To start flying using the touchscreen controls, double-tap the center (jump) button. Its icon will change to a wing.
To fly up or down, swipe from the center button to the up or down arrow, and hold.
There are a variety of other interactions among the direction buttons which can be useful shortcuts, but are not necessary like this one; I suggest playing around.
(Source: experimentation. Version 0.6.1 alpha.)
This is a confirmed bug and it is currently worked on.
Edit: Anything downloaded from the internet and saved to the camera roll retains its format, so .png
stay as a .png
, while anything taken from the camera is saved as a .jpeg
.
The bug however, is caused when the game tries to access the file system. As iOS 6 does not support copying files from the camera roll to an app's sandboxed directory, Minecraft Pocket Edition thus comes up with the "This is not a skin, silly." which is a generic error.
Note: The error in-game does not specify the cause, but the inferred cause would be "file not found".
For now, all you can do is wait...
As for Facebook, for example able to use an image (or multiple images) from the camera roll - That's due to the image not being saved to disk, but instead, transmitted; loaded to memory and then uploaded through the same method Safari does so.
Update: See this question for information on how to change your skin.
Update: Now I remember: It was a comment on the bug tracker.
To change your Minecraft Skin manually on iOS, simply open a file system viewer and browse to the following folder:
.../[Minecraft PE]/Documents/game/com.mojang/minecraftpe/
And name it: custom.png
.
Best Answer
Since 0.11 just came out, here is a easy way to do it.
1: Press the settings button on the title screen of Minecraft PE.
2: Press the second option of the settings menu. (It should look like 4 skins)
3: Select your skin!
ALSO, if you want CUSTOM skins (Which I think you want), here is a easy guide.
1: Go to this website: http://minecraft.tools/en/skin.php
2: Enter the username (I will be doing notch for example)
3: Press the download button.
4: Now, you might have to download the picture manually, (depends on what device you have), if you do, do it as you would normally do it (Since I dont know all the ways devices download pictures.)
5: Do the process that I did at the top, and press the "Browse" option.
6: Select your skin that you downloaded.
7: Success! Hopefully you successfully imported a skin into MC PE!