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Quote from Nazenn»

Hey elezzaar,

I've recently gotten into modded minecraft and as a result have been spending a few days sorting out the visual side of my game, the base of which is this fantastic resource pack that you and your contributors have created. Probably after the weekend I plan on tossing through a big pack of new stuff I've done, particularly for mod support (so far covered; WTF, Apple Skin (the GUI from apple core as I notice that had been requested), simple ores, some druidry, more biomes o plenty stuff) but I have a few more things I want to work on before I do so for the sake of not wasting my limited internet.

I actually just wanted to report two small issues before I forgot to do so as I've been forgetting every day for at least a week:

- You have a Clover Patch texture for BoP in your files, but one of the newer BoP updates has changed its format so that file no longer works as its divided into a few seperate ones now meaning its a really low res texture compared to the other flora in the area

- Some of the dandelion meshes cause z-fighting with snow : ~Link Snip~

Hope that helps

Clover Patch: I will personally try to change that & fix it.
Dandelion & snow: I will look into it & try to fix it for eleazzaar (unless he finishes it)

Quote from indiahawker»

Hi! Sorry if this question has already been asked but just wondering if you're planning on adding textures to more BoP blocks? Love this resource pack, awesome that it works with Quark too!

Also, certain leaves aren't showing up transparent (even though I'm using fancy graphics) - is it this way for everyone, or is it possibly an Optifine issue (as I had this problem before with a different resource pack)? And is there a way to fix it? Please and thank you!

More BoP blocks are coming soon. I don't personally make them, but one of us ("us" as in the contributors) makes BoP blocks & he will make some more. I don't know when really, but it will happen.

Take your time. There is no need to rush. We would love for you (or anyone who wants to contribute too) that they make a texture that they are proud of. I personally take my time to make textures.

Also eleazzaar is the one in charge of what textures get added. I mean it is his pack after all. He has declined some of my textures in the past (I'm sure he did the same for the others too).

If you want a general idea of what eleazzaar wants, here it is: something close to default, but yet is different. It shouldn't look like Faithful's pack. But it is a good place to kinda start to get a feel of a sense of direction.

When I can't think of a way to go about doing a certain texture (or deciding on how it should look), I sometimes look at Faithful's version of the texture along with a few other texture packs. I do this so that I get a feeling of where I should start & then I slowly start to make that texture & then convert it to a Lithos type of texture, or I just take parts of other Lithos textures & take certain parts of a texture to match the mod's texture or close to it. (The last one is how I gone about doing the Tinkers' Construct tool/weapon textures).

TL;DR: Just take your time. Make something that you are proud of & not something that you don't think looks that good.

Ugh. Ex Nihilo is a pain to work with. I have to redo all of the ore items & blocks. I have only finished the items. They won't look the same as before.

Here is a neat album where I explain the basics of why it was hard & why it will look kinda different. [Click Here]

Quote from Nazenn»

I'm pretty bad at making my own textures, so most of what I've down is adapt textures that already exist in Lithos and fit them to models, or new purposes, like for the Onyx ore for Simple Ores, I took the Ruby texture already supplied and cut out most of it, turned it black, and fit the ore nodes onto a nether brick texture. Painting, even small scale, is one of those things I could just never wrap my head around without having a solid base to start off . Don't worry though, I'm definitely not going to exhibit anything I don't think is as quality as I can get it as I just don't believe in that sort of approach anyway. Similarly I'm not expecting that anything will be pass through unless it meets the authors own quality standards and I'm fine with that. Even if it doesn't go through, maybe it can be used as a base for someone who's more experienced, especially with stuff that's fiddly when it comes to positioning etc.

eleazzaar has a Photoshop file that has the based ingots, ores, dust, ore blocks. It's greyscaled images & has a gradient that give the greyscaled images their color. An example is that I can just add the gradient for Copper & then everything about ores from the ingots to Swords will look like their Copper version. So I will have easy access to the Copper items & blocks.

So a base is always a great way to start off. For Tinkers' Construct Mod Support, I took apart the Iron Sword/Shovel/Axe/Pickaxe/Hammer(I haven't uploaded the Hammer textures to Lithos) & used their based textures to make the parts for each item to work with each other. The packaxe has 3 textures I made for the Tinkers' Construct Pickaxes. The parts were the pickaxe head, pickaxe handle, & the pickaxe handle (the part above the head on the vanilla pickaxe). Took the Iron Pickaxe, which was just 1 texture (well 2 textures if you add the ore color gradients), & I broke down the texture into 3 parts & made all of the textures for the Tinkers' Construct pickaxes. It was hard at first to break down the items into their Tinkers' Construct parts, but when I got the pieces broken apart, it was easy to make all of the other pieces from that.

The hardest parts were pickaxes, bows, & arrows. But I was dedicated to make the piece so I can users & myself be happy that all of tools & weapons look like Lithos tools & weapons. At first it was for everyone, then I was getting burnt out of making the textures for the mod. Then when I was burnt out I was just making it for myself. When I was almost done it gave me the energy to finish the rest of the textures that I wasn't using (like Copper pickaxe head). When I was done, I had all of the Tinkers' Construct textures done, expect the Hammer textures because I never finish them except like one or two textures (I have deleted them already).

That is what I'm doing for Ex Nihilo right now. I want to do all of the textures before I start to get burnt out of it. Getting burnt out mod support textures is the reason why I have never finished a complete mod's textures in 1 or 2 updates.

I was thinking whether or not you guys would like to play on a small modded server with all of the Lithos pack mod contributors. It will be a small mod pack so it is easier for everyone to play (especially low-end computers).

It will help you know what textures we (eleazzaar & the other mod contributors) have finished & what is to come for the future releases of the Lithos resource pack.

I just wanted to know who would play on it if I do make the modpack & server for it.

It will be a 1.10 modpack.

For anyone who knows this mod, then you will have a great time seeing the final product!

These are just the default textures for the mod.

Hope you'll love it!

The Umbran Wood was something that they added after 1.7 (it is in 1.10 which is the version I am working in). All BOP textures that were made was made in 1.7 & eleazzaar just moved the 1.7 textures that the mod contributor did (I don't remember who it was) to the later versions.

So that is why you see somethings not having any textures. Don't worry, we (the mod contributors) are constantly or almost constantly working on new things for the pack.

While we all (including eleazzaar) work on the pack on our own time, we still do get a good amount of textures done for each update (pack update, not Minecraft update).

Because of the wide Fancy/Fast settings & what it does texturing wise, I will look into it & see what the problem is.

From what I have been testing it does not seem to be from the resource pack, but from the mod's own texture & how Minecraft handles transparency for blocks in Fast graphics.

In regards to said modpack server, I would be interested. What mods are you considering?

Well before I create an official modpack for said Lithos server, I will use a small modpack from the ATLauncher.

I mean if enough people would play on it I would even create a Discord server for it. (But it wont be the server that me, the other mod contributors, & eleazzaar use UNLESS he wants to use our Discord server).

It is easy for me to setup the server for everyone, it is just the fact if people would join & play.

There will something close to an anti-griefing plugin using Sponge. But it will be a bit allow more default stuff unlike how most plugins work. Plus being close to everyone it wont be a problem without anyone else knowing about it.

Plus if you start doing that, it will be a swift ban. I don't want to deal with that

This is something that will be different. I will deal with this later on.

Only if enough people will play on the said idea server.

Count me in.