skin-render

A fast and efficient library for rendering Minecraft skins into 2D and 3D isometric images. Inspired by existing services like Crafatar but with performance in mind. This library is used in production for mineatar.io.

Documentation

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/mineatar-io/skin-render

Examples

Method	Result
RenderFace()
RenderHead()
RenderBody()
RenderFrontBody()
RenderBackBody()
RenderLeftBody()
RenderRightBody()

Credit

• Isometric graphics in Inkscape — Nicolás Guarín-Zapata
• go-gl/matgl
• LapisBlue/Lapitar
• go/x/image transform_Image_Image_Over function
• go/x/image matrix invert function
• And various other online matrix tutorials

A special thanks to oakar258 in the Minecraft Wiki Discord server for support on how Minecraft scales and renders the overlay skin layer.

License

MIT License