(Question) Halp, I'm bad at skin

[4eeJZ2xewfZycb]

Today, I decided to learn how to skin. I spent about 30 minutes making a highly simplistic test skin, and about 3 hours trying to figure out why all I got was the default dave skin in game.

I'm pretty sure I'm not packaging the skin wrong, and I think the format is right, and skins downloaded from here work fine. I think it's something wrong with my (highly simplistic) texture.

Sooo.. help pls? What have I done wrong? Here's the textures I've created by derping about in paint.net.

 

[Master1398]

Your - what i expect to be - diffuse files (the actual skin textures) are saved using indexed colors. That's what starmade doesn't get.

They should be fixed

 

[4eeJZ2xewfZycb]

Still nothing, even with trying the two you attached.

How would I fix indexed colours? Maybe the emissions files are ****'d too?

 

[Master1398]

Still nothing, even with trying the two you attached.

How would I fix indexed colours? Maybe the emissions files are ****'d too?

I checked the emission files. They seem to be fine. Could you check your games logfile (StarMade/logs/log.txt.[number] - if multiple, choose the latest)

 

[4eeJZ2xewfZycb]

Not sure what I'm looking for, but I did a search for skin. I found that it said that it was using the default player skin, but that's about it.
[DOUBLEPOST=1442294165,1442292759][/DOUBLEPOST]So, I have figured it out.

TO THE NOOBS OF THE FUTURE:
Paint.net will ask you to save your png as either 8, 16, 32, or default bits. 32 is the correct answer!


Thanks for your help! :D

 

[philthy mcnasty]

I need to check out paint.net. I have been wanting to convert the space marine skin, to chaos nightloards, but i really suck at skins too.