Texture Generator (texgen
)
Dynamically generates a texture pack for your current game in the textures
directory.
Features
- Compatible with virtually all mods and games
- Easy texture pack generation, no complex installation
- Server-side (mod-based) texture pack; textures can be accessed by other mods
Instructions
Just fire up the mod and configure it to your liking. It might throw an error message as it updates its mod.conf
to depend on all enabled mods. Simply retry after that.
Downloading palettes
You can use the /download_palette <url>
chatcommand to download a PNG palette file, for example /download_palette https://lospec.com/palette-list/zughy-32-1x.png
.
See /help download_palette
for details on its usage.
Requires the server
priv. Only available if texgen
is added to both secure.http_mods
and secure.trusted_mods
.
WARNING: Enabling this feature poses a minor security risk.
Configuration
average
Replace each texture with a single pixel of its weighted average RGB color
- Type: boolean
- Default:
false
invert
Invert the RGB colors
- Type: boolean
- Default:
false
monochrome
Convert RGB to monochrome (greyscale)
- Type: boolean
- Default:
false
palette
dithering
Dithering method to use
- Type: string
- Default:
floyd_steinberg
- Possible values:
- sierra
- stucke
- sierra_lite
- jarvis_judice_ninke
- floyd_steinberg
- none
- two_row_sierra
- burkes
- atkinson
name
Name of the palette to use (without extension)
- Type: string
- Default:
apollo
- Possible values:
- soggy-newspapers
- apollo
- zughy-32
- aap-64
- pico-8
- resurrect-64
saturate
Increase or decrease saturation by a factor
- Type: number
- Default:
1
- >=
0.1
- <=
10
Links
- GitHub - sources, issue tracking, contributing
- Discord - discussion, chatting
- Minetest Forum - (more organized) discussion
- ContentDB - releases (downloading from GitHub is recommended)
License
Code written by Lars Müller (appgurueu) and licensed under the MIT license; builtin Minetest media licensed under various free Creative Commons licenses as well as the Apache 2 license (see LICENSE.txt
in the builtin
folder for details and attribution).
The palettes are (for copyright reasons shuffled) versions of palettes available on Lospec:
- Adigun A. Polack's "AAP-64"
- AdamCYounis' "Apollo"
- Lexaloffle Games' "PICO-8"
- Kerrie Lake's "Resurrect 64"
- Walking's "Soggy Newspapers"
- Zughy's "Zughy 32"
Interesting and Fun
A fun mod to fiddle around with. Got some pretty cool results. There seems to be a bug where sometimes you have to reload minetest for a newly downloaded palette to show up