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Quote from FlamingXyxa

Will try it out! We need more of these :smile.gif:

Well, actually my reason for making this program is the fact that we have too many of these. I've tried four or five different skin editing programs (and I'm not an artist, let's get that clear first, I'm a programmer!) and they all have very different feature sets, or are extremely outdated (not that skin editors NEED to be updated to newer versions but they still lack any new features).

I'm hoping to create something that is more universal and works for everybody. Some people like that tool, some people like this tool, but everybody likes THIS tool - know what I mean?

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Quote from Mogal

So what your saying is...

You managed to remake skinedit?

It's not really a copy, but it is similar.

I think it's good that MCSkinedit gets some competition. Competition always gets people to work harder and improve on their work.

I played around with the mcskin3d and it has improved quite significantly for just 1 update, but there are still some minor problems...

Great that you stuck in shortcuts, but they are hard to reach. Ctrl + shift + e makes it a bit inconvenient for your fingers... especially if you're trying to draw. How about just shift + left click for an example for the dropper tool or right click to erase. Other features like burn and shade tool just holding down ctrl + left click to shade, ctrl + right click to lighten.

It's just a bit hard to reach with ctrl + shift + y if you know what I mean, lol.

I really do like the camera movement. It feels very easy to use.

That's about it. I don't feel like I have the right to suggest too many things, but I am trying to help you improve on it. Just... from an artists point of view anyway, if I were to use the program seriously.

Quote from Paril

Yessir. C/C++ is my main language, but I prefer C# for rapid application development purposes (I honestly got most of this program done this entire week, and nearly all of the features mentioned above in a few hours).

A new version will be out in a few hours or so - something of an interim version to get rid of several things that were mentioned above.

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Nice, looking forward to seeing it. I'm surprised you're updating so quickly lol.

Well, I know it's new and all, but if you really want to compete with the current skin editors... you really need to come out advanced if you want people to think about switching from a stable, easy to use programs like MCSkinedit to your program which currently doesn't have many features yet.

Here are some problems I see with the program:

- There aren't any shortcuts. (or any I could find?) No ctrl - Z so I can't undo any errors.
- No shading/lighting tool.
- No swatches. Makes it inconvenient to switch to basic colors like red, purple, blue, etc.

The "animate" model isn't very useful. I would rather have selectable poses with the arms extending for an example. So, it would be much easier to see what I'm drawing under the arms.

It would also be nice if you featured a mini previewer in the 2D window... so we know exactly how it looks instead of switching over and over from 2D to 3D. Unless you made a shortcut for that.

Overall, I won't be switching to MCSkin3D right now. Maybe if more features are improved on it later, I might. I'll really like to see how it progresses though.