Pack Making Tutorial #1 (The basics)

Hey guys and welcome to a new series i’m starting in this series i’m going to be talking about texture packs and how you can make and start making them yourself so in this video i’m just going to show you the basics to get started we’re going to start with the software

Most pack makers use a software called paint.net this is for windows only so if you have a mac for example i recommend getting i know that’s what luci uses it’s similar but i won’t be able to show you how to use that software because paint is what i use i’m going to

Link this website in the description to download it all you do is click here to download now i’m going to do that right now so once you’ve downloaded it you should open it up and there should be an exc in here it should only take a few seconds to

Install the software and it should open up and look like this if it’s not dark and you want it to be dark and go into the settings up here and you can just go to the user interface and change the scheme it looks like they’ve already made dark

As the default once you have paint i would close down and what you need to do is you need to download the effects in my description and when you open this as you can see here once you open it these are all the effects that i use

I don’t use every single one but these are all the effects that i have installed and all you do is you control a you copy them and you go to this pc local disk you click program files scroll down find paint.net and then you go to the effects folder

And you paste them in there so to begin we’re going to be talking about the tools the toolbar is over here if you don’t have this you click up here to the hammer over here the main tools we’re going to be using is the select tool which the hotkey is s

And this is to select areas where i can fill it in for example and we’re going to be using a fill tool which is hotkey f which is over here and all this does is takes whatever color you have chosen and it fills it in so if i want to

Make this blue i fill it in with blue after i’ve selected it and it will only fill in the selected areas another very important tool is the gradient tool this is one of the most important ones for packmaking and all it does it takes these two colors here you have your primary and

Your secondary color you have your primary let’s make our primary this color and our secondary this color and with the gradient tool which is this one you can just make a line by holding and it will make a nice gradient another tool that we use a lot is the magic wand tool this

Lets you select and it will select areas based on the tolerance so here it selected the whole image if i turn down the tolerance you’ll notice that it only really selects certain areas and this is very useful impact making to only select certain parts of your item

When making a new canvas you want it to usually be quite small the normal size for a texture pack is 16 by 16 pixels and you just double that to 32 64 128 and 256 so there’s your normal resolutions but to begin we’re just going to use 16 by 16.

So i’m going to create a new image i’m going to zoom in by holding ctrl and scrolling i’m going to use ctrl a and that will select everything and then i’ll just press delete so as you can see here we have our canvas and what we’re going to do is come over

Here i’m going to use this pencil tool and this just does one pixel at a time this is very important for making your shapes and if you want to try hand shading i’ll have a video on that in the future so you can kind of just draw your shapes here like this

And you can draw your swords for example so i’m going to ctrl a and delete everything again the final tool i’m going to be showing you today is the line tool as you can see here it’s very blurry right now so all you need to do is just click the squiggly

Line and disable anti-aliasing and what you can do here is you can change the brush brush width and make it thinner so as you can see we can make lines now and have them thinner this is very useful when doing larger sizes here i have a canvas i have 128 by 128

And i can use this line tool to start creating the shape for my swords to make it go in a perfectly straight line on the axis you hold shift and that makes it go perfectly straight perfectly at 90 degrees or perfectly at 45 and this is very helpful when trying to

Draw the links for sword for example like this so here’s the blade for my sword all right so i’m going to talk about colors now as you can see here here are our colors and if you click more these options are important there is hue which is the color

The physical color so be red blue yellow green for example the saturation which is basically how close to white it is how white it is so when something is 50 saturation which is this s it’s close to white and as you move it more towards this it becomes more white

As you can see and 100 saturation is very bright and vivid and then we have brightness and darkness here and all this is it’s just making it darker as you can see so when we use the gradient tool we take two colors here usually we only take one

Type of hue and we only ever change the hue by a tiny bit it looks really bad if you’re doing a gradient between two completely different colors like that looks really weird it kind of looks alright but if i move it over here like that doesn’t look good at all

So you usually want to keep it in a similar sort of style like over here and make this darker for example maybe like this that looks pretty okay maybe maybe like that this begins to look like a gradient you would see in a texture pack so you want to try and keep the

Hues the same and have one darker and lighter and to begin with i would say keep saturation pretty high it’s quite difficult to work with colors when they’re pretty desaturated you can mess stuff up pretty quickly another thing i’m going to show you is the adjustments over here

Here are all your adjustments the main ones we’re going to be using a human saturation and what this lets you do is change the hue and saturation and lightness so here you can change the hue and this is changing the physical color of it here’s the saturation this is making it

Go more towards white and more towards uh being super saturated there you go now it’s black and white now it’s how it was and now it’s super saturated and then his brightness and darkness i think everyone can understand that so up here we have our effects we don’t

Use these very often the most common one that we’ll probably be using is outline selection all this does it adds an outline to your selection as you can see here it’s adding a red outline it takes a bit of time but we use that a lot to outline our items

All right and so to end this video i’m gonna be going through the folders within a texture pack so when you open up a texture pack these are the three things you’re gonna get you’re gonna get the assets which have all the textures in them the pack.mcmeta which just kind of makes

The texture pack work and where you can put your description as well as the pack.png and this is just the little thumbnail you have in your texture pack so to edit the pack.mcmeta i use a software called notepad plus plus and when i open it with that it looks like this

And this is the part you want to be editing so you can type in here hello for example and that’s what it will show you can also use pack formatting codes to make it look for example purple so i put in 5 in there and that will look purple

The pack.png is just the image thumbnail and inside the assets folder you get assets minecraft and then you want to go to textures this is where all your textures are your blocks are most important items most important your particles and models so your blocks just have all your

Minecraft blocks we also have the gui this is very important we’ll go through this another time you have the items this has all your swords your i and all your items models this has your armor this is where your armor is we’ll be talking about that in a few episodes and finally

Your particles these have all your particles in game for when you hit someone when you’re on fire for example anyway i hope you enjoyed that video i’m looking forward to finishing this series i promise i will do it this time i noticed that one of my most popular videos now and

Currently my fastest growing video is a pack tutorial that i never finished so i’m gonna redo this in a more modern way and hopefully you enjoy it and please subscribe if you want to see more goodbye you