This is the MangoMinecraft of the present. I drafted this post a long time ago and forgot to publish it. Just to clarify, I have updated to 1.6 now.
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As you may know, Minecraft 1.6 came out recently. It added horses, stained clay, coal blocks, hay blocks, and more. Another thing that was changed: Mojang replaced Minecraft's texture pack with the resource pack. While the texture pack only lets you edit images and colors, the resource pack lets you edit pretty much everything except the actual game code. This includes sounds, fonts, text, and lots of other stuff. That's the reason I haven't updated yet; I've been messing around with texture packs and skins and I've been having to much fun to update just yet. Don't worry, soon my desire to ride horses will overpower my desire to make creepers wear pink shoes and the sun to have a smiley face. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, here's a picture:
You may also notice that I added weird scribbles on the grass and the pig over in the lower left corner. You can also edit what you look like, and although this picture doesn't show it, I look like I have very long black hair. That didn't really work out very well, because the shape of the Minecraft body is broad-shouldered and just looks weird with female skins.
The process of drafting this post caused me a lot of annoyance. Have you ever copied something huge, and then copied something else before you pasted the first thing? Maybe you didn't realize your mistake until you tried to paste the first thing and got something else instead. Well, that's exactly what happened to me when I was drafting this post. I started writing it in the Computer Version post, but then realized it was too long and copied it to paste it into this post. Long story short, THE INABILITY TO COPY MORE THAN ONE THING AT A TIME IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, I'm done now.
It took me a while to find a good YouTube tutorial for editing texture packs. Part of the problem is that you have to specifically type 1.5.2 tutorial, because versions 1.5 and later have separate images for each block, instead of one big image. Also, a lot of tutorials said you needed to extract the minecraft zip archive, but that just complicates things. By the way, if you're thinking of getting the computer version now, or if you have 1.6, ignore me because the format of resource packs is completely different. The most helpful video tutorial I've found for editing resource packs is this one. He doesn't explain specifically how to use the programs to edit sound and image files, but there's other resources for that. By the way, Paint.NET is an awesome image editing program. It has a really great user interface, and you can do pretty much anything. And, it's free!
Back to the video. Back when texture packs were used, when you wanted to make a new texture pack, you created a folder in AppData > Roaming > .minecraft > texturepacks. You then copied all of the default files in there and then edited them. However, in the video, with the new resource packs, instead of copying all the default files in the beginning, you copy, paste, and edit each file individually. I don't really know if you have to do that, because it seems inefficient and time-consuming. Oh well... Both of them work. Another method that I haven't found mentioned anywhere is to use TextureEnder.jar to generate a resource pack. (TextureEnder.jar is available for download here.) If you just create a copy of the default texture pack and convert it, it does all the work for you. Doing this may require a bit of help from YouTube tutorials, though.
One last thing. In versions before 1.5, HD texture packs required the use of a program called MCPatcher. But now, Minecraft automatically stitches textures together, so you can create HD texture packs!!! YAY!!! Here's my front door. Like, literally my front door, except in Minecraft.
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As you may know, Minecraft 1.6 came out recently. It added horses, stained clay, coal blocks, hay blocks, and more. Another thing that was changed: Mojang replaced Minecraft's texture pack with the resource pack. While the texture pack only lets you edit images and colors, the resource pack lets you edit pretty much everything except the actual game code. This includes sounds, fonts, text, and lots of other stuff. That's the reason I haven't updated yet; I've been messing around with texture packs and skins and I've been having to much fun to update just yet. Don't worry, soon my desire to ride horses will overpower my desire to make creepers wear pink shoes and the sun to have a smiley face. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, here's a picture:
You may also notice that I added weird scribbles on the grass and the pig over in the lower left corner. You can also edit what you look like, and although this picture doesn't show it, I look like I have very long black hair. That didn't really work out very well, because the shape of the Minecraft body is broad-shouldered and just looks weird with female skins.
The process of drafting this post caused me a lot of annoyance. Have you ever copied something huge, and then copied something else before you pasted the first thing? Maybe you didn't realize your mistake until you tried to paste the first thing and got something else instead. Well, that's exactly what happened to me when I was drafting this post. I started writing it in the Computer Version post, but then realized it was too long and copied it to paste it into this post. Long story short, THE INABILITY TO COPY MORE THAN ONE THING AT A TIME IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, I'm done now.
It took me a while to find a good YouTube tutorial for editing texture packs. Part of the problem is that you have to specifically type 1.5.2 tutorial, because versions 1.5 and later have separate images for each block, instead of one big image. Also, a lot of tutorials said you needed to extract the minecraft zip archive, but that just complicates things. By the way, if you're thinking of getting the computer version now, or if you have 1.6, ignore me because the format of resource packs is completely different. The most helpful video tutorial I've found for editing resource packs is this one. He doesn't explain specifically how to use the programs to edit sound and image files, but there's other resources for that. By the way, Paint.NET is an awesome image editing program. It has a really great user interface, and you can do pretty much anything. And, it's free!
Back to the video. Back when texture packs were used, when you wanted to make a new texture pack, you created a folder in AppData > Roaming > .minecraft > texturepacks. You then copied all of the default files in there and then edited them. However, in the video, with the new resource packs, instead of copying all the default files in the beginning, you copy, paste, and edit each file individually. I don't really know if you have to do that, because it seems inefficient and time-consuming. Oh well... Both of them work. Another method that I haven't found mentioned anywhere is to use TextureEnder.jar to generate a resource pack. (TextureEnder.jar is available for download here.) If you just create a copy of the default texture pack and convert it, it does all the work for you. Doing this may require a bit of help from YouTube tutorials, though.
One last thing. In versions before 1.5, HD texture packs required the use of a program called MCPatcher. But now, Minecraft automatically stitches textures together, so you can create HD texture packs!!! YAY!!! Here's my front door. Like, literally my front door, except in Minecraft.
That's pretty much it. More on my exploits in the computer version later.
