Minecraft Skin Renderer

Description

Minecraft skin renderer library.

Features

• Only responsible for rendering - You can manage how you want to
  • Download the raw skin data
  • Store the rendered skin
  • Cache the result
• Easy to install and use
• Easy and flexible skin rotation for 3d skin rendering

ToDo

• 3D-Rendering --> skin rotations/perspective view
• 1.8 Skin format support
• Add image smoothing
• Add arms, legs, head position manipulation
• Add cape rendering

Installation

With composer it's just:

composer require games647/minecraft-skin-renderer

For non-composer projects, you can drop the files from the /src folder into a libraries folder and use it with a require statement at the top of the PHP-File. You can see a example in the example.php file.

Usage

//this is only used if you don't use composer
require __DIR__ . '/PATH_TO_LIB_FOLDER/MinecraftSkins.php';

use \MinecraftSkins\MinecraftSkins;

[...]

//load the skin from a file
$skinImage = imagecreatefrompng("cd6be915b261643fd13621ee4e99c9e541a551d80272687a3b56183b981fb9a.png");

//render the skin and make it 5 times bigger
$result = MinecraftSkins::skin($skinImage, 5);

//this part is for rendering the skin only
//tell the browser that we will send the raw image without HTML
header('Content-type: image/png');
imagepng($renderedSkin);

Examples

Dinnerbone head

MinecraftSkins::head($skinImage, 5);

Dinnerbone full skin

MinecraftSkins::skin($skinImage, 5);

Useful links

• http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Skin
• https://github.com/minotar/skin-spec