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I wanted to test the new background formspec addition and I was able to create a new look for the default inventory. This mod only works if you are in normal mode and there are no other inventory mods installed. This is merely a test to see if it is actually possible. It is ,but it isn't easy to get everything perfectly aligned.

License (except for background texture): WTFPL

Background image is from DokuCraft TP from this site: http://minecraftcustomizer.net/pack/DokuCraft+-+The+Saga+Continues





Future Updates:
Check form size
Mod support

Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71911483/xgui.zip

This looks nice.

This is wicked! Does this work in 0.4.3 and lower?

Awesome. Much better than the bland default.

AMAZING!! YOU MADE MY FREAKING DAY!!

heheh glad to see use of my changes to the engine :)
TIP: background image is slightly moved to the left and up by value of spacer/2
this is made so because item is displayed in the top left corner, thx to the shift it will land in exact middle of the square

TIP#2: to get backgrounds fit the grid, make it square. if you expect it to be same sized as coordinates. so, if youre planning to make a background for 4*5 sized formspec area, in 16px resolution, background image shall be sized 4*16 x 5*16

another example of usage:

Aqua wrote:This is wicked! Does this work in 0.4.3 and lower?

It requires 0.4.4

Can you do some inventory texture in the default style? I am looking for something to add it to upstream.

ashenk69 wrote:License: WTFPL

How can it be WTFPL if you took textures from DokuCraft?

xyz wrote:

ashenk69 wrote:License: WTFPL

How can it be WTFPL if you took textures from DokuCraft?

I am not sure. I am not that great when it comes to choosing the proper license. What should it be?

RealBadAngel wrote:heheh glad to see use of my changes to the engine :)
TIP: background image is slightly moved to the left and up by value of spacer/2
this is made so because item is displayed in the top left corner, thx to the shift it will land in exact middle of the square

TIP#2: to get backgrounds fit the grid, make it square. if you expect it to be same sized as coordinates. so, if youre planning to make a background for 4*5 sized formspec area, in 16px resolution, background image shall be sized 4*16 x 5*16

Depending on the image size and how much you add as a negative margin changes the image size. If I had known this ahead of time, I would have done it even better. You are right about the image being x*16 and y*16, but you also have to account for the negative margin. I used -.5 for x and -.25 for y which for some reason yields the perfect result for hiding the box. This would make the image size if w=8 and h=8 to be 136x136. This would get the correct alignment and everything. You can see in my image that there are some spots where it could be shifted one pixel either direction but because one pixel would push it out of alignment.

PilzAdam wrote:Can you do some inventory texture in the default style? I am looking for something to add it to upstream.

I am not very good at graphics design but if you want it in the style of default minecraft, there's is super simple. Just grey boxes and borders.

ashenk69 wrote:I am not sure. I am not that great when it comes to choosing the proper license. What should it be?

You're just not allowed to redistribute DokuCraft textures without the author's permission.
Please ask the author for permission, or use different textures as soon as possible. :)

Calinou wrote:You're just not allowed to redistribute DokuCraft textures without the author's permission.
Please ask the author for permission, or use different textures as soon as possible. :)

I checked the site I got it from and they said as long as I credit that it is from Dokucraft they are fine. I'll also add the link since it is a nice site to get textures from.

will be that it could be done in the creative inventory?
I wanted a beautiful image for the creative xD

ashenk69 wrote:I checked the site I got it from and they said as long as I credit that it is from Dokucraft they are fine. I'll also add the link since it is a nice site to get textures from.

Erm, I was wrong then, I looked, sorry. ;)

Can you modify the hotbar with this?

jordan4ibanez wrote:Can you modify the hotbar with this?

No, there still isn't a way to customize the hotbar it stays bland for now.

I updated the first post with new textures. The first one is a template for a 128x128 inventory and the second is a texture I created. I know PilzAdam wanted a texture to upstream as a default.

Will this mod ever be completed?

could you make one for unified inventory

I am working on a mod currently that is going to be big for map making and adventure maps.

Sexy mod, +10 Textures packs can now make the own Inventory guis, Great job ashenk69!

ashenk69 wrote:I am working on a mod currently that is going to be big for map making and adventure maps.

what is it

Will this at some point include creative inventory and furnace

Chinchow wrote:Will this at some point include creative inventory and furnace

UUmm I know you're busy but...

I have kind of abandoned this since a lot of it would involve changing the default code which probably should be done anyways. However, I know there are bigger things that everyone is working on in Github. This was more of an experiment to see how it worked. I could probably get rid of the mod status on it.

Fuck it. I might as well start working on this...

Yeah start working on it, and when click one, the Minetest Logo takes, you to add stuff, besides doing cheats.

I still think there should be a gap between the hot bar and the rest of the inventory. I've seen a lot of new users on YouTube get confused rather easily believing the hot bar is at the bottom on the inventory. Pointing out the obvious seems to be a requirement these days.