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Your first tattoo

From an empty studio to a swallow tattoo on the chest of your players. The build takes seconds; most of the time goes into placing and installing.

Before you start

A SwisserAI account with at least 40 credits.
A PNG of your design with a transparent background, cropped close to the drawing. We use a swallow with a rose, drawn with the AI design.
Access to your FiveM server files, its server.cfg, and an appearance script such as illenium-appearance.

The design of the quick start: an old school swallow with a red rose on a transparent background. — The design for this walk-through, on a dark background here so the transparent parts are visible.

The eight steps

We put the swallow on the left chest of both freemode peds and apply it in game.

1
Open the Tattoo Studio
In the sidebar open Assets, then Tattoo Studio. The studio opens with one empty entry, Tattoo 1, and the male ped in the preview.
1. 1. Tattoo Studio: opens the studio
2
Upload the design
Under Design, click the drop zone and pick your PNG, or drag it onto the zone.
1. 1. Drop a PNG with transparency, or click to upload: your design goes here
The design appears on the chest of the ped, and the drop zone shows it as a thumbnail.
3
Name it
Type Swallow into Name. This is the label in the tattoo shop. Leave Kind on Tattoo (on skin).
1. 1. Name: the name in the shop and in the file names
2. 2. Kind: tattoo on skin, or patch on the torso
4
Pick the spot
Under Placement, Body zone is already Torso. Pick Chest, left under Spot preset. The tattoo moves to the spot the game uses for left chest tattoos.
1. 1. Body zone: which body part the tattoo belongs to
2. 2. Spot preset: a spot the game itself uses
3. 3. Place on the model: then click or drag on the skin
4. 4. Across, Down, Width, Height, Rotate: fine position, size and angle
5. 5. m/f separate: a preset gives each ped its own placement
To move it by hand, press Place on the model and drag on the skin. The sliders set size and angle exactly.
With Place on the model switched on, dragging on the chest moves the swallow over the skin, live. Afterwards the Width slider makes it a little wider. Played at double speed.
5
Check the female ped
Press Female ped at the top right. The preset gave the female ped its own spot; check that it sits right, then switch back with Male ped.
The swallow on the female ped, with the female spot of Chest, left.
6
Build the pack
At the bottom of the rail, leave Texture on 512 px and press Build pack · 40 credits. The page switches to the build. This one took 3 seconds.
1. 1. Build pack · 40 credits: starts the build
7
Download the zip
The result page shows a preview of the pack and the install steps. Download the zip from the top right.
1. 1. FiveM .zip: downloads the resource
8
Install it and apply the tattoo
Unzip the download into your server's resources folder, add one line to server.cfg and restart the server:
```
ensure sw_user3jwr_overlays
```
Then add the snippet for your appearance script from the pack; the tattoo shows in its tattoo menu. For a quick test without a shop, this client Lua applies the swallow to your own ped:
```
local ped = PlayerPedId()
local female = GetEntityModel(ped) == GetHashKey('mp_f_freemode_01')
local overlay = female and 'swallow_F' or 'swallow_M'
AddPedDecorationFromHashes(ped, GetHashKey('sw_user3jwr_overlays'), GetHashKey(overlay))
```
See Appearance scripts for illenium-appearance, fivem-appearance, xnTattoos and rcore_tattoos.