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Inspired by: Dear Mojang: The swamps are still ugly!

What it does:
This mod applies a linear blur to biome colours for grass, water, leaves, and other coloured blocks.

Before:

After:

Other images:

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Grass in the middle of a swamp:
http://i.minus.com/iQaIo806AdpE1.png
Water:
http://i.minus.com/ibxC6JAxTzQK7I.png

It also allows texture pack creators to choose what colour to overlay swamp biomes with - I will explain this later in the post.

How to get it:
For players: http://min.us/lBRSzlWgm5Zcs -- 27KB .zip file.
For programmers: http://min.us/lbxeqksAfftvn3 -- 22KB .zip file, for use with Minecraft Coder Pack. Changes marked with "// Better Swamps"

How to install it:
Install it as you would any other mod. Make sure to close any Minecraft windows you still have open before modding it.

Simple almost-non-verbal tutorial:


Youtube tutorial, not by me but informative for mod users in general: https://www.youtube....h?v=gc25V1PzCqc

Redistribution:
Feel free to redistribute this mod as part of a mod pack or as a modified version (so long as you don't try to claim it as your own). You may link to this mod via adf.ly, so long as you also provide a direct link to this topic. You may modify this mod to your heart's content and/or release the modification under a different name, as long as you acknowledge that it is based on this mod in any relevant posts.

If you feel you've improved the code for this mod significantly, feel free to drop me a PM and I can update this post with the improved code (if you want me to).

Version:
1.1 - Added support for HD texture fix (install this after it)

For texture pack makers:
There are two new pixels you need to worry about. In misc/grasscolor.png, the very top right pixel is the grass overlay colour (averaged with old grass colour as per vanilla's behaviour), and the pixel just left of that is the water overlay colour (multiplied with old water colour as per vanilla's behaviour).
The grasscolor.png I included with the mod looks like this:

If you open that in MS Paint or some other image editor and zoom in to the top right, you'll be able to see the 2 colours used. In that image, they are Minecraft's default.

[AegisTheGoat]

Well done. Amazing what a little blur can do.

[Yeti12]

I was waiting for someone to make this, Thank You

[hunty512]

Jeb should add this in 1.0.1

[TGI_Chris]

Just what I needed.

[TGI_Chris]

This makes swamps look awesome!

[mstar49]

i love this,no more ugly swamp transitions from other biomes

[Neon_ColorsFTW22]

MAn this is awesome! thanks

[Lemony_Lime]

Oh wow, perfect. Hard to believe that just this fixes it pretty much altogether.

[ps2owner]

Awesome! Just Downloaded! I'm going to tell Misa about this. (If he/she doesn't already know).

[RandalOctagonapus]

I just made a quick achievement for this mod cos i love it
It's Click-Able



Here's the code:

[url="http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/870406-100-better-swamps/"][img]http://mag.racked.eu/image/2.1/Better+Swamps+Mod%21%21/mca.png[/img][/url]

Paste it in your sig to support this mod!!

And if you like it click my green rep button down on the bottom right of this post!

[Hykisho]

Oh Lordy! Thats so awesome, I've always wanted that.
Thank you for this! Good work!

[mr.stabby]

THANK YOU so much i will never have to look at the ugly transition any more!

[Juicy000]

now it would be great if inside of the water didnt look so ugly

[MarshallRA]

THANK
YOU

I always hated how jeb/notch did not do anything to address this.
+1

[pwnedgod]

Hopefully jeb notices this mod and adds it into Minecraft :P

[BobyTheBeast]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Since Jeb refuses to fix this, it should be added to MCPatcher.

[Daemon976]

score_under, you are awesome! You just fixed my only serious complaint about MC.

[Adala217]

Love it!

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Still trying to figure out how to use this with painterly..
Easier than I thought. Simply drag your grasscolor into the pack XD

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Now to fix this purple water when using biomewater or whatever its called
Got it! I was playing around with the 2 pixels at the top and made one of them more pink that it should be

[mr.stabby]

this also is compatable with minecraft forge just so you know and compatable with the yogbox!