The default lightstone, and most of the versions texture makers have done of it, looks like bits of glowing crystal embedded in rock.
Given the way the whole block shatters with a glass sound, it would make more sense to me for it to look like a solid cube of glowing crystal(s). Also, it would be nice to have a more attractive block for use in lighting in and around my castle.
Any chance anyone would be interested in making (or has already made) a lightstone texture that looks like a solid mass of glowing crystals? Preferably in 32x32 resolution. Something sort of like this:
If Minecraft supported alpha transparency on all the blocks, that sort of thing would look great, especially if you could get it to tile.
As it is, I guess I'm thinking of a block that looks the the surface is made of faceted crystaline edges or chunks of crystal or something, and where the colors make it look more like the light is coming from within than reflecting off the surface. In just 32x32 pixels! Not asking for much, am I?
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But I guess you want something more... natural?
Yeah. If lightstone worked like clay-->bricks or like iron ore-->iron-->iron block, something like one of those options would be cool for use in lighting your home.
As it is, lightstone is like cobblestone, where it has to look sort of half-natural and half-man-made (cobblestone because sometimes you make it and sometimes it gets made by lava+water).
Frame, the fifth texture down on the left side in the ones you made has the look of being lit from within I'm talking about, and it has the right color. If it looked a little more irregular and natural (and tiled smoothly), it would be close to what I'm thinking of. I might prefer one where there are no dark lines between the bits of crystal so it looked like a big block of the orange glowing stuff, but I'm not sure you can do that and still get the effect of making it look lit up.
I'm using my own mix of textures that I've tweaked quite a bit. It's mostly some of the more realistic-looking textures from Mixcraft, JohnSmith, AxePack, cferrill, & Navarre combined with downsampled and tweaked versions of some of the realistic high-res packs from Misa, Panico747, & AaGeOn, plus a few textures I've created myself. Probably most relevant is that I'm using a darker version of cferrill's netherstone, so it would be nice if the lightstone fit with that.
Of your examples, the second one (the white crystals) is probably the closest to what I was hoping for, except tinted yellow/orange.
(...then I've also got a custom 16x16 pack that's mostly an edited mix of Lar, Painterly, Axe, & Quandry, and I also like to sometimes play with Trigger Proximity's solid pack, The Fool's seamless pack, and Dusty's pack...)
Fr4m3, I think something like this is the closest to what I'm thinking of, except lit from within instead of reflecting light. Sharp-edged crystals, probably big ones, just a few-per block so they're recognizable at 32x32.
Fr4m3:
The version at the bottom of your last post is awesome. I like how it looks all crystal-y, and I really like the tinge of orange you have around the edge. You should post that part, please... I'd like it.
EDIT: Wow, read my mind. I guess I didn't have to post, lol.
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That last one (the one that starts a new column in the set of textures you posted) is quite close to my original vision. For a 32x32 texture, that does an impressive job of looking both crystaline and like it's glowing, and even a little crunchy--like something that might shatter into dust and shards if you hit it--all the while tiling well with itself. Great job. I might play with tweaking the contrast a little or maybe bumping the color a hair toward the orange, but I may just want to leave it as it is. Unless you have another idea for a revision (which I'd happy to see).
Thank you so much for working on the texture and sharing it. I hope to see more artwork from you for Minecraft. Time to farm the Nether for more lightstone for my castle!
Thanks again, Fr4m3. I'll give that orange one a try. I'm pretty happy with this texture, I think if there's anything I'd change it would be how the dark bits are all at the edges, so that the individual squares stand apart instead of flowing together as much as they might if it looked more like there was a more defined bit of crystal or something where the corners come together.
(Oh and, also thanks for pointing out Shiny's texture pack -- I'd somehow passed over that one, maybe because his screenshots don't show how cool his stone and dirt textures are.)
I am grateful to the folks who have contributed to this thread so far, but I'm still haven't quite found what I'm looking for. I'd really like to get a block that looks like faceted but natural crystal glowing either from within or through the cracks between crystals or something like that. I'd also like something that tiles seamlessly, so not something with a glowing center and dark edges on each block.
Below are a few of the textures I've tried making (mostly fiddling with stuff other people have made, I'm no artist -- the last one is my attempt to draw what I'm talking about from scratch and it sucks) and a few screenshots of my current evolving custom texture pack that shows the kinds of places I'd like to use glowstone. (The current placeholder is much too flat-looking.)
Could I interest anyone in taking another crack at this?
Given the way the whole block shatters with a glass sound, it would make more sense to me for it to look like a solid cube of glowing crystal(s). Also, it would be nice to have a more attractive block for use in lighting in and around my castle.
Any chance anyone would be interested in making (or has already made) a lightstone texture that looks like a solid mass of glowing crystals? Preferably in 32x32 resolution. Something sort of like this:
or maybe this:
If Minecraft supported alpha transparency on all the blocks, that sort of thing would look great, especially if you could get it to tile.
As it is, I guess I'm thinking of a block that looks the the surface is made of faceted crystaline edges or chunks of crystal or something, and where the colors make it look more like the light is coming from within than reflecting off the surface. In just 32x32 pixels! Not asking for much, am I?
Yeah. If lightstone worked like clay-->bricks or like iron ore-->iron-->iron block, something like one of those options would be cool for use in lighting your home.
As it is, lightstone is like cobblestone, where it has to look sort of half-natural and half-man-made (cobblestone because sometimes you make it and sometimes it gets made by lava+water).
Frame, the fifth texture down on the left side in the ones you made has the look of being lit from within I'm talking about, and it has the right color. If it looked a little more irregular and natural (and tiled smoothly), it would be close to what I'm thinking of. I might prefer one where there are no dark lines between the bits of crystal so it looked like a big block of the orange glowing stuff, but I'm not sure you can do that and still get the effect of making it look lit up.
I'm using my own mix of textures that I've tweaked quite a bit. It's mostly some of the more realistic-looking textures from Mixcraft, JohnSmith, AxePack, cferrill, & Navarre combined with downsampled and tweaked versions of some of the realistic high-res packs from Misa, Panico747, & AaGeOn, plus a few textures I've created myself. Probably most relevant is that I'm using a darker version of cferrill's netherstone, so it would be nice if the lightstone fit with that.
Of your examples, the second one (the white crystals) is probably the closest to what I was hoping for, except tinted yellow/orange.
(...then I've also got a custom 16x16 pack that's mostly an edited mix of Lar, Painterly, Axe, & Quandry, and I also like to sometimes play with Trigger Proximity's solid pack, The Fool's seamless pack, and Dusty's pack...)
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The version at the bottom of your last post is awesome. I like how it looks all crystal-y, and I really like the tinge of orange you have around the edge. You should post that part, please... I'd like it.
EDIT: Wow, read my mind. I guess I didn't have to post, lol.
Thank you so much for working on the texture and sharing it. I hope to see more artwork from you for Minecraft. Time to farm the Nether for more lightstone for my castle!
(Oh and, also thanks for pointing out Shiny's texture pack -- I'd somehow passed over that one, maybe because his screenshots don't show how cool his stone and dirt textures are.)
Below are a few of the textures I've tried making (mostly fiddling with stuff other people have made, I'm no artist -- the last one is my attempt to draw what I'm talking about from scratch and it sucks) and a few screenshots of my current evolving custom texture pack that shows the kinds of places I'd like to use glowstone. (The current placeholder is much too flat-looking.)
Could I interest anyone in taking another crack at this?