1.5 Texture Packs

[Lazerus Artificial]

Sooo there will be a big change in textures with 1.5
i have heard somewhere that there is soem kind of mod that brings back the old system with one big file of textures, and not with multiple single ones.
Is this true? or is there even support for the old texture packs?
It would be a lot of work to change my current texture pack to the new format...

 

[SteveTech]

I could've sworn that MC automatically broke the old style texture packs into the new version...


I could be wrong, according to the MC wiki there is an un-stitcher tool that will do it though: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Texture_pack#Changes_in_Minecraft_1.5

 

[Lazerus Artificial]

tried it, but it seems that it wont work with mod-textures...mhh

 

[b0bst3r]

Old textures will not work for a couple of reasons.

1) Looks like all the Forge modders have come together and decided to move all their textures to a mods\modname\textures folder.
2) The texture sheets are no more every texture has to have it's own filename/file.
3) Nearly all the texture filenames have been changed.

OK I said a couple but that's 3 good ones.

 

[Bigglesworth]

Sooo there will be a big change in textures with 1.5

 

[seannyyx]

Wonder if he realises..?

 

[Lazerus Artificial]

i said that because we are not at 1.5 yet, and i had not the chance to test it

 

[Bigglesworth]

i said that because we are not at 1.5 yet, and i had not the chance to test it

We have been at 1.5 for several weeks, guy.

 

[Lazerus Artificial]

Mindcrack is still at 1.4.7
same for all the other modpacks

 

[russjr08]

Old textures will not work for a couple of reasons.

1) Looks like all the Forge modders have come together and decided to move all their textures to a mods\modname\textures folder.
2) The texture sheets are no more every texture has to have it's own filename/file.
3) Nearly all the texture filenames have been changed.

OK I said a couple but that's 3 good ones.

Right. All of these changes are requirements of the Forge API now (All mod textures have to be located at mods\modid\texture\<type>), the texture sheet change is a vanilla thing, and the forced file name is the unlocalized name of the block / item.

 

[Bigglesworth]

Mindcrack is still at 1.4.7
same for all the other modpacks

It's possible to make textures for 1.5 without FTB installed for FTB mods. People have done it before.

Also most of the FTB mods have been 1.5 ready for weeks as well.

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[Lazerus Artificial]

sure, but the pack is still at 1.4.7, so i have not played 1.5
most of the texturepacks for 1.5 i can find have stil lthe old design, thats what i was wondering about.

 

[Bigglesworth]

I'm just going to assume English is your second language, and never come back here again.

 

[Freakscar]

I'll go through this line by line.

Sooo there will be a big change in textures with 1.5

You heard right. The whole setup of a texture packs' inside is changed. Not much different for the end-user, since you still have one .zip and place that in the same old "texturepacks" folder, just like everyone did since.. the beginning of time. Kinda. The inside, on the other hand, is a whole different story and indeed needs some work from the tex-artists' side.

i have heard somewhere that there is soem kind of mod that brings back the old system with one big file of textures, and not with multiple single ones.

Thing is, the mechanism of Minecraft, when the program looks for a texture is going to change. It's not a choice the texture-pack creators had one fine day, but Mojang decided this. Apart of this, why (yeah yeah, see below) would you want that? According to all sources I read about the change, its a change for the better, as mostly everyone seems to agree, that it helps to reduce the systemload MC has, due to this change. May it be minor, may it be major.. but afaik, the change is a good one, perfomance-wise.

Is this true? or is there even support for the old texture packs?

There may be some texturepacks, which support the old style - but I seriously doubt this will continue for more than a few months at max. Why? Because the "old" system is only useful to MC version 1.4.7 and below. Which gets older. And older. And.. ancient. "MC Vanilla 1.6" is a silver light at the horizon by now, mod-authors are doing their last tweaks to their 1.5 versions, FTB is going to switch over from 1.4.7 to 1.5 sooner than later... in the end, its a useless effort. Take any 1.4.7 texturepack and use that. Anything "newer"

a) will be for a minecraft-version, that utilizes the new texture format
and
b) will be made for mods of a more recent version
ergo
c) you, pretty much guaranteed, must use a new texture pack

It would be a lot of work to change my current texture pack to the new format...

Duh. Welcome to the club. Literally all texture-pack authors everywhere are fighting with the new system, are doing changes to their packs, have to rearrange their folders, have to understand who the f*uk a Jason is and what he's got to do with textures - whathavenot. All of this, while (FTB wise) in the meantime keep up with mod-changes and their new textures.

And finally - no, I never heard of a mod that would revert this change. Again, it would be utterly useless for 99.9% of all minecrafters, being it just players, mod-authors or textureartists.