Creating a 2D sprite skin based on a UV map

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Here’s a link to my follow-up post:

Pixel art skin changing

I’ve been working on a system to have a dynamic skin for the player character in my 2D top-down pixel art game. This would allow me to have hundreds of armor pieces, without needing to draw the hundreds of thousands of animations to accommodate for all the possible armor combinations. After getting the basic UV mapping done (link to forum post below), I finally have a working skin swapper. There are three basic components: a sprite sheet, a skin map, and a skin index. The player sprite sheet, w…