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[Swift_Shifter]

i just signed up and i think this mc patcher is very nice aslo i feel connected textures for thing like glass would be nice so 3x3 glass would look more like 1 glass pane

[Eliotthib]

I installed MC patcher to use Sphax and had trouble with forge working. I tried to start fresh with a new .jar but it seems that the patcher has perpetually ruined my ability to mod my .jar without it freezing. I've been modding my game long enough to know the routine. What gives here?

I deleted the MCPatcher and my game still won't load after I put forge into it but it was working just fine before. If this a new bug or is my computer somehow retained MCPatcher qualities without me knowing?

I'm at a loss. It works fine till I put forge in, then nothing... Freezes at the edge of loading like I forgot the META.Inf. Help?!?!?! I've started fresh, I've wiped my computer clean of all things MC and since I DL'ed MCPatcher it has worked, even though it worked just fine before hand.

[mc10wp]

TheEnginerd, on 06 November 2012 - 03:08 AM, said:

Can you make a download for just better skies by itself as a zip file to be manually installed so it can be used with optifine?

The patcher works fine. Just uncheck "Better Skies" (and the like) when you install Optifine.

[odisos01]

Bug:
https://dl.dropbox.c...j/book.zip?dl=1
This texturpack changes the book gui and use annimated arrows. But the annimation only plays in mp and not in sp.
Please fix it.

other annoying things:
-renderpass=2  dosn't support userplaced leaves but natural generated(they become invisible after blockupdate next to them)
-Biomeskins doesn’t change when the mob walks in another biome
-endless .propertie files ->solution: all .properties in one file separated with # or something else
-CTM/Animation/... dosn't render in inventory/item frames/...

[corner_g]

I haven't been keeping tabs on this thread, so someone may have already answered it, but what is the experimental outline mode? I've tried turning it on and patching at several occasions, but didn't notice anything.

[Vattic]

odisos01, on 08 November 2012 - 04:52 PM, said:

-Biomeskins doesn’t change when the mob walks in another biome
[color=#222222]-endless .propertie files ->solution: all .properties in one file separated with # or

I didn't think it was supposed to. It would look strange if you saw it happen. I quite like seeing desert creepers chase me into the jungle; It makes sense.

[mmtr1x3]

Hello, I would like to use custom colors for having a custom lightmap based on the original, the only thing I would like to change is night vision colors. How could I found/remake original lightmap0.png, lightmap1.png and lightmap-1.png texture since it's not available in the minecraft.jar.

[Godblades1408]

Yeah,i 'm new minecrafter and i love this MC Patcher so muchhhhhhhhhhhhhh ))))))))

[_zombiehunter]

Hi Kahr !
The "Better Glass" mod does not work with the 1.4.4 pre-release.

Besides, out of curiosity: Any progress with the CTM jukebox stuff (possible/not possible?)

[linkhyrule14]

does anyone have an MC patcher 1.4.2 i can download as a zip file?

[WildN00b]

Eliotthib, on 07 November 2012 - 02:36 AM, said:

I installed MC patcher to use Sphax and had trouble with forge working. I tried to start fresh with a new .jar but it seems that the patcher has perpetually ruined my ability to mod my .jar without it freezing. I've been modding my game long enough to know the routine. What gives here?

I deleted the MCPatcher and my game still won't load after I put forge into it but it was working just fine before. If this a new bug or is my computer somehow retained MCPatcher qualities without me knowing?

I'm at a loss. It works fine till I put forge in, then nothing... Freezes at the edge of loading like I forgot the META.Inf. Help?!?!?! I've started fresh, I've wiped my computer clean of all things MC and since I DL'ed MCPatcher it has worked, even though it worked just fine before hand.

Install forge and optifine instead.

[Azagal73]

_zombiehunter, on 09 November 2012 - 03:02 PM, said:

Hi Kahr !
The "Better Glass" mod does not work with the 1.4.4 pre-release.

Besides, out of curiosity: Any progress with the CTM jukebox stuff (possible/not possible?)

He's not updated the patcher for 1.4.4 yet, I expect he'll do that in the next week or so.

[Kahr]

Graloth, on 05 November 2012 - 08:47 AM, said:

I'm a bit confused as how to correctly use the "connect" property for CTM, the example explains it as following:

Can anyone explain a bit better, what is meant with the connect property? if it only connects to blocks or tiles of the same id (as it says), then what purpose does it serve, as the ctm method does that much better.

That property alters the behavior of the CTM method.  connect=block means two blocks will connect if they have the same block ID.  connect=tile means they'll connect if they have the same tile number in terrain.png.  There are advantages to both depending on the situation.

Currently, there's no way to specify arbitrary criteria for connecting two different blocks like you're asking (sandstone next to grass).  It's a feature that has the potential to get out of hand with rules on top of rules and exceptions for each.  I'm open to suggestions for a concise way to specify such rules in a .properties file.

corner_g, on 08 November 2012 - 06:40 PM, said:

I haven't been keeping tabs on this thread, so someone may have already answered it, but what is the experimental outline mode? I've tried turning it on and patching at several occasions, but didn't notice anything.

See this post.  Create a file called /ctm/template.png following the standard pattern for CTM glass.  The screenshots in that post are using a simple black outline to create a Borderlands look.

mmtr1x3, on 09 November 2012 - 01:58 AM, said:

How could I found/remake original lightmap0.png, lightmap1.png and lightmap-1.png texture since it's not available in the minecraft.jar.

This is difficult because the vanilla lightmaps are generated in code using a completely different method (EntityRenderer.updateLightmap in MCP).  It's the same reason there's no png for the default fire animation.  You'd have to look at that code, split out the torch and outdoor lighting components, and then create a lightmap.png that approximated the same thing.

_zombiehunter, on 09 November 2012 - 03:02 PM, said:

The "Better Glass" mod does not work with the 1.4.4 pre-release.

Already fixed and will be released soon.

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Besides, out of curiosity: Any progress with the CTM jukebox stuff (possible/not possible?)

I got it to work (yay!), but only on 1.2.5 and earlier (boo!).  You see when Mojang merged SSP and SMP, a lot of data was no longer sent to the client.  One of those items is which record is playing on a jukebox.  Note blocks have a similar problem since they're also tile entities.  I've tried a few workarounds, but haven't found anything I'm happy with, so I'm abandoning the idea for now.

[Miner_13]

Miner_13, on 02 November 2012 - 10:26 PM, said:

Sorry but i'm not using Optifine.

Mod list:
Forge
Inventory Tweaks
QuinOptions
3D Items
Painting Selection GUI
CodeChickenCore
NEI

[mmtr1x3]

For the lightmap, I have seen this line:
this.mc.renderEngine.createTextureFromBytes(this.lightmapColors, 16, 16, this.lightmapTexture);

To what correspond this texture

[_zombiehunter]

Kahr, on 09 November 2012 - 06:34 PM, said:

I got it to work (yay!), but only on 1.2.5 and earlier (boo!).  You see when Mojang merged SSP and SMP, a lot of data was no longer sent to the client.  One of those items is which record is playing on a jukebox.  Note blocks have a similar problem since they're also tile entities.  I've tried a few workarounds, but haven't found anything I'm happy with, so I'm abandoning the idea for now.

Abandoned for now ? That's sad ... sounds like the new way how SSP and SMP works gives modders some massive disadvantages. Maybe Mojang planned to fix that problems with the official Modding API, but the API will be released in about ten years with the current development speed ...

... but thx for trying that Jukebox CTM thing, you're doing really great work with this patcher.

Another question:
Any plans to add a optional shader mod (e.g. for water shaders, dynamic shadows and dynamic lights) to the patcher ?
Up to now, shaders are the only important feature still missing in MCPatcher. Optifine and Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders mod are rarely updated and there's currently no way to get any shaders running along with all MCPtacher features and Minecraft 1.4.
Would be awesome to have things like this available along with Random Mobs, CTM. Better Skies, Better Glass, ... :
http://www.minecraft...c-shadows-more/
http://www.minecraft...ader-alpha-v5b/
http://www.minecraft...dynamic-lights/

When Mojang's new rendering engine is out (in about five years ), this could be some nice ideas for MCPatcher ....

[Tunapiano]

I am using mcpatcher with 1.4.2 and i am getting this error.

Spoiler:

MCPatcher version is 2.4.3_03
OS: Windows 7 6.1 amd64
JVM: Oracle Corporation 1.7.0_01 (64 bit)
Minecraft version is 1.4.2 (md5 771175c01778ea67395bc6919a5a9dc5)


Launching C:\Users\-\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin\minecraft.jar
java -cp C:\Users\-\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin/minecraft.jar;C:\Users\-\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin/lwjgl.jar;C:\Users\-\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin/lwjgl_util.jar;C:\Users\-\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin/jinput.jar; -Djava.library.path=C:\Users\-\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin\natives -Xmx1024M -Xms512M net.minecraft.client.Minecraft
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/pclewis/mcpatcher/TexturePackAPI$ChangeHandler
at kw.b(SourceFile:164) [Potion]
at kw.<clinit>(SourceFile:17)
at vb.<clinit>(SourceFile:74)
at tt.<clinit>(SourceFile:131)
at alf.<clinit>(SourceFile:324)
at bbo.<init>(SourceFile:14)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.<init>(SourceFile:126)
at ara.<init>(SourceFile:36)
at net.minecraft.client.MinecraftApplet.init(SourceFile:36)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.main(SourceFile:1611)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.pclewis.mcpatcher.TexturePackAPI$ChangeHandler
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
... 10 more
Someone is closing me!
Minecraft exited with status 1

[Tunapiano]

nobody?

[Graloth]

I've noticed a few bugs, thought I'd report them here.

• renderPass ignores metadata value and applies to all blocks of the same ID (link: https://github.com/p...tcher/issues/61)
  
• Beacon can't be targeted, either I'm doing it wrong or something is preventing it from getting the texture, I've tried using terrain49.properties with blockIDs set to 138 (beacon ID), and block138.properties, neither work and nothing happens to the beacon block. (I'm trying to change the glass texture it uses)

[_zombiehunter]

Graloth, on 10 November 2012 - 05:10 PM, said:

• Beacon can't be targeted, either I'm doing it wrong or something is preventing it from getting the texture, I've tried using terrain49.properties with blockIDs set to 138 (beacon ID), and block138.properties, neither work and nothing happens to the beacon block. (I'm trying to change the glass texture it uses)

Tried that too and found the same problem. Kahr, will there be any way to change the glass parts of beacons or a way to add Better Glass support to them ?