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John-Smith-Modded / JSTR-Modded-1.7.x

John Smith: Technician's Remix for MC 1.7.x
https://john-smith-modded.github.io/
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Plank revamp discussion #24

Closed Oddface closed 9 years ago

Oddface commented 10 years ago

Planks are sorta weird right now. They're inconsistent and it damages the cohesiveness of the pack. I think we need to decide on one style of doing the planks and stick with it. For a while now it's been the oak texture from the original John Smith, but personally I don't really like it. It's great as one of the 6 types of wood in vanilla Legacy, but as a base for every plank texture in modded Minecraft, I just think it's a little too stylized, too grimy. I think @Satellence is onto something with his work on Chisel in the 1.6 repo. They're a little smoother and more stylistically flexible while still keeping with the John Smith style.

This is the blinds variation, which would be my choice for a new standard.

Those are just my two cents. This would obviously be a sweeping, somewhat controversial change for the pack, so I think it's important that we talk about it. What do you guys think? How do you like your planks?

damonmensch commented 9 years ago

I'm having trouble getting the Greatwood and Silverwood planks from Thaumcraft somewhere I like, so I'll pass it on to someone else. Going to focus more on the GregTech port instead.

If anyone wanted to try and implement my idea, it was to try and have some of the Thaumcraft runes "etched" into the planks.

lesdmark commented 9 years ago

I like the direction your going I might take a stab at the greatwood and silverwood on my next day off

Oddface commented 9 years ago

I've added relevant planks to the templates repo and added slightly tweaked Legacy versions of oak and birch as chaotic variations. I think it makes sense, as they're more in the spirit of the default texture and allows people to use the classic Legacy textures if they want.

Oddface commented 9 years ago

I've now done Forestry, so that finishes up the biggest conversion jobs. Would be nice if we could get Extra Trees support at some point too. How's Thaumcraft coming along? The etching idea is cool, but it might be a little intense for a regular building material.

lesdmark commented 9 years ago

Since I have started on AE2 IF someone else wants to work on it that would be cool.

Oddface commented 9 years ago

I'll try doing the Thaumcraft planks and make something close to the default textures, which I think look pretty cool.

goldbattle commented 9 years ago

These are all looking good. If someone could push all the different color variations to the template repo, it might help out with things. Good stuff.

lesdmark commented 9 years ago

I'm going to close this as I think we got this all issue solved.