[16x16] How to make a Minecraft Texture Pack

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Posted 12/14/11 12:09:24 am , last updated: 06/18/12 1:04:55 am
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Hey there PMC, Rayner_XIII here with a hopefully detailed tutorial on how to make Minecraft texture packs. In future, I will make a video tutorial on how to do this, so stay tuned.

For a Mac tutorial, click here.

What you'll need:
-Paint.net/Photoshop/GIMP (I use Paint.Net, and the tutorial will be using Paint.Net)
-Either a fresh Minecraft.jar, or another texture pack. (I am in no way telling you to upload any content that isn't completely made by you! I am telling you to use somebody else's pack a referrence, not as your own.)
-An idea or a theme. That can be, medieval, RPG, space, etc.
-Actual Minecraft game, to test the pack in-game.
-You MAY need some experience in other texturing or spriting, but it is not necessary.

The Breakdown:
Making Minecraft Texture Packs are easy. The only issues are, how time consuming the actual process is, and whether or not you have a distinctive idea that you can continually build upon.

What to do:

Part 1

The first step is to decide where to start. I will be starting with the terrain.png, as I always do. Instantly find a block that you recognize. The dirt texture is easy enough to change, so let's go with that. Using the select tool in Paint.Net, select the 16x16 pixel area that makes up the dirt texture. Once this area is selected, we won't go accidentally drawing over the other textures with our tools. From there, we can select the pen tool, and go up to where we can select the brush size. Next to that, make sure that anti-aliasing is indeed on. From there, select a basic brown colour from the colour wheel--if it is not there, then press 'F8' and it should appear--and colour in the entire 16x16 pixel space. Then, select a different colour of brown, by pressing the 'More' option of the colour wheel and tinkering with the slider. Whether it be a darker or lighter brown, start drawing over the top of the original brown in certain places, until you deem the block to look good. If it appears to look one-tonal, then go into the 'Effects' dropdown and go down to 'Noise'. Then, click on 'Add Noise', then tinker with the sliders there until you get a result that you enjoy. Look for my future submissions to see what I did, following these exact steps. You can copy this texture you have just made to the dirt block with grass on top, and from there, edit it so there is grass on top. This way, it suits the pack.
Now that your first block is done, make sure it is at a standard you enjoy. From there, once recognizing all of the other blocks (or Googling/asking around), make your own version of each of them. You can follow the same, or similar techniques for all the blocks to get a uniform look in your pack.

Testing the Texture Pack in-game:
To test the texture pack in-game, take the edited terrain.png and put it into a zipped folder. I cannot stress this enough, the texture pack must be in a winzip compressed document format. After that, open your Minecraft game, and open the 'Texture Pack' section. Then, from there, open the texture pack folder by clicking the button and drag your texture pack as a .zip file into that folder. Close the folder, click on the texture pack and viola! The texture pack will indeed work in-game. Then it is only a matter of finding that block (in this case dirt, so that will be fairly easy) and seeing how well the texture tiles.

For any questions, queries or 'how the hell do I do this?', please, comment below or PM me. If you tell me the problem, I SHOULD be able to help.

Thanks again!

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Update #3 : 06/18/2012 1:04:55 am6/18/12

Mac Tutorial "added" I guess. Linked to my main man, Trentonyo's profile.

Update #2 : 06/17/2012 2:33:49 am6/17/12

Cleaned it up to leave room for other parts.

Update #1 : 05/08/2012 7:01:15 pm5/08/12

Updated the display picture.

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