HTG George – How to Get Custom Paintings in Minecraft Bedrock 1.18

Hi i’m george i’ll be showing you how to put your own custom paintings into minecraft bedrock 1.18 okay switch over to the desktop and we’ll get this set up okay here we are on the desktop and the first thing you need is to have a place

To build your resource pack i made a folder here i just called it bedrock packs and put it on my c drive right there it could be anything you want anything you want that’s what i use you’ll also need to have your new paintings and i have two here this

Portrait image here and this wolf picture these are both images i did over in photoshop elements and i have videos about how to do that if you want to look for that and then you may also want to have a custom pack icon png file you can

Use the default one if you want to i’ll show you where to get that but i like having my own pack icon okay so we have our basic contents here the next thing we need is to get a new vanilla resource pack and let me show you where to

Download that and this right here on minecraft.net big long link up here so i’ll put this link in the description just click on that to get to this page and then scroll down here where it says how do i use add-ons and you want resource packs right there

Click on this and download this let’s go ahead we’ll do that and then save it into the same location as your other images choose save and there we go that’s taken care of okay let’s go back and check that out here it is i now want to

Open this up in a new windows just right click and open a new window there we go right now i’m in windows e11 and i’ll show you differences if it matters between windows 11 and windows 10 as we get to it now down here first thing you want is

This manifest json file it’s right here just right drag it over here and copy there we go and the next thing we need to do is to get an image go into textures and then go into painting and you need this image right here let me just change the view on this to

Extra large icons you can’t see anything because it’s inside of the zip file but i’ll right drag it over here and copy and we can see it right there let’s change this now to larger view as well there we go extra large and it’s this thing there we’re going to be changing

This picture here and that picture there okay that’s all we need out of this zip file but we do need to copy these two folders here so i’m just put this right like that and let’s go back in here i’ll put this down so i can see that there we

Go and let’s change our view here back to just large icons easier to see we need a new folder right here and this one’s going to be called textures and then inside of textures new folder and this one is painting okay notice that it’s painting and not paintings it’s singular and inside of

Here is where our new adjusted painting is going to be going and make that easy we can just take this and drop it in there right away like that and then we’ll change that inside of here okay that’s all set let’s now work on the painting image first and put these two

Into it we’ll then come back here and build the resource pack i’ll be doing this in a program called paint.net let me bring up the download page for that and show you that here we go and again i’ll put this link in the description and the one you want is right down here

Where it says dot pdn this one is free if you want to go through the microsoft story cam but it’s about six bucks on the microsoft store still real cheap but it’s free right down here okay back to the desktop there we go and let’s open up paint.net

And bring in the images there we go now the easy way to get images in here is just to drag and drop so i’ll bring up that folder again right here and let’s drag this in one at a time choose open back to our folder drag in our next one like that

And open there we go back to the folder again and then inside textures painting and that one right there drag that in and open okay everything is now set i’ll zoom in a little bit this is a real small picture i want to have it larger and get

Better detail into our paintings so let’s resize this go up to image come down to resize and see it’s at 96 pixels per inch that’s fine i want to make it four times larger if you have maintained aspect ratio checked you only have to change one of these two and this is

Going to be 10 24. make sure your sampling is set at nearest neighbor and choose okay it’s a lot bigger let’s now go up here to view and come down to zoom to window and it just fits in like that okay so far so good is now a larger size

We can get more detail with our paintings next we need to know the right size for the paint so i’m going to zoom in on this picture right here get that pretty good size and we’ll adjust our position and i’ll grab this tool over here this is the

Rectangle select tool now you can keep in that little thin brown border if you want to kind of a wood look or you can go outside i’m going to go just outside of that and let’s come down and select that clear out to the edge right there that’s the size of that

Painting in this picture we now need to know how big this is and that’s easy to do go to edit and copy or use ctrl c and then file new and this automatically sets this at that same size so here we go there’s our size width is at 256 and

Height is at 191 and it’s a resolution of 96. look you can cancel that and use the ctrl d keyword shortcut to deselect that let’s now put a painting into this spot i’ll take this one right here and this is way way way too big we need to

Bring the size of this image down so go over here to image come back to resize you can see here this is 1920 by 1280 and it’s at a resolution of 300. i’ll change the resolution first we need this at 96. and then i’m going to change

The height down to 191. again to that nearest neighbor up here what you want to have is one of these numbers going to large and one fitting we’re going to be trimming our picture just a little bit so it fits properly so on this one the height is the right one to use

Choose ok there we go it’s now pretty small now use the control a keyboard shortcut to select that whole thing go up to edit and copy back over here to our picture and then edit paste into new layer and it comes in just like that little move

Tool right here i can now put that right on top of that other picture now as i said it’s a little bit too large so i’m going to find a good spot where her picture where her face is centered just about like that and i move it up just a little bit and

That looks pretty good then go back to this rectangle select tool and i’m gonna drag a rectangle over here just over that left side there you go hit the delete key and that just clips that off that’s now resized properly to fit into the game okay let’s scroll down a little

Bit this picture is the same size so do the exact same thing go over here to this image and then image resize once again let’s change this to 96 resolution make sure it says nearest neighbor i’ll change the height here to 191 and the width is a bit wide so that’s fine

Choose okay resizes that ctrl a to select that up to edit copy back to our picture right here edit paste into new layer there it is and let’s move this into position put it right on top of that painting and down just a touch like that

And again i’ll center it there we go and the top one is a little off bottoms of the loft i’m going to just adjust my size here just a touch and then right there looks good and again grab that rectangle select and we’ll trim off that

Bit on the side which is just there hit the delete key and there we go okay let’s get this back to fit on our view view zoom to window we’ve now replaced those two pictures let’s now save this out so go up to file come down to save it’ll already be in

The right location because we moved that ahead of time leave the name i’m going to save this twice the first time i’ll leave it as a paint.net file choose save in case i want to come back and change other paintings in the future a lot of

That work is already done for me now let’s save it out to overwrite the original and that’s file save as and simply change this down to a png and it should sit on top of that one we’ll get a warning about that just say yes and okay flatten and that’s now done

And we’re all finished with this part of the project we can now close this and go back and build that resource pack let’s close that out and i’m not going to save that then close down that zip file there we go so here is the paint.net file because i

Want to go back this one has those layers in it and here’s the actual working file this is going to stay in the same folder that’s fine bidrock will just ignore the pdn file okay it’s back up here to our bedrock packs the next thing we need to do is to edit the

Manifest.json file now i like to do these in a program called notepad plus plus it’s a free download let me bring up that page and i’ll show you that and it’s right here and again big long link i’ll put this in the description and then just download and install that okay

Let’s get back out of here and i’ll bring this up there we go now there are two things that we need to fix one is the description name we’ll do that first i’ll just select that and i’ll just call this one custom paintings now this is in three spots so i’ll just

Grab that ctrl c to copy that and then come right down here ctrl v to paste and also put it right down here ctrl v and paste there okay the next thing we have are these two uuid codes one is right here and one’s down here

Now if you’re just doing this on your own computer you’re not going to be sharing this you can just change the last number here to something else what i’ve been doing is just to add on right now up to 19 so i’ll add on 19 plus 22 and it gives me 41

And then right down here i’ll just add on 19 plus 19 gives me 38 and that’s taken care of now if you plan on sharing this then you should get a whole new uid code and for that i have one more website let me bring that up and it’s

Right here the online uuid generator again there’s the link and this is also in the description just take the first code here click on copy let’s go back to our notepad plus plus and that’s already selected and then ctrl v to paste that in let’s go

Back over there we need to have two different codes so go back over to the uuid generator here we go click right here it says refresh gives you a new code click copy and then back over to notepad plus plus and we’ll put that one right on top of

Here and ctrl v to paste now make sure you don’t lose the comma you don’t lose those quotation marks only change just the actual number inside there okay this is done i’ll choose save and we’re fine close that out okay we now can build our resource pack

Now i have a custom pack icon png this is just a square image 256 by 256 and it’s a png that’s all that is it can be anything that you want if you don’t want to use one here you can just grab a default one out of the resource pack

It’s in the same location as that manifest but i think having your own is nice to do again really easy to make your own okay let’s grab the textures folder and i’ll grab the manifest json and that pack icon and then in windows 11 right click

And come down to compress to zip file and there it is now if you’re in windows 10 you go up to the share tab and then click on zip and again you’re at the same place right there okay let’s change the name in here and i’ll call this custom paintings

There we go all set now i need to change this dot zip to a dot mc pack if you’re not seeing the dot zip right there go up to view come down here to show and right here make sure that fondant extensions is checked now if you’re on windows 10

Go to the view tab and then over to the right hand side put a check next to fondant extensions and you can then see that dot zip in there all right now click into the name and you should be able to change this just back up here and retype this to say mcpack

Click outside get a warning box just say yes and the icon should automatically change now sometimes the icon doesn’t change so just go inside of a folder like this and then back outside again and that icon will change for you all right now make sure that minecraft is

Not running and then double click on this mcpac file there we go it’s going to load in minecraft for us and then import that new custom paintings there we go import started now go pretty fast and successfully imported and that’s great now at the moment i am playing this in bedrock beta

That’s why my picture back here is all black and white why it says beta down here and all stuff up there so this works the same in regular minecraft or in the beta version doesn’t matter exact same steps okay come down here to settings and then scroll down to global resources

And my packs and you should see your new pack right here on top click on that and then click activate and then looking active and make sure you’re seeing it up there there it is that’s good okay let’s now go back to settings goes back to our main page here and

Let’s play this and make sure the pictures are showing up properly click on play beta i have my going to this file right there that and there we go actually switch places i guess i did the pictures backwards let me show you how to put these in place i’ll just change

My view here you know back up a little bit and we’ll get rid of that one and get rid of that one and then right click you may have to come down find a good spot there we go right click and it places that in me try over here

Just one that’s a good spot and then right click if you get the same picture just do it a couple of times until you get the one that you want there we go there’s the two new paintings here inside of minecraft bedrock 118. if you like this

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