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Quote from AtikLYar

Well, perhaps a small memory chip that gets used as a guidence system fo the javalin, or to store the information you write in a book?

I like this idea a lot. Although we run into the problem of why chickens have edible meat, but synthetic chips. Perhaps they are cyborg.

Quote from NovemberAlpha

Maybe as a form of liquid? hence the quill and for the javelin Propellant? you know those little sparkles behind the arrow?

Btw seeing how Dead Space 3 is coming, and your skill with this pack, would you be interested in trying to do a DS tp? just asking because there isnt actually a good DS pack out there....

Since holofluid is already used in the creation of the book, the guidance/memory chip idea would work better.

I'm not really interested in doing a texture pack for Dead Space or anything else, really. I did this because it hadn't really been done before to this extent, and because textures packs based on something like Dead Space run into a lot of problem with stuff like mobs. With this I can pull ideas from several different entities, or invent my own mob. As far as a good texture pack, look up Dead Space: Planet Minecraft by sicmap. Although, I haven't heard of him in a while, so I'm unsure of whether he has stopped progress on the pack or simply is too busy with schoolwork to continue right now.

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I plan to make the concepts for each of the rest of the GUI's today, and then finish texturing them all on minecraft some time tommorow or the day after. The following days will be about getting the new Codex up and running.

Quote from Comply_cat_Ed

Very nice texture pack I am kind of working on a 32x sci-fi texture pack of my own and am quiet jealous of your work The lore is what makes this pack the most interesting and I can't wait for the codex update. Have an upvote and a thread follow

Edit: the search tags still say "voidcraft" instead of "distant anomaly"

Thanks! The codex update i going to be quite in-depth.

Also, thanks for the heads up. It was my intention to keep it as voidcraft for only a week or so in case people still searched for it by that name, but I forgot to ever change it.

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Feast your eyes on new GUI-y goodness!



I think this is the best one I have made so far (You haven't seen all of them). After I finish up these last few GUI's, I'll go back and apply the simplistic feel to the inventory and creative inventory. Also, I have something special planned for the title screen :>.

EDIT: Perhaps I'll use the blue lignium for the inventory as well. It contrasts well with the blue, as well as the darkened background.

Quote from AtikLYar

Oh, fancy.

I'm also liking that healthbar hiding in the shadows.

Oops, you weren't supposed to see that yet

Quote from NovemberAlpha

Nice! really fits the metal colour and the holopad area colour quit nicely.

Would there be any more industrial-ish textures? like the iron bars and ladders? because they look so awesome....

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will you be texturing snow-dirt blocks soon?

I really like the look of the ladders an iron bars as well. I don't have anything planned, but if you can think of any blocks that would fit well with that, I'd at least consider it.

Short answer for snow or dirt blocks: no. Those types of textures are scheduled for the Environment Update, which is the update before the release. The reason for this is I a lot of time to think of methods to work on those. If you hadn't been able to tell so far, my style of texturing with the outlines is well suited for metals and solid objects but not so good at portraying organic textures.

EDIT: You can see what future updates will contain on the OP, where there's a spoiler tag that says Timeline.
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Revised inventory gui:



As I alluded to earlier I forwent the grey texture for the nice silvery blue, which contrasts much better. I also replaced the diagonal patterns for the inventory slots with simpler cubes, which scales up so much nicer regardless of your resolution. I still need to do the bit where the armor is overlayed. After that I might do some tinkering and maybe have the cubes be more grid-based instead of monochrome like they are.

Here's a little more explanation on the custom color GUI. When I release the new update, a section will be added for alternate textures. The first addition to this will be custom color gui. I'll have a large list of colors to choose from like red, gold, green, etc. This will replace the color of all holographic portions in the inventory. For other GUI's, like the one for the crafting table, only the holographic part that extends below the top part as well as the hotbar at the bottom will be affected (look back at the crafting table UI to see what i mean). This is because machines will have a locked in UI color that specifies what type of machine they are. Anything that has to do with combat will be red, the basic ones will stay cyan, science machines like the brewing stand will be purple.

Quote from AtikLYar

Yay purple. (One of my favorite colors, tbh. I blame Halo.)

Also, by chance, any comments on my map? I'm fairly eager to get feedback to I can work on it some more.

Purple seems to be a popular choice from the people I've talked to.

I have some comments, lots of them actually. But I'm going to be really busy today making the final grind for the release tomorrow. Expect to hear from me via pm sometime tomorrow after the update.

Quote from NovemberAlpha

New gui sounds awesome can't wait to see all the holo-ish goodness and any thought on yellow for the anvil and enchanter?
Nice armour bar in the background there, coming with the next update?

Your new portrait is pretty damn sweet, edit of the old one?

Enchanting is orange (Maker tech so it fits the color scheme of the void-wanderers). The anvil is brown (andranite) metal with gold hologram. That's the health bar, and yes all of those are coming with today's update.

The portrait is new, decided to start from scratch and see what I could come up with. I plan on doing some new forum banners for the tp with this method.

The GUI update is today :o, and I'm working hard to get it out on time! At the very least you will get all the GUI today, but I might have to stagger the Codex update over the next few days.

Quote from NovemberAlpha

Could the health bar be blue instead of green? it kinda reminds me of alien's blood....

this is a noobish question, but how do you get the banner to work?

Yeah I was just sorta messing around with different colors. I meant for the final one to be blue, thats why you guys weren't supposed to see it yet because I wasn't sure where I was going with it yet.

To get the banner you should be able to just copy/paste the code for it under the picture into your sig. I see though that it isn't working for you. Maybe the link has expired or something. I'll have new ones up sometime this or next week, though.

EDIT: deleted then reposted the code for my sig, and it isn't broken. I'm not sure whats wrong with yours...

Quote from NovemberAlpha

Hmmm....still cant seem to get the banner right

So any ideas for the hunger/food bar? or armour bar?

I'm not entirely sure. I think I might just have the armor bar as like kite-shield symbols, but holographic, and keep the hunger the same and make that holographic. Unless you have any better ideas.

Quote from NovemberAlpha

Not much of an idea, but maybe food bar should be little MRE packs?
Btw will there be connected texture support for glass panes?

Not sure if I can get that to show in the small space I have though. I'll try.

Yeah almost all the blocks will get connected texture support at some point.