This is a very basic guide for learning how to skin. If you are just looking for skins and not HOW to skin, then you are in the wrong place, go here. If this is your first time skinning, you should take a minute out and skim over Samsyn's skinning information. Skinning really isn't that complicated, but adds another degree to the game when you are able to play using the skin you designed.
How to skin for Well of Souls
Written By: Kione (additions by Hesacon)
1. Make completely sure that you have downloaded the skin forms. If you haven't Here.
From here on, you have three different ways to skin. Choose one of the following ways and continue down it's list. Each of them will require you to use Microsoft Paint, included in most windows systems. You will end up saving skins as .bmp files.
Way Number 1, Hand Drawn.
2c. You need to be thinking of what you want to make a skin of and use the tools you have available to make it.(This usually makes the worst skins, unless of course your artistically gifted.)
3c. Open the skin form you think is the right size and start drawing.
4c. Make a credit frame.
5c. Save the skin under the name you want in your Well of Souls Skins folder and your done!
Way Number 2, Sprite Sheets.
2b. You need a model of what you want or a "sprite sheet." You can get some sprite sheets Here.
3b. You open the sprite sheet with your picture editing program and copy the pictures you want onto the right-sized Skin form from step 1.
4b. Add details to the frames you want.
5b. Make a credits frame.
6b. See step 5c.
Way Number 3, MCM.
2a. You need to have Mugen Character Maker. You can get that Here.
3a. You need to get .sff items which are available on many different sites. Like Here. (google is also your friend for finding .sff files)
4a. Open the .sff files in Mugen and use Print Screen+Control+C To copy the frame you want, then crop the person/thing on the frame in your editor and copy it onto the Skin form.
5a. Add details from the .sff to make your skin better.
6a. Make a Credits Frame.
7a. See step 5c.
Freehand skinning tutorial
Written By: Oompy
Tips for skinning
Written By: Hesacon
Very often when you're making a skin, you're going to want to replace one color on your character with another. Using Microsoft Paint, a very simple way to do this is to select the color you want to replace as your forground color, and the one you want to replace it with as your background color. Click a color from your palette to make it your forground color, right click to make it your background color. Using the Eraser tool, right click and drag across areas you want to replace that one color, and the first color will become the second.
All skin frames are perfect squares (including shadow). The character area is 5/6 of the total height of the frame, the shadow is the bottom 1/6 of the frame. This is useful if you want to add a magic frame to a skin form.
