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[LukeRay]

Notch's skin in Minecraft Skin Viewer (for PC and Windows Phone)

Introduction
Minecraft Skin Viewer is a simple tool that can display any Minecraft skin. You can type username, browse file or play with drag & drop - fast and simple. The best thing is the ability to pose the model manually, just like an action figure. You can move any body part with the left mouse button.



Features

• View Minecraft skins on the 3D model
  
  • From players
    
  • From files
• Pose the 3D model like an action figure
  
  • Drag body parts with the mouse
    
  • Use predefined positions
    
  • Play the animation and adjust its speed
• Download skins of other users
  
• Export to image
  
• Change the background
  
• 12 languages*
  
  • English
    
  • Polish
    
  • Dutch
    
  • Norwegian
    
  • French
    
  • German
    
  • Danish
    
  • Swedish
    
  • Slovak
    
  • Czech
    
  • Portuguese
    
  • Lithuanian

*If you want to suggest new or better translation, write it here: Localizing Minecraft Skin Viewer.

Description

Spoiler:

Play and see other players
Minecraft Skin Viewer does not use your GPU, so you can play Minecraft with the highest performance and have Minecraft Skin Viewer window open all the time. I've created my own 3D engine to achieve that. Works smooth on every creepy and slow machine.

Me playing Minecraft and watching skins in the same time

For creating skins
Minecraft Skin Viewer is very useful for creating your own skin, because it automatically refreshes the skin when you save the file. I used to make skins in Photoshop, so now I can see my results very quickly without any additional clicks. Just press Ctrl + S in Photoshop and Minecraft Skin Viewer will update the skin immediately.

Photoshop + (almost) live skin preview FTW!

Show off your skin
With Minecraft Skin Viewer you can render your skin with high quality and transparent background - perfect as a layer for Photoshop or any other professional graphics editor.

Minecraft Skin Viewer can be used to make awesome images.

Download skins
Minecraft Skin Viewer allows you to download any Minecraft skin.  


Downloading Notch's skin...

*Extended
In the extended version you can view mobs, like Creeper, Skeleton etc. and set them your own textures.

Models available in the current version.

Texturing creeper...

Quick manual

• Run the program, type your username, press 'Enter' and see yourself.
  
• Hold the left mouse button and drag anything you want.
  
• Click the right mouse button and choose something from the context menu.
  
• Find some skin file and drag it into Minecraft Skin Viewer.
  
• Click the right mouse button on some toolbar and change its docking.
  
• Have fun.

Download for PC
Requirements

• Windows
  
• .NET Framework 4.0

Minecraft Skin Viewer

It's adf.ly link, gives me some support =)

Mirror
Direct link without support for me...

Minecraft Skin Viewer Extended Alpha

adf.ly link =)

Mirror
Direct link

Download for Windows Phone

Minecraft Skin Viewer

Changelog

Spoiler:

Extended Alpha 0.5.1

• Redesigned whole app

1.1

• Fixed hat rendering errors

1.0

• Translated into 11 new languages

Beta 0.9.2

• Fixed animation button

Beta 0.9.1

• Added perspective projection
  
• Added option to download skin
  
• Added simple animation with speed control
  
• Autocomplete remembered usernames
  
• Simplified saving images
  
• Moved model interactions under the left mouse button

Extended Beta 0.8_03

• Updated icon and description in 'About' window for extended version

Beta 0.8_02

• Fixed bug in 'Save image as...' window, which could break the aspect ratio
  
• Various optimizations
  
• Separated into two variants: standard and extended
  
• Added mob models: Creeper, Skeleton and Pig

Beta 0.8_01

• Fixed problem with username font below the model

Beta 0.8

• New toolbars: Positions and Backgrounds
  
• Advanced options for saving images
  
• Ability to change the docking of toolbars
  
• Username below the model
  
• Automatic saving and loading settings (background, toolbars)

Beta 0.7_02

• Upgrade from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0

Beta 0.7_01

• Fixed swapped sides of the torso
  
• New background: sunset
  
• New position: zombie

Beta 0.7

• First release

Windows Phone

Spoiler:

Minecraft Skin Viewer for... Windows Phone? Why not?









Go to Facebook page for more info.

If you like this program, you can use my signature to promote it:

[center][url="http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/274120-minecraft-skin-viewer-10/"][img]http://i.imgur.com/ZZZvx.gif[/img][/url][/center]

...and like it on Facebook!

[CraftModder]

very nice, any chance of seeing any sources soon?  

[LukeRay]

CraftModder said:

very nice, any chance of seeing any sources soon?  

Hmm... I will see.

I've created the viewer as Windows Forms control. Maybe I will release it just as a control to use in your own application. But I have to finish it first.


Minecraft Skin Viewer as ImageRotator control in Visual Studio 2010

[xiix]

Small but really cool. A suggestion tho, would be a good idea to put the Position (& background) selector as toolbar buttons on top, makes for a quicker access. Personally I'd leave the window title constant and put the user/file name instead of your watermarks. Other than that, works great man, props.

[LukeRay]

Toolbars for position and backgrounds... Very good idea, thanks. I will make it.

[Taiine]

You know what would make this EXTREMELY helpful?

If you were ale to load up all the mob models + skins as well. Something like that would be very VERY helpful for people like me trying to make skins for them in photoshop. We can see our edits right on the model instead of loading it in game and going hunting for them.

[Weir]

For some reason, this is a threat for Norton. MinecraftSkinViewer.exe is categorized as "WS.Reputation.1".
I assume I can simply make Norton ignore this file?

[Xheis]

I love it. Having problems with getting my skin, but for offline work is still just a useful. Thanks!

[LukeRay]

Taiine said:

You know what would make this EXTREMELY helpful?

If you were able to load up all the mob models + skins as well. Something like that would be very VERY helpful for people like me trying to make skins for them in photoshop. We can see our edits right on the model instead of loading it in game and going hunting for them.

I'm going to add this feature. It's quite easy to do, so maybe it will be in version 0.8 beta.

[MrSandvice]

Pretty nicely done ^^ but wont it be confusing for the new minecraft player?

[Dmancafe]

THANKS, this makes skinning so much easier!   for you, and a   as extra!

[LukeRay]

Someone found a minor bug. The sides of the torso were swapped, so I made a little update: 0.7_01. And it comes with one new background and position.

[Taiine]

Yes yes add mobs! Don't forget wolves, chickens, and nether beasts as well! This would be my top pick for texture editers if it could list mobs, the main thing missing from all editers!

[LukeRay]

New Version: 0.7_02. Someone told me that if you have .NET Framework 4.0 installed, but no 3.5, program will not run. So I made an upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0. No new features yet.

BTW, one of my favourites skin (rendered by Minecraft Skin Viewer):

Weir said:

For some reason, this is a threat for Norton. MinecraftSkinViewer.exe is categorized as "WS.Reputation.1".
I assume I can simply make Norton ignore this file?

O.o Norton is too suspicious.

[Casand]

So proud to be on the front page ;D
So incredibly awesome  

[Helminthophobe]

I fiddle with my skin's pixels a lot in Photoshop and used to use Skin Edit to see the changes be reloading the skin every time I made a change. This is so much easier. Thank you for making this available.

[LukeRay]

I did the same...

[NightmareX91]

The source smells nice. Me wants to munch me fingers into it

EDIT:
I just had to use my epic image editing skills to show you this:

SERIOUSLY!?

[LukeRay]

NightmareX91 said:

I just had to use my epic image editing skills to show you this:

SERIOUSLY!?

Yeah, as I said - there is no z-buffer. ;] I'm working on it.

[LukeRay]

New version coming soon.



It will be 0.8, but I have plans for 0.9. I'm going to completely rewrite my software 3D engine to achieve perspective view and eliminate errors like this.