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games647/minecraft-skin-renderer
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Flexible 3d skin/avatar renderer for minecraft with heads, rotation and complete skins

0.2.1(9y ago)18255[1 PRs](https://github.com/games647/Minecraft-Skin-Renderer/pulls)1MITPHP >=5.6

Since Apr 23Compare

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Minecraft Skin Renderer
=======================

[](#minecraft-skin-renderer)

Description
-----------

[](#description)

Minecraft skin renderer library.

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Only responsible for rendering - You can manage how you want to
    - Download the raw skin data
    - Store the rendered skin
    - Cache the result
- Easy to install and use
- Easy and flexible skin rotation for 3d skin rendering

ToDo
----

[](#todo)

- 3D-Rendering --> skin rotations/perspective view
- 1.8 Skin format support
- Add image smoothing
- Add arms, legs, head position manipulation
- Add cape rendering

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

With composer it's just:

```
composer require games647/minecraft-skin-renderer

```

For non-composer projects, you can drop the files from the /src folder into a libraries folder and use it with a require statement at the top of the PHP-File. You can see a example in the example.php file.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
//this is only used if you don't use composer
require __DIR__ . '/PATH_TO_LIB_FOLDER/MinecraftSkins.php';

use \MinecraftSkins\MinecraftSkins;

[...]

//load the skin from a file
$skinImage = imagecreatefrompng("cd6be915b261643fd13621ee4e99c9e541a551d80272687a3b56183b981fb9a.png");

//render the skin and make it 5 times bigger
$result = MinecraftSkins::skin($skinImage, 5);

//this part is for rendering the skin only
//tell the browser that we will send the raw image without HTML
header('Content-type: image/png');
imagepng($renderedSkin);
```

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

Dinnerbone head

```
MinecraftSkins::head($skinImage, 5);
```

[![Dinnerbone head](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/1f9b667e9d7bd5fd86462fce50f52f35898bc925197a964e2a0d36acab8a94f3/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f646935654d64362e706e67)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/1f9b667e9d7bd5fd86462fce50f52f35898bc925197a964e2a0d36acab8a94f3/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f646935654d64362e706e67)

Dinnerbone full skin

```
MinecraftSkins::skin($skinImage, 5);
```

[![Dinnerbone skin](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/bdafd5a83545b58e920954f7534914963af773626e71542f98ed2ed3b70742e1/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f673151514358502e706e67)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/bdafd5a83545b58e920954f7534914963af773626e71542f98ed2ed3b70742e1/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f673151514358502e706e67)

Useful links
------------

[](#useful-links)

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###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity19

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity51

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~11 days

Total

3

Last Release

3645d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9ba27331e4665dae42f24c97178337526f846cfd1ab6d9ba64cf2b8a5c6ac61d?d=identicon)[games647](/maintainers/games647)

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Top Contributors

[![TuxCoding](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1957196?v=4)](https://github.com/TuxCoding "TuxCoding (4 commits)")

---

Tags

skinavatarrenderminecraftrotationhead3dperspectivehelmet

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