Vanessa's Photorealistic "HDX" texture packs
These texture packs are intended to provide a nice, realistic look to Minetest, in multiple resolutions to support a reasonable range of graphics power. High- and low-end machines should all do well with these, provided you choose a size appropriate for your hardware. :-)
HDX stands for "High Definition Expansion" and refers primarily to the highest resolution size supported by this texture pack set (you can't exactly call 16px "HD" after all :-) ).
Screenshots are at the bottom of this post.
Unless I missed an update somewhere along the way :-) these packs support most of the standard/distribution stuff and a whole bunch of mods! These packs should work with other branches, forks, and versions of Minetest, as long as the texture filenames haven't been changed.
Downloads:
Stable Releases (last updated 2017-01-01 5:32 pm):
Recent 0.4.x releases (default minetest_game content only):
16px - 32px - 64px - 128px - 256px - 512px
Voxelands/Minetest 0.3.x/Minetest Nostalgia game:
16px - 32px - 64px - 128px - 256px - 512px
Latest from git:
Downloads For 0.4.x (full game/mod support)
16px - 32px - 64px - 128px - 256px - 512px
Browse their respective repositories:
16px - 32px - 64px - 128px - 256px - 512px
Downloads for Voxelands et al.:
16px - 32px - 64px - 128px - 256px - 512px
Browse their respective repositories:
16px - 32px - 64px - 128px - 256px - 512px
Notes:
Disk usage for these packs ranges from about 7 MB for the stripped-down "default stuff only" 16px 0.4.x release to about 403 MB for the 512px git version with everything including the kitchen sink (not counting git history, which would falsely bloat the size of the pack).
I personally recommend using the "Repository" links to manage your copies of these packs via git if you can. They take more space than the ZIPs (about 1.2 GB for the 512px size), but then you don't have to re-download the whole archive every time updates are made.
There are 2630 textures in the 512px size, counting all of the supported games and mods listed below. While the general trend is to increase, the number of textures will sometimes go down, if for example the supported mod is rewritten to need fewer images.
NOTICE: Depending on which game you run and/or how many HDX-supported mods are being used, you may need fairly modern gaming system to run the larger sizes of these texture packs at respectable frame rates. Some machines may take a LONG time to initialize (the 256px pack takes upwards of one minute when on a Dreambuilder-based server/world, on my machine). The more fancy effects you enable on your client, the more RAM this pack will take.
License
GFDL because of the original images' licenses (most are either CC-By-SA or GPL), or WTFPL if you don't care about licenses. ;-)
Install
Supported Games and Mods
Technical info
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