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Quote from MinahCraftah

Hello Glimmar, I love your texture pack but the grass seems alot brighter after the update and alot less detailed. Here is a link to pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/5774146982/in/photostreamThe grass in this area is usually super dark. If it helps, I'm using the latest Mc patcher and am on a Mac Osx 10.5.8. Can anyone help me fix this?Edit: Nevermind, I failed to read the full description of the full update, but can anyone help me perhaps darken the grass colors or something of that sort?

I think I went a little too far in brightening the grass texture, so I will probably make a link to a darker pack version soon.

Early on in working towards Notch's latest update I was already experimenting on brightening the world up a little, and kindof liked the look of it. I brightened it up still further when introducing the new foliage textures. I stepped up to the brighter version you've now got and the jump you've experienced is greater than I subjected myself to. So sorry about the dramatic change, MinahCraftah.

One thing I can absolutely assure everyone is that other than uniformly brightening up the texture, not one single pixel was changed from the original. I would have liked to have had the time to introduce some more texture to the grass, but any quick attempts resulted in disastrous tiling issues!

Quote from HeadHunter67

Awesome job on the new update, Glim. Can't wait for the chance to create a steampunk world to try it out in!

Thanks mate! I will do more as soon as I can, but I better give some attention to the family...they're currently all dropping like nine pins with the flu. Despite my incredible lack of sleep I'm currently weathering the storm of virii and single celled flying organisms invading our abode.

Quote from CuZnDragon

Just curious does it make any difference that Notch's foliagecolor.png has color on both sides of the square but your's only has it on the one half of the square?

I'm not sure, to be honest. I've always assumed they were just a spare graphic, but you've got me wondering if the second foliage one is linked to the silver birch, etc. I'll have to look into that. If someone could beat me to it on the research I'd be very grateful, considering I can't devote a lot of time to Minecraft just at the moment.

Quote from zedas

Very nice update. Just one thing to look at, and quite a few folks have missed the addition there, so, you know, you're not alone on this one. You may want to have a look at the fishing rod on the default item sheet. There are now 2 fishing rod textures that the game uses, Uncast- Upper texture, fishing line shown Cast- Lower texture, fishing line not shown. Without the bottom texture the rod will just disappear when you cast it (unless that's what you we're going for). Just a heads up in case this one slipped past you.Cheerszedas

Lol! I'm not noted for my thoroughness, I was even experimenting with the fishing rod after d95's comment about it and didn't notice it. The missing fishing rod, when you've cast the line, I put down to glitches with kahr's MC Patcher. Now it's obvious what d95 was on about. I failed again! :sad.gif:

I will update that as soon as I can, thanks zedas. I don't tend to look around much in the forums these days, so I easily miss the obvious that everyone's probably talking about.

Quote from ksheep

I must say, new stuff looks fantastic. Can't wait to try it out. Unfortunately, I'm getting ready to travel on Tuesday, and my computer stuff is all packed away... so I'm gonna have to wait until Wednesday or so to try it out. Can't wait to try it though.

Safe journey ksheep. By the time you've unpacked I might have uploaded a newer version to take into account the fishing rod and grass.


To everyone: I'll do my best over the next few days to catch up on earlier posts and PM's I've missed. I hope you appreciate I've had to be a little single minded to get the new stuff finished off, I don't usually intentionally ignore anyone. :tongue.gif:

Quote from PipeHead

Good to have you back Ssaint!I was getting all nostalgic and started reading some of the first pages of this magnificent thread! I was originally trying to see on which page I posted my first post here.It amazes me how many people have come and gone and stayed. Glimmar, you have created something that has brought so many people together..and yes much props to Notch for Minecraft itself, but within that realm you sit high, higher than most. Your sheer creative talent has brought me into contact with so many other wonderful people. Some I've become very fond of and now call friend.Thanks Glimmar!

Quote from Gestankfaust

^This (I did the same yesterday night):DPPIIIiiiipHHEEAAAD!!!

I consider you guys and many others, good friends too. You've both helped and encouraged me along the way, producing some amazing stuff yourselves to keep me entertained and inspired in equal measure. I'll just go and blow my nose now...I'm filling up (just a head cold though!)

I daren't look back through my thread, I probably made too many promises to change things and I'd come away feeling sad. :sad.gif:

Quote from Sanodia

*wipes away the drool* ty glim for the update, it looks awesome and i can build again!

Thanks, mate. My pleasure and happy building with the new stuff. Show us any good constructions. :smile.gif: By the way love the sig...I was there at it's birth! :biggrin.gif:

Quote from Gestankfaust

DP.S. - I'm back to work and it feels great!!

Great stuff...I Take it you mean Minecraft?! I hope things are resolving ok in RL too!

Quote from HeadHunter67

I rather fancy it, too. :smile.gif: It's always nice when something I say is worth repeating.

Lol! Everything you say is worth repeating HeadHunter, but that was a classic!

Quote from lukeirish

This looks great thanks!

Glad you like. Have fun. :smile.gif:

Quote from JessTheStrong

I hope The_Fool76 up date his The_Fool76's Texture Mix Machine soon can't what to do some really cool stuff.

Oooo! Yes! What a good idea. I must ask him nicely about this.

Thanks for reminding me Jess.

Quote from Korstmahler

This may or may not ring true for others, but the leather helmet's goggles sit just above my skin's eyes, covering the eyes with the rim. I'm using a standard 16x16 custom skin with the eyes in the same place as the default. It might just be that the placement of the Steampunk char.png's eyes is different to the default.

I noticed the edges of grass not matching the top in colour yesterday too, but that may just be MCpatcher not playing nicely because I disabled "Better grass".

Other than that, I've no complaints, but plenty of praise that seems somewhat redundant among all these other posts stating the same thing. Good stuff!

Thanks Korstmahler,

As you've probably guessed I mostly only play single player with my HD skin and the goggles and my skin's eyes for that matter are probably in a different position to the standard character skin, as you've confirmed. I will look into that, when I fix the fishing rod, or it will be forever annoying to the likes of you MP's as you're forced to use 16x16 characters. :sad.gif: It may be necessary to move the goggles up onto the forehead, away from the eyes for both HD and 16x16 characters.

I was looking at the sides of grass too which didn't quite match the new brighter grass top. That will be getting some further tweaks over the next couple of days. I intend to tone down the top grass ever so slightly and highlight the curving top edge of the side which should add greater depth and bring them both back in line.

Glad you like the rest though. I never stop looking at things that need improving, but I easily get distracted and I'm not always looking at the same things everyone else is. Lol! :biggrin.gif:

Quote from MinahCraftah

That would be really cool if you made a darker version of this pack or something right now. I read some of you newer posts and they said you would slightly tone down the grass color and that would be superb. I'm off to build now.

I may attempt to please everybody and find a middle ground so that I don't complicate the downloads too much. Having different, terrains and packs and multiple downloads makes it a nightmare for someone as chaotic as a Glimmar when it comes to update time.

Quote from Gestankfaust

It's late now...but I thought I'd post a surprise. I been fooling around and tinkering again. I noticed that no one has done (as far as i could see at least) a ghast. So guess what?!?!:DI started to make one for my pack and it sorta went another direction...so i just let it.

You're a torturer Mr Faust! :blink.gif:

You know I'm trying to forge ahead and finish the pack off myself as originally intended, but that really is an awesome ghast skin and I can't resist using it, if I may. When I update this week for the grass, fishing rod and steampunk goggles, could I include it in the pack until I get round to doing my own version? Thereafter, for those who will inevitably hate mine, would I be able to include yours in the 'extras' pack?

Quote from Sanodia

ok so ive been messing about for hours now not really building just wandering around a new world. but i have to say i am in love with the leather armor,i normally dont play in 3rd person but im kinda stuck there right now with the armor lmao. it looks really good, yea the goggles do cover the eye a bit but as i dont look at my face i dont care roflmao. the map looks awesome as well, and a previous comment makes me think i should be holding a schematic lol. havent gotten around to using the trap door yet though.Gestankfaust, that ghast is going in my texture pack, win sir, just win o.olol as for the sig i felt it had to be saved as it was the best thing i had ever seen anyone post ever.

I don't usually play in 3rd person as I easily suffer a kind of motion sickness, but I hope you agree it felt a little more real and practical to have something like a backpack instead of leather 'armor'. I just felt that if we really were dropped into a relatively peaceful Minecraft world, a backpack of some kind would be the sort of thing we'd all be using and it gave a nice excuse to have more brass buckles floating around.

Quote from PipeHead

HOLY CRAPOLI Gestankfaust...I remember a long time ago, you and I spoke about making a ghast...I do say good sir...you have out done yourself!

Haha! I just had to record your post for posterity. Did you realise it was post number 5,555! Lol!