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Quote from BrokenEye

Here's a quick preview image of a few things that'll be in the next version:

Nice!

Original Mk5.6
Added texture for Melons, based on winter melons (which look kinda like watermelons, but not as friendly)
Added item sprites for Melon, Glistering Melon and Nether Star
Added functioning Compass
Improved Rotton Flesh Soylent Green item sprite
Added randommobs support for skelletons
Added CTM support for Bricks, Nether Bricks, Stone Bricks, Cracked Stone Bricks and Mossy Stone Bricks so that they tile like real bricks do
Asylum Beta5.6
Added texture for Melons, based on winter melons (which look kinda like watermelons, but not as friendly)
Added item sprites for Melon, Glistering Melon and Nether Star
Added functioning Compass
Improved Rotton Flesh Soylent Green item sprite
Added randommobs support for skelletons
Added CTM support for Bricks so that they tile like real bricks do

So, I've been playing the newest version Tekkit a lot lately and I'm really liking it, much more than the old version of Tekkit (which has now been rather confusingly rechristened "Tekkit Lite", despite containing more mods than the version that's now called "Tekkit", which I can only assume means that the newer version has somehow managed to be fattening even though its a computer game and not a meetable eatable*). In the old version, I really just ended up getting overwhelmed by all the different things and ended up living in a boring, square house located in a mostly unaltered landscape, but with a lot of technological machines and magickque doohickeys that I didn't have anything to do with, aimlessly hopping in and out of portal books and gathering thaums with no real purpose in mind. In the new version, I've already started work on a cathedral and a cool underground launch facility for my rocketship (that's right, there are rocketships now. They even go into space).

So anyway, I figured "Hey, this is awesome. But you know what would be more awesome? If I could play this in VillainCraft." And its not nearly as big a project as Tekkit Lite would have been (which by my somewhat unreliable estimate would have been more work than just texturing for regular Minecraft was). So I'm going to get started on that pretty soon. But don't worry, the primary focus will still be on finishing the core of the pack.

*Note to self: Have the mad science department look into the possibility of eatable computer games.

Quote from Xbony2

Might want to look at this:
So yeah, resource packs...

Yeah, I've already complained. I can't imagine what they were thinking when they made this decision.

Quote from BrokenEye

NOTICE:

VillainCraft is currently on hiatus as I am boycotting Minecraft, Tekkit included, until Mojang comes to their senses and re-impliments texture packs into the game. Textures are not mods and lumping them together as such makes things more difficult for everyone, expecially but not exclusively texture artists such as myself.

The old texture pack system will never be back. TBQH I'm happy to see it go. Resource packs are better by far.

If anything resource packs make it EASIER to create texture packs, and expand the amount of customization in game, boycotting it is just silly, and will amount to nothing.

Quote from keepitcovert

The old texture pack system will never be back. TBQH I'm happy to see it go. Resource packs are better by far.

If anything resource packs make it EASIER to create texture packs, and expand the amount of customization in game, boycotting it is just silly, and will amount to nothing.

How exactly do they make anything easier? Finding texture packs will be harder, because everything will be all lumped together. Making texture packs will be harder because it will force people to have to code (well known to be an exceedingly difficult process), as if they were making a mod, and in many cases learn to code, which previously had not been an issue. Using texture packs will be harder, because you have to modify the game's files to change it, and then changing it back runs the risk of corrupting your save because you've just removed a mod.

What, exactly, does it make easier? And is it really enough to make up for all the things that are made more difficult? Just because you can cut more things with a chainsaw than with a butter knife doesn't mean that the chainsaw isn't cripplingly ill-suited for the butter knife's intended purpose.

Quote from BrokenEye

How exactly do they make anything easier? Finding texture packs will be harder, because everything will be all lumped together. Making texture packs will be harder because it will force people to have to code (well known to be an exceedingly difficult process), as if they were making a mod, and in many cases learn to code, which previously had not been an issue. Using texture packs will be harder, because you have to modify the game's files to change it, and then changing it back runs the risk of corrupting your save because you've just removed a mod.

What, exactly, does it make easier? And is it really enough to make up for all the things that are made more difficult?

Finding texture packs wont be hard, because the forums will still be set up the way they are, or at worst require you to add tags stating what the pack consists of.

Resource packs require ZERO coding knowledge

Resource packs change ZERO game reliant code, meaning they can be switched between just like texture packs are now.

Please do some research into what updates actually mean before flying off the handle. every problem you have listed so far is your (incorrect) speculation.

Quote from BrokenEye

NOTICE:

VillainCraft is currently on hiatus as I am boycotting Minecraft, Tekkit included, until Mojang comes to their senses and re-impliments texture packs into the game. Textures are not mods and lumping them together as such makes things more difficult for everyone, expecially but not exclusively texture artists such as myself.

Totally reasonable reaction to change... not based on biased misinformation what so ever. Congrats, even if you do come back, you single handed ruined your texture packs reputation. :/

Quote from keepitcovert

Finding texture packs wont be hard, because the forums will still be set up the way they are, or at worst require you to add tags stating what the pack consists of.

Resource packs require ZERO coding knowledge

Resource packs change ZERO game reliant code, meaning they can be switched between just like texture packs are now.

Please do some research into what updates actually mean before flying off the handle. every problem you have listed so far is your (incorrect) speculation.

This. "Resources", in java (and most programming) are the "non-code" bits. Basically, these "evil resource packs" are just Texture Packs that allow you to edit more resources, like sounds, txt files (Credits/splash messages), etc. They have no code in them.

Also, the people you are screwing over are your fans. No one else.

Quote from keepitcovert

Finding texture packs wont be hard, because the forums will still be set up the way they are, or at worst require you to add tags stating what the pack consists of.

Resource packs require ZERO coding knowledge

Resource packs change ZERO game reliant code, meaning they can be switched between just like texture packs are now.

Please do some research into what updates actually mean before flying off the handle. every problem you have listed so far is your (incorrect) speculation.

I've done my research. While I cannot entirely rule out your assessment of the situation, it does not appear to be the case.

I tell you what. I'll test it in person when it comes out. If you're right, you have my apologies and I will drop the boycott. Otherwise...

Good news, my minions! VillainCraft is now Resource Pack compatible!

If anyone knows how to get the still water to work correctly (or if that's something Mojang needs to fix) I would be delighted if you were to share that information with me.

Second update in two days, and all stuff that started bugging out when I updated to the new format has been repaired. And there's also a special surprise inside.

Quote from Xbony2

I noticed you added eydamos's backpack mod in I like that mod a lot...

No, it was already there. Its just I only recently learned that MightyPork had transferred ownership of the mod to Eydamos, so I adjusted the listing accordingly. As soon as the mod updates, I'm probably going to make some changes to my textures for it.

I really need to check on these things more often.

Bleh! Here's a little preview of the new bat texture I'll be adding in the next update, based on the visored bat (Sphaeronycteris toxophyllum), a species of bat that I like because they look like little Count Orlocks (from Nosferatu). Hell, the look more like Count Orlock than Max Schreck did, and Max Schreck vas Count Orlock.




Compare and Contrast:
Visored Bat

Count Orlock:

Max Schreck:


See vhat I mean?

Original Mk5.9
Added textures for Clay blocks
Decorative Wool blocks are now Decorative Clay Blocks instead
Added texture for Coal block
Added texture for Redstone block
Added texture for Daylight Sensor
Added texture for Charcoal
Added texture for Bat
Added missing particles and status effect icons
Added language pack
Added new painting: Severed Heads by Theodore Gericault
Asylum Beta5.9
Added textures for Clay blocks
Decorative Wool blocks are now Decorative Clay Blocks instead
Added texture for Coal block
Added texture for Redstone block
Added texture for Daylight Sensor
Added texture for Charcoal
Added missing particles and status effect icons

What is the new language pack called?