Texture Packs , How to get them to work ?!!!! HELP !! D:

[Mootness]

Hello!
i have recently just downloaded Minetest and i am having problems getting Texture packs to work.

Im just wondering how on earth do you get texture packs to work?!?? ( i know were to get them from & how to download, its just the part after i need help on!)

I need some one PLEASE to post it in black & white and in simple terms on how to get the texture pack to work !!


As its seems no matter what i try / google nothing seems to work or make a difference :S , i dunno if what i am doing is wrong or if im just a noob.

but i would appreciate it very much is some one can help me to install ( even just one!!) texture pack. As i have a feeling if i keep messing about with the original content i will f****************** up the game D: !

Info on what to do next in simple terms after the texture pack has been download would be a good start!

Thank you :) x


Version i have ; minetest-0.4.dev-20120606

[Jordach]

Place the extracted textures into /minetest/textures/all

[LolManKuba]

what Jordach said and Jordach

[Mootness]

Place the extracted textures into /minetest/textures/all

So does that mean the actual folder of the texture pack? or copy & paste everything ( like the writing ) into were it says "Textures_here:
If you haven't modified the texture_path setting, you can copy textures of your texture packs into here. Folders are currently not supported.
"
yea...im having a thick day..

Screen shot or something please D: . as i think ive tried what you said before & didnt work :/
Usualy im fine with stuff like this, it just seems to be baffling me to death ¬_¬.

This is what is confusing me the most http://wiki.minetest.com/wiki/Installing_texture_packs , as i said ive tried various ways, and nothing changes :S X


But ty for your time! x

[LolManKuba]

You do not put the zip file into it, this is what to do.

1)Open the zip file or tar.gz?
2) Copy all the .png files and paste into the folder that contains textures_here.txt

[Mootness]

You do not put the zip file into it, this is what to do.

1)Open the zip file or tar.gz?
2) Copy all the .png files and paste into the folder that contains textures_here.txt

WOOOOO it worked !!! hahah ty soooo much !! :D
Much love ! <3

[LolManKuba]

Your welcome :)

[Mootness]

Your welcome :)

Sorry to be a knob, but for Mods , is it done the same way ? x

[sdzen]

well other than being a mods folder instead of textures yes i suppose it is

[Mootness]

LAST Q I PROMISE!!


can you have more than 1 Mod / texture pack in use at once? or do you have to scrap the current one to be-able to use the one you want?
x

[LolManKuba]

um kind've but this is how you do it
1) Go to the mods section, press minetest,
2) Where it says mods_here.txt put any of the mods there but do this.
i)when you open your mod, don't copy the zip file
ii) copy the folder that has the mod name and put it into the mod directory.

[LolManKuba]

You can't have 2 texture packs on at the same time, only 1 sorry
but you can have 2+ mods at the same time

[sdzen]

well that also runs toward texture packs as well so if one is dont assume the other isnt (my logic when writing my response) and its possible to have more than 1 mod but not more than one texture pack there is no option for switching
Edit:last i checked

[Calinou]

There's a quite involved but working way to swap texture packs.
Open minetest.conf using a text editor (ideally Notepad++ on Windows, avoid Windows's notepad), put this at the first line:

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texture_path = ../pack_folder_1

This will search textures in the "pack_folder_1" folder. If you put a # at the beginning of the line like this, the default texture pack will be used:

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#texture_path = ../pack_folder_1

Feel free to change the folder name, just keep the "../" there.
Put your texture pack folders in your Minetest installation folder, example structure:

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minetest
- bin/
- mods/
- ...
- pack_folder_1/
-- default_stone.png
-- ...
- pack_folder_2/
-- default_stone.png
-- ...


[Mootness]

Ty sooooooooo much guys !!! :)

Thought i was going to be failing forever at this game D: x

[zzarko]

I'm using minetest 0.4.1 on Ubuntu, installed from official PPA. I tried to place new textures in ~/.minetest/textures/all, and I also tried to include full path in config file, but no matter what I do, I always get the default textures (log file says it only loads from /usr/share/minetest, there is no mention of texture_path variable, even with --verbose option). The only texture pack that I could apply was cisoun's, but only by overwriting original files in /usr/share/minetest/ (using root privileges). Is there a way to put textures in ~/.minetest, and not to overwrite original files?

Also, placing mods in ~/.minetest/mods/minetest/ (as said in official documentation) did nothing, I had to place them in ~/.minetest/mods/minimal/ to get them to work (I found about this from log file). Are the location of files changed in 0.4.1?

[VanessaE]

zzarko please do not crosspost. Also, see my answer on the other thread.

[PilzAdam]

I'm using minetest 0.4.1 on Ubuntu, installed from official PPA. I tried to place new textures in ~/.minetest/textures/all, and I also tried to include full path in config file, but no matter what I do, I always get the default textures (log file says it only loads from /usr/share/minetest, there is no mention of texture_path variable, even with --verbose option). The only texture pack that I could apply was cisoun's, but only by overwriting original files in /usr/share/minetest/ (using root privileges). Is there a way to put textures in ~/.minetest, and not to overwrite original files?

Also, placing mods in ~/.minetest/mods/minetest/ (as said in official documentation) did nothing, I had to place them in ~/.minetest/mods/minimal/ to get them to work (I found about this from log file). Are the location of files changed in 0.4.1?

The fact that you have to install your mods in ~/.minetest/mods/minimal/ indicates that you dont use the minetest_game but the minimal development game. Try creating a new World and select "Minetest" and not "Minimal".

[zzarko]

The fact that you have to install your mods in ~/.minetest/mods/minimal/ indicates that you dont use the minetest_game but the minimal development game. Try creating a new World and select "Minetest" and not "Minimal".

Hmmm... I don't have any "minetest" game, only "minimal". I installed from Minetest official stable PPA, I didn't use development version. Is there another package for Ubuntu/Debian, or should I maybe compile from source?

Edit: I just realized that getdeb repository (which I'm using) also have minetest as one of their games and it was conflicting with minetest PPA. PilzAdam, thanks for the suggestion. Anyway, now I have minetest game, but I still don't have different textures either if I put them in textures/all, nor if I put full path in texture_path = in config file.

@Vanessa:E sorry, I didn't know that I was "crossposting" (I don't know wat that means, actually). Anyway, I posted here becasue title said how to make texture packs work.

Edit2: OK, some texture packs have image names begging with default_, and only those work, but only if I copy images from their default/textures subdirectory. Should I just ignore all the other files in texture pack archives?

[PilzAdam]

Edit2: OK, some texture packs have image names begging with default_, and only those work, but only if I copy images from their default/textures subdirectory. Should I just ignore all the other files in texture pack archives?

All pictures have to be directly in the "all" folder like this:

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textures/all/default_dirt.png
textures/all/default_cobble.png
....


[ranta]

i literally just installed minetest about an hour ago but cant seem to find textures_here.txt i have ubuntu 13.10gonna try to reinstall to see if i bunked it up there and i already unhid my files

[hoodedice]

i literally just installed minetest about an hour ago but cant seem to find textures_here.txt i have ubuntu 13.10gonna try to reinstall to see if i bunked it up there and i already unhid my files

No worries if there's no texture_here file. Just make sure it's the texture folder within the .minetest directory and paste the entire folder as is within the texture folder.

[ranta]

i literally just installed minetest about an hour ago but cant seem to find textures_here.txt i have ubuntu 13.10gonna try to reinstall to see if i bunked it up there and i already unhid my files

No worries if there's no texture_here file. Just make sure it's the texture folder within the .minetest directory and paste the entire folder as is within the texture folder.

and where would that be when i open the .minetest folder i see world,cache,client,debug.txt and minetset.confg when i open cache theres a media folder and a tmp folder. client just has server lists and and world just has a world 1 folder i really do have no clue what im doing i just recently switched to ubuntu as my main os still learning the ins and outs of the os

[Topywo]

For me the directory looks like this:

/home/topywo/minetest-minetest-767b2e7/textures

could also be something like:

/home/ranta/minetest/textures


If you don't find a directory like this:
- What version of minetest did you install (0.3.1 - 0.4.9)?
- Did you install it for you as local user (like I do) or system wide?

[ranta]

For me the directory looks like this:

/home/topywo/minetest-minetest-767b2e7/textures

could also be something like:

/home/ranta/minetest/textures


If you don't find a directory like this:
- What version of minetest did you install (0.3.1 - 0.4.9)?
- Did you install it for you as local user (like I do) or system wide?

4.9 i think and i just downloaded it from the main site and ran the .deb file so i dont know where i installed it

[stormchaser3000]

For me the directory looks like this:

/home/topywo/minetest-minetest-767b2e7/textures

could also be something like:

/home/ranta/minetest/textures


If you don't find a directory like this:
- What version of minetest did you install (0.3.1 - 0.4.9)?
- Did you install it for you as local user (like I do) or system wide?

4.9 i think and i just downloaded it from the main site and ran the .deb file so i dont know where i installed it

you need to look in /home/(your user)/.minetest

[ranta]

okay heres what i see event through the terminal for all you who keep saying just look in your .minetest
ranta@ranta-Satellite-C655:~$ cd /home/ranta/.minetest
ranta@ranta-Satellite-C655:~/.minetest$ ls
cache client debug.txt minetest.conf worlds
ranta@ranta-Satellite-C655:~/.minetest$

[RealBadAngel]

okay heres what i see event through the terminal for all you who keep saying just look in your .minetest
ranta@ranta-Satellite-C655:~$ cd /home/ranta/.minetest
ranta@ranta-Satellite-C655:~/.minetest$ ls
cache client debug.txt minetest.conf worlds
ranta@ranta-Satellite-C655:~/.minetest$

Try creating folder named "textures" there, and put in it texture packs (they need to be in their folders too)
so for example:

/textures/texture_pack1
/textures/texture_pack2
,,,

[ranta]

should i do the same for a mods folder as well that way its setup for when i start using mods as well and ty for the help angel

[FirePro]

You do not put the zip file into it, this is what to do.

1)Open the zip file or tar.gz?
2) Copy all the .png files and paste into the folder that contains textures_here.txt

How?