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Thanks for the feedback everyone!

I'll finish work on the update this weekend then and I'll keep thinking about the whole donation thing... I might just ask everyone who donates by email or I might even just make another link in the op that anybody can access and just keep it updated but only change the op and changelog for the proper big updates.

Also the main issue I had with the glass is now gone so I can work on it again. They've stopped the translucent part from disappearing at low opacity levels so you can now make very slightly tints glass you can actually see through and it won't disappear randomly while moving around it.

So yea, update will be this weekend, most likely tomorrow.

Quote from Hoodoo

That's good news! I'm waiting to try what you've done with those glasses.

Thanks hoodoo, I've not done anything exciting with them yet (just lightly tinted glass with a pretty simple black iron border) but I might do something in the future if I get any ideas!


Also, I'm afraid I've gotta move the update to tuesday, just have/had too much uni work to finish everything off! Need to finish podzol, make fish items, completely redo biome colours to how they work with 1.7 and then that's all of the 1.7 stuff done IIRC.
Still a couple of things I want to do that are unrelated to 1.7 but if I don't tell you what they are then you won't know whether I finish them in time for the update or not so you can't be disappointed!

Quote from xNightmare

pls sheep.

Okay... Here's some random stuff, will post the rest of the pics when the update is released. Hopefully should still be tomorrow!







Hopefully pretty obvious what things are new but there will be a changelog with the update too for those who are curious. Tomorrow morning I'll start on the biome colour changes... >.>

Quote from Kekay

Woo! Great job!
It may be just a grumble, but the new flower bases/stems are a bit darker than the grass, thus it makes a contrast

I'll be tweaking the stem colours once I fix up the biome colours but I do want to have some contrast so that they don't just blend in with the grass and become impossible to see. Anyway, I'll be posting some more pics once I've fixed up biome colours and whatnot because I think they'll be quite a big change.

Quote from zamaj

Almost all of the new stuff looks really nice! Great work as always. I say 'almost' because that packed ice texture... does not really look that good. I'm sorry, but I've looked at it several times to see if there's something I'm missing, but to me it just looks a bit blurry, undefined, and kind of amateurish. (It also doesn't tile.) It's not that it's a terrible texture, if I saw it in another pack I'd probably pass it by, it's just that compared to the extremely high quality of your other textures, it really sticks out.

I hope that didn't sound too harsh.

Nope, that's perfectly fine advice and really, looking at the texture again, I kinda agree. I don't really think it sticks out exactly (probably because of the colour), but the texture itself is just a mess. I'll get to work on it once I've done the new logs, saplings, leaves and then biome colours!

Thanks for the feedback, zam!

Quote from Kekay

Yeah. It looks nice but has too many details.

Look at this picture: [Link]
When you look at the piece of the frozen throne, where hands are meant to be rest, you can see a bright borders of ice blocks, like they were worn out. It would be awesome to have a block with borders worn out just like in the picture. It would be best texture ever if it would use CTM to connect these blocks. If you still don't know what I mean, try retexturing orginal minecraft redstone block so it would be bright blue.

Only problem with that is that it won't tile when it's in the packed ice spires where they're found naturally. I like this idea though, I'll try do it with irregular chunks of ice instead of just the outside square, I think that could turn out really well.

Anyway, I'm halfway through the acacia log right now. Already did the leaves and saplings for both acacia and the roofed forest tree as well as the log for the roofed forest tree. Also did some work on biome colours but didn't finish as I got distracted by the new tree stuff.

Here's a pic!



Acacia leaves!

Ugh stop being so good! I love the dark oak. Was it inspired by Conquest/John smith by any chance? I was going to do something like that but now I have to think of a new idea.

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Ugh stop being so good! I love the dark oak. Was it inspired by Conquest/John smith by any chance? I was going to do something like that but now I have to think of a new idea.

Yup, by the spruce log, I really loved it and my texture turned out much better than expected. It's my new favourite log for building!

Quote from Poersch

That are some beautiful logs!

Thanks poersch! The tree will look better when we get your mod for 1.7 though.

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So when do we get the new version of your pack? I want those logs. x.x

Very soon now. I'm currently finishing off acacia logs and then I just need to finish the biome colours. So it might even be tonight, depends how quickly I can get the colouring done...

In any case I'll take some pics of the acacia as soon as I finish it off.

EDIT: And I have to remake the packed ice texture as well as finish recolouring all of the glass, there are still just a few of those left.

Well I found out that the pre-release has planks in it so I've been working on them as well as the acacia log. I've spent a while coming up with a design for acacia and I think I'm close although it still needs something to help tie it in with the other logs more.

Any suggestions/feedback about this stuff is welcome, especially now while I'm trying to finalise designs! Also, let me know what type of plank you want for acacia. Do you want it to be vertical, horizontal, have borders, etc. etc.

Anyway, here's some pics of the acacia as it is at the moment as well as the dark oak planks with the wood: