Skin Creation – Almost everything you need

Overview

How to create skins in BRAIN/OUT, Publish them and share them!

Preface

So you want to make skins ey? You have come to hopefully the right place!

This guide will:

where to find the skins for BRAIN / OUT
how to edit them
how to post them

This guide will NOT:

Teach you how to put them into the game

Getting the original patern

Finding the original file is easy!
Find the BRAIN/OUT file in steamapps

Navigate to the packages folder

And open up base.zip

Go to content

Then textures

Open GAME.png

and copy the skin you want to edit, Were going to use the desert eagle!

Then create a new image with it!

Now on to making the skin!

Editing and making it your own!

Open up your favourite pixel editing program. Mine is pyxelEdit and thats what i will be using!

Drag the image into the program

I like to find out a pallet im going to be using and try it out on an area of the weapon thats a similar colour, Usually the grip is this!
As you can see I have Blended the colours so they transition to a lighter colour, It might look blocky but remember the weapons are small in game!

Next I go over some of the edges. If the grey is dark i use a darker red. PyxelEdit has a tool that helps you shade and change the lighting of a colour so this was easy for me
Slowly keep doing this! It might not look right right now. Small steps!

Now start to colour in the body. Remembering to keep the lightness and shading of the colours similar to the original so it keeps its 3dish look!

Keep colouring and adding details! Experiment and do be afraid to undo. Eventually it will look “right”
I have added some blue details to contrast the red. Contrasting colours work together if done right!

Add some final touch ups!

And export it!

Yay! you made a skin!

Now on to sharing it and display!

Display and sharing!

Sharing your skin is really simple and a great way to get feedback from the community!

Pray to the gods your image editing software can scale pixel art. If it cant, zoom it up in your favourite software and screencap it!

First of make a large image, 1920×1080 is good enough!
Insert that skin!
Add some text and even some branding if you want to stand out!
Your done! Now just upload this to the BRAIN/OUT community artwork page on steam!