Creating Advanced Art Layers

Advanced art layers can be used to give a character multiple/colorable outfits. Note: This tutorial was written for photoshop. You can use gimp, but you'll have to either rewrite my script, or add the art in game manually.

Creating the Art

The first thing you'll want to do is to create the actual art. If you're creating AI art, you'll want to draw some clothes over the character and only generate the parts you've drawn. Otherwise you may end up with clashing layers. If you know how to draw yourself, it's going to be significantly easier, since you can just draw the clothes on separate layers directly.

Since I can't draw, this tutorial will be from the perspective of using AI tools.

You can add as many or as few layers as you want, but for this tutorial I'll be creating the following layers:

1. A naked base layer.
2. Three versions of a sling bikini: Plate, Leather, Cloth.
3. Two versions of a bikini: Leather, Cloth.
4. A breast/crotch plate combo
5. Two bodysuits: Leather, Cloth.
6. A shirt/panties combo

Preparing the File

We'll need to create a photoshop file.