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Quote from Blendcraft

Check to see if you have the "hat" layer area filled with white on the actual skin file.

Quote from ShadowDusk

very nice

Quote from ShnitzelKiller

Last updated Saturday, September 4, 2010
Changelog:
•Fixed specularity problem with transparent regions on hats (caused weird shadows where they shouldn't be)
•Added joints (elbows, knees, and body bending)
•Fixed ugly edges when body bends
•Added lots of blocks to make scenes with...
•Improved glass and leaf blocks
•Added tree blocks
•Got rid of some annoying constraints
•Added clouds
•Changed lighting
•Added creeper (on layer five, hidden by default)
•Fixed creeper texture

•Added chests, furnaces, crafting blocks, ore, and torches
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With this handy tool, you can create fancy renders and animations of your minecraft characters. For example:

Download the blender file here: http://www.box.net/shared/132x3xko3s
You can get Blender here: http://www.blender.o...ad/get-blender/
It's free, open source, and not bloatware, so the download is relatively small as far as 3D development suites go.

You don't need much knowledge of blender to use this, and I've set it up so that there should be minimal effort for the user to pose his character and apply skins to it. The body parts are precision modeled and mapped to exactly their dimensions in pixels on the corresponding texture regions. I was very much helped in doing so by Swedman's Skin Helper, so credits go to him for that and also the fact that this blender file comes bundled with his helper image. I find it to be a very concise and simple visual aid, so I hope he has no objection to me re-distributing it.
Now, it also comes with lots of blocks for making scenes; they are located on layer four.


Here's an example of skins look rendered (this one's mine):


In-program:
You can see your texture in the 3d viewport as well as in the render.


The body mesh is attached to an armature, allowing you to pose the character however you wish:


To pose the character, simply grab the bones you wish to manipulate with the right mouse button. This can be done with the camera and lamp(s) as well. To take a pretty picture of your character once you've set him up, just press the huge "render" button in the buttons panel. If you have any problems, google for solutions before consulting me. If you have no knowledge of Blender at all, I suggest looking for some beginner tutorials, but maybe just the ones that cover bones and textures.

For you advanced Blender users out there, this could be used to bake procedurally calculated maps into textures, such as ambient occlusion (pretty shading) or any of the procedural textures blender comes with. Therefore, this can be used to create skins as well as display them.
Here's an ambient occlusion texture I'm giving away for free; you can make a "multiply" layer in your image editor and put this in it to have an overlying geometry-based shading on your skin.
<-- there it is. And below is how it looks on a character (by itself):


Not only that, but you can use Blender's texture paint mode to paint directly onto the 3d Model.


Enjoy!

PS: If your viewport textures look really blurry (it won't affect the render, so it's not that serious), uncheck the "Mipmapping" button in the user preferences window (Drag the top bar down to view the extra settings, then click on the "System&OpenGL" tab):
http://i614.photobuc... ... ipmaps.png

EDIT: Here is the obj file of a UV mapped minecraft character for import into other 3D programs.

Quote from LoudmouthBLT

once I have downloaded it, how do I run it? it just shows up on my desktop as a blank page and idk how to make it work

Quote from SilverC16

Guys check this rig out! https://sellfy.com/p/BVAL/

Quote from BlunderingFool

This is VERY rude you know.

Dorlindigger it IS normal Blender, just the tedious part of setting up the rig and some copyable blocks has been done for us. mind you the selection of blocks is outdated by now of course and doing the whole copying blocks things is really not render friendly, would be better to map an area and then texture it with a repeating texture which should be possible with the current rig.

Also still no reply on that mip-map problem everyone? <.=.<

Quote from Kireblue

When I render my project, its really blurry. Help?

Quote from Blendcraft

Scale all the images up or maybe motion blur is turned on, should check for that.

Quote from Kireblue

Motion blur is not on, and when I try to scale the images up, it is still very blurry. here is what it looks like when I render: Help!

Quote from Key0808

Scaling up the images is a solution, but it's a pretty lousy one. The problem in this file lies with how the texture is applied. Kireblue, I ask of you to try again with the following file: http://www.mediafire...Body_bend.blend If you want to swap out the character's texture for another, then in the center panel (the panel with the texture displaying) you must click "Image > Replace Image" at the bottom of the panel and select whatever texture you want to use.

Quote from Key0808

The link I posted links to the exact same rig the original poster linked to, I simply altered the materials a little bit. The original poster only applied the texture through the UV Image Editor and let it render through there. This always, always, causes quality drops of the picture because you are forced to use whatever blending methods Blender thinks are right, and surprise, surprise, they're not.

You won't notice this with high resolution pictures indeed, because there's a lot more pixels and so you won't notice when they blend together. But when you have a Minecraft texture of a resolution of nothingXnothing, you will see that your render comes out blurry because of the way Blender blends the pixels together.

Now to solve this it is simple. Instead of leaving it with the UV Texture Image Editor, all you have to do is go to the Texture tab for Steve's material and add the exact same texture from the UV Image Editor. In here you can set whatever interpolation and blend mode you want, so you can make even a 3x3 image on a 1920 x 1080 plane look completely sharp.

I called the scaling method lousy, because scaling up the images is completely unnecessary. It's an extra step that shouldn't be taken if you take the time to figure out what is actually causing the problem. And if people just want to go take a fun picture of their Minecraft character, it's easier for them if they can just slap their skin on and go have fun. Why make them figure out that they have to scale up their images first? Why even waste the minor hard drive space with bigger images? It's an easier method for people who don't know what Blender is and it's also a method that should be used above scaling up the images.