how do i reskin or change what an item looks like

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I'm trying to learn how to mod but there are no YouTube videos or threads that I could find that explained how to do this

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download  ds mod tools from steam tools area, download ktools-4-4-4, download matt TEXTool to open tex file i think??

then find a image you want to change in the vanilla textures convert it to png with the texttool and then draw over the thing and then reconvert it to a tex then copypaste that vanilla texture and put it somewhere and delete the atlas in and rename your tex you made to atlas-0 (sometimes there are 2 atlas) and then put it in that zip folder then you make a simple mod which calls that asset and it will be client mod and you reskinned that texture in game then

here is a mod that reskin something mod.zip  would do that you would just put the name of whatever new texture you made in the modmain.lua there is example already the mod will replace spider texture vanilla with this mod higher res spider texture. you put the texture zip folders in the "anim" folder then you put the mod in your 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Don't Starve Together\mods

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