Weapon Skins | Weapon Customizer

Weapon Skins is a full in-game gun-painting studio. Players open the right-docked panel at a workbench, with the kit item, or by command, and work straight on a live 3D preview of the weapon. They can orbit the camera, zoom in, and every change lands in real time.

Start from the built-in procedural gallery, with solids, gradients, camo, tech, cosmic and animated finishes that need no extra downloads. Or open the editor and build a skin from scratch. Freehand draw with several brushes, drop in text, stickers and hosted images, then reorder and undo layers on a draggable canvas. A separate Tints tab applies GTA's own weapon tints across every gun, plus MK2 camo liveries.

There are two ways a skin shows to other players, and they behave differently. Native tints and MK2 camo use the engine's own variant system, so everyone sees them with no extra assets. Custom-painted artwork is drawn straight onto the weapon itself. In the default overlay mode it is visible to players near you, but that mode needs the optional ml_weaponskins_stream model pack, about 1.3 GB on disk. Without that pack, switch the sync mode to local and custom skins render on the owner's own screen. Either way the server checks and stores the skin itself.

Skins stay with the gun. A custom or gallery skin is written into the weapon's item data, so it follows the weapon through trades, storage and stashes, and the server re-reads and checks it after every change. This needs an inventory that keeps item data, which every common one does. On an inventory that does not, the apply is cleanly blocked instead of corrupting anything. Every paid or owned skin is also saved per weapon in a personal Skin Library. Switching back to a skin you already own is always free.

The economy is optional and ships switched off. Turn it on and charging runs on Tebex donation credits, in-game money, or an inventory item. Eight weapon groups are priced on their own: pistols, SMGs, shotguns, rifles, snipers, MG and heavy, melee and other. You can charge for each new gallery skin, or charge once to unlock the custom creator for a group or a single weapon, and admin codes can unlock it account-wide. On top of that you get Tebex credit bundles with refund handling, direct skin-pack purchases that deliver a fixed skin, pick-any tokens or a creator unlock straight to one weapon, and admin-minted redemption codes you can sell off-platform for players to redeem in-game.

Admins curate the gallery with their own image decals, moderate every published player template from a panel, and can lock skinning behind a job to run it as a gunsmith business. A content kill-switch can restrict players to procedural, decal and native skins only. A server hook lets you decide exactly who may open the customizer, for on-duty checks, zones, cooldowns or jail rules.

What to expect

• Live 3D editor: orbit and zoom preview, multi-brush freehand draw, text, stickers and hosted images, layer reorder and undo, a full procedural gallery, and a Tints tab for native GTA tints and MK2 camo.
• Skins live on the item: the skin is stored in the weapon's own item data and re-checked on the server after each change. It follows the gun through trades, storage and stashes; a per-weapon Skin Library keeps owned skins and re-applies them for free.
• Two visibility modes: native tints and MK2 camo sync for everyone with no assets; custom artwork is visible to nearby players in overlay mode, which needs the optional 1.3 GB stream pack, or owner-only in local mode.
• Optional skin economy: off by default, eight weapon groups priced separately, buy-each-skin or unlock-the-creator modes, Tebex credit bundles with refunds, direct skin packs, and redemption codes.
• Owner controls: admin decals, a template moderation panel, a content kill-switch, job-gating, and a server hook for your own open rules.

Needs an inventory that keeps item data. Works on ESX, QBCore and Qbox.