Just a quick post to let everyone know, this project is far from dead. Just check the github commit log for the changes, there have been a lot of them, as I have been trying to keep things moving along.
Regarding Inocudom's question about normalmaps, there is a somewhat outdated repository of these at
https://github.com/VanessaE/hdx-normalmaps-512 ..... That size will technically work with any size of HDX, though they work best with the larger sizes. Just download that repository and copy the pngs directly into your HDX folder alongside the rest of the imagery. Bear in mind that repository is pretty large. Note that the normalmaps for wood, coloredwood, bookshelf, cactus, and maybe one or two others will need to be deleted once you download the set, as they won't match what's current in HDX. The rest should be okay. I'll update these sooner or later.
Meanwhile, here are the last few weeks' worth of updates:
2014-01-12: Various changes:
* Greatly improved default grass and dirt textures thanks to help from a new, better-quality monitor to do my work on. Similarly improved cottages dirt road "feldweg" texture, and the footsteps-in-grass texture used by a few games/mods. Affects all supported games.
* Add experimental, partial suppot for Undergrowth Modpack (not yet complete, but close).
* Made default wood for Nostalgia game, Minetest 0.3.x and Minetest-classic look more like the default texture that comes with those games.
* re-based artificial beehive, and wooden gate on current wood texture, made latter a jpg.
* Re-based coloredwood imagery on current default wood image.
2013-12-28: Added support for Sokomine's experimental Markers mod.
2013-12-19: Ran all PNGs in all texture packs through optipng. Also fixed some bad quality on 3dforniture chains inventory images.
2013-12-04: Add support for candycane mod.
2013-12-02: Fix pipeworks' furnace/chest tube connector images to match current state of that mod.
2013-11-26: Better textures for default tree trunks/tops and wooden planks. Slight improvement to bookshelf. Fix cactus top-to-side alignment glitch. Tweak lighting on cactus top a bit, try to make it
look more rounded.
2013-11-20: Added all Realtest ores and their associated mineral lumps, replaced previously added-but-lost peat also.
2013-11-19: bigger default coal lump.
2013-11-17: Replaced all lava and water source and flowing images with PNG versions with alpha support. Water alpha is -30%, lava is still 100% opaque.
2013-11-16: Updated Realtest leaves to go with recent changes to its code.