Opinions on new Ender IO textures?

[MCBozo]

I just loaded up an older Infinity world and realized that Ender IO has updated the visuals of, what appears to be, literally every item in the mod. To be honest, I think the new machines look bad, as well as the capacitors, and most everything I've seen so far. I honestly thought it was a really good-looking mod before, but now the textures look muddled, or blurry (I'm not sure how to describe it). The new capacitor textures, for example (basic, double-layer, octadic), are so visually similar, it's very hard to distinguish between them at a glance.

Anyway, unless there's just some sort of bug with how they are rendering in my world, I think they are a huge downgrade visually, and I'm really unsure of why the changes were made (save for being new solely for the sake of being new).

Edit: One other example of a downgrade... with the Alloy Smelter previously, when it was running, it very much looked like fire inside it, and it was clear that it WAS running. Now, there's a fire-ish looking glow on the front, but it just appears much less detailed than before. It's almost like the texture resolution is much lower or something.

 

[Senseidragon]

Texture packs can resolve your discontent with how items or blocks look in the game.

I'm not really digging the new look either, but I'm also not using Ender IO as much as I used to. Ever since "killer dirt blocks" were added in Ender Zoo, I started not being such a fan of those mods and moved to replace them.

 

[MCBozo]

I hope the mod authors add an option within the config file to retain the old textures. I love the mod, but just am really turned off by these new textures.

 

[Senseidragon]

While possible, it may not be likely for anything but really tiny mods. By allowing you to switch between new and old textures the mod author would need to include both sets of textures in their mod pack, bloating the size of the pack for everyone, not just the few that have an opinion one way or another about how something should look. Resolving the problem yourself with an entirely optional texture pack removes this burden from the author, and allows for potentially textures much more suited to an individual users tastes to be used without affecting the playerbase that could care less one way or another.

Edit: This would not apply so much in the case of dynamically generated textures, but that's another scenario.

 

[trinityamc]

Guess you could just paste in the textures of an older Version

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[Senseidragon]

You certainly could - but then you'd need to do that with every update of the mod. A resource pack is still generally the less annoying method to accomplish what you are trying to do.