MC-ENGINE Skins

MC-ENGINE Skins puts the skins and capes you make on MC-ENGINE — a free online Minecraft skin editor — on your player in Minecraft Java. HD skins keep every pixel, and moving GIF capes play right on your back and your elytra.

What it does

• HD skins: 64×64, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512. Old 64×32 skins work too.
• Moving GIF capes up to 512×256 and 300 frames — also on elytra.
• Any GIF or picture can be a cape: it's fitted onto the back of the cape for you.
• Slim (Alex) or wide (Steve) arms are found from the skin, or set them yourself.
• Works with OptiFine (Forge, or OptiFabric on Fabric).

How to use it

1. Install the mod (Fabric also needs Fabric API) and start the game once — a folder called .minecraft/mc-engine appears.
2. Make or download your skin and cape on mc-engine.app (free, no account needed).
3. Put skin.png and cape.gif in that folder. They show up within about 2 seconds.
4. In game: /mcengine shows what's loaded, /mcengine reload loads the files again, /mcengine folder opens the folder.

Step-by-step guide with pictures: Moving GIF cape in Minecraft · HD skins with the mod

Who sees your look

Your files never leave your PC and are never uploaded anywhere. You always see your own skin and cape. Other players see it when they have the mod too and the server has it — singleplayer and Open to LAN always work. Players without the mod can still join; they just see normal skins.

Turn sharing off with share=false in mc-engine/settings.txt, or hide other players' looks with show_others=false.

Playing Bedrock?

Bedrock can't load mods — use the free Bedrock cape add-on instead: a moving cape and elytra as one .mcaddon.