Isabella IIa supports the Fycraft mod, but Fycraft breaks texture loading in a few spots, so please install Isabella IIa as a mod after Fycraft if you're using it.
The resource pack doesn't work. I mean it's not recognized by Minecraft. Do I miss something? 1.14.2
Ah, that version is for old, old versions of Minecraft: the Alpha versions. It's specifically designed for Alpha 1.2.6 but should work with earlier versions. It's just the current textures made into the old-style texture pack formats that the old versions used.
Not that version (it only has a few textures because Alpha only had a few blocks), but yurisuika is keeping the full version of Isabella II updated over here. You can track the development on the SuikaCraft Discord.
FYI, the forum migration broke the link redirection. You'll need to fix all the "/mapping-and-modding/" links to be "/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/" instead.
Is this a full on resource pack, or just a texture pack?
And would I be able to edit it so that I can add some other custom stuff for a map I'm making? From the screenshots I've seen, it looks pretty dang nice.
Also, is it 100% compatible with 1.14? Or just partially?
EDIT: Also, what is the whole SuikaCraft thing that's also mentioned? Did I just miss reading what that is?
SuikaCraft is two things: yurisuika's continuation of the Isabella II pack (bonemouse retired years ago), and the name of yurisuika's server.
The newest version (go get it at the github link) supports 1.14, and includes models and MCPatcher/Optifine features as well as all the textures.
Some of the add-on packs on the first page were made by others (including me!) and just adjust portions of SuikaCraft.
The Retro packs are old-style texture packs made from the current textures, but for old versions of Minecraft (I've been playing a lot of Beta 1.7.3 and Alpha 1.2.6 lately).
I'd like to integrate this resourcepack into the map I'm making, but a few of the textures I feel rather iffy about, is it okay if I mess about with it?
Original artist bonemouse gave us permission to mess with it:
Anyone wishing to continue my work has my permission to do so.
yurisuika has been perfectly happy with me messing around with my own variants, so I'm pretty sure it isn't going to be a problem. To be safe, leave a readme in the resource pack folder explaining where it came from (bonemouse and yurisuika, with a link to this thread or suika's github), and change the name of the pack to something like Isabella II - [map name] version
Well, I'm going to say now, that after doing a bit of messing around with it, I've deducted that while I can fix the gold textures to be colored like gold, I'm nowhere near good enough to fix a lot of the faces.
It's a good texture pack, but I don't like the blazes, the faces (especially the villagers, ew), the witches forgot their hats, the classic blunder of having the wrong color for gold, and a few more things. Like it said, it is a good pack, but not one that I can tolerate.
Hi, apologies for poking an old thread. I'm a longtime fan of this texture pack and as I've come back to minecraft a few times over the last ten years, I've always gone looking for the latest Isabella.
I'm just starting into some basic modding with some custom blocks. Is there a simple guide for adopting the feel of Isabella against standard or custom in-game textures? Like "generally adjust the saturation by <blah>, and reduce brightness by <blah>"?
Not to worry, even if the thread is a little stale itself, the resource pack is still actively maintained by yurisuika on their github. They also have a discord! I can't speak to yurisuika's creative process though. Hopefully they'll see the pings from thread activity.
For modding blocks into Isabella style, I generally do one of two things:
1) Start with an Isabella (or modded Isabella, see first post) block close to what I'm looking for, and edit that.
2) Start from a non-Isabella block, put it next to a set of Isabella blocks it should match in your editing software, and decrease the contrast and saturation (and fiddle with brightness as needed) until it feels right.
Yes, I have never really used these forums, but I am constantly active in working on the pack.
Overall, things are lower contrast and saturation than vanilla. Some things (like redstone for example) are very striking, however. I think it if it something that warrants enough importance, give it that extra visibility.
There are some things I have come to realize over the years, like how the blocks of end stone, netherrack, obsidian, and bedrock were all just stone with the same additional lines drawn over them and then filtered. There is a high level of consistency and repetitiveness in many textures. Thus, I think if you can find a texture to use as a base, you can end up with the same feeling. Bonemouse did release some PSDs of the GUI to work from, but unfortunately no PSDs of the other textures, so figuring out how something had come to be made takes a lot of trial and error and approximation.
You'll also notice that the grass top texture is prevalent in a lot of plant based textures. Vines and reeds (sugar cane, whatever) both come from the same texture. So, once again, reusing textures in new ways is totally Isabella. Sometimes innovation is welcome, but trying to find a way to reuse an existing Isabella texture is not at all an illegal move.
Beveling is a common trait in many Isabella textures. In Photoshop, a soft chisel inner bevel, depth 100%, size 1px, soften 0px, shaded to -45 degrees angle with 30 degrees altitude with global light off, with a 50% overlay white on highlight and 50% overlay black on shadow is a good way to go. Alternatively, using screen and multiply with different values can be used. I think it depends on the texture; Bonemouse probably used both. For ores, using multiply with black pixels on the top and left sides and screen with white pixels on the bottom and right sides, both at 15% opacity, is the way to go.
Just as so, I've discovered some very interesting quarks to textures that hint of just how much of Photoshop was used to create many of these textures. You'll notice a very prominent line in dirt... I believe that may have been the result of using the shear filter over many iterations to "randomize" a base texture to make it look unique yet still give off the same feeling. I might be wrong, but I was trying to randomize some textures with this method for alternate models and I came up with this same line, suggesting that dirt may have been made using the grass top texture (or a texture that they were both made from).
Unlike other packs, there is no predefined palette, but at the same time there are quite a few things that make it distinctive. I am always finding new things that make me go back and revise stuff I've done in the past to put it more in line with the original textures.
The resource pack doesn't work. I mean it's not recognized by Minecraft. Do I miss something? 1.14.2
Ah, that version is for old, old versions of Minecraft: the Alpha versions. It's specifically designed for Alpha 1.2.6 but should work with earlier versions. It's just the current textures made into the old-style texture pack formats that the old versions used.
So there's no chances of using this Resource pack for 1.14.2?
Not that version (it only has a few textures because Alpha only had a few blocks), but yurisuika is keeping the full version of Isabella II updated over here. You can track the development on the SuikaCraft Discord.
FYI, the forum migration broke the link redirection. You'll need to fix all the "/mapping-and-modding/" links to be "/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/" instead.
Hey guys I just wanted to say I've been using this texture pack since the beginning
Thank you for keeping it alive
Is this a full on resource pack, or just a texture pack?
And would I be able to edit it so that I can add some other custom stuff for a map I'm making? From the screenshots I've seen, it looks pretty dang nice.
Also, is it 100% compatible with 1.14? Or just partially?
EDIT: Also, what is the whole SuikaCraft thing that's also mentioned? Did I just miss reading what that is?
Suffering from ambitiousness.
SuikaCraft is two things: yurisuika's continuation of the Isabella II pack (bonemouse retired years ago), and the name of yurisuika's server.
The newest version (go get it at the github link) supports 1.14, and includes models and MCPatcher/Optifine features as well as all the textures.
Some of the add-on packs on the first page were made by others (including me!) and just adjust portions of SuikaCraft.
The Retro packs are old-style texture packs made from the current textures, but for old versions of Minecraft (I've been playing a lot of Beta 1.7.3 and Alpha 1.2.6 lately).
I'd like to integrate this resourcepack into the map I'm making, but a few of the textures I feel rather iffy about, is it okay if I mess about with it?
Suffering from ambitiousness.
Original artist bonemouse gave us permission to mess with it:
yurisuika has been perfectly happy with me messing around with my own variants, so I'm pretty sure it isn't going to be a problem. To be safe, leave a readme in the resource pack folder explaining where it came from (bonemouse and yurisuika, with a link to this thread or suika's github), and change the name of the pack to something like Isabella II - [map name] version
Well, I'm going to say now, that after doing a bit of messing around with it, I've deducted that while I can fix the gold textures to be colored like gold, I'm nowhere near good enough to fix a lot of the faces.
It's a good texture pack, but I don't like the blazes, the faces (especially the villagers, ew), the witches forgot their hats, the classic blunder of having the wrong color for gold, and a few more things. Like it said, it is a good pack, but not one that I can tolerate.
Suffering from ambitiousness.
Updated Tweaks for 1.14:
Isabella Tweaks
Autumn Foliage
Winter Foliage
My old Minecraft Forum account was nuked, so I had to make a new one??
Anyway, I am Death 9407 from that forum, and just recently got back into minecraft.
I've been playing the Windows 10 edition, because cross platform and Isabella II is the superior resource pack lol
Here's a link to the .mcpack file
Here's a link to the .zip file
The GUI still needs a complete redo, as well as a couple other things that I haven't noticed yet.
Enjoy?
Very cool.
Hi, apologies for poking an old thread. I'm a longtime fan of this texture pack and as I've come back to minecraft a few times over the last ten years, I've always gone looking for the latest Isabella.
I'm just starting into some basic modding with some custom blocks. Is there a simple guide for adopting the feel of Isabella against standard or custom in-game textures? Like "generally adjust the saturation by <blah>, and reduce brightness by <blah>"?
Not to worry, even if the thread is a little stale itself, the resource pack is still actively maintained by yurisuika on their github. They also have a discord! I can't speak to yurisuika's creative process though. Hopefully they'll see the pings from thread activity.
For modding blocks into Isabella style, I generally do one of two things:
1) Start with an Isabella (or modded Isabella, see first post) block close to what I'm looking for, and edit that.
2) Start from a non-Isabella block, put it next to a set of Isabella blocks it should match in your editing software, and decrease the contrast and saturation (and fiddle with brightness as needed) until it feels right.
Yes, I have never really used these forums, but I am constantly active in working on the pack.
Overall, things are lower contrast and saturation than vanilla. Some things (like redstone for example) are very striking, however. I think it if it something that warrants enough importance, give it that extra visibility.
There are some things I have come to realize over the years, like how the blocks of end stone, netherrack, obsidian, and bedrock were all just stone with the same additional lines drawn over them and then filtered. There is a high level of consistency and repetitiveness in many textures. Thus, I think if you can find a texture to use as a base, you can end up with the same feeling. Bonemouse did release some PSDs of the GUI to work from, but unfortunately no PSDs of the other textures, so figuring out how something had come to be made takes a lot of trial and error and approximation.
You'll also notice that the grass top texture is prevalent in a lot of plant based textures. Vines and reeds (sugar cane, whatever) both come from the same texture. So, once again, reusing textures in new ways is totally Isabella. Sometimes innovation is welcome, but trying to find a way to reuse an existing Isabella texture is not at all an illegal move.
Beveling is a common trait in many Isabella textures. In Photoshop, a soft chisel inner bevel, depth 100%, size 1px, soften 0px, shaded to -45 degrees angle with 30 degrees altitude with global light off, with a 50% overlay white on highlight and 50% overlay black on shadow is a good way to go. Alternatively, using screen and multiply with different values can be used. I think it depends on the texture; Bonemouse probably used both. For ores, using multiply with black pixels on the top and left sides and screen with white pixels on the bottom and right sides, both at 15% opacity, is the way to go.
Just as so, I've discovered some very interesting quarks to textures that hint of just how much of Photoshop was used to create many of these textures. You'll notice a very prominent line in dirt... I believe that may have been the result of using the shear filter over many iterations to "randomize" a base texture to make it look unique yet still give off the same feeling. I might be wrong, but I was trying to randomize some textures with this method for alternate models and I came up with this same line, suggesting that dirt may have been made using the grass top texture (or a texture that they were both made from).
Unlike other packs, there is no predefined palette, but at the same time there are quite a few things that make it distinctive. I am always finding new things that make me go back and revise stuff I've done in the past to put it more in line with the original textures.