Love the texture pack, dear awesome artist-type person (also <3)! Unfortunately, I can't handle the new font you have with 4.4, and here's why:
The default Minecraft font is very readable and scales very well. There are a few reasons for this. People don't read words one letter at a time. They recognize entire words at once. Words are, in general, easier to recognize by shape.
Take a look at any book or newspaper you have nearby. Many follow the standard 11pt Palatino font size. This is a serif-font which gives each letter (and by extension, word) a distinctive shape. The distinction between lower-case & upper-case letters is very definitive.
The font you've chosen looks fantastic when it comes to a title, but the letter spacing is too far apart and the distinction between casing on letters makes it hard to read.
Sorry! :sad.gif: I tried playing with it for 4-5 hours, but it just didn't work out for me. I deleted it out of the pack.
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Matthew! Welcome back to MC good sir!
Good point. It's tricky to come up with a font that has proper letter spacing because minecraft treats all fonts as monospaced fonts (where every letter has the same width). When you use a custom font that isn't monospaced then you're left with extra pixels on each side of the letter. The only solution is to go with a font that generally looks good when monospaced (which if you're not choosing from a monospaced font library is tricky). The font that I have included now is the best looking of my initial tests. Since you mentioned this I've actually been playing around with some new fonts and although they're not much more readable, I do like my new options better. I'll include them all in the next release, and worst case you can just delete em as you said :wink.gif:
First i wanted to thank nyou for the Update. Then i wanted to ask you, when the customizer will be updated. Then i played Minecraft, and saw your dragon. GAWD, IT'S AMAZIN'!
I've already started. I have the cow and pig done. I'll do an update for the passive mobs shortly, the rest not-so-shortly. Sit tight, it shall be done.
please dont discontinue! I really like it! i just need to adapt to the cartoony aspect of it. I'm not that used to custom(not default) 16x bit packs. I normally use 32 bit or default textures
Very nice work! It's not "for me" I think (although, my youngest daughter LOVES IT), but the overall style of the theme is excellent. The fact that it is it's 'own vision' is what really strikes me, and I have to say, the swirly effects on smoke (and elsewhere) are really quite cool.
I popped up a video of your pack to my 'texture pack comparison' playlist; hope it helps show off the pack a little.
I do think I'll customise my own pack though, and make another video .. perhaps the few things I felt a little jarring could be smoothed into what I prefer, and who knows, it might end up becoming a pack I keep going back to.
In any case, thank you for some excellent work :smile.gif:
Can't wait for the randomobs. I've never tried a pack that took advantage of that mod, but after I tried summerfields, oh boy, having random mob skins really add some variety and life to the animals. I'm also looking forward to your new font, the current is a bit hard on the eyes when chatting a lot in multiplayer.
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Being impatient as I am, I customized the default download manually! Man it's hard to keep track of all the little tidbits I would pick in the customizer haha. Here I go now with my wish list =P.
•+1 for different font. How about alternates? I could see myself sticking with the MC default, but I gotta say I'm curious as to a simple, straightforward font would look like. Very clean maybe?
•Prob one of the most obvious changes I do in customizing is the glass. I think perhaps an alternate can satisfy my needs hehe. I like the visibility of the blank one with only the square outline, but I feel it needs something that says "glass" as it's currently just completely transparent. I can't say exactly, maybe a little shine or maybe adding some opaqueness to it. I don't know haha. But I do admit that no other pack has really met my "satisfactory balance" of looks and functionality for glass =P.
•Other than that, I'd love to see more alternates hehe. It's fun to try new ones! Maybe a new glowstone, that matches better with the default square-patterned cobblestone ;-).
I just switched over to subtle grass and foliage and I must say everything is greener! haha I love it! I started trying higher res packs again =P, my problem with them has always been unnecessary detail. It's detail simply for the sake of it (and usually bad photo-like detail). After seeing some decent ones, I must say that if you were to make a 32px pack, it'd prob have the right balance of detail and simplicity, coupled with your fantastic design and taste! haha. Keep up the top notch work!
I got to say, it took my awhile to get used to a few blocks (cobblestone, some items, a few others) but I have always loved your art, and your style. Now, I am finally on default, and it is beautiful. My favorite 16x pack. Just well done. Well done.
I've already started. I have the cow and pig done. I'll do an update for the passive mobs shortly, the rest not-so-shortly. Sit tight, it shall be done.
You could just use all the alts you have. If a recall you a few
EDIT: You called it 4.4, very good, I like this Versions :biggrin.gif:
I was actually going to call it 1.0.0, but then I realized I would have to update every single time minecraft did, even if there were no new textures. So I stuck with my old naming system.
Ah that explains the colour purple. I like purple, but you prefernces are excellent I must say. Personally I like nice cartoony colours, but it depends. Anywho...
Keep up the good work!
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Love Jolicraft Andre, been using it for ages and been telling my friends to use it. Its just so awesome for a 16x16. Truely the best x16 pack out there! Thanks so much for making it! :wink.gif:
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If I'm not mistaken (keep in mind I've never used this mod before) all files go in the mob folder, and are named thus: cow.png, cow2.png, etc.
Matthew! Welcome back to MC good sir!
Good point. It's tricky to come up with a font that has proper letter spacing because minecraft treats all fonts as monospaced fonts (where every letter has the same width). When you use a custom font that isn't monospaced then you're left with extra pixels on each side of the letter. The only solution is to go with a font that generally looks good when monospaced (which if you're not choosing from a monospaced font library is tricky). The font that I have included now is the best looking of my initial tests. Since you mentioned this I've actually been playing around with some new fonts and although they're not much more readable, I do like my new options better. I'll include them all in the next release, and worst case you can just delete em as you said :wink.gif:
Customizer will be updated very soon. I promise.
I've already started. I have the cow and pig done. I'll do an update for the passive mobs shortly, the rest not-so-shortly. Sit tight, it shall be done.
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Curse PremiumI popped up a video of your pack to my 'texture pack comparison' playlist; hope it helps show off the pack a little.
I do think I'll customise my own pack though, and make another video .. perhaps the few things I felt a little jarring could be smoothed into what I prefer, and who knows, it might end up becoming a pack I keep going back to.
In any case, thank you for some excellent work :smile.gif:
Being impatient as I am, I customized the default download manually! Man it's hard to keep track of all the little tidbits I would pick in the customizer haha. Here I go now with my wish list =P.
•+1 for different font. How about alternates? I could see myself sticking with the MC default, but I gotta say I'm curious as to a simple, straightforward font would look like. Very clean maybe?
•Prob one of the most obvious changes I do in customizing is the glass. I think perhaps an alternate can satisfy my needs hehe. I like the visibility of the blank one with only the square outline, but I feel it needs something that says "glass" as it's currently just completely transparent. I can't say exactly, maybe a little shine or maybe adding some opaqueness to it. I don't know haha. But I do admit that no other pack has really met my "satisfactory balance" of looks and functionality for glass =P.
•Other than that, I'd love to see more alternates hehe. It's fun to try new ones! Maybe a new glowstone, that matches better with the default square-patterned cobblestone ;-).
I just switched over to subtle grass and foliage and I must say everything is greener! haha I love it! I started trying higher res packs again =P, my problem with them has always been unnecessary detail. It's detail simply for the sake of it (and usually bad photo-like detail). After seeing some decent ones, I must say that if you were to make a 32px pack, it'd prob have the right balance of detail and simplicity, coupled with your fantastic design and taste! haha. Keep up the top notch work!
It would be cool to see what he would do with a 32x pack. :ohmy.gif:
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PS: Andre, are you gonna include the updated items when you update the customizer?
You could just use all the alts you have. If a recall you a few
Redid the watermelon, it'll be in the next release
Done!
I was actually going to call it 1.0.0, but then I realized I would have to update every single time minecraft did, even if there were no new textures. So I stuck with my old naming system.
Keep up the good work!