How do I make custom Inventory Gui texture that easy

[TheRPGAdventurer]

I see a lot of mods making cool guis and dont get me wrong, they dont just edit it pixel by pixel especially the inventory. Do these modders use a program or they just use tool, armor, entity texture makers like photoshop or gimp.

[Major Squirrel]

Could you provide a sample screen of what kind of GUIs you're talking about ? I might be interested in it !

 

Personally, I just recycle some existing GUIs from Minecraft. For instance, there is the demo_background.png located in the Minecraft assets (textures/gui). It helps me to prototype a canvas for a beginning. Still, I am really curious of how do other developers achieve their GUIs (especially when we are not specialized designers haha).

[TheRPGAdventurer]

10 hours ago, Major Squirrel said:

Could you provide a sample screen of what kind of GUIs you're talking about ? I might be interested in it !

 

Personally, I just recycle some existing GUIs from Minecraft. For instance, there is the demo_background.png located in the Minecraft assets (textures/gui). It helps me to prototype a canvas for a beginning. Still, I am really curious of how do other developers achieve their GUIs (especially when we are not specialized designers haha).

 

[Daeruin]

I made a custom inventory GUI using Gimp. I started with the vanilla texture, then selected parts of it and moved them around. Some of it is pixel-by-pixel work. That's how I did the little arrows on my GUI, attached. I expect those four slots at the top of the screen you posted were done pixel by pixel, just like many item and block textures are done. Kind of tedious, but not too bad considering each inventory slot is only 16x16 pixels.

Edited February 22, 2018 by Daeruin
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[Draco18s]

Also, make sure your texture is 256x256 (you can leave the non-UI parts fully transparent)

[Adrikikicp]

I used the furnace GUI texture to make it. Is really easy