https://silentbunny.carrd.co 2026-02-22 daily 1.0 https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/image03.png https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/image01.png https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/f836f1b3.jpg 'Tempered flame' scarring & various scars https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/75f76e4f.jpg Various scarring https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/5536a14c.jpg Freckles and Moles https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/776ed117.jpg Body hair removed where scarring is present for realism https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/5b88a88d.jpg Facial scarring + Missing eye https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/6584e5ca.jpg Gear mash up + edited Vanilla hood. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/0b6dea1b.jpg Burns https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/2995e49b.jpg Custom tattoos (within reason) https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/eaa851c1.jpg Various back scars https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery31/e962161a.jpg With a soft eraser brush, you can erase parts of the facial hair you dont want for a custom style. Make sure you have the overlay selected that you want to edit https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery31/06c05d93.jpg If using the normal, you will have to erase the same parts to match. Save your texture as described in the tutorial https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery31/d1b0cfba.jpg If you are using ASYM faces, then I recommend styling it on Vanilla first. Then with the edited overlay selected, copy and paste it over to the Asym file. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery31/c783943e.jpg You will need to move it into place on one side of the face. The markers in the corner of the overlay should help in lining this up. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery31/8de760e4.jpg Right click on this pasted in layer and select 'Duplicate Layer...' at the top https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery31/cbba3219.jpg Now we have two. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery31/ae34d51d.jpg With the copied layer selected, click Edit - Transform - Flip Horizonal https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery31/d6db57c6.jpg Now you can move the other section of the beard into place on the face texture. You will need to do this for the normal as well, if you are using it. Now save your textures! https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery16/dc30c572.jpg With the tattoo layer selected, just under the layers tab is a 'Blender' drop down that is defaulted to 'Normal'. Scroll down and select 'Multiply'. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery16/6761a27a.jpg Make the opacity somewhere between 70-90. Both of these steps will make it look much more realistic, like it is ink under the skin, rather than an image sticker. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery40/2cec549b.jpg Its going to look much like this. The folders for each option is on the right. The eye means its currently visible. Clicking it will make it hidden. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery40/bd44abdc.jpg Clicking the arrow next to the folder will open the layers inside. Clicking it again closes it. Here you can click your chosen choices by clicking the space where the eye would be for that layer. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery40/d1399cd6.jpg Choose the Face you are using, then select which facial hair option you want and its done! https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery50/1ffadd5b.jpg On the tool bar - Click 'File' then 'Save as...' https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery50/fde696a3.jpg Then select DDS https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery50/4efca28e.jpg The alpha channel will make this appear mostly transparent as shown. Make sure you select the same options here, which are the same as the Diffuse. Save this where you can easily access it https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery50/f1227a19.jpg For GIMP: File - Export As - PNG. Then make sure the tick boxes match here as shown for Alpha channel to carry with it, like a .DDS file https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery05/7eba40e7.jpg Its going to look much like this. The folders for each option is on the right. The eye means its currently visible. Clicking it will make it hidden. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery05/9be464a1.jpg Clicking the plus next to the folder name opens the folder into a drop down. Minus closes it again. Here you can click your chosen choices by clicking the space where the eye would be for that layer. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery48/bb95d963.jpg Customise your texture first with any extras - Body hair ect. Same body hair rules applies as above. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery46/25716d5d.jpg Where the layers and folders are, there is a tab called 'Channels' next to it. Click on this. You can see the Alpha Channel is hidden. Make it visible to activate it. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery46/8cc493fa.jpg It will now make the scales Red. This means the Alpha is active and ready for Export. This __requires__ being exported in a DDS BC7 format which the Plugin mentioned at the start of the tutorial is needed for https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery46/8ea73c4d.jpg Alternatively - FHroth's alpha turns the skin red, but leaves the fur detail intact. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery18/62722f68.jpg So its only offered on one side of the body. In order to flip it - Right Click - Image - Transform - Flip Horizontal https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery18/453b0f6d.jpg Now its on the opposite side. Remember you will need to do this for both the Diffuse and Normal for it to match. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery45/caffc8f2.jpg Clicking Colors and Brightness-Contrast, brings up this box. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery45/672e7923.jpg Bringing up the contrast will make it look more raw (you can also increase the opacity of the layer for a more intense effect). Don't bring it up too far. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery45/97974116.jpg Bringing the contrast down will make it look more faded and healed. (You can also decrease the opacity of the layer for a more faded effect) https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery06/7a092bf2.jpg Selecting body hair will have it appear white. characters hair colour. We are going to change this to the colour you wish. Have the body hair of choice selected in the layers https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery06/83574aec.jpg On the tool bar - click Colors then Colorize https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery06/813cbea1.jpg The colorize window will appear. Clicking on the 'Color' bar will bring up another window. Here you can select the color you want and it will reflect on the body hair. Tweak it to your liking. Press okay, then okay again the colorize box. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery06/a304f58b.jpg The body hair will now be the colour you want it to be in game. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery49/875392c2.jpg On the tool bar - Click 'File' then 'Save As...' https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery49/b3c570db.jpg A new window will appear. Name your texture and click the 'Save as type' drop down and select DDS. If this does not show for you, you will need to install the plugin that was linked at the start of the tutorial. PNG will not save the required alpha channel https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery49/851a5046.jpg Make sure the format is BC7 and you have 'Both' selected. Save this somewhere you can find easily for when you install in Penumbra https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery49/1d93b1d4.jpg For GIMP: File - Export As - PNG. Then make sure the tick boxes match here as shown for Alpha channel to carry with it, like a .DDS file https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery07/53e05176.jpg On the tool bar - Click 'File' then 'Export as...' https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery07/5ec0f1b2.jpg A new window will appear. Click the plus next to 'Select File Type' for the drop down. Scroll until you find PNG and click it. Name your texture at the top of the window then click 'Export'. Save it in an easy place for later installing through Penumbra. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery44/c3c446d7.jpg It is laid out the same as the Diffuse file. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery44/62303586.jpg Choose the same option as you did for the Diffuse https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery44/055653af.jpg and your Normal texture is done! https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery08/c9dae53a.jpg It is laid out the same as the Diffuse file. Its simply a case of choosing your desired muscle definition, in either base TBSE or my retexture. Midlander normals cover Midlander, Miqo'te, Elezen and Viera. Highlander and AuRa have separate ones. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery08/ea7992f4.jpg When choosing your options - you must make sure that the overlay options match the texture you've chosen. Choosing differently will create graphical outline errors as the shades of blue in the normal will not fit correctly. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery08/6bf51681.jpg Resulting in obvious errors in the texture https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery08/67477b01.jpg When instead it should be seamless with the Normal. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery47/c8ae24c5.jpg Opening the Body Hair drop down, it will have folders for each option. Simply click the option you want to be made visible. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery09/82e3a7db.jpg Opening the Body Hair drop down, it will have folders for each option. Simply click the option you want to be made visible. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery10/bb95d963.jpg Customise your texture first with any extras - Body hair ect. Same body hair rules applies as above. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery11/27638485.jpg Where the layers and folders are, there is a tab called 'Channels' next to it. Click on this. You can see the Alpha Channel is hidden. Make it visible to activate it. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery11/b7e4a28f.jpg It should make the scale layer transparent. Its now ready for Export. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery12/53e05176.jpg On the tool bar - Click 'File' then 'Export as...' https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery12/5ec0f1b2.jpg A new window will appear. Click the plus next to 'Select File Type' for the drop down. Scroll until you find PNG and click it. Name your texture at the top of the window then click 'Export'. Save it in an easy place for later installing through Penumbra. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery13/073aad97.jpg When that is done, click 'Export' https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery29/45d0ae35.jpg The Vanilla Mask is in the 'Vanilla Raw Textures' folder, and the Asym mask in 'Asym Raw Textures'. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery14/c4f1da2f.jpg Each will correspond to the options you used in your custom. If you used no body hair - Then you select 'Base TBSE'. If you used T3 body hair with the retexture, then you select ' TBSE Body Hair T3 Retexture Mask' - ect ect. You will need to install these https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery15/4b8a3f1a.jpg If you dont like these extra bullet holes, or even the scar across the knee - You can erase it. With the Overlay layer selected, simply click the Eraser tool and erase parts of the overlay you do not want. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery15/b5b72545.jpg You will need to erase the same features on the normal overlay as well (if applicable) using the same steps. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery17/b3016d2f.jpg Make sure the layers are selected when you're attempting to erase https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery17/82482a0e.jpg Hide the 'Colour' layer of the body hair, and select the hair normal overlay. Erase the hair 'depth'. Make the 'Colour layer' visible again and select it. Do the same on this layer. You will have to do the same on the Diffuse in the same places. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery19/ed382c2d.jpg Open up the other overlays you'd like to add along side the Diffuse or Normal kit. Im using a tattoo, so it will go on the Diffuse https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery19/eb1f705a.jpg Using the Rectangle select tool, drag a box around the overlay to select all of it. Copy it - Ctrl + C. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery19/27c11a3a.jpg Ctrl + P to the kit file, above the Diffuse layer. Like the example, you may need to resize it. You can do this by having the layer selected and pressing Shift + T. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery19/4e621433.jpg It is also helpful to have this option on for lining up the overlay with the size of the Diffuse. On the tool bar click 'View', then click to tick the box for Snap to Canvas Edges https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery19/1e4f7001.jpg With Shift + T pressed, the box surrounding the overlay will look like this. Using the Edge Square (not the corners), drag the image to fit the whole diffuse https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery19/58589eab.jpg Now it fits the Diffuse corner to corner, press Transform on the window and wait for it to load. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery19/291fe3cd.jpg Now you can add all your extras on top and save when you are done. Is it the same steps if you adding to the normal. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery20/cdea3c8d.jpg With the tattoo layer selected, just under the layers tab is a 'Mode' drop down. Scroll down and select 'Multiply'. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery20/c79ee69d.jpg This will make it look much more realistic, like it is ink under the skin, rather than an image sticker. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery20/aae6842b.jpg This is without the 'Multiply' blend for comparison. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/image04.jpg https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery01/689a89eb.jpg Its going to look much like this. The folders for each option is on the right. The eye means its currently visible. Clicking it will make it hidden. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery01/99da926b.jpg Clicking the arrow next to the folder will open the layers inside. Clicking it again closes it. Here you can click your chosen choices by clicking the space where the eye would be for that layer. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery03/ecd61d92.jpg Selecting body hair will have it appear white. characters hair colour. We are going to change this to the colour you wish. Double click the body hair layer in the layer menu https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery03/3422bba7.jpg Click Colour Overlay, then the colour block. In the Colour picker, select the colour you want it to be and click OK https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery03/054cbe9e.jpg The body hair layer will now reflect the color you've chosen https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery04/875392c2.jpg On the tool bar - Click 'File' then 'Save As...' https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery04/99beb4bb.jpg A new window will appear. Name your texture and click the 'Save as type' drop down and select PNG, then save. Make sure its some where you can easily find for when you're installing it into Penumbra https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery21/fee3ec5f.jpg It is laid out the same as the Diffuse file. Its simply a case of choosing your desired body type. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery21/63ced51e.jpg When choosing your options - you must make sure that the overlay options match the texture you've chosen. Choosing differently will create graphical outline errors as the shades of blue in the normal will not fit correctly. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery21/6bf51681.jpg Resulting in obvious errors in the texture https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery21/67477b01.jpg When instead it should be seamless with the Normal. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery22/1ffadd5b.jpg On the tool bar - Click 'File' then 'Save as...' https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery22/9f288c28.jpg If your texture is for anything but AuRa, you can save this as a PNG for simplicity, or as DDS as explained below https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery23/c600e901.jpg Select DDS from the drop down instead https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery23/561e7e6a.jpg Make sure your texture is set to BC7 looks the same as this. The scales should be transparent. Click Save https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery23/6e6ae786.jpg FHroth should look like this https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery24/c4f1da2f.jpg Each will match to the options you used in your custom. If you used no body hair - Then you select 'Base TBSE'. If you used T3 body hair with the retexture, then you select ' TBSE Body Hair T3 Retexture Mask' - ect ect. It needs to be installed in Penumbra https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery25/420a0ab9.jpg If you dont like these extra bullet holes, or even the scar across the knee - You can erase it. With the Overlay layer selected, simply click the Eraser tool and erase parts of the overlay you do not want. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery25/701fd2f5.jpg You will need to erase the same features on the normal overlay as well (if applicable) using the same steps. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery26/4abd23ad.jpg Make sure the layers are selected when you're attempting to erase. You will need to erase the colour layer and the 3D layer https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery26/b2f2ab9d.jpg Hide the 'Colour' layer of the body hair, and select the hair normal overlay. Erase the hair 'depth'. Make the 'Colour layer' visible again and select it. Do the same on this layer. You will have to do the same on the Diffuse in the same places. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery27/94fbc690.jpg Open up the other overlays you'd like to add along side the Diffuse or Normal kit. Im using a tattoo, so it will go on the Diffuse https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery27/8fdaabed.jpg Using the Rectangle select tool, drag a box around the overlay to select all of it. Copy it - Ctrl + C. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery27/65115c59.jpg Ctrl + P to the kit file, above the Diffuse layer. Like the example, you may need to resize it. You can do this by hovering your cursor at the corner and dragging the image to fit the entire diffuse https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery27/1a64ddf8.jpg If the squares do not appear, press the 'Show Transform Controls' as shown https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery27/616c4a37.jpg Now it fits the Diffuse corner to corner, press Enter. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery27/1f82be72.jpg Now you can add all your extras on top and save when you are done. Is it the same steps if you adding to the normal. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery28/dc30c572.jpg With the tattoo layer selected, just under the layers tab is a 'Blender' drop down that is defaulted to 'Normal'. Scroll down and select 'Multiply'. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery28/c79ee69d.jpg This will make it look much more realistic, like it is ink under the skin, rather than an image sticker. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery28/aae6842b.jpg This is without the 'Multiply' blend for comparison. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery30/f097f178.jpg So its only offered on one side of the body. In order to flip it - Click Edit - Transform - Flip Horizontal. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery30/ad540e5c.jpg Now its on the opposite side. Remember you will need to do this for both the Diffuse and Normal for it to match. https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery32/08b55526.jpg Clicking Image - Adjustments - Brightness and Contrast will bring up this box. You can slide these around to get a look you want. (Keep in mind, your characters skin colour will also effect the look of it in game) https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery32/986afe07.jpg Bringing up the contrast will make it look more raw (you can also increase the opacity of the layer for a more intense effect) https://silentbunny.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery32/b332354e.jpg Bringing the contrast down will make it look more faded and healed. (You can also decrease the opacity of the layer for a more faded effect)