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that looks cool, I may get a OOTS style avatar is said skinshop doesn't mystically go out of business in the next week... I never noticed the hair on your avatar wasn't on the corner until now.

I still read OoTS. Well... when Rich can be bothered to get a new page out. Remember when he kept a schedule? Yea.... good times.

As for the hair... yea. My in-game avatar is like a really awesome version of myself. My hairline has an odd shape on the top, being full on the sides and top of my head, but receding slightly on the angles. Naturally I made it the same on my avatar because, well, I have to have some pride in my appearance.

Speaking of appearances (see how I tied that in), here's some people who dress in black:


The swamplands are home to those who were exiled from their villages: the poor and impoverished with nothing of value to trade, and those with a zeal for emeralds beyond imagination. These exiles eek out a living in the wetlands where others of their kind dare not settle. Only practitioners of dark magic come to these places of their own accord, and most end up becoming witches as their master of the alchemical arts grows in power.

Thoughts?

Also, feedback on the issues I mentioned in my last post is still greatly appreciated!

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I think, that they should look like witches (kind of)

I'm not going to do that for the sole reason that I want their faces to continue to match the villager face in the GUI. I can't change that one based on biome, so the villagers themselves have to stay pretty much the same.

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also does that beach villager have a Hawaiian shirt?

Why yes, yes he is! The librarian is wearing a blue-with-white-flowers version, and the butcher (grill master) has the more typical red and orange variant under his apron.

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it would appear the shop hasn't gone out of business... yet

I hope you get your avatar before it does!

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Yay, avatar was created, I feel special,

Too much detail and not enough line thickness to be a proper OotS avatar, but it still looks good. Glad you're enjoying it.

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and for the villagers I meant more as in clothing, then as in body, I don't know maybe I just want one to be wearing a trench coat

Actually, because I was sick of looking at them, I actually made the unused green villager skin for the swamp with a near-copy of the witch's clothing. Laziness paid off!

BTW, spelunking seemed a bit different today. Not sure why. I can't quite put my finger on it...



I could really use some feedback. Seriously, it's just Miopic and I in this thread now. No offense Miopic, but I'd like feedback from more than one person.

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I like the new redstone, but I have a bone to pick with the Coal, I think the coal in it looks to much like the charcoal and to little like the normal coal.

Well I changed the coal and charcoal item textures too, so that should solve that problem. I did make a somewhat better version (in my opinion) of the coal ore texture too. It now looks more like the others and less like I flung a can of chunky black paint at the stone.

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Also the gold, It isn't bad... but It isn't particularly good either I think it needs to be less patterned and shinier

I'm not changing the pattern, but I did make it a bit shinier despite the fact that this also makes it less realistic. Gold in the ground is very dull. But then again, so are diamonds but I made that ore shiny so... Minecraft logic.

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I checked this pack out a while ago and didn't really like it that much, however, I decided to check it out again and give some feedback this time.

I appreciate it.

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Upon loading into my world, I investigated my house and everything surrounding it. I have to say that I think the pack, as a whole, is pixelated and busy and I'm not a huge fan of it, but sometimes I do get in the mood for it and this pack could definitely satisfy that.

However, my main issue is just that-- it really is too busy and pixelated.

Unfortunately that's a side-effect of trying to cram a lot of detail into a very low-resolution format. If I try to make it less so, it often ends up seeming flat. Case in point...

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However, I have to say that, while the rest of the pack fits together, the tree trunks are just... I don't even... How do I say this and say what I mean, and not make it sound worse than what I'm trying to say..?

They lack depth? Yeah. They lack a lot of depth and are just messy, in general. I happened to start near a snow biome, so I have a lot of spruce trees near my house, meaning I used spruce wood and logs as part of my initial build. I can't even bring myself to look at it, now. I feel like it could do with a lot of darkening up and a bit more depth. They all, in general, just feel like bits of paper stuck together with hard edges everywhere.

They're crap. My oak and spruce wood textures are crap. I know. It's alright. You can say it.

I've been trying to make better versions since... well... since I made the ones I'm currently using actually. Tree bark and leaves are a big problem for me. I'm surprised nobody has called me out on how terrible the leaves look yet.

I tried again to fix it, and this is how the oak bark came out:



I'm not sure whether it's better, or just more patterned and busy. As always, feedback is greatly appreciated.

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I'm incredibly satisfied with the overall feel of it. You kept it consistent and nothing feels out of place. Vanilla-styled textures from modpacks and such, even, seem to fit in just fine with this pack. It's almost got a painterly feel and the lush feeling is very pleasing to my eye.

Thank you! This is what I've been striving for. I'm happy to know you feel I've (mostly) succeeded.

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I do have to say, though, I love the item bar (not a fan of the health/hunger/armor/whatever icons, but that's easy to replace with something I do like), the iron armor's chest piece (I have no idea why I love the missing shoulders so much), and the nether portal is frickin' amazing (I seriously stared at it for a little while when I ran over to check out what it looked like).

All things I'm really proud of. I would like to change the health/hunger/armor/air bars... but unfortunately because of the way they're set up in Minecraft I can't do what I want to do. I'd like to set up something closer to the XP bar, but it's not possible. Glad you don't have a problem replacing them since you don't like them.

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Also, props for making the bow animation look decent. That's one of my biggest pet peeves. I particularly hate when the ENTIRE BOW falls back one pixel for the third part of the animation. You kept the look consistent and made the animation smooth.

It took me forever. I'm really happy with how it turned out, and I'm glad you enjoy it. Yea, I hate when animations do crappy things like have the entire bow move. It's like some animators have never seen someone use a bow before.

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In short, not the pack for me, but I also wouldn't immediately replace it if I were on a friend's PC and this was his/her pack of choice. If you were to fix up the tree trunks I would probably end up keeping this in my texture pack folder, alongside all of my other favorites that I switch to every so often.

I'll continue to try to improve on the wood textures. Please give me feedback on the screenshot above so I know if I'm on the right track. As I said, it's a big weak point for me. Please be patient with me on this one.

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I drop in and out occasionally when I can give decent feedback.
From the angle I like the coal and redstone but the gold seems a bit shapeless from a distance.

EDIT: on closer inspection (clicked the screenshot) the gold looks good and kind of realistic

I was trying to make it look like veins. It's basically the same texture I had before with a few touch-ups based on some feedback I got in a review. The coal has been replaced. Please give some feedback on it when the new version is released. I'm going to put it up on Thursday regardless of whether or not there's a new snapshot.

New Features in this version include:

As always, feedback is Greatly Appreciated!

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I really love it!
It is really smooth, and my favorite is the blue nether brick and ghasts!

Thank you! I'm so glad you like it!

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I say that those tree trunks look 200% better.

Yay!

I still don't think they're exactly the way I want them... but I'm willing to let them be for the time being.

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Odd how this pack seems to gather popularity whenever I forget to check up on it in a while...

* Alvoria puts on suspenders and grabs a huge coffee mug *

Yea, I'm going to have to ask you to... not check this thread anymore. If you could do that, that would be great. Oh kay? Thanks.

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but anyway I really like how the villagers fit in with their surroundings! It makes it look like they're actually part of the world instead of just in their village all the time only actually paying attention to their houses and whether or not there's a zombie.

Again, that's the goal. I'm doing this so that I'll hate the villagers less. It's working. Slowly... but it's working.

Of course the darn sounds they gave them took any respectability my pack had earned them away...

I'm seriously considering packaging sounds in the 1.6 version of the pack to make them sound less retarded challenged.

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And the upgraded ores. The newer tree textures look good, although really, not all trees in real life (no, I do not say the "text" version of words/phrases) look to good or uniform, so they're hard to get looking bad in the first place.

Which also makes them just as hard to get looking good in Minecraft. Unless you resort to CTM, an uneven texture tends to tile obnoxiously.

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Not saying it's amateur texturing by any means, though!

Better not be. It took me a while to make those rutting things.


Anyone have any requests for 1.6? As soon as the devs iron some of the bugs in the new format I'll start working on updated stuff. Everything that's already available will be included (mod textures may skip a version or two due to update time), so don't worry about that. Check the To Do list in the OP for what I've already got planned for future versions!

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what is the new texture change doing anyways?

The 1.6 Resource Pack change?

Basically, Texture Packs will cease to exist. Instead, we'll have Resource Packs which can change textures, sounds, languages, and a few other things. To facilitate this, the latest snapshot has a HUGE rewrite of how Minecraft handles resources.

This includes a change in the technical formatting of things. Anything with an animation has to have an accompanying .mcmeta file, which uses its own markup different from what we've seen so far. This also means that even if I updated, I couldn't upload it to Curse yet because that's not an allowed file type.

All of this is also subject to change, and is presently buggy as all get out. There's a lot that isn't working, and I'm not going to go through the trouble of updating everything only to have it all change again before release. There are a few things I'm hoping that they'll revise pre-launch, so I'm going to hold out.

Sorry.

New Features in this version include:

As always, feedback is Greatly Appreciated!

Quote from Hoodoo

Your iron ore looks like a devil sticking is tongue out at us

I don't see it.

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and the cow is odd. But loveable!

It's an Angus.

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For the coal ore, maybe you could smooth the color transition with the stone, some pixels seems very contrasted. Otherwise, it's good!

There's a new version in the latest version of "Sanity". Check it out!

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(the sand tiling can still be seen, but it's okay )

Hmmm... I'll have to look into that later.

Thank you for the Feedback!

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Cool, do you have any plans for the sounds, or the songs for the jukebox

are you going to keep it the same, create your own songs, or copy other music.

Right now the only sounds I'm thinking of are re-doing the villager sounds. I'm either going to make up a fake language and have them say random things in it... or just record myself making fart noises with my tongue sticking out and use those. Or I could just record ten seconds of silence and use that to make them mute again.

I'd also like a better bow-launching-arrow sound... but I have no idea how I'd do the foley for that with the stuff I have around my place so that might have to wait.

As for music... I'm not a musician. Even if I were, there isn't a good way to rename all of the records in-game without bloating the pack with a ton of language packs changed just for a few lines. I'd rather not do that if I have the choice.

Ultimately it's kinda going to be up to Curse whether or not I bother with any of this at all. If they support Resource packs in their fullest then I'll go forward with it. Right now they aren't even compatible with 1.6 at all. Hopefully they'll update because I don't want to drop them as a host. They've been very good so far, and I'd like to keep using them.

All that aside... I kinda want Sanity to just be a Texture Pack. I don't want it to include a load of crazy stuff just because I can. This is my Sanity. I do what I want with it.

Does that long-winded explanation answer your question?

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yep, so I am gonna have to add 8-bit master of puppets myself

I... gotta admit I kinda want to hear that.