PERPHEADS Texture Helper — Preview and edit skins

[joey]

Hello everyone,

I’ve made a small Windows tool to make creating PERPHEADS weapon skins a bit easier - without having to install every change just to see how it looks. I will likely make this into a website soon, as it's very lightweight, after I've had some of you test it!

This application follows the official perpheads help guide and correctly builds the right folder structure. I don't know what models you can and cannot edit, follow the rules! Once it is a website, I will probably make a sort of "skin workshop" for people to just upload and share their skins!

I used a mixture of sol1.0 and claude opus for a lot of the frontend and 3d engine.

Thanks to:
@PotatoAnimation for "giving" me this idea (he told me about it, I forgot, and thought I came up with it on my own)
@DanielRabbit for pushing me to do this with his help & support thread
@BI$HOP for doing some testing and bug finding!
@Vollgas for saying this is cool

vote for joey

Spoiler: Some photos of it

What it does:

• Browse your installed PERPHEADS weapon models.
• Preview compatible stocks, magazines, sights and other attachments.
• Click a part to see its texture and UV layout.
• Show parts of a model that are sharing a texture together, with colour-coded overlays.
• Export PNG/DDS textures
• Export to file or clipboard for overlays and textures
• Import from DDS/PNG/clipboard to preview skins and install them - note: images have to be the same size (512x512, 1024x1024) as the orginal texture
• Automatically save local drafts so you can come back to unfinished skins.
• Install finished skins, or uninstall them while keeping a saved copy.
• Check for updates in the app (no downloading 10 releases from github!)
• You can edit all models by changing the filter from compatible, this is untested outside the viewer and wont work in game, but you can make some cool car reskins for the fun of it)

Getting started:
Download and run the Windows Setup, choose your Garry’s Mod folder, then select a weapon. Right-click and drag to rotate; left-click a part to inspect its texture.

You’ll need Garry’s Mod and the PERPHEADS Workshop content installed, as the tool mounts onto it to get all your textures and models.

Download:
https://github.com/JoeyMarrey29/TextureHelper/releases/latest

Quick guide:
https://github.com/JoeyMarrey29/TextureHelper/blob/main/HELP.md

It’s free and open source under GPL-3.0. I’d appreciate people trying it out and reporting anything that looks wrong. The preview isn't perfect to how it looks in game, but it's pretty damn close


Windows may show a SmartScreen warning because the application isn’t code-signed.

 

[BI$HOP]

Greatest program to ever touch Perpheads. I got into skin making roughly half a year ago but ended up stopping because of how much time it took just to test your skins. Open the game, join Perp, close the game, update files, reopen the game, and RINSE AND REPEAT until I finally fixed whatever issue I was having.

This program has COMPLETELY solved those problems and is genuinely one of the BEST tools I've seen made for the server. I'm pumped to see the development side of the community take off. You're doing the Lord's work, Joey

 

[Ash!]

first it was the garrys mod replay, now this, Great work!

 

[DanielRabbit]

Just wanna ask. Will the software allow many frames of a gif and work or will it just only accept 1 picture etc. If i might need to elaborate.

EDIT: I dont think it does lmao. However it makes it so much easier to find where hidden models are.

 

[joey]

I didn’t know you could put gifs if VMTs, can you?

Just wanna ask. Will the software allow many frames of a gif and work or will it just only accept 1 picture etc. If i might need to elaborate.

EDIT: I dont think it does lmao. However it makes it so much easier to find where hidden models are.

 

[DanielRabbit]

I didn’t know you could put gifs if VMTs, can you?

Like you extract all the frames from that gif same resolution as the models. Put it into VTF import change name. so on. Then in VMT you have to write in extra code.

like

-----------

"Proxies"
{
"AnimatedTexture"
{
"animatedTextureVar" "$basetexture"
"animatedTextureFrameNumVar" "$frame"
"animatedTextureFrameRate" "24"
}
}
}