Not much of anything I'd feel comfortable publicly mentioning here. I'm still essentially stuck much in the same situation I was last time I posted, and it looks like the second move will be delayed to sometime around September/October. Kinda just getting by as best I can right now.
If you want more to go off of than that or just want to chat about whatever, I'm not hard to get in touch with privately.
Good to see you back Misa! Ive been using your texture pack for years and loved every second of it. I cant bring myself to use any others-yours is just too perfect! I hope everything works out in your life and that you are well and happy.
Nice you see you are still here Misa, sucks that life is being such a pain to you. I hope you make it through your second move ok, it must be painful having to think about your money constantly, I hope you can get those problems sorted out. No rush, take the time you need.
I didn't lose all the data. I lost the hard drive the data was on.
And no I couldn't just download my own texture pack and edit that. Many textures in the pack require layered resource files. The biggest example that comes to mind (because people were always asking me to release it) is the GUI background texture. Anytime Mojang adds stuff to the game that requires a new GUI texture, I need to take that base texture and use a specific process to adapt it to the new GUI window shape. It would be possible to somewhat reverse-engineer some of these files, but not all and it'd be a ton of work just to get started.
My graphics editor also has custom brushes and scripts I've created that are used for very specific tasks I perform while creating textures, and in order to maintain consistency in my designs, I pretty much need the tools I used for effects on older textures to match up with the effects I apply to newer ones. Otherwise it becomes more of an attempt to forge my old style as close as possible to the original. This is doable, but as with the previous example, it's a ton of work.
I got most of the important stuff. I only lost some scripts for my image editor mostly which I'll have to rewrite-will probably have to remake some brushes too. Mostly it'll be me trying to remember exactly what steps I took many years ago, or attempting to forge my past style based purely on comparisons to the finished product.
The biggest example that comes to mind (because people were always asking me to release it) is the GUI background texture. Anytime Mojang adds stuff to the game that requires a new GUI texture, I need to take that base texture and use a specific process to adapt it to the new GUI window shape. It would be possible to somewhat reverse-engineer some of these files, but not all and it'd be a ton of work just to get started.
What if I told you I did? :3
I tried editing out the texture from your GUIs to make custom GUIs for mods.
You'd actually be the fourth to mention it to me since I made that post.
Some people apparently misunderstood my explanation example as me having lost those files, heh. Had two people actually send me the background texture they ripped. I did some comparisons to my original texture, and they were both about 85-90% accurate to my actual source art.
Some people apparently misunderstood my explanation example as me having lost those files, heh. Had two people actually send me the background texture they ripped. I did some comparisons to my original texture, and they were both about 85-90% accurate to my actual source art.
Well, I do know the feeling of losing all of your custom brushes and resources. And it sucks.
Try asking a technician to salvage your HDD. It might just still be possible to recover some files, including, hopefully, your valuable stuff.
I've lost nothing I can't remake. Everything irreplaceable was backed up.
Also I'm familiar enough with how to browse partitions for things like headers while ignoring filesystems that I wouldn't need to pay anyone else to do it. I obviously don't have any equipment to read directly off platters from drives that are no longer spinning up or have damaged heads/head actuator servos, but the people who are set up for that sort of thing (usually for data recovery from fire/water damage) are pretty expensive. Besides I wouldn't feel comfortable with a stranger digging through all the old porn.
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Since you do great work, and you have lost stuff from this texture pack (well that was not irreplaceable), why not just create a new one? With a new "idea"? It'll give you a fresh start, I'm sure most of the people that have downloaded this pack if you make another pack. It's possible - but it's gonna take alot of resources I expect - so why not make a 1.8 pack? (as it's coming no time soon) and it'll give a refresh on the current textures and more. I hope that everything goes well with you have I hope everything has been going well. Best wishes.
It's more work than it's worth to start over from scratch. Also try convincing the millions of downloaders of my pack to just give up the pack they've grown to rely on for something completely different. Not gonna happen.
I've not been able to really just sit down and play or enjoy Minecraft for roughly a year. And it's no secret that I think the current development team is poorly assembled and has made some very lousy design decisions. There's no real guarantees I'd even be able to get back into the game myself when I get my computer fixed. So at this point, the pack is more for the community than something I'm doing for myself and just sharing. If I were still into the game and hadn't made my pack public, I would've long ago completed another texture pack or two--possibly even moved on to other, better games to devote the entirety of my modding efforts to.
I love you work, the only thing that I don't like is the zombie and the zombie pitman because of the blood, so Misa can you make another zombie and zombie pitman texture with no blood ill really enjoy it and I hope Misa is working on the dark oak log on the inside and the acacia wood.
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If you want more to go off of than that or just want to chat about whatever, I'm not hard to get in touch with privately.
And no I couldn't just download my own texture pack and edit that. Many textures in the pack require layered resource files. The biggest example that comes to mind (because people were always asking me to release it) is the GUI background texture. Anytime Mojang adds stuff to the game that requires a new GUI texture, I need to take that base texture and use a specific process to adapt it to the new GUI window shape. It would be possible to somewhat reverse-engineer some of these files, but not all and it'd be a ton of work just to get started.
My graphics editor also has custom brushes and scripts I've created that are used for very specific tasks I perform while creating textures, and in order to maintain consistency in my designs, I pretty much need the tools I used for effects on older textures to match up with the effects I apply to newer ones. Otherwise it becomes more of an attempt to forge my old style as close as possible to the original. This is doable, but as with the previous example, it's a ton of work.
What if I told you I did? :3
I tried editing out the texture from your GUIs to make custom GUIs for mods.
Here's one I made for JSOne's Campfire Mod:
You'd actually be the fourth to mention it to me since I made that post.
Some people apparently misunderstood my explanation example as me having lost those files, heh. Had two people actually send me the background texture they ripped. I did some comparisons to my original texture, and they were both about 85-90% accurate to my actual source art.
Well, I do know the feeling of losing all of your custom brushes and resources. And it sucks.
Try asking a technician to salvage your HDD. It might just still be possible to recover some files, including, hopefully, your valuable stuff.
Also I'm familiar enough with how to browse partitions for things like headers while ignoring filesystems that I wouldn't need to pay anyone else to do it. I obviously don't have any equipment to read directly off platters from drives that are no longer spinning up or have damaged heads/head actuator servos, but the people who are set up for that sort of thing (usually for data recovery from fire/water damage) are pretty expensive. Besides I wouldn't feel comfortable with a stranger digging through all the old porn.
I've not been able to really just sit down and play or enjoy Minecraft for roughly a year. And it's no secret that I think the current development team is poorly assembled and has made some very lousy design decisions. There's no real guarantees I'd even be able to get back into the game myself when I get my computer fixed. So at this point, the pack is more for the community than something I'm doing for myself and just sharing. If I were still into the game and hadn't made my pack public, I would've long ago completed another texture pack or two--possibly even moved on to other, better games to devote the entirety of my modding efforts to.
Losing those brushes I spent hours working on was a pain. In fact, I think I was traumatized by it. LOL. Nowadays, I always back my files up.
I'll leave this video here, just in case:
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