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I started working on a texture pack recently and I want the color of redstone to be blue, then changing to yellow when turned on. Is this posible to do without using a mod. I've figured out how to turn it yellow, but it stays like that without turning blue when turned off. Can anyone help?

no

1. just change the on and off textures
2. Under the new texture pack would it become yellow stone? Blue stone? green stone? what?

Ehm you cant have multiple wiring colors, but you can have blue and yellow redstone torches, as well as a repeater, and rails too.

Yes.
There is a picture with dark red at one corner and white in the other, fading in between that is the colour scheme for redstone. If you change edit the whole f=picture and make it yellow. Then put the bottom left pixel blue then that should work.

I am not sure wheere in the bin folder the picture is.

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2. Under the new texture pack would it become yellow stone? Blue stone? green stone? what?

I'm making a texture pack for a portal gun map im making. I just want the wire to look blue when off, and yellow when on.
The torches are blue with an "X" when off, and yellow with a check when on.

You can change the colour with a texture pack, but not so that it changes when you turn it on and off. Not without a mod. You used to be able to, but a while ago, Notch implemented the colour of the wire gradually fading as it approached it's range limit. To do that, he hard-coded the colour into the game. As such, you cannot change it without a mod, and such a mod does not currently exist. I know how to make one, coincidentally, but I don't have the time right now.

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You can change the colour with a texture pack, but not so that it changes when you turn it on and off. Not without a mod. You used to be able to, but a while ago, Notch implemented the colour of the wire gradually fading as it approached it's range limit. To do that, he hard-coded the colour into the game. As such, you cannot change it without a mod, and such a mod does not currently exist. I know how to make one, coincidentally, but I don't have the time right now.

Another mistake made by Notch

I agree. He seems to hard-code a lot of things directly into the game, where hooks and such would serve better. In this case, it wouldn't be too difficult to make a "Redstone Colour" image file, of size 16x1, consisting solely of the colour gradient that Redstone uses, and the game could then read the colour of that file at different positions depending on how strong the current is.