I am making a texture pack and I found this rather confusing
I already found plenty of info on the grasscolor.png, mostly thanks to this thread, the OP was kind enough to even label where each biome is located on the triangle
But I found literally no information on the foliage.png.
First of all, why does it have two triangles?
I've seen in some people's texture packs they just use the bottom triangle and it looks just fine, does the top one even do anything?
Second of all, I made my foliagecolor.png all white to test it out and patched it. All the leaves were grayscale as I expected, but birch and pine were still colored. It's especially confusing because birch uses the same leaves as normal, and all the leaves in my terrain.png were grayscale. So where is it getting these colors from? I assume it's coded into the game and something I can't change with just a texture pack, someone please correct me if I'm wrong...
Bottom triangle colors the original leaves, top triangle colors the birch/pine leaves. Experiment with different gradients; you can get some really wicked stuff.
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"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." -Frank Zappa
Bottom triangle colors the original leaves, top triangle colors the birch/pine leaves. Experiment with different gradients; you can get some really wicked stuff.
I thought so, but I made the whole thing white and the birch and pine were still colored. Look at the bottom paragraph in my OP
Bottom triangle colors the original leaves, top triangle colors the birch/pine leaves. Experiment with different gradients; you can get some really wicked stuff.
I thought so, but I made the whole thing white and the birch and pine were still colored. Look at the bottom paragraph in my OP
As of right now, yes it is coded for the birch to have that off-green color and for the pines to have that blue-green color.
Turns out it does have a purpose, although a rather random one. I colored the top triangle of mine different shades of pink/peach colors, and I never saw any until I came across a forest with peach colored leaves. I guess it's for certain forest biomes, although right now it's pretty random.
I just can't wait for the watercolor.png to be useful.
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"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." -Frank Zappa
Turns out it does have a purpose, although a rather random one. I colored the top triangle of mine different shades of pink/peach colors, and I never saw any until I came across a forest with peach colored leaves. I guess it's for certain forest biomes, although right now it's pretty random.
I just can't wait for the watercolor.png to be useful.
BLASPHEMY!
I demand screenshots, and your foliagecolor.png
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I already found plenty of info on the grasscolor.png, mostly thanks to this thread, the OP was kind enough to even label where each biome is located on the triangle
But I found literally no information on the foliage.png.
First of all, why does it have two triangles?
I've seen in some people's texture packs they just use the bottom triangle and it looks just fine, does the top one even do anything?
Second of all, I made my foliagecolor.png all white to test it out and patched it. All the leaves were grayscale as I expected, but birch and pine were still colored. It's especially confusing because birch uses the same leaves as normal, and all the leaves in my terrain.png were grayscale. So where is it getting these colors from? I assume it's coded into the game and something I can't change with just a texture pack, someone please correct me if I'm wrong...
I thought so, but I made the whole thing white and the birch and pine were still colored. Look at the bottom paragraph in my OP
As of right now, yes it is coded for the birch to have that off-green color and for the pines to have that blue-green color.
Turns out it does have a purpose, although a rather random one. I colored the top triangle of mine different shades of pink/peach colors, and I never saw any until I came across a forest with peach colored leaves. I guess it's for certain forest biomes, although right now it's pretty random.
I just can't wait for the watercolor.png to be useful.
BLASPHEMY!
I demand screenshots, and your foliagecolor.png