you have to change your building style with this pack, or else it will be dark. plus, I use glowstone for lighting, makes better ambience for my areas.
why dont we make all diff kinds of steamy blocks instead of the dyes.
like a cog block and you could have a small cog as the dye or so maybe
anyways hoping for a soon fix ^ ^ currently playing old mc till this is up
It occured to me that we could use the dyed blocks as all different kinds of devices, but doing so would rob us of all the marvelous banners and painted buildings we could have.
Keep the colors, but perhaps one or two different materials for certain colors.
e.g. Let white, black, red, blue, green, brown, and yellow be cloth. This would let us make brightly colored airships or stark flags flapping in the wind.
Let orange, pink, light blue, magenta, gray and light gray be painted wood, so we can make houses with greater style and character (As was the victorian fashion)
And have purple, cyan, and lime green be metallic boilerplate, so we can make brilliant ships, subs, and machines.
...Okay, maybe not those exact colors, but you get the idea.
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I think with all the new additions to the terrain.png including all the available alternate textures there might be a little difficult. Maybe just have seperate alternate.png we can pull from with all of the alternates you already have on file (wouldn't really be all that much more difficult). Then WE can decide if we'd rather have the actual colors or an assortment of aesthetic blocks :wink.gif: I think I feel comfortable enough adding my own color to wood or metal anyway.
soi just updated minecraft today wow the new update is huge tons of changes (i guess thats why it took so long for it to come out). lol soo many new things to play with now :biggrin.gif:
I think the Music Block will work really well, in the steampunk scheme of things, especially when controlled by redstone pipes and a series of horn shaped music boxes (as the texture currently stands). As someone has already said...Pipe Organ! Whose going to be the first to make a grand concert hall interior with giant pipe organ?
Just a mad thought as I slip into sleep deprived madness!
Any requests for the cake? I'm cooking it's textures now (contradicted my earlier order of work!). I'll stick to traditional recipes for now and think about a brass one later!
I think the Music Block will work really well, in the steampunk scheme of things, especially when controlled by redstone pipes and a series of horn shaped music boxes (as the texture currently stands). As someone has already said...Pipe Organ! Whose going to be the first to make a grand concert hall interior with giant pipe organ?
Just a mad thought as I slip into sleep deprived madness!
Any requests for the cake? I'm cooking it's textures now (contradicted my earlier order of work!). I'll stick to traditional recipes for now and think about a brass one later!
Who's talking about my organ?
OH< you said pipe organ, not Pipe's organ!
Sorry couldn't resist!
Lol! As I wrote that post I thought to myself, "be very careful how you word this one!"
For now all the coloured blocks are cloth textures, but I like your idea, Triskelli, for further development and various materials. It would be quite easy for some industrious graphical person to colour each of the most useful textures in this block and have them available for folks to mix and match! I'll do it eventually, if no-one else does. However it would have to be done with the properties of the material in mind, eg. no dayglow iron textures, yuk!
Obviously busy at the mo', so won't linger. Still striving to get it out to you tonight folks, UK time.
So, while we're waiting for an update (easy for me as I only have my phone tether as internet), I have a challenge for you all.
You awake on a strange beach in an alien world. The giant, dying red sun glares down upon you as you like amidst the wreckage of your newest invention.
What is this invention? As a steampunk mad-scientist type, what did you build that brought you here? I don't have anything at the moment but I'm in the process of building something :biggrin.gif:
I think it definitely is a great idea to create different material textures for the new coloured wool blocks in the game as Triskelli suggests, but it would also be a good idea to keep within the general hues of colour that each block is designated with whatever the material texture it is given. Notch has finally implemented colour for SSP so that we don't have to work with just bland grays, browns and creams anymore. It would be such a shame to loose the new colours that he's given us if we just changed them to different steampunk material. Just my two pennies worth :smile.gif:
In complete agreement with this, as is Triskelli. I think with this pack, above all else, we want as many Victorian/Steampunk textures we can get our hands on with a nice range of colours, but they must be within the bounds of believability.
Can you all give me some suggestions for future coloured materials, Triskelli's ideas are a very good start, but I'd like to get it right, as for me each new block requires a lot of thought.
Just something to think about, but when I release the pack soon, tonight, I've got a texture I like, though it's in the clay position, perhaps it would be better under one of the coloured blocks. What textures are there, given all these new spaces, that we all want for our epic steampunk builds. I would love to hear your thoughts, then I don't waste any time on useless materials. I for one am very happy with the two new building materials Notch gave us - Lapis Lazuli and Sandstone, and i hope you'll like what I've done with them in the limited time I had.
The Cake is still basic vanilla textures for tonight, but everything else is done apart from the brick texture I've just seen a problem with. Once that's done I'll upload. :biggrin.gif:
I've already re-patched with xau's MC Patcher and Mr M's BetterLight, Grass, etc and apart from standard water and lava, both essential patches worked perfectly for me - No Glitches.
I've not had a chance to try out the dispensor, so I hope I've not gotten anything back to front, but I'm sure you'll let me know if there's any glaring probs. Just remember a lot of the new textures will need more work over the next few days... I'm pretty happy with the dispensor though and hope you like it too. :smile.gif:
So, while we're waiting for an update (easy for me as I only have my phone tether as internet), I have a challenge for you all.
You awake on a strange beach in an alien world. The giant, dying red sun glares down upon you as you like amidst the wreckage of your newest invention.
What is this invention? As a steampunk mad-scientist type, what did you build that brought you here? I don't have anything at the moment but I'm in the process of building something :biggrin.gif:
A very cool idea that could easily launch a thousand stories!
lol pipe i might be able to get on for a bit tonight if the server ever lets me on
Bonehead, you have downgrade your client...check your email on gmail, I sent you something!
@Glimmar, I too vote for using the colored blocks as variations on steampunk textures but maintaining the same basic color to give us more to work with! Next up, a Hello Kitty hotpink emo airship! LOL
I have a bit of a working model type thingy... Saved it as an MCEdit file, so I can paste it into any world I gen easily. These screenshots were also taken in MCEdit so I can have the proper textures.
The outside of the machine!
The control room. Levers didn't load properly.
The difference engine, needed to calculate the complex mathematics involved in inter-dimensional travel.
The engine room, which generates the massive amounts of steam power needed to move the machine through the fabric of space and time. Also contains the manual shutoff switch, which didn't load properly.
i think this texture is one of the best i've ever used. but it is SO dark.
Ok, time for another healthy rant, directed at no-one in particular.
The way I see it, there exists a two-axis spectrum when it comes to flavors of steampunk, be it crafting, painting, pixels or novels.
On one end we have the fantastic side of steampunk. This is where your Final Fantasies, children's books and T.V., and alot of the cheaper steampunk baubles reside. Here we have brass fish, flying locomotives, and other things that follow the aesthetic, but make little if any explanation about themselves and their properties. A perfect recurring example would be Tik-Tok from the Wizard of Oz. While it's obvious that he is an artificial man powered by gears and springs, Baum never stops to demonstrate how he works.
Opposite of fantastic steampunk we have the realistic variety. In these cases, the author or artist put a great deal of thought and planning into his work, and it really shows. Often novels of this variety can be considered alternate histories, featuring people from the era and experimental technologies at the time. This is where Babbage, Tesla, and England as a whole really shines. The Difference Engine, considered one of the founding steampunk texts, is exhaustively researched and fairly plausible, if Babbage ever managed to finish his computer. And many a real handbuilt contraption or modification can illustrate what is actually possible with steam and gears!
On top of the other axis, we find a new category, gritty steampunk. Once again, this is popular with novelists, with poorly lit alleyways, ashen skies and soot-covered street-urchins. This is steampunk at its' most atmospheric, and its' most oppressive. Bioshock, Perdido Street Station, and Jasper Morello use the aesthetic and the social stigmas associated with the Industrial Revolution to present bleak dystopias full of downtrodden working classes, exploitative bourgeois, and indifferent heroes.
And to contrast with the grit and crime we have stylized steampunk. Such artwork embodies the spirit of the Victorian era; the confidence in science, the dapping rouges, unforgivable scoundrels, and those final mysterious corners of the earth. This is the airship captain, the exquisite ocean liner, everything well lit and fresh off the drawing board. Arthur Conan Doyle, the Leviathan trilogy, and all the classic works of Verne show this in the unique worlds and unforgettable characters.
Hmm... perhaps I could have chosen better descriptors... But I think I made my point well enough to discuss my own opinion and describe other people:
For example, our most gracious host Glimmar tends toward gritty realistic steampunk, if not for the subtext then at least for the atmosphere. I, on the other hand, am more inclined to stylized realistic so I can play the part of hero... or more often mustache twirling villian.
Sorry for two rants in one day, but I've been sitting on this idea for awhile, and wanted to get it out.
Thanks Xanthia :biggrin.gif: Once I can get my hands on an update from Glimmar I'll work on creating a destroyed version and maybe shrinking it down a little bit (personally I think it's too big and contains too many resources for a new player to start with).
Maybe make a time machine based on the H.G. Wells novel. Here's a picture from the movie adaption by George Pal
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Curse Premiumi need to place double the torches to be able to see anything.
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Curse PremiumIt occured to me that we could use the dyed blocks as all different kinds of devices, but doing so would rob us of all the marvelous banners and painted buildings we could have.
Keep the colors, but perhaps one or two different materials for certain colors.
e.g. Let white, black, red, blue, green, brown, and yellow be cloth. This would let us make brightly colored airships or stark flags flapping in the wind.
Let orange, pink, light blue, magenta, gray and light gray be painted wood, so we can make houses with greater style and character (As was the victorian fashion)
And have purple, cyan, and lime green be metallic boilerplate, so we can make brilliant ships, subs, and machines.
...Okay, maybe not those exact colors, but you get the idea.
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OH< you said pipe organ, not Pipe's organ!
Sorry couldn't resist!
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Curse PremiumLol! As I wrote that post I thought to myself, "be very careful how you word this one!"
For now all the coloured blocks are cloth textures, but I like your idea, Triskelli, for further development and various materials. It would be quite easy for some industrious graphical person to colour each of the most useful textures in this block and have them available for folks to mix and match! I'll do it eventually, if no-one else does. However it would have to be done with the properties of the material in mind, eg. no dayglow iron textures, yuk!
Obviously busy at the mo', so won't linger. Still striving to get it out to you tonight folks, UK time.
Glim, whose glum!
You awake on a strange beach in an alien world. The giant, dying red sun glares down upon you as you like amidst the wreckage of your newest invention.
What is this invention? As a steampunk mad-scientist type, what did you build that brought you here? I don't have anything at the moment but I'm in the process of building something :biggrin.gif:
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Curse PremiumIn complete agreement with this, as is Triskelli. I think with this pack, above all else, we want as many Victorian/Steampunk textures we can get our hands on with a nice range of colours, but they must be within the bounds of believability.
Can you all give me some suggestions for future coloured materials, Triskelli's ideas are a very good start, but I'd like to get it right, as for me each new block requires a lot of thought.
Just something to think about, but when I release the pack soon, tonight, I've got a texture I like, though it's in the clay position, perhaps it would be better under one of the coloured blocks. What textures are there, given all these new spaces, that we all want for our epic steampunk builds. I would love to hear your thoughts, then I don't waste any time on useless materials. I for one am very happy with the two new building materials Notch gave us - Lapis Lazuli and Sandstone, and i hope you'll like what I've done with them in the limited time I had.
The Cake is still basic vanilla textures for tonight, but everything else is done apart from the brick texture I've just seen a problem with. Once that's done I'll upload. :biggrin.gif:
I've already re-patched with xau's MC Patcher and Mr M's BetterLight, Grass, etc and apart from standard water and lava, both essential patches worked perfectly for me - No Glitches.
I've not had a chance to try out the dispensor, so I hope I've not gotten anything back to front, but I'm sure you'll let me know if there's any glaring probs. Just remember a lot of the new textures will need more work over the next few days... I'm pretty happy with the dispensor though and hope you like it too. :smile.gif:
Keep an eye out now!
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Curse PremiumA very cool idea that could easily launch a thousand stories!
Bonehead, you have downgrade your client...check your email on gmail, I sent you something!
@Glimmar, I too vote for using the colored blocks as variations on steampunk textures but maintaining the same basic color to give us more to work with! Next up, a Hello Kitty hotpink emo airship! LOL
The outside of the machine!
The control room. Levers didn't load properly.
The difference engine, needed to calculate the complex mathematics involved in inter-dimensional travel.
The engine room, which generates the massive amounts of steam power needed to move the machine through the fabric of space and time. Also contains the manual shutoff switch, which didn't load properly.
Ok, time for another healthy rant, directed at no-one in particular.
The way I see it, there exists a two-axis spectrum when it comes to flavors of steampunk, be it crafting, painting, pixels or novels.
On one end we have the fantastic side of steampunk. This is where your Final Fantasies, children's books and T.V., and alot of the cheaper steampunk baubles reside. Here we have brass fish, flying locomotives, and other things that follow the aesthetic, but make little if any explanation about themselves and their properties. A perfect recurring example would be Tik-Tok from the Wizard of Oz. While it's obvious that he is an artificial man powered by gears and springs, Baum never stops to demonstrate how he works.
Opposite of fantastic steampunk we have the realistic variety. In these cases, the author or artist put a great deal of thought and planning into his work, and it really shows. Often novels of this variety can be considered alternate histories, featuring people from the era and experimental technologies at the time. This is where Babbage, Tesla, and England as a whole really shines. The Difference Engine, considered one of the founding steampunk texts, is exhaustively researched and fairly plausible, if Babbage ever managed to finish his computer. And many a real handbuilt contraption or modification can illustrate what is actually possible with steam and gears!
On top of the other axis, we find a new category, gritty steampunk. Once again, this is popular with novelists, with poorly lit alleyways, ashen skies and soot-covered street-urchins. This is steampunk at its' most atmospheric, and its' most oppressive. Bioshock, Perdido Street Station, and Jasper Morello use the aesthetic and the social stigmas associated with the Industrial Revolution to present bleak dystopias full of downtrodden working classes, exploitative bourgeois, and indifferent heroes.
And to contrast with the grit and crime we have stylized steampunk. Such artwork embodies the spirit of the Victorian era; the confidence in science, the dapping rouges, unforgivable scoundrels, and those final mysterious corners of the earth. This is the airship captain, the exquisite ocean liner, everything well lit and fresh off the drawing board. Arthur Conan Doyle, the Leviathan trilogy, and all the classic works of Verne show this in the unique worlds and unforgettable characters.
Hmm... perhaps I could have chosen better descriptors... But I think I made my point well enough to discuss my own opinion and describe other people:
For example, our most gracious host Glimmar tends toward gritty realistic steampunk, if not for the subtext then at least for the atmosphere. I, on the other hand, am more inclined to stylized realistic so I can play the part of hero... or more often mustache twirling villian.
Sorry for two rants in one day, but I've been sitting on this idea for awhile, and wanted to get it out.
Maybe make a time machine based on the H.G. Wells novel. Here's a picture from the movie adaption by George Pal
Well I dont know that I would call it a glitch. More of a random happy happenstance.
It seems as though the "S" Block is being pulled from the alternates.
I just found it rather amusing and wanted to share.