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Quote from Solumid

Hah! I haven't even been able to check out all the new stuff in my favourite packs because I've been so distracted by it. That aside - nice job with the 1.6 update! I think you mentioned a 1.95 mini-release a while back - what exactly does that entail?

It's just a small update that includes more changed language files, armour icons (I have all the armour models done but the current release doesn't have the icons done yet so I finished them off) and a few other small additions and tweaks. Nothing major!

Quote from Grandcrafter1

Love it. Looks great.

Quote from Hrub

Nice job! The Nether looks especially neat.

Thanks guys!

Quote from RushCrafting

Only had this for a little while, and this is great! Only thing is that the text is a little small and sometimes hard to read, but that's a minor quibble Loving the pack, keep up with it man.

Yea it is quite small and can be hard to read sometimes but I am quite fond of it!

I will admit though, there are times I've had to stare at the font for a little bit before I realised what it said but hey, at least it looks nice, right? I mean, it's not like we need to READ it or anything....


Also got some update and other interesting news. I've been playing around with the Better Grass and Leaves mod and decided to add support for it. It's a small visual mod that doesn't affect your worlds so you can uninstall it and install it without causing any problems to your worlds and I think it looks great! For anyone who's curious, check out the thread here.

And here is what it looks like with my textures:



So yea, these textures will also be included in the next update which is probably going to be tomorrow. I've done the cake and now I just need to do a new monster egg texture... Any ideas anyone?

Oh, I also made a new monster spawner cage (the block) and redid the records so they'll be in there too.

Quote from Wayuki

Very interesting mod! It looks very cute with all the extra vegetation and fluffy trees. Looks great with your pack!

Thanks wayuki! And yea, it's a great mod, nice and simple and can't affect save files. Just the way I like my mods!

Now I just have to figure out how to make the inside of trees look a bit more shaded with it as it makes them kinda bright looking which takes away some of the detail of the leaves... I made a gif to demonstrate the changes and it's pretty obvious there. Time to experiment!

Quote from Wayuki

You could try having less leaf coverage. If there are bigger gaps in between the leaves, and less leaves overall, you might get some of that shading back. You could also have some of the leaves darker than others, giving the impression that they recede more.

Yea, I'll try out both of these. I think I may just make new leaf sections instead of just cutting down a 4x4 tile of the leaf texture for each respective tree. Will make them more unique and I can make them look less messy too!

For the monster spawn eggs you can make them magic wands or staffs and rename them.

Quote from Maffhew

For the monster spawn eggs you can make them magic wands or staffs and rename them.

Hmmmm, I'll try it out!

I also thought gemstones and presents could both be interesting ideas for them too... Better get to work!

Sorry I haven't updated yet! Been trying to get something I like for the spawn eggs but everything I've tried so far has been entirely average. I have finished work for the better grass and leaves mod and also made some new oak wood planks while fishing for inspiration on the spawn eggs... Not sure if I should keep them though, any opinions? (if I keep them I will redo spruce and jungle planks too so they fit in with the more detailed style)



Oh also, I wrote up a few sections of lore for the pack (it's amazing what you're inspired to do at 5am...). I'll put them up when I'm putting up the update as well.

Quote from zamaj

Personally, I like these planks far more than the current ones. Some people may sat that they're to dark/brown, but I think that they fit really well with the rest of the pack and they look gorgeous.

I agree. It's funny you should mention that though, these planks are inspired by the ones you made ages ago as a little 16x experiment. I had a picture of them that I found when I was cleaning some junk out of my texturing folder and well, they were damned gorgeous!

Only bad thing is that now I have to make new spruce planks and jungle planks which delays the update a little bit... Oh well, all in the name of progress!

Quote from MSchwaa

I also prefer this variant of plank, and am eager to see what you come up with for the other styles!

Also, I would be curious to see a log texture with more depth. On the left and right side of the texture add additional shadows. I personally dislike the current oak log texture; the shading style is weird.

Only reason I didn't make the current wood more rounded is because I use it a LOT in builds where the wood is right next to other blocks of wood or planks or something else. Having the rounded looking wood looks great on trees or by itself, but in builds I think it looks pretty ugly and since I build a lot.... :/

Kinda a tradeoff I had to make but I'm actually quite happy with my wood as is... I might mess around and post some logs in TAU anyway though, I do enjoy making logs!

Quote from Fuzzball

I like these new planks a lot too! I am curious how you will go about the other kinds of wood? Some differences would be very nice- seeing the same ol' plank recolours gets a little old after a while~

Don't worry! Like the current planks, the new planks will all be unique as well.

Very tricky to come up with cool plank designs that allow interesting shading though, let me tell you!

Spruce:



Working on jungle planks now! Then I might figure out some simple ctm for them as well.

Quote from XSSheep

Spruce:

Working on jungle planks now! Then I might figure out some simple ctm for them as well.

IN THE JUNGLE THE MIGHTY JUNGLE THE SHEEP SLEEPS TONIIIIIIGHT.

But seriously. Cant wait on the big update!