{"id":7614,"date":"2023-09-24T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/?p=7614"},"modified":"2023-12-29T16:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T16:33:45","slug":"minecraft-gimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/minecraft-gimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft Style Textures using GIMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69fe25f009148\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69fe25f009148\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/minecraft-gimp\/#description\" >Description<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/minecraft-gimp\/#timestamps\" >Timestamps<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: black; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 25px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"><center><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v3h8wzs\/?pub=d3lcu\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"description\"><\/span>Description<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In this short exercise we take a look using <b>GIMP<\/b> to make <b>Minecraft<\/b> style images from pictures captured using a cell\/mobile phone. As most pictures captured this way are typically rectangular, the project first needs to be squared up by changing canvas size, <b>Image \u00bb Canvas Size&#8230;<\/b>, before then being reduced, <b>Image \u00bb Scale Image&#8230;<\/b>, to 16 x 16 pixels, suitable for Minecraft style content.<\/p>\n<p><b>Duration<\/b>: total c. 5 mins (00:05:00).<br \/>\n<b>Info<\/b>: 1080p.<br \/>\n<b>Suitability<\/b>: Beginner+.<br \/>\n<b>Source<\/b>: n\/a.<br \/>\n<b>Product ID<\/b>: n\/a.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Design note<\/b>: the image canvas has to be changed first [1] to prevent the picture being distorted (squashed) to fit the square dimensions required of a 16 x 16 space; if features are to be maintained to any degree, e.g. the bricks of a wall, even at such a small size, preference should be to work in ways that promote the pixel integrity when down-scaled. Similarly, the image can be flattened or merged down, <b>Image \u00bb Merge Visible Layers&#8230;<\/b>, before down-scaling to ensure a 16 x 16 pixel image is correctly generated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/minecraft\/gimp-canvas-size-minecraft.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 98.5%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/minecraft\/gimp-canvas-size-minecraft.jpg\" alt=\"Canvas size\" width=\"900px\" height=\"500px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Resize the image canvas before downscaling [1] to ensure any feature details are maintained as the image is rescaled.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Even at this size, 16 x 16 pixels, tiling textures can still show artefacts of repetition, patterns, pixels or colours that indicate obvious tiling. To mitigate this images can be offset, <b>Layer \u00bb Transform \u00bb Offset&#8230;<\/b>, by <b>50%<\/b> on the <b>X<\/b> and <b>Y<\/b> axes so issues can be manually painted out &#8211; to ensure palette integrity use the <b>Color Picker Tool<\/b> to select &#8216;live&#8217; colours to paint with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/minecraft\/gimp-offset-tiling.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 98.5%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/minecraft\/gimp-offset-tiling.jpg\" alt=\"Offset tiling\" width=\"900px\" height=\"500px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/minecraft\/gimp-tiling-fixed.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 98.5%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/minecraft\/gimp-tiling-fixed.jpg\" alt=\"Texture tiling fixed\" width=\"900px\" height=\"500px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Even at a small size tiling artefacts may be visible so Offset Layer [2] can be used to offset the image [3] so it can be edited to paint out obvious issues [image-bottom].<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"timestamps\"><\/span>Timestamps<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Times are approximate;<br \/>\n&#8211; n\/a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[938,967,32,230],"tags":[852,739,785,1018,1014,1015,963,156,1019],"class_list":["post-7614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gimpeditor","category-minecraft-2","category-texturing","category-tutorials","tag-game-assets","tag-gimp","tag-minecraft","tag-offset","tag-pixel-art","tag-pixelation","tag-texture-paint","tag-textures","tag-tiling"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7614"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7630,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions\/7630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}