Dr. Mackeroth's development log

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

This one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-qrif1tDO4
It's an old video I had showcasing a ship about 600k blocks in size cruising above the clouds. Even I find myself gawking at it from time to time.

And once I look at all your vidios, I just want that flying chunk test thing. For single player or whatever. And the Multi Chunk Render Test.

Just gimme it all.

As you asked for some help I had a look at the textures. On the paper they look alright but when you connect several of them in the game you see that the sides don't match which creates quite an ugly effect. Besides the stone and resourses everything needs reconstruction. I made a new TNT charge already and will continue to work on it.

Oh good, please show it to me once you're done.

I have some blocks done - Lapis ore, new cobble, redstone and TNT. Can't upload them right now as Imageshack is undergoing maintenance... I actually se a new solution for the texture debuts - a texture that can look like 2 things - my cobble can be some sort of stone but can also be some sort of steel ...

Excellent. But just note that stone (and wood), no matter what it looks like, will not be allowed on the outside of ships.

Good, I was losing faith in you guys with the whole retexturing thing

Dr. Mackeroth wrote:

Excellent. But just note that stone (and wood), no matter what it looks like, will not be allowed on the outside of ships.

WHAT?! I built a ship out of stone bricks for nuthin'?! ...Damn you Mackeroth... damn you... I guess that means I gotta burn down my wooden fleet -_- What about my wool fleet? Can I keep THAT?

Of course you can. It will simply have a realistic level of space-worthiness.

Hey Dr. Mackeroth, I am gonna mess around with obsidian and a few of the blocks as of yet unaltered.

I will post it here when I am done.




Is it working yet?

Here they are:

Spoiler:

Not amazing, but I had some fun there.

I changed that glass window look. And the ice. Those pix-elated (spell-check is a fail) streaks? Eyesores, no offense intended.

And I smoothed some things out.

Obsidian is rather sleek, in my not very humble opinion.

kennysmith1234 wrote:

Not amazing, but I had some fun there.

I changed that glass window look. And the ice. Those pix-elated (spell-check is a fail) streaks? Eyesores, no offense intended.

And I smoothed some things out.

Obsidian is rather sleek, in my not very humble opinion.

The glass wasn't done, I only realized that I hadn't removed the default texture underneath my one after I posted it.

Obsidian is being removed completely. The enchantment table will be crafted using wood. Or iron. Shame, because it was my favorite texture of yours...



Also, what did you do to the water?!




If you want to know what blocks are actually safe to edit; you can do any of mechanical blocks, TNT, crafting table, furnace, chest, and you can DEFINITIVELY redo my soul sand and netherrack.

Iv121 wrote:

Here they are:

Spoiler:

Nice textures, but they could be more.... textured, as in sort of three dimensional/ realistic.

What blocks are those?

I quite like whatever that jigsaw looking texture is. That is sort of the kind of thing I expected for hull plating blocks.

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

I quite like whatever that jigsaw looking texture is. That is sort of the kind of thing I expected for hull plating blocks.

Not quite. I like the texture, but I would only use it as a decoration. I think that hulls should be smoother.

By textured u mean realistic ? Well I cannot just paste a real picture as I think you did with stone let's say, as if we do so the blocks won't connect well to each other... I also removed the original galls beneath your's.

How do you want me to modify the textures I made ?

I don't know....

Maybe add some variation in the light over the block, like I've done with some of mine. It is the difference between a cartoon style texture pack and a realistic one.


Also, I created that stone texture myself, thank you very much.

Hey sry it connects in a quite s****y way if you place it in MC which usually happens when you simply paste textures didn't know u made it , that's what I would do ...

I added some shadows on the TNT (which doesn't seem to be enough) , have no idea what to do with the other 2 blocks - the Lapis one is simply a copy of your stone with lapis ( so you'll have to let me change the whole stone tex ) and the cobble doesn't leave allot of room for shadow...s in reality it won't actually have shadows as it is almost fully flat. I think I'll try to play with contrast - more deep colors seem to have positive effect on the stuff's realism even though in RL you'll probably see the opposite.

I'll be blunt; the terrain.png you have in the OP is terrible. It looks like you just applied a blur modifier, made some minor adjustments, and called it a day :/

Um... To what are you referring? I only changed a handful of blocks, but those I put a lot of care and effort in.

The "blur" or so you call it, came from having enlarged the image, so it became 32x32 instead of the regular 16x16.


So, all in all:



Never

Defy

My

will.

Back from my 3-day trip ... Anyway do you want me to create a new Terrain file ? Maybe even a style change ? Simpler and cleaner designs usually look superior to textures that try to be real ... ever tried a 128x128 pack ? It is terrible ...

what is going to be done with wool? its hideous and frail

could you edit the textures to show wool as computer-HUD type stuff, frail but looks cool?

No, because sheep don't have computers growing on them.

Make the sheep robots then

Or make your own blocks
Or both

One thing I want for this mod is for you to be perfectly able to live on the surface and play vanilla minecraft until you discover space. Sheep should not be robots, paintings should be wood. I almost am against changing the paintings to show spaceships.