AI designs

AI designs

A design is plain JSON, so any capable AI chat can write one. The studio does the hard part for you: it builds a prompt containing the entire format specification plus your theme, and you paste back what the AI answers with.

No image files, no tools, no account anywhere.

The workflow

1. Open the AI design panel

It is on the right-hand side of the Skin Studio.

2. Choose Still or Animated

This matters more than it looks. Left to itself a model almost always returns a static design, because the static layer types are described first and there are more of them. Picking Animated adds an explicit instruction to build the design around exactly one moving pattern.

3. Type a theme

Anything descriptive — "a rusted post-apocalyptic shotgun", "deep space, purple nebula", "police issue, navy and white". There are presets to tap if you would rather not think of one.

4. Press Build prompt, then Copy

That copies the whole specification plus your theme.

5. Paste it into any AI chat

Any model that can return JSON will do.

6. Paste the answer into the Share box

The Share box is just below the AI panel. It accepts raw JSON exactly as the AI returned it — no cleaning up, no re-encoding — and also accepts ATY1: share codes.

The design loads as an editable draft. Move things, recolour, then Save.

Doing it by hand

You do not have to use the panel. Hand any AI the specification file and ask for one design:

Give me ONE weapon skin design as raw JSON, nothing else. Theme: a rusted post-apocalyptic shotgun.

The specification lives in AI_SKINS.md in the resource root, and it is the same text the studio's Build prompt copies. It is also reproduced as Design format.

What to expect back

{
  "base": "#4a3a2c",
  "layers": [
    { "type": "pattern", "pattern": 0, "color": "#7a4a22", "opacity": 0.55, "blend": "multiply" },
    { "type": "pattern", "pattern": 4, "color": "#2a2018", "opacity": 0.4, "blend": "normal" },
    { "type": "stroke", "points": [[0.05,0.3],[0.28,0.36],[0.52,0.28],[0.78,0.38],[0.96,0.31]],
      "color": "#1d150f", "width": 0.02, "opacity": 0.8, "blend": "normal" },
    { "type": "decal", "decal": 7, "color": "#8a5a2b", "x": 0.5, "y": 0.5,
      "scale": 1.4, "rot": 0, "opacity": 0.5, "blend": "overlay" }
  ]
}

Rusty base, mottled dots multiplied for corrosion, a dark camo break-up, one scratch, and a faint frame for a worn edge. Four layers, three colours.

When it does not work

The paste box rejects it. Almost always a wrapper the model added — a markdown code fence, a "design": wrapper object, or a sentence before the JSON. The design must be the bare object shown above. Delete everything around it.

It came back invalid or from a newer version. The same thing: something in the JSON is not a field the schema knows. Ask the model to return only the fields in the specification.

The design saved but the weapon looks black in places. No base. The whole texture is replaced, so anything a layer does not cover is transparent, which reads as black. Add a base colour.

It used an image that will not load. Models like to invent image URLs. Ask for built-in pattern and decal layers only — those always exist, while image layers depend on what your server has installed and allowed.

Nothing moves, even though you asked for animation. The pattern index has to be 14–21, and speed must not be 0. Pick Animated in the panel rather than asking for motion in the theme text.

See also

• Design format — every layer type and field
• Skin Studio — the editor itself