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If you've created a texture pack you know it can be a pain finding a place to host your texture pack, manage the different downloads and make money for your hard and widely enjoyed work.

Recently curse.com started supporting Minecraft texture packs, this means that people can download your texture pack from curse.com or through the curse client. Earlier in the week "author rewards" were announced, a program that allows texture pack authors to earn money from texture pack downloads.

If you're hosting your texture pack through curse.com you can now use the texturepack bbcode. This bbcode will create a widget in your topic that includes information about your texture pack and download + install links. Every user that views your topic can trust that the downloads will be genuine, that the information provided is accurate and you'll earn money!


You can read more about hosting your texture pack with curse.com below:

• (video)
• Uploading your texture pack to curse.com (article)

How to use the widget in your topic

• Step 1
Following the instructions in the Uploading your texture pack to curse.com article, upload your texture pack to curse.com


• Step 2
Take the url bit for your texture pack (eg: curse.com/texture-packs/minecraft/postercraft) and place it in the texturepack bbcode, like so:

[texturepack]glimmars-steampunk[/texturepack]




• Optional
Specify the version to be downloaded using the option tag, like so:

[texturepack="1.6.2"]glimmars-steampunk[/texturepack]

There is no limit on the number of widgets that can be included in a topic, include one for every version if you like!

There are some fantastic advantages to hosting with curse.com and using this widget, to name a few:

• Users can go from viewing your topic to playing with your texture pack in seconds
• Rewards for every install without the potential for viruses that some other services introduce
• Users can trust your downloads are 100% secure, the curse.com platform verifies integrity!

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: The icon for my texture pack is stretched!

If you upload an image that does not fit it will be stretched, this is for display purposes. If you do not want your image to be stretched upload at 184px x 116px and it will fit perfectly!

Q: I changed my title or icon and it hasn't updated?

The data displayed is cached for up to 1 hour.

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If you have any problems or questions reply to this topic or send me a private message and we'll help set you up.

That is really nice! I shouldn't need to make custom download buttons now!

Would we be able to use these on our signatures?

Quote from Meringue

Ah, could that be the reason for another person too that the upload doesn't work? His zip file is about 17 MB.

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Another thing i noticed - the widget isn't always displayed. I noticed it on 2 different computers and on iOS, sometimes i have to refresh the site one or two times until it's there. I added an additional text link in my thread, just in case...

You will need to refresh after posting or editing a post with it before you can see it. If it is edited in or posted while you load the page it's on, then, I guess it may get a bit glitchy. I suppose it's stability would also depend on the internet browser you're using.

I found one problem, it says "texture packs can only contain .png, .txt, and .properties files", but in the default texture pack, there is a ".bin" file in the font folder. I suppose I could just remove it, but I'm not sure if it's necessary.

Quote from corner_g

I found one problem, it says "texture packs can only contain .png, .txt, and .properties files", but in the default texture pack, there is a ".bin" file in the font folder. I suppose I could just remove it, but I'm not sure if it's necessary.

That file is being white listed I believe, it should allow uploads containing that file to work soon, although yes, for now you'll need to remove the file.

Quote from Meringue

Ah, could that be the reason for another person too that the upload doesn't work? His zip file is about 17 MB.

There are no limits on upload size, any will work, it may just take some time.

Quote from Meringue

Another thing i noticed - the widget isn't always displayed. I noticed it on 2 different computers and on iOS, sometimes i have to refresh the site one or two times until it's there. I added an additional text link in my thread, just in case...

is this after editing your post or in threads that use it?

Quote from SkyChaseZone

Is there a file size limit or anything? my pack is 54.1 MB and it never seems to upload (almost seems like it times out or something), in fact when I browse for the file and choose it the file name doesn't show up in the box or anything. Any help would be appreciated, thanks

There's no file size limit, there are texture packs that are over 55mb. It may take a while if you have a slow connection, if you leave it for a while it should work If not you could provide me with a link to the file (however you're hosting it now) and I can try and get it uploaded for you.

Quote from The_Fool76

Sweet! I can replace all the links in my pack collection thread with these now. (I just had links to the curse page for each pack.)

Edit: Found a minor issue.

Note the escape code in place of the ' in the pack name.

I'll fix that asap! Thanks Glad to see you using it

Quote from Meringue

I saw it happening in threads with only one (my own) as well as in the TAU thread with multiple widgets on the same page - there was only one shown for a while (even after refreshes), on different Macs and networks. But it didn't happen today so far, i guess it was just a hiccup at the start. =)

If you see it again let me know, for now I'll assume it was first-day hiccups. Thanks

Quote from babbajagga

my connection is pretty fine (optical cable) so it is not about speed... but nevermind, if I won't succeed with uploading I will send you the link to tp.

Sorry for the late reply, the forum didn't alert me to your reply! Did your upload eventually go through? If not please do send it over and I'll take a look at what the problem might be.

Quote from FellowFan

Yay ill add mine

Awesome! Your pack looks great

So, how often is the download count updated? I'm just curious because, while I don't judge popularity and other assorted measurements off of the total downloads, I do like to see when I reach certain milestones and such. I would think it would update on the hourly bases you mentioned, but it seems to go over a day without any change at all, then suddenly updates by 50 or so downloads. Is this just me, my downloads? Or does the widget have a separate download update interval?

Quote from corner_g

So, how often is the download count updated? I'm just curious because, while I don't judge popularity and other assorted measurements off of the total downloads, I do like to see when I reach certain milestones and such. I would think it would update on the hourly bases you mentioned, but it seems to go over a day without any change at all, then suddenly updates by 50 or so downloads. Is this just me, my downloads? Or does the widget have a separate download update interval?

The download widget pulls the information from curse.com every 60 minutes. The curse.com download count updates around once per day, so while the widget is updating the curse.com count isn't. I can ask the curse.com developers about this on Monday and see if there's either an issue causing this, or if it's intentionally updating so infrequently.

Quote from kabonos

Will there be similar bbcode for worlds/maps?

For curse.com hosted, yes, although I don't think the save worlds feature is in the live client yet. I'll find out.