Some companion mods suggestions

[Terex 108]

Thanks to compatibility with MC 1.6.4, there are a ton of mods out there that can be used in conjunction with TFCb78. Here i suggest only aesthetic mods that do not affect gameplay. Sorry, no links. Just google them.

 

Animated player

Dynamic lights

Shaders mod (Chocapic13' shaders, derived from SonicEther v10)

Better grass and leaves mod

Optifine (Standard)

Inventory tweaks

Mapwriter

 

 

 

 

 

[Tsuarok 47]

Great list.  I just wish I had a computer capable of running them.

[Tsuarok 47]

Wish better grass was working though...

[Terex 108]

Wow, i just tested the Carpenters blocks mod and works with TFC wood planks! How cool is that? We can build sloped roofs and all that jazz with TFC block textures. Not sure if the tools can be crafted but i think so once you get iron ingots a long way into the game.

 

Btw. I can only run the lowest quality of Chocapic13' shaders at 30 fps (720p) on my 2.5 year old Dell XPS laptop. It's already very satisfying. 

[Tsuarok 47]

Wish better grass was working though...

Hey, I got the better grass to work!  But I can't get it to read my better_Blah Leaves Fancy.png files... anyone have luck with this?

[Tsuarok 47]

Wow, i just tested the Carpenters blocks mod and works with TFC wood planks! How cool is that? We can build sloped roofs and all that jazz with TFC block textures. Not sure if the tools can be crafted but i think so once you get iron ingots a long way into the game.

 

Btw. I can only run the lowest quality of Chocapic13' shaders at 30 fps (720p) on my 2.5 year old Dell XPS laptop. It's already very satisfying. 

Did you use the TFC compatibility mod for carpenter's blocks?  

 

I just have an i3 integrated graphics laptop.  It can run shaders at about 2 frames per minute.

[Terex 108]

There is a compatibility mod? heh cool didn't even know that! I didn't get as far as making the tools so the compatibility mod may still be useful if it works (since it is based on MC1.6.2). Did you try carpenter's mod already yourself?

[Tsuarok 47]

Yeah, it was on a server I used to play on (back in B77).  The recipes themselves aren't really needed if you use custom NPCs, but he also adds stuff like replacing vanilla seeds with cut grass to add the grass texture.

 

The mod hasn't been updated though, so I have no idea if it still works.

[TomatoThief 53]

Inventory Tweaks crashed my game. Version compatibility all checked out. Build 78.3.

[Tsuarok 47]

Inventory Tweaks crashed my game. Version compatibility all checked out. Build 78.3.

 

Did you try Kitty's fix?

[TomatoThief 53]

No - I will try it tonight. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!

 

TT

[Tsuarok 47]

yay, got better leaves on the fruit trees

 

Edit: ugh, won't display flowers though...

[Terex 108]

How are you making this work? The custom grass and extra leaves on fruit trees?

 

I tested the compatibility mod for carpenter's but it does no longer work (crashes MC).

[Tsuarok 47]

Shoot, I was hoping it would still work

 

for the BG&L stuff, go into the config file, and in the second category in general, after the S:, change "better-grass:2," to "better-grass:2;2088;2089;2090;2091;2093," this adds better grass on grass, clay, and peat, but not on dry grass. (you can add dry grass yourself, but I don't know the block ID offhand)

 

I don't know if it's an incompatibility, or just my crappy computer, but when I did this it crashed when I had walked on the grass if the grass fx was turned on, so I turned it off.

 

for the fruit trees, in the same section, change the better-leaves part to read "better-leaves:18;2107;2108,"

 

then add all the leaves to the whitelist, just paste this in after the "=" sign:

terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Acacia Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Ash Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Aspen Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Birch Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Chestnut Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Douglas Fir Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Hickory Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Kapok Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Maple Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Oak Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Pine Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Sequoia Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Spruce Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Sycamore Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/White Cedar Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/White Elm Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Willow Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Acacia Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Ash Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Aspen Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Birch Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Chestnut Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Douglas Fir Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Hickory Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Kapok Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Maple Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Oak Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Pine Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Sequoia Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Spruce Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Sycamore Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/White Cedar Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/White Elm Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/trees/Willow Leaves Fancy, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Banana Dead Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Banana Dead Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Banana Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Banana Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Cherry Dead Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Cherry Dead Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Cherry Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Cherry Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Green Apple Dead Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Green Apple Dead Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Green Apple Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Green Apple Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Lemon Dead Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Lemon Dead Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Lemon Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Lemon Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Olive Dead Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Olive Dead Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Olive Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Olive Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Orange Dead Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Orange Dead Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Orange Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Orange Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Peach Dead Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Peach Dead Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Peach Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Peach Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Plum Dead Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Plum Dead Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Plum Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Plum Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Red Apple Dead Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Red Apple Dead Leaves, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Red Apple Leaves Opaque, terrafirmacraft:wood/fruit trees/Red Apple Leaves

[Terex 108]

Thanks mate! Those changes worked for me And i too needed to disable grass fx to avoid crashing MC. But since the shaders mod is also moving the grass, i see no difference. 

[Tsuarok 47]

Great, I'm glad it worked

 

Just to be clear though, you won't be able to see the fruit trees blooming or the fruit on them, so you might not want to use that part...

[transcengopher 349]

Hey, I got the better grass to work!  But I can't get it to read my better_Blah Leaves Fancy.png files... anyone have luck with this?

I did it at one point, don't remember having any problems with it. Maybe I will try again and see what comes of it.

[Tsuarok 47]

I did it at one point, don't remember having any problems with it. Maybe I will try again and see what comes of it.

[transcengopher 349]

er, you got it to read your custom better_leaves file?  I can get it to work for vanilla leaves, but it just ignores custom TFC better_leaves.  If you can figure this out I'll be soooooo happy; been working on it for a few weeks now.  

Yes, I upscaled and properly-ish trimmed original textures, put 'em in the same folder with original and it worked. If you really want, I retrace this today once I get home from work.

[Tsuarok 47]

I so very much want you to try and tell me how...

[Tsuarok 47]

It anyone is interested, I also got better coral, footprints, and algae/reeds working.  In the config file, change the respective addRendererTo fields to:

better-seaweed:3;2084;2085,better-corals:1;2073;2077;2081;12;2109;2110,better-footprints:12;2109;2110;13;78;88,

[Terex 108]

Thanks mate!

 

In other news, b78.10 is now incompatible with Optifine. Seems some major world rendering changes in the latest version of TFC, causes TFC to crash with Optifine.

[Tsuarok 47]

Thanks mate!

 

In other news, b78.10 is now incompatible with Optifine. Seems some major world rendering changes in the latest version of TFC, causes TFC to crash with Optifine.

That sucks...  Guess I won't be updating yet.  I need optifine for FPS and connected textures.

 

Edit: oh, just need to roll back to Optifine HD C6.

[transcengopher 349]

Here's a full-ish config for better grass and leaves, incorporating Tsuarok's corals and seaweed cfg.

As it turns out, conventional way does not support textures for some reason, so compatibility needs to be forced in whitelist, which I did.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/95319083/BetterGrassAndLeavesModConfig.rar

Textures are to be placed in TFC jar where original variants are. Still require some tweaking to look properly though.

Does not include acacia yet, because I didn't update the files since it was added.

Here's how it should look like

[AdamantEarth 3]

I would probably use the antique atlas mod over any of the mini-map mods for a more believable experience. Also I would suggest the Localized Weather and Storm Fronts mod by Coros, not sure if it messes with any of the functionality of TerraFirmaCraft, I don't think it does, but having more realistic weather is pretty neat either way.