BoD Marking Maker

Pick a dragon. You paint directly on its model with only the colours Book of Dragons understands, then export a ready-to-drop-in genetics pack. No Blockbench, no decompiling.

How markings work in BoD (30-second version)

The dragon's base texture is greyscale in six shades; a palette (six colours, dark→light) colours it.
A marking is a mostly-transparent PNG the same size as the base. Every painted pixel is one of six grey shades (or the same shades in pure red / green / blue), each such channel gets its own palette in game.
Markings normally copy the base's shade pixel-for-pixel ("multiply" workflow) so shading stays consistent — that is this tool's default brush. Stock markings are painted at 80 % opacity with 40 % soft edges.
Each marking goes into a locus (body pattern, wing pattern, face, …) with a rarity. Names must be lowercase.

wire spin brighten

100%

Tool

Size 4

Shape

Opacity 80%

Opacity in editor-safe steps (40–100 %) Only paint where the base is opaque Symmetry — mirror left/right (M)

Colour channel (each gets its own palette in game)

Shade

Offset 0

Feather edge (3D-aware)

Fade steps 2

Dither

Adds a stepped opacity fade (e.g. 80 → 53 → 27 %) along the marking's edge. Follows the model's 3D surface, so it crosses UV seams onto attached geometry instead of smearing across unrelated parts of the texture. New pixels inherit the marking's channel and follow the base shading. Ctrl+Z undoes.

Marking

Name lowercase a-z 0-9 _ -

Locus (where it goes)

Rarity

Pack name file: my_markings.zip Description (pack.mcmeta)

Installing the pack

Drop the .zip into the server's (and every client's) BODGeneticsPacks/ folder and restart. Only the pool entries are written — the pack never overrides expression counts or weights, so it merges with the stock pools and other packs instead of replacing them (two packs that both ship a marking with the same name for the same species still collide — the last pack loaded wins).

🐉 BoD Marking Maker

Night Fury

Pack

Added to pack ✔