Where do I put .pnt files in ARK: Survival Ascended?

Put them in ARK Survival Ascended/ShooterGame/Saved/MyPaintings. Create the MyPaintings folder if it does not exist. This is the same location whether you play single player or on a server.

What size is an ARK painting canvas?

A Painting Canvas is 256x256 pixels. Small wooden and metal signs are 128x128. The War Map is the largest at 512x512. Every paintable surface in ARK is square.

How many dyes can you paint with in ARK: Survival Ascended?

127. ARK: Survival Ascended has 127 dyes and all of them can be used in paintings. Colours in your image that do not match a dye exactly are mapped to the closest one available.

Is this converter safe? Does it upload my image?

Nothing is uploaded. The conversion happens entirely in your browser using the Canvas API, so your image never leaves your computer.

Why does my converted image look grainy in ARK?

That is dithering. ARK has a fixed palette of 127 dyes, so smooth gradients have to be approximated by mixing dots of nearby colours. Lower the dither strength for logos, flat colours and text, and raise it for photographs and skies.

ARK PNT Converter

Turn any image into an ARK: Survival Ascended painting. Pick a surface, drop in a picture, download the .pnt. Everything happens in your browser — your image is never uploaded.

Image

Drop an image here

PNG, JPG, WEBP or GIF

Paint onto

Image fit

Every ARK surface is square, so a wide image has to give something up: the edges, the proportions, or some canvas. Letterboxing loses nothing — the padding is left unpainted, so the bare surface shows through.

What are you converting?

ARK only has 127 dyes, so smooth gradients have to be faked by mixing dots of nearby colours. That looks great on a photograph and turns crisp lettering to mush — so it's worth telling us which you've got.

Fine tune

Dither strength — 80%

Set by the choice above. Drag it yourself if you want something in between.

File name

Preview

—canvas

—dyes used

127available

This is exactly what the game will draw, at true resolution.

Where to put the file

Once you have downloaded your .pnt, move it into this folder:

ARK Survival Ascended\ShooterGame\Saved\MyPaintings

Create the MyPaintings folder if it isn't there. The location is the same whether you play single player or on a server. In game, stand at the structure, open the paint menu, choose Load Painting and select your file.

Can't find it? Let Windows find it for you

If Steam installed ARK on a different drive the path won't match. Open PowerShell (press Start, type powershell) and paste this — it searches every Steam library, creates the folder if it's missing, and opens it:

$s=(gp 'HKCU:\Software\Valve\Steam' -EA 0).SteamPath;$l=@();if($s){$l+=$s;gc "$s\steamapps\libraryfolders.vdf" -EA 0|sls '"path"\s+"(.+?)"'|%{$l+=$_.Matches[0].Groups[1].Value -replace '\\\\','\'}};$l+='C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam';$f=$l|%{"$_\steamapps\common\ARK Survival Ascended\ShooterGame\Saved\MyPaintings"}|?{Test-Path (Split-Path $_) -EA 0}|select -First 1;if($f){md $f -Force|Out-Null;ii $f;"Opened: $f"}else{"ARK not found. In Steam: right-click ARK > Manage > Browse local files"}

It only reads your Steam settings to locate the game — it doesn't change anything else. If it can't find ARK it tells you how to locate it manually through Steam.

Canvas size for every paintable surface

Every paintable surface in ARK is square, and there are only three sizes. Getting this wrong is the usual reason a painting looks squashed or won't load.

Surface	Canvas size
Wooden Sign, Metal Sign	128 × 128
Painting Canvas, Wooden Billboard, Metal Billboard	256 × 256
Single Flag, Multi Panel Flag	256 × 256
Shag Rug, Spotlight, Raft	256 × 256
War Map	512 × 512

ARK's 127 dye palette

ARK: Survival Ascended gives you 127 dyes to paint with. Every colour in your image is mapped to the nearest one, which is why flat artwork and logos convert far more cleanly than photographs.

Common questions

Does this upload my image anywhere?

No. The conversion runs in your browser. Your image never leaves your computer, and nothing is stored.

Why does my picture look grainy in game?

with only 127 dyes, smooth gradients have to be approximated by mixing dots of nearby colours — that's dithering. Turn the dither slider down for logos, tribe banners and anything with text; turn it up for photographs and skies.

Can I use this for ARK: Survival Evolved?

Not yet. ASE uses a much smaller palette and different file targets. This converter is built for Survival Ascended.

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