Had a quick chat with Schema about it, seems like this could be a bug.
I'll have a chat with Andyp and Lancake about it, see if we can get custom texture sets working on the test server or something.
many thanks, kupu. having spent the last few weeks creating new blocks, i've really gotten to appreciate the time you've taken on the starmade textures in the past year. it's really impressive work and makes long hours of building in starmade fun and easy.
one other thing i did notice about the client, is that the custom textures do not seem to come in quite as sharp as the game's default textures - i am thinking they may be hard-coded to come in differently than the game's default texture packs, but i can't really be sure. it doesn't make much of a difference from 5 or 6 m off, but it does make a significant one when you're close up. i'll get a screenshot into the post to explain what i mean in a few minutes, just need to head over to my desktop.
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here's a 10m-away shot of the big part of the project i've been working on, a set of white-paint + grey standard armor crafted letters, numbers, and symbols. i of course started with the grey standard armor texture as a base for each of these. all of this is working fantastically with block properties, faces, rotation, etc. all working beautifully off of the block config. i absolutely love this feature.
but once loaded into the game, here's how my tiles look side by side to the in-game grey standard armor, you can see the extra blur kicking in (on right) vs. the crisp unfiltered pixels of the in-game texture pack textures (on left):
this makes their match-up a little more difficult than i had originally anticipated.
i hope this is useful information, and thanks again for your attention on this matter. i logged onto the test server myself to check things out, and i saw there is indeed a custom texture being distributed, but i checked the shop and crafting for a custom block to try to make with no success. i would be happy to help test any of these features out on the dev build.
Two other minor thoughts about the block config and custom textures:
- it would be lovely if we could apply the face texture IDs from the default textures to blocks in our custom array, at the moment, those numbers produce blank faces, and all textures on a custom block must come from the custom texture fileset:
this relates to the other big project i'm working on: faction emblems, which i'm "decal"-ing onto copies of hull blocks using cutouts of the other hull colors to keep everything uniform and looking like a part of the game. i decided the best way to do this was to have the emblem on two faces, and the hull texture on the other four. i tried to have the custom block config dial in the game's hull textures, but it seems custom blocks must use entirely custom textures. since i coudln't call them up from the texture pack, i put a copy from the texture packs in for each emblem to dial in, but this of course has the effect of doubling the size in the texture file needed for them.
- having some custom inventory icons (i.e. \image-resource\build-icons-00-16x16-gui-.png ) would be cool too. as the number of custom blocks in the config grows, it becomes difficult to piggyback on the game's existing block inventory icons.
