Talk:Resource Packs/@comment-2601:644:1:AB10:D8F3:61DB:DDF2:E4E8-20190608224018/@comment-38497603-20190722015244

Ah, sorry to both of you for taking so long - Be sure to unpack the mod (I use 7zip) and get familiar with where the textures are located in the files first of all. - The most important thing you should already have done is to make the new texture itself. That's its own art, figuring out what shapes go where, figuring out how to execute the vision you have for the animal, blah blah blah. You can use any image editing software really. I even used MS Paint 3D for a little while! But this is the most important part. Everything is irrelevant if you can't be bothered to make the art. - Anyway, make sure all the files are labelled in the exact same way they're labelled in the mod files. Otherwise the game won't recognize your textures. Also, make a string of folders surrounding your texture files that perfectly mimic the file structure in the mod files (But omit any extraneous folders that contain stuff you didn't edit, you really want to keep the file size down for the sake of others). - Lastly, alongside of the folder "assets", you need a document called "pack.mcmeta" (Don't copy down my quotation marks). This is actually just a txt file that you can open up with a simple notepad app. You can take apart one of my resource packs, grab "pack.mcmeta" and just rename it to "pack.txt", and you can open it up with a notepad app. From there, replace the part of the document that has my name for the pack on it, and rename it to whatever you want to call your pack. Save it, rename it back to "pack.mcmeta", place it next to your "assets" folder, and zip the two up in a .zip file using 7zip. - Test the pack to make sure it works (I assume you know how to use packs in-game), and if it works, hooray you have a pack! From there, find a platform to share it with (I find that Dropbox is the easiest to use), and link the download here on the Resource Packs page. Maybe I should have made this into a page, but I don't feel like setting that up right now. Hope you found this useful and I'm excited to see what you guys create!