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I'd say cobblestone is easier to texture than other things.

Here is what I recommend:

1. Choose 3 colors. A mortar fill (darkest) an outline fill (lighter) and a stone fill (lightest).

2. Start making a pattern. Make the stones using the outline color, fill with the fill color, and use the mortar color for everything else.
For ease of editing, put the stones on its own layer, and just make the mortar a colored square below the stone layer. Ideally make imperfect or deformed circles. They should be uniform in size and placement, roughly. Do NOT try to make them cover every inch of the block, closely fitting. It's a block, not a puzzle.

3. Modify the pattern to weed out tiling errors and patterns recognized by the brain.
A good texture starts with a strong, yet uniform pattern. The brain is always looking for patterns, and if it finds certain ones (like non-uniform rock sizes) it makes the user annoyed. You might get rid of all the patterns, but try your best. With cobblestone, try and avoid horizontal/vertical patterns, but an X pattern is good.

4. Shade it.
You won't be using the outline anymore. Draw over it with the fill color. Use the color selector to give the stones shadows and highlights, and also make the mortar directly below the stones darker. Have fun with shading, and try to give it depth. Don't make the highlights too strong, it's rock, not metal.

5. Remix it.
Modify the texture into other ones. Add moss to it for moss stone. For netherrack, use the same pattern and similar methods of shading, although using different (red) colors. Also modify the texture into stone, end stone, and the ores.
6. Look at it.
Play Minecraft with your textures. If it could look better, that will be the best way to find out.


7. Modify the shading more.
Even if it is only a slight change in shading and/or contrast, it can make a huge difference.
Other tips:

Use uniform sized stones. Don't have rocks that are 2-3 times bigger than others.

DON'T add noise. If you spend hours on making a texture.... with an advanced pattern.... don't add noise, it ruins its integrity. If you don't add noise, and you remember how you shaded everything, you can easily modify or redo textures later. Only use noise on simple-patterned blocks with little to no shading.

Use a texture pack folder. This will allow you to save changes, and see them change without going into the main menu and switching your texture pack. A texture folder has the same layout as a .ZIP, but needs a pack.txt, and you can reload it in-game by pressing f3+t. This feature was added specifically for texture artists.

That's all I can think of right now.

Quote from turek279

Cobble is hard. Many beginning texture pack makers make it look like bricks with cobble colors. Another easy way to do it is to take the stone texture and add more contrast.

That's really taking the easy way out. Bricks are Setts, and Cobblestone is made of round stones, not Setts. Too many people confuse the two
That and making cobblestone bricks is redundant because of Stone bricks.....

With the contrast thing, I recommend lowering the contrast of cobblestone to get the stone texture.... lol

Quote from Draexzhan

Very well. Sounds reasonable to me.
http://www.mediafire...g4c2357y5l92r27

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