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I want to change what redstone looks like, but it doesn't appear to be on the terrain.png

If it was on the terrain.PNG, I would know what to do, but it's not there... where the heck is it?

To edit it you'll need any kind of photo editing program like paint.net,or photoshop,or just ms paint.Just go to your minecraft directory :

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft

and then extract the terrain file to your desktop,once you are done editing it,just drag it back to your minecraft folder,and that's it :wink.gif:

I want to change the block you can place, not the inventory image.

Quote from magnus743 »

Redstone is two things. The block you can place, and the item in your inventory. If it's the item you want to modify, go under gui, then items.png. Happy whatever you wanted to do!

Damn... so we can't change the color? That's exactly what I wanted to do.

Quote from The_Fool76 »

Assuming you mean the placed wire, It's on the terrain.ping just below the bed.

It looks like a white version of the old redstone because Notch decided that he wanted the signal to visually fade with distance so we now no longer have any control over the color. In-game redstone now ranges from pure black when it's unlit (UGH) to pure red when it is lit fading to a bit darker as it gets further from the source. No other colors will show up in the game.

Quote from GrannySmith »

Damn... so we can't change the color? That's exactly what I wanted to do.

Quote from The_Fool76 »

Assuming you mean the placed wire, It's on the terrain.ping just below the bed.

It looks like a white version of the old redstone because Notch decided that he wanted the signal to visually fade with distance so we now no longer have any control over the color. In-game redstone now ranges from pure black when it's unlit (UGH) to pure red when it is lit fading to a bit darker as it gets further from the source. No other colors will show up in the game.

Unfortunately.

Texture pack designers are losing control of their themes because more color dependency is not located within the graphics themselves. The benefit of these new features does not outweigh the drawbacks of restricting textures to monochromatic color shifts.

Notch COULD add color support similar to how grass and foliage are colored. A color ramp for redstone can be achieved this way. This isn't a perfect alternative, but a fair compromise. Idealistically, a set number of texture spots would be dedicated to the gradiation of redstone's power capacity. Because, currently, if an artist wanted to create a texture simulating changes according to the energy level of redstone, they're SOL. Personally I prefer the compromise approach here for redstone, but it is because mine is only one opinion that I don't think there is an easy answer here.

However, I find it problematic that when you dye a sheep the color is based on the default and, again, out of the control of the texture pack's author. Support should also be included here so you can match up your wool block textures. IF at some point Notch decides to add 256 shades of dye or some other large number, he might want to have a single texture for all wool blocks and render things this way, but I would still make it an issue to give texture pack creators control of what those colors are.

I don't mind the labor involved in adding new graphics to keep up with the game's growth, but texture pack resources REALLY need to be streamlined, such as not having duplicate file names in different locations, and better texture/color control with a forward thinking design on behalf of team mojang.

Something I was thinking, we could have color control pixels. Say, since Redstone holds a charge for about 15 blocks, there could be 15 pixels on the terrain.png that are used to determine these colors. What I mean by that, down in the bottom right or something next to the water, 15 pixels all individually control the color of each redstone tint. If you want classic redstone, make all 15 the same red. want it blue? make the colors blue. That's just my idea.