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I am in the middle of making a texture pack and need some help. First I took the terrain.png file and edited it in microsoft paint. I made sure to save it as terrain.png after I finished. I put the file back in minecraft.jar so i could see how my textures looked, but apparently there was an error because no textures at all showed up. I have a feeling it didn't work because i din't compress the file correctly. I have plenty of backup files (I make backups almost hourly) so I don't need to worry about restoring the textures, but I do want to be able to use my custom textures. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

You can't use microsoft paint. You have to use a program like Gimp (which is free) or Photoshop (which isn't). Don't ask me why, its just that way. Hope this helps!

i used gimp but nothing changed :sad.gif:

EDIT: any idea why?

Quote from Dean Winchester

Paint.net works perfect for me, i always use it.

ok i might use that i also bought photoshop so i might use that

Ill try using paint.net. Thanks for the help

Why would I need to make a folder for it in the texture pack folder? I was just going to overwrite the default minecraft textures until my texture pack is final

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Why would I need to make a folder for it in the texture pack folder? I was just going to overwrite the default minecraft textures until my texture pack is final

Here is the easiest way to test.

Make a folder called whatever you want (MyTexturePack is what I'll call it for sake of argument). Within that folder, place your terrain.png. Now, assuming you have winrar/ winzip, right click on terrain.png and go "Add to archive" or "create MyTexturePack.zip" or something like that. It will name the zip file whatever the name of the folder is (in this case, MyTexturePack). Place that zip file in: C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\texturepacks . If you dont have a texturepacks folder, just make it. Now when you go to Minecraft > Mods & Texture packs, it will be there. Minecraft will use default if it doesnt find images. So, even though you didnt include items.png in your zip, since it wasnt there, MC will use default.

The common error is zipping the folder, that all the files are in, when in fact, you zip the contents of that folder.

Using a folder is better. It prevents screw ups and altering default files.

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Using a folder is better. It prevents screw ups and altering default files.

ok thanks that why ive been screwing up :sad.gif:

Alright, finally got it to work. Thanks a lot to everyone here.