GroovyStipple R3: Signs and Portents
Spurred by a comment on Reddit I thought I would have a go at adding items to my Minecraft texture packs. So far I have added textures for signs and boats. Read more
January 2011
GroovyStipple R4: Sheep and Grass
Using a similar process to the sign and boat (as described in the previous post), I have managed to create a sheep: Read more
GroovyStipple R5: Minecraft Beta 1.2 Support
The latest release of Minecraft introduces several new things that need textures: coloured wool, sandstone, the displenser and some refinements to the appearances of trees and furnaces. I have had a go at adding them to my GroovyStipple and SmoothStipple texture packs. Read more
Packaging versus Building from Source on Mac OS X
It took me a weekend but I finally got Python 2.7 + PIL (Python Imaging Library) working on my old PowerBook G4 12″ (which runs Mac OS 10.4 Tiger). The problems I was having were partly because of a mismatch between pre-compiled. and build-from-source packages. Read more
GroovyStipple R7: Alternative Track Corners
Mine-cart tracks in Minecraft have two textures: straight track and a 90° corner. You can run diagonal lines, and carts will happily travel on them in a straight 45° line, but because it is rendered using corner pieces, it looks like a wriggly line. This vexes people who do not think that train tracks don’t look right when they make abrupt turns. Read more