Tools

Tools for skin creation.

Community Tools:

Titanfall2 SkinTool - DDS Skin tool

Edited by Strykus, Titanfall2 SkinTool is a Titanfall 2 and R5R tool with a UI to easily apply DDS skins that are formatted accordingly. This tool can apply weapon, pilot, titan, and weapon attachment skins.

Titanfall2 SkinTool - DDS Skin tool

Made by zxcPandora, Titanfall2 SkinTool is a Titanfall 2 and R5R tool with a UI to easily apply DDS skins that are formatted accordingly. This tool can apply weapon and pilot skins.

Tools:

Blender - "Blender's mission is to bring the best 3D technology as tools in the hands of artists, for all platforms, everywhere in the world, free and open source forever." (free, app)

"Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline."

Adobe Photoshop - "The world is your canvas, so grab inspiration from all around you and have fun experimenting." (paid, app)

"Adobe photoshop is a image editing and photo retouching application."

Substance Painter - "Substance becomes Adobe Substance" (paid, app)

"Substance painter is a specialized texturing tool which utilizes a procedural Physically Based Rendering (PBR) workflow."

GIMP - "GNU Image Manipulation Program" (free, app)

" GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes."

Affinity - "Professional Image Editing Software" (paid, 50$ each)

Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer offers trials, and offers their software at $50 USD per app. I have seen extended trials(3 months) and deals for $25 USD per app. I enjoy this software for being capable and affordable, although I haven't found an add-on for real-time support in Blender.

Pureref - "All your reference images in one place."

"PureRef is a stand-alone program for Windows, Mac and Linux that keeps track of your images.

Autohotkey - "The ultimate automation scripting language for Windows"

"AutoHotkey is a free, open-source scripting language for Windows that allows users to easily create small to complex scripts for all kinds of tasks such as: form fillers, auto-clicking, macros, etc."

AutoHotkey is used by many to create custom keybind macro. Usually using a numpad as the macro start key. Find their website and info at by clicking these words. As coding goes, there is many ways to code macros. Personally i use the code below to refresh Photoshop file to update the skin in Blender;

Numpad1::send {ctrl down}{s down}{ctrl up}{s up}
Numpad3::send {alt down}{r down}{alt up}{r up}
Numpad2::send {ctrl down}{z down}{ctrl up}{z up}
]::Suspend
\::ExitApp

• Numpad1: Saves (CTRL+S)

• Numpad2: Undo (CTRL+Z)

• Numpad3: Reloads images in Blender with NodeWrangler (ALT+R)

Websites:

Coolors - "the super fast color scheme generator" (free website)

Coolors is a color palette generator with many options to find what you need.

Color Picker online - "HEX Color Picker" (free website)

You can pick specific pixels and its the easiest when uploading my own images to rip colors from.

Pixlr.com - "online graphic designer" (free website)

Photopea - "Online Photo Editor" (free website)