How To Custom Skins Lol

by in 05/08/2021 26/04/2022

This guide will link y'all everything you need to outset creating custom skins.
This will merely list the accented basics, y'all can find everything in the Tools section or Tutorials overview.

You can ask for aid on the Killerskins-Discord server or y'all can contact the person who made the specific tutorial directly.

Full general information
More often than not Required tools & Tutorials
Types of mod cosmos
- 2D-Editing
- 3D-Editing
- Code-Editing
- Sound editing
Tools you need specifically
- Tools for 2nd-Editing
- Tools for 3D-Editing
- Tools for Lawmaking-editing
- Tools for Audio-Editing
Beginner tutorials

Full general information

League of Legends stores all files inside .wad.client files, doesn't thing if champions, maps, sounds, etc. You can view, extract and create them with Obsidian.

Even though yous tin find the files within your League of Legends directory, you cannot edit them directly, as this would just brand the game crash.

This is why you need LCS-Manager. This programme enables modified .wad.client files to be loaded into League of Legends. You will need to create a mod in LCS-Director and run the plan when you lot want to use custom skins.

Those tools you will need, no matter what peel you plan on doing:

LCS-Manager: Creating modernistic files / Running skins in the game

LCS-Manager is needed to install your custom Mods.

The first tutorial will only show yous how to install already existing mods in LCS.
The second tutorial will show you how to create a modern for LCS with your edited files.

Types of mod cosmos

This tutorial will mainly talk most four different kinds of edits yous tin exercise:

2d-Editing

This involves editing 2D-files, then mostly textures.
Examples: champion textures, particles textures, map textures, HUDs, indicators, fonts

3D-Editing

This involves changing 3D-models.
Examples: Champion models, ward skins, map models

Code-Editing

This involves editing .bin files, so files that make up one's mind how the game works.
Examples: particles recoloring, particle swapping, general editing

Sound editing

This involves changing sound files of champions or other things.
Examples: champion voices, champion power sounds, announcers

Tools for 2nd-Editing

Photoshop + dds plug-in + proper export settings

You will need to become Photoshop on your own.

Required .dds-plug-in:

Standard consign settings:

Standard consign settings:

In general you tin can use whatever graphic tool that tin can piece of work with .dds files.

Tools for 3D-Editing

Maya

As for now you can just fully use Maya 2015 and Maya 2018 for peel cosmos. Maya is a bit hard to get.

Tutorial for a free Maya 2018 license:

Plug-in needed: RiotFileTranslator

Select the one that matches your Maya version.

LeagueMayaPlugin2015
LeagueMayaPlugin2018

Installation tutorial: https://youtu.exist/oaGIkKzRNkU
Important Notation: The .env file is non fully correct in this video! If you lot exercise information technology like this you lot cannot load weighted models! It is missing the \others in the path for scripts.
This is how it has to look (depends on your placement ofc, just the paths in cherry have to be the same):
MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH = D:\Dokumente\Maya plugins\Maya 2018 \bin\plug-ins
MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH = D:\Dokumente\Maya plugins\Maya 2018 \scripts\others
XBMLANGPATH = D:\Dokumente\Maya plugins\Maya 2018 \icons

Tool to update .skl files

Starting with patch 11.iii Riot stopped using the erstwhile .skl format that RiotFileTranslator for Maya exports, so now yous volition update them every time you make your own remodel or you desire to use an old remodel custom skin.

LeagueToolKit by Morilli (recommended): Download
League-Model-Updater by TheKillerey (likewise updates .skn files, but does non work with a lot of skins): Download

Tutorial: Updating remodels after patch 11.3