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A 64x texture pack designed for use with shaders.

Screenshot please :D

TumeniNodes wrote:Screenshot please :D

People are always so fast to ask for screenshots.

pithy wrote:

TumeniNodes wrote:Screenshot please :D

People are always so fast to ask for screenshots.

:P sorry... you were obviously, probably already uploading one.
This looks cool... Ima check it out

The screenshot looks very nice! Is the sand bumpy looking with shaders?
I'd test this out but my computer says no.

Looks like dedicated normalmaps nicely matched to textures.
My opinion is that textures and normalmaps have to be designed for each other, otherwise it can look awkward. For example standard textures have shading to suggest 3D, even dedicated normalmaps applied to such textures look wrong because the normalmap effect clashes with the texture's own shading.

paramat wrote:Looks like dedicated normalmaps nicely matched to textures.
My opinion is that textures and normalmaps have to be designed for each other, otherwise it can look awkward. For example standard textures have shading to suggest 3D, even dedicated normalmaps applied to such textures look wrong because the normalmap effect clashes with the texture's own shading.

A common mistake, is importing a texture into software (such as Gimp) and simply using the normalmap feature, and using just the presets. "Good" Normalmaps require more than simply this. They need to be tweaked, and in the situation of Minetest..., need to be tested with and without shaders on.
A texture should be created, and then the normalmap created from it with both variables taken into consideration.

I think what has been done here, so far..., are well done.

TumeniNodes wrote:A common mistake, is importing a texture into software (such as Gimp) and simply using the normalmap feature, and using just the presets. "Good" Normalmaps require more than simply this. They need to be tweaked, and in the situation of Minetest..., need to be tested with and without shaders on.
A texture should be created, and then the normalmap created from it with both variables taken into consideration.

I think what has been done here, so far..., are well done.

That is not what is being done. This texture pack is for shaders only.

pithy wrote:

TumeniNodes wrote:A common mistake, is importing a texture into software (such as Gimp) and simply using the normalmap feature, and using just the presets. "Good" Normalmaps require more than simply this. They need to be tweaked, and in the situation of Minetest..., need to be tested with and without shaders on.
A texture should be created, and then the normalmap created from it with both variables taken into consideration.

I think what has been done here, so far..., are well done.

That is not what is being done. This texture pack is for shaders only.

I was not referring to what you have done here, in the main paragraph. I was speaking in general.
The last sentence was meant toward your work here. : )
In the first paragraph, I was commenting on what Paramat mentioned

Now supports default minerals, so you can go mining.

This texture pack will no longer be developed do to my dissatisfaction with shaders in Minetest.
If shaders improve, I may start a new texture pack as this texture pack was more of a learning experience.

This pack does not work well with shaders on. i can't even see the textures properly.