HanFox wrote:Oh, indeed, but suffering a few items at 2D that didn't exist before probably won't effect people too much. The vanilla skinned rabbits are creepy anyway, they need burning and all their remains tossing in to the void. They have haunting dead eyes...
Oh gosh. Well that's dramatic...
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HanFox wrote:It's still an easy fix for 95% of the items and hopefully Sphax will do other versions (enough people will likely be irked by the 2D stuff to force his hand anyway
). My thought is generally a plain boring just textures pack, then everything else is addons (i.e. MCPatcher/Optifine extras, models, flat items, sounds, music, etc.).
A solid MC1.8 is a ways away anyway. If Mojang don't change things with models again I'd be surprised (even if they've said it's now final they're not very good at working to targets).
Agreed. Back in the ol' days, it made sense to have a few extra features from mods included in the main pack, but nowadays the possibilities that resource packs allow (what with models, random blocks, sounds, music, etc.; not to mention the possibilities introduced by Optifine/MCpatcher) can vastly alter the RP experience. Given that sounds and music were made to be optional right from the get-go, which seems to have worked out fairly well, I would assume this approach would be effective with the the possibility of 3D models and 2D items now. Moreover, I would be inclined to suggest that it might be more important this time round as well, as such dramatic changes already seem to have been received roughly 50/50 in terms of positive and negative criticism. Forcing either side of the audience to accept the other solution will likely just result in endless suggestion threads (or in more extreme cases, abandonment of the RP) from those who perceive the changes negatively.
Splitting the pack up and making 3D models, 2D items, MCpatcher features, etc. available as patches in a separate download would simplify things and satisfy both portions of the audience (and as an added bonus for you, Han, perhaps reduce the commonness of 'Bug reports' resulting from people not allocating (or just having) enough RAM, as those will probably occur much more often with the release of MC1.8 ).
tl;dr: Yep.