Hello everyone, Leischii here with the Tutorial how to get Pbe skins to live or general get files from lol to work as custom skin. In this Tutorial I will show you how I did it with Dragon Trainer Tristana.

1-Getting the Software

So if you want to create the skins you need a few Programs

1. Wooxy (For installing the skin and get the files you need)
2. Notepad ++ (For editing the text files)
3. (Recommended) Skin Installer Ultimate (Only need the Raf_Unpack.exe)

2-First steps

So the first thing you have to do is getting the files you need. To get these files you need a League of Legends PBE client. (You don’t need an account just the client to get the files). You download everything through the patcher and close it when the download is completed. After this I use the Raf_Unpack.exe to extract every patch.

We open this exe and search for the RAF File Path. Usually it’s C:\(Your installation Folder)\RADS\projects\lol_game_client\filearchives and there you find a lot of folders with 0.0.X.XXX names. At them moment the newest patch is in the folder 0.0.3.191 but we also need 0.0.3.190, because this are both patches that belong to patch 5.23. We go in these folders and open the Archive_1.raf file with the RAF Unpack. If you don’t know which patches you need you can just click on “Get file list” and see what the RAF contains.

If you have the RAF you need you click on “Unpack file” and then you have all files from the RAF unpacked in a folder.

3-Create your Skin

So now when you have files you need you create a new folder. I call this folder Dragon Trainer Tristana. In this folder you create at least 2 folders: lol_game_client and lol_game_client_en_us (en_gb if you play on euw or eu ne; en_au if you play on oce). We will start with the lol_game_client folder and come back to the…en_us folder later. In the lol_game_client folder you creat a DATA-folder and in this folder you create 2 folders called Champions and sounds. It should look like this:

Then you go to the folder where you unpacked the 2 RAF files and drag everything from the 0.0.3.190 archive (Example: E:\Versions\5.23\190\Archive_1.raf\dump\DATA\Characters\Tristana) folder in your champion folder and then the samefor the 0.0.3.191 archive. You Dragon trainer Tristana Skin should look like this:

Now you go to the skins folder and create a folder called “Base” and drag the folder “Particles” and the files Tristana_Skin10.cac from the Skin10 folder into the Base folder. You rename the .Cac file into “Tristana_Base.cac ” and after this you go into Base/Particles and rename every .troybin file from “Tristana_Skin10….” in “Tristana_Base…”.

This only works for this skin. For other skins you have to look which name the particles have. If you want for example to create a skin for Tryndamere it could be “Tryndamere…troybin” and if you would then rename the file to “Tryndamere_Base…troybin” it won’t work. Also some old champions don’t have this particles folder in there own folder. They could also be located in DATA/Particles so watch out where these files belong. Every champion is different.

If you changed all troybin files, you copy again all Tristana_skin10…troybin files from the Skin10 folder into this Particles folder. This is just to be sure that the game doesn’t need any of these files with the Skin10 in the name.

Then you go back to the “skins” folder and creat the Folder “Skin01”. In this folder you copy the files with the endings .skl, .skn, .dds, .cac and .blnd from the Skin10 folder

Explanation of these files:

.skl : This is the “Skeleton” of the champ and gives the champ his model

.skn: This file basically tells the game how to overlay the texture on this skeleton

.dds: This is the texture file for Tristana, her Dragon and the Fish for the Recall

.blnd: It tells the game which files the skins has to load (which skl., skn, cac, dds, animations)

.cac: For special interactions between 2 champions (For Example rumble and Azir here)

Then again rename them to the right name. You can see which name these files need if you go in wooxy, open the Skin creation Tab, click “get files” and search for this files.

You see how to rename the files and if you renamed them copy the Skin10 files again in this foler and it should look like this:

4-Getting sounds and a new Fish

The next thing we have to do is change the sounds and tell the Riot Girl Tristana Skin how to load the Fish for the Recall. This is the most difficult part.

We have to open the tristana .bin file with Notepad++. You will see there is a lot of things that you can’t read but that is no problem. This file contains every skin for Tristana and they are sorted. On the bottom is the newest skin, here Dragon Trainer

(Left Top)

(Right Top)

(Left Bot)

Colour explanation:

Red-> Start and Ending of the original Skin10

Orange-> Start of the Skin10 sounds

Green-> Usual no addition to the model

Blue-> The Fish addition to the Model

Yellow-> The normal model line replaced with the Fish line

Purple-> Start and Ending of the Riot Girl Tristana Skin

Light Blue-> Start and Ending of the sound part (Riot Girl)

So you see I replaced the Green Part of Riot Girl Tristana with the Blue Fish addition (Yellow part) and the Orange part (Skin10 sounds) with the Light blue (Riot girl sounds)

If you copy the “NUL” symbols they will vanish and be like a space. To fix this you have to delete the spaces and replace them manually. You can add this symbols by pressing Alt + 256 on the numpad. And that’s basically it. Keeps in mind that if you make a mistake like forget one NUL symbol your game will crash with en error message “An essential part of the game is missing Tristana”. Then You should replace this file with the original and do it again. The sounds will work so in every case but things like the fish don’t work all the time so you have to try if you can get it to work.

ONLY IF ITS A PBE SKIN: You have to add the new Vo IF the skin has one. There for you go to the lol_game_client_en_us folder and put there the Vo you have to extract via Wooxy. It should look like this: (Look path)

And that’s it. Then your skin is ready. Now you just have to add this skin in wooxy. Remember to drag the DRAGON TRAINER TRISTANA folder in the wooxy window and activate “allow eding new files”.

If you have any question feel free to ask and if I forgot to mention something tell me in the comments. I hope I could help you a bit^^