HDX Textures (16 - 512 px) [git rolling release]

[VanessaE]

It's possible, maybe.

EDIT: Added it.

[VanessaE]

Anna: A bathtub would first need to be added to some mod in order for HDX to support it. E.g. there must first be nodes for me to wrap the textures around. :-) That seems like something Homedecor mod should have. Maybe later.

[Inocudom]

In recent times, something very good has happened. RealBadAngel's shaders are now part of the main branch of Minetest. If you need advice on how to do normal maps, RealBadAngel should be able to help you out. His Haven NG texture pack provides a good example of what his shaders are capable of.

[Inocudom]

If you decide to make normal maps for these textures (to support parallax occlusion mapping,) where will you put them?

[VanessaE]

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Regarding Inocudom's question about normalmaps, there is a somewhat outdated repository of these at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.

[Novacain]

I must say, Bravo!! these tex packs are really nice, and I like that they are in smaller sizes as I don't have a very fast computer. however, the only thing I can see is that sometimes people rename nodes for their server, like removing underscores. Is there any way to make an easy fix to that so they show up with the other graphics? or would that require a whole new set of files with the underscores removed?

[VanessaE]

Such changes would need a whole new set of files, yes, and I'm not inclined to support that outside of certain games needing different filenames as a matter of course (see Minetest 0.3.x, Minetest-classic, and MT-Nostalgia).

If server owners are renaming the image files (regardless of whether they rename the nodes that use those files), they're doing it wrong. :)

[Novacain]

Such changes would need a whole new set of files, yes, and I'm not inclined to support that outside of certain games needing different filenames as a matter of course (see Minetest 0.3.x, Minetest-classic, and MT-Nostalgia).

If server owners are renaming the image files (regardless of whether they rename the nodes that use those files), they're doing it wrong. :)

Dang. well, at least it looks good in SP. one other thing I have noticed is that when I used the tex pack on your survival server, a large number of the ores still showed up as a 16x16 image in the larger image (I was using the 32x32 tex pack). just something I thought I'd let you know about.

edit: I just downloaded the git and it fixed it.

[Misty]

Hi Vanessa,
I just downloaded 2 versions of the HDX texture pack, and I'll let you know what my computer/game performance is like with them Installed. I downloaded the x64, and just in case that was too big for my poor little machine, I got the x32 as well.

[gsmanners]

Hello. I really like this texture pack, but that wieldhand turned out to be a little weird. I wonder if I'm doing the workaround right. I used Fuzzy Select Tool in the GIMP to select the area just right of the hand and then did a fill with green and then faded that to 1%. Is there a better/easier way to fix that?

[VanessaE]

It depends on what it is you're trying to accomplish. I guess you're trying to "hack" the extrude code to not do the side of the hand by exploiting how it decides which areas to process based on the alpha level of the image?

Last time I tried doing this, I failed. Let me know if you do find a workaround, and I'll incorporate it. :-)

[gsmanners]

Well, that's the only way I know of. I was just wondering whether there was a better way.

Yeah, it looks weird when you have the last pixels stretched out like that on an otherwise realistic looking texture, don't you think?

[VanessaE]

Indeed it does look odd. Did your idea work?

I just use a client-side patch to disable the extrude code entirely.

[Misty]

The x64 textures seem to work fine.
thanks for helping me figure out my client settings so I could use the texture pack selector properly.

[VanessaE]

No problem. Now if your machine is up to the challenge - try the 128px size ;-)

[Misty]

You read my mind. :P
I'm just going to download it now.

[GingerHunter797]

I just wanted to say this is an amazing texture pack! I wanted to use the 512x512 but it took forever to load and it crashed when I got into the game. lol! XD But the 256x256(run it at full speed) is just fantastic! It is beutiful! You did a really exelent job on this!

[Inocudom]

The mod linked to below should be easy for you to make textures for:
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=8232
It is oOChainLynxOo's hardened_clay mod.

[VanessaE]

More updates over the past month:

2014-02-15: Added support for Nore/sfan5's MG mod.

2014-02-15: Re-rendered basalt and also made it darker (I'm still not happy with it :-/ ).

2014-02-11: "disable" the texture extrude effect on the wieldhand by applying a 25% alpha along the right side of the hand (to the edge of the image). Thanks to gsmanners and MichaelRpdx for the tip!

2014-01-29: Re-based homedecor/signs_lib's sign-on-fencepost textures on current wood texture.

2014-01-23: Added default snowball.

2014-01-22: Added shrubbery textures for gloopblocks.

2014-01-19: Flowing lava texture for Nostalgia game, probably affects 0.3.x/-classic also?

2014-01-15: Much-improved quality of default leaves, and got rid of that damn blue edging finally!

2014-01-15: Improved quality of breaking animation's edges (using alpha blending and re-rendered from original source file).

Inocudom: I'll add support for the hardened clay mod after he fixes his texture filenames.

[BrunoMine]

this texture is fascinating!
Minetest Real Life!

[VanessaE]

Updates:

2014-03-01: reworked all smaller sizes of potted flowers and smaller sizes of roses and geraniums.

2014-02-27: Reworked the smaller sizes of poison ivy, wheat, cotton, wild grass, dry shrub, junglegrass. Crack animation had some sort of odd edging on it. fixed, and cleaned up a little bit. Reworked/cleaned up default minerals (in stone) a bit, smaller sizes only.

2014-02-27: Fix screens on steel doors.

2014-02-21: Reworked gloopblocks pumice - better contrast, sharper.

2014-02-18: Better alpha blending on air bubble.

2014-02-17: Smaller heart image, added "air bubble" image.

2014-02-17: Added fire and fake_fire imagery.

2014-02-17: Re-rendered furnaces and added rendered fire animations to go with the new animated 'active' state.

2014-02-16: Filled-in missing groundsoil 'dried out grass' top and side images for undergrowth.

2014-02-16: Fixed moreblocks empty bookshelf to match default one.

[Inocudom]

The mod linked to below should be easy for you to make textures for:
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=8232
It is oOChainLynxOo's hardened_clay mod.

https://github.com/oOChainLynxOo/hardenedclay
The impossible is now possible.

[Inocudom]

Are you still around VanessaE? Don't let this wonderful texture pack die.

I think default_grass, default_dirt, default_leaves, and default_tree could be a little more colorful.

[VanessaE]

Update today: I've split the Minetest Classic/Nostalgia/0.3.x stuff off into their own repository since it was getting a bit difficult to handle so many games in one package, and created a stable releases ZIP for it also. The 0.4.x standard stuff remains at their usual places. See first post for links. If anything got accidentally deleted in the split, please let me know by forum PM or IRC.

[VanessaE]

Yeah, I'm still around, I just don't read the forums too much anymore.

[hoodedice]

Yeah, I'm still around, I just don't read the forums too much anymore.

Let me guess. New forum design dissed you?

[VanessaE]

Nope, just haven't had much time lately. Been concentrating on non-Minetest stuff.

Meanwhile, I've just pushed initial support for that hardened clay mod that Inocudom suggested.

[VanessaE]

Update: The six main "Latest from git, has it all for 0.4.x" packs have been squashed (improperly...) and force-pushed to reduce repository bloat (since images don't diff too well :P ).

Users who use the zip downloads should notice that updates require a smaller download now. This does not affect the "default only" downloads or the "Classic/0.3.x" packs, since those have so little content by comparison.

I presume users tracking these packs via git will need to force-pull to update (I'm not sure). Ironically, the reduced repository size will probably resort in a fairly large download compared to what you might have otherwise expected when you do update. :-)

[Rhys]

This is a brilliant texture pack - one that I will now use often. ;). Great work, Van.

[VanessaE]

Thanks :-)

Update: Added support for Moontest game.