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Help for when the 3d swords come out.

Posted: 03 Feb 2015, 17:17
by Stormfront12
So on twitter sphax has been posting photos of 3d swords and blocks and i'm wondering something.

So i use bdcraft 128x (my computer cant run anything bigger than that) and it's great because the blocks look really good and only slightly pixelated up close. But whenever I use bdcraft I have 128x for the blocks, then 512x items. I do that because 512x items look amazing and they don't impact my performance (because they aren't making up the world :P). When I have 128x items it looks weird to me as it isn't completely rough like the default pack but then not smooth like 512x.

So the purpose of this topic is that, when the new 3d swords come out, how would I go about making my 128x pack have 512x sword models? With basic textures I just replace the 128x ones with 512x ones, but where would I have to look for the models?

Thanks for the help!

Re: Help for when the 3d swords come out.

Posted: 03 Feb 2015, 21:01
by Aedaeum
The resolution has no bearing on how the models work. They will work for all resolutions, regardless if you're mixing 128x and 512x.

Re: Help for when the 3d swords come out.

Posted: 03 Feb 2015, 21:07
by Stormfront12
I was wondering about where the model files would be located for me to mix them. Since I was going to take the 512x models to replace the 128x ones. Like in the resourcepack normal sword textures are in the items section, but where are the sword models?

Re: Help for when the 3d swords come out.

Posted: 03 Feb 2015, 21:28
by Aedaeum
Models are not organized by resolution. As I said, models are not dependent on the textures. Swapping the textures out like you've been doing, will work with the models.

Re: Help for when the 3d swords come out.

Posted: 03 Feb 2015, 22:47
by HanFox
Basically Sphax just uses models to manipulate the textures from the main pack. You can check it yourself by downloading the new 3D models addons from the PureBDcraft for Minecraft downloads page.

Re: Help for when the 3d swords come out.

Posted: 04 Feb 2015, 01:05
by Stormfront12
Ok so there isn't a separate model for each resolution? Didn't know that. Thanks for the help!

Re: Help for when the 3d swords come out.

Posted: 04 Feb 2015, 16:49 
by HanFox
After closer inspection (as it wasn't instantly apparent to me as I generally haven't been dabbling in MC1.8 yet) Sphax has actually bundled the model textures in to each individual resolution for the main resourcepack.

You'll find bdc_sword_diamond.png, bdc_sword_gold.png, bdc_sword_iron.png and bdc_sword1.png in the textures/items folder. These are only used in conjunction with the 3D items addon.

Sorry for the confusion. I doubt this effects you badly though as I imagine you'd have just moved the entire items folder regardless ;)