It displays an errored version of my payerskin when I play 1.6 and leave my skin the same. There are several black areas and the skin is displayed in distorted ways and some textures are fully visible but displayed smaller.
Thank you for the help. Also, would anyone happen to know a skin mod for 1.6? That way I wouldn't have to change my main skin. I use that remote controller mod to dualscreen between singleplayer and multiplayer. I play multiplayer in 1.8 and singleplayer with mods in 1.6.2, and I wouldn't want to break my 1.8 skin to fix it.
If you upload a skin to Minecraft.net it should work for any older version (I believe since 1.3.1 as I remember seeing something that said it wouldn't work for older versions than that), just without the new layers; what you show is what happens when you use a texture pack to change your skin, since the skin servers will only send out the top half if an older version requests a skin:
Note: the 1.8 templates can be used for pre-1.8 skins on the skin server. Only the top half of the image is used, e.g. not the individual arms and legs on the bottom, and no overlay on any layer except the head. If the skins is in resource pack for 1.7, you must use the old system exactly.
Note also that using a resource pack to change your skin means that it will only work in singleplayer; if you play multiplayer you'll be seen as Steve (or Alex), and if you do have a different skin you have to play offline or it will override the default skin.
As for making a 1.6-compatible resource pack skin, all you need to do is crop the lower half of the skin file so it is 64x32 pixels instead of 64x64, they are otherwise identical except for separate arms and legs in 1.8 (in 1.6 you'll see the same texture for both arms and legs as the right arm/leg in 1.8; see the Wiki link which shows the old and new templates).
It displays an errored version of my payerskin when I play 1.6 and leave my skin the same. There are several black areas and the skin is displayed in distorted ways and some textures are fully visible but displayed smaller.
This may be because the skin system was changed in between 1.6 and 1.8, you may have to recreate your skin with the old 1.6 system.
Thank you for the help. Also, would anyone happen to know a skin mod for 1.6? That way I wouldn't have to change my main skin. I use that remote controller mod to dualscreen between singleplayer and multiplayer. I play multiplayer in 1.8 and singleplayer with mods in 1.6.2, and I wouldn't want to break my 1.8 skin to fix it.
If you upload a skin to Minecraft.net it should work for any older version (I believe since 1.3.1 as I remember seeing something that said it wouldn't work for older versions than that), just without the new layers; what you show is what happens when you use a texture pack to change your skin, since the skin servers will only send out the top half if an older version requests a skin:
Note also that using a resource pack to change your skin means that it will only work in singleplayer; if you play multiplayer you'll be seen as Steve (or Alex), and if you do have a different skin you have to play offline or it will override the default skin.
As for making a 1.6-compatible resource pack skin, all you need to do is crop the lower half of the skin file so it is 64x32 pixels instead of 64x64, they are otherwise identical except for separate arms and legs in 1.8 (in 1.6 you'll see the same texture for both arms and legs as the right arm/leg in 1.8; see the Wiki link which shows the old and new templates).
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