you can and I think my earliest tutorial, the ramen cup shows how to do UVs without an auto texture updater plugin. It just slows the process down but yes its 100% possible, you could even run UV textures in MSPaint if you wanted.

@illusionofmana thank you

Yeah its really a wicked workflow. I want to polish that out one day and just do a good run on how to do hair optimally. Since we dont use reference images here in the scene that much, that also makes it a bit harder.

Ooof yeah thats a tough one, Ive had to reinstall the plugin a few times before to get past this. Often its just installing it on blender and aseprite and making sure theyre in those respective addon menus then close and reopen the programs. If you still have issues, try aseprite 1.3 and blender 3.0. Ive had very good results on plugin support with 3.0

I currently host the latest release version. The last dev did end support and originally pulled the project from the internet. This is why Ive archived it. Currently there is a newer version being worked on but its not clear on when it will launch. Between you and I, the new dev has scope crept the project instead of focusing on the core of it. So I dont see a new version coming out until mid next year. I will update the community when a change happens though!

its a mix of a few things. TLDR: just use the grid snap tool on your object when modeling and the UV pixel corner snap for the UV. Keeping in mind the scale of your objects so every Unit is = to 1 pixel. The long explanation. Every object is scaled around exact units, since you can grid snap vertices in Blender. So if I am making a cardboard box, say ill grid snap its 8 verts to make the box 10 units wide by 8 units tall by 16 units deep. I now know how large each face of the box is going to be in pixels. 2 are going to be 8x10, 2 are going to be 10x16, and 2 are going to be 8x16 pixels big. So from there ill draw up a texture that matches those dimensions per face then UV map the object to that texture. I do this globally to every object and thats how you get pixel perfect objects in a 3D space. Blender has UV pixel snap settings as well that make this so easy, often you just get into the flow and even complex objects are easy to make. For odd shaped objects like cylinders or corners at 45 degree angles, I just eyeball it and adjust the UV on the fly until it looks good.

@@illusionofmana thankyou for that explanation!

I have the same sentiment but with Maya. Hope these at least help the process lmao.

the first half of this video will cover that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qISbf2OVirx9l8U

same if anyone knows, help

FOUND IT shift Z while using scale kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqGkmI1rip5_mpI at 1:06

OK I got it to work but I have no idea how

This was made before the author decided to ghost the community and remove everything. I need to update the video at some point.

I hope it all helps. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions

3.0, can confirm plugin works across the 3.x builds though.

I haven't played with it in this shader system yet though. Id have to test it first but I dont see why it wouldnt.

Thanks for the advice! Always appreciate these small things.

@@illusionofmana no doubt bruh

The easiest way to fix this it to just restart both programs. If the problem persists it may need the plugin to be reinstalled. This issue is always a pain to fix.

@@illusionofmana that's the thing tho I dod use the plugin. U plug in the .exe right? Or did I do it wrong

@@illusionofmana Nvm I figured it out thanks dawg

Yes it comes with practice, and it helps the character in this is my OC. So I already knew where I was taking it, and nothing wrong with pulling a reference while modeling too. I honestly should have done a front back and side render for this tutorial though. It definitely would have been far more helpful for beginners. Im still learning how to set these up as I make them though!

@@illusionofmana thanks a lot for the reply. That's fine though, Your tutorial is already really helpful enough.

Absolutely agree. Abstraction and shape theory is a big thing to grasp for artists in all fields. I believe low poly teaches people this as well as some good practices in formatting. I think, if you can model and UV map a low poly object today... who's to say you cant double the level of detail next week and the weeks after.