmeta file and i can also get rid of this we can close that down okay in

Our pack mcmeta open this up i like to do this inside of a program called notepad plus plus it’s a great code editing program and it’s free i’ll put a link for that in the description open this up there we go only two things to do here first off let’s change that six

To an eight that’s the right number for one eighteen one and then up here let’s just give this a different name i’ll call it custom armor choose save and that’s done right now we can zip together our resource pack so click on assets hold the control key down click

On the pack mc meta and your pack png if you don’t want to make your own pack png you’ll find the pack png right next to the pack mc meta file now let’s right click and come down to compressed zip file this again is in windows 11. i’ll give it a name

Custom armor now if you’re in windows 10 what you do is you select your three files and go up to the share tab and then click on zip and at that point everything is exactly the same okay now we need to get this into the game and

For that i’ll bring the launcher back up again there it is let’s go back over here to that folder open this up and this time go into the resource packs folder let’s put this right over here and i’ll move this one over here it’s going to

See this i’m just going to right drag it over here and copy there we go it’s now inside my resource packs and that’s taken care of and that’s all we have to do as far as that goes everything looks good let’s now bring the launcher back up again and

Let’s play the game and we’ll load into the title screen and then we’ll activate the new resource pack at the title screen here we are at my custom title screen if you want to find out how i did this i have videos about this i’ll put links for those in the description but

For right now let’s go down here to options and resource packs there’s our new pack right here click on the arrow comes over to the right hand side it’s now activated choose done that’s going to load it into the game choose done again let’s go into single player okay

Let’s check our inventory here here’s our combat section there’s our nice new icons right there it looks good let me bring those down here there it is and let’s go over to the chest and we’ll install those notice how we see that new look in here

We see the new look right there on that little image that’s all looking great there we go we’re now wearing those two new pieces of armor with our new designs on them so it’s that easy to make your own custom armor here inside of minecraft if you liked the video hit

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