What if you kept the flowers and what not... or make it some other plant.
Make the barbed wire cactus and make the tank barricades fences? Or barbed wire fences and the tank barricades... something else? I think making the flowers the other stuff makes it hard for people to know where to get their dyes haha.
Don't forget... pumpkins gotta be something cool for that sweet helmet overlay you made for it. I was running around with a pumkin, just because. I'm thinking a white or red SM helmet. Or... make it an optic. It's not any weirder wearing a pumpkin than it is to find equipment laying on a battlefield.
Also...
If Leather stayed Imperial Guard. Then Iron could be Space Marines making Diamond a Space Marine Chaplain or Apothecary... or some sort of Veteran. To me, for some reason, the scout doesn't make much sense as Iron.
That way people would see more Imperial Guard and Space Marines running about and then a few bad ass armors that would be reserved for Diamond and Gold. You wouldn't see a ton of scouts.
Surely you can incorporate Gun SDK mod into this stuff for Bolters and what-not. But that'd involve coding I'm sure.
I was arranging the armors by armor value, so 5+ is leather, 4+ is iron and 3+ is diamond.
The flowers thing was before flowers were useful, now that they are used for dye I've been tempted to change them so you know which is which colour but they've grown on me.
The pumkin is something I haven't gotten around to.
I have thought about doing the gun mod, but haven't had a decent look at the files yet. I don't use any mods at all but I recognise that most people have a least a couple they use.
Ah. I'm a SMP purist myself. Our server has a close knit group on it and our mods are pretty limited for multiplayer. Gonna try to get another server so builders can have a place... otherwise we'll have to split the world which kinda sux.
I wish Mo' Creatures worked. That'd be freakin' awesome.
But hey man, I have no right to throw anything at ya. We're lucky if a modder mods at all. When we want something that caters to our needs? We learn to do it ourselves. It's just the nature of things. Keep up the good work and best of fortune to you in your endeavors.
Me? I need to figure out how the skins work. I don't know what part affects what and the thought of trial-n-error blows for armor and for skins. Sucks no one else has posted something more useful yet, but who knows, that may be up to me. So seldom do people fill the niches in the "need" department as opposed to the "want" department lol.
Good ideas, I kinda forgot about the paintings. I'm pretty much going to try and do the maximum amount of machinery and hearldry style paintings I can and fill the rest up with graffitti. It'll probably be unreadable so either chaos or orks it doesn't matter. Thanks for the imperial aquila idea, I can't believe how easilly I can ignore stuff right in front of my face.
Whenever I can't figure out a skin I'll make a multi-coloured one, play the game and mark off where the sides are. Or if I'm lazy I'll download a pack just for a single skin in it because I know how it works. Eg, downloading Jolicraft (an excellent pack) just to have a look at where the sheep wool's sides are.
Also, thanks to Jeb I have made up a birch sapling and a pine sapling ready for 1.5 as well a powered track, but those are pretty crappy and will probably change once I know what the vanilla powered tracks look like. I wonder whether I could reskin the lighting to be either chaos magic or imperial orbital bombardment?
I also took a shot at doing the emperor's armour and as expected it is very hard to get all the any detail in. So I'm going for more of a looks-close-enough approach. Also, the armours are so similar I may well say that it's Solar Macharius's armour. Or you could, they're so similar, down to the golden wreath on their heads. Actualy, he's sorta wearing Roman or Greek armour that doesn't cover the whole body, I might have a go at that.
Bump for 1.5. Very pleased with the saplings. The rails are acceptable, the real problem is I'm not entirely happy with the vannilla rails. A bit disappointed with the lack of a lightning bolt image to reskin, that would have been fun. No pics as it's not really that big of an update.
Bump for 1.5b. Sorry guys, I didn't know about the redstone overlay. Updated the day before I went on holiday then came back to a storm that cut off power and internet. So a quick fix is up now. With the redstone overlay I'll probably turn the redstone into some imperial type piping or somthing, maybe I'll copy what Glimmar did. But wires or some sort would work too. I also found the fancy edged grass to be very flat and unshaded, so I fix'd that too.
I haven't changed the water, maybe it's a left over from patching a previous texture pack? I don't actually use the patcher so I don't know how that works. But I can assure you that the water is unchanged.
There is a chainsword stone sword in the extras. Good luck getting it to work. I don't know how, I only use 16x resolution textures. Also, sorry for non updatedness, I used up my internet. I'll probably have one out soonish.
Righto, 2 hours late but it's up. I think it is up to date. Everything should appear normal aside from gold armour which I left in it's unfinished state, but shouldn't be a problem.
I will probably do an overhaul of the pack, there's a lot of stuff a really like in it but there's a lot of stuff I don't like. I will probably move a bit further from vanilla Minecraft in the process.
Nice.
Make the barbed wire cactus and make the tank barricades fences? Or barbed wire fences and the tank barricades... something else? I think making the flowers the other stuff makes it hard for people to know where to get their dyes haha.
Don't forget... pumpkins gotta be something cool for that sweet helmet overlay you made for it. I was running around with a pumkin, just because. I'm thinking a white or red SM helmet. Or... make it an optic. It's not any weirder wearing a pumpkin than it is to find equipment laying on a battlefield.
Also...
If Leather stayed Imperial Guard. Then Iron could be Space Marines making Diamond a Space Marine Chaplain or Apothecary... or some sort of Veteran. To me, for some reason, the scout doesn't make much sense as Iron.
That way people would see more Imperial Guard and Space Marines running about and then a few bad ass armors that would be reserved for Diamond and Gold. You wouldn't see a ton of scouts.
Surely you can incorporate Gun SDK mod into this stuff for Bolters and what-not. But that'd involve coding I'm sure.
Throwing out more 2-cents, sorry.
The flowers thing was before flowers were useful, now that they are used for dye I've been tempted to change them so you know which is which colour but they've grown on me.
The pumkin is something I haven't gotten around to.
I have thought about doing the gun mod, but haven't had a decent look at the files yet. I don't use any mods at all but I recognise that most people have a least a couple they use.
I wish Mo' Creatures worked. That'd be freakin' awesome.
But hey man, I have no right to throw anything at ya. We're lucky if a modder mods at all. When we want something that caters to our needs? We learn to do it ourselves. It's just the nature of things. Keep up the good work and best of fortune to you in your endeavors.
Me? I need to figure out how the skins work. I don't know what part affects what and the thought of trial-n-error blows for armor and for skins. Sucks no one else has posted something more useful yet, but who knows, that may be up to me. So seldom do people fill the niches in the "need" department as opposed to the "want" department lol.
Whenever I can't figure out a skin I'll make a multi-coloured one, play the game and mark off where the sides are. Or if I'm lazy I'll download a pack just for a single skin in it because I know how it works. Eg, downloading Jolicraft (an excellent pack) just to have a look at where the sheep wool's sides are.
Also, thanks to Jeb I have made up a birch sapling and a pine sapling ready for 1.5 as well a powered track, but those are pretty crappy and will probably change once I know what the vanilla powered tracks look like. I wonder whether I could reskin the lighting to be either chaos magic or imperial orbital bombardment?
I also took a shot at doing the emperor's armour and as expected it is very hard to get
all theany detail in. So I'm going for more of a looks-close-enough approach. Also, the armours are so similar I may well say that it's Solar Macharius's armour. Or you could, they're so similar, down to the golden wreath on their heads. Actualy, he's sorta wearing Roman or Greek armour that doesn't cover the whole body, I might have a go at that.(I collect necrons ;D )
Here have some:
And some:
And one tamed:
Tastes better, Nuff Said.
"This is a block of text that can be added to posts you make." OMG, Block of text
Not a bad looking pack. I like your work with the mob textures. Nicely done.
EDIT - Sorry about this but I have a powercut of sorts. *sigh* Hopefully power will be back tonight.
I will probably do an overhaul of the pack, there's a lot of stuff a really like in it but there's a lot of stuff I don't like. I will probably move a bit further from vanilla Minecraft in the process.