Smooth, beautiful, high quality… Flow’s HD Texture Pack by Fettgondel has it all! The minute I clicked on the forum thread my mind was completely blown away by the smoothness and complexity of each and every texture.

Cyberghostde’s HD Texture Pack for Minecraft is an awesome resource in Minecraft that allows you to do more interesting things than you thought.

This is a 128×128 texture pack (so made for reasonably good PC’s) that takes the idea that minecraft doesn’t have to look gritty and 8-bit. It can look glossy, smooth and almost perfect. Every part of Flow’s HD works wt the world; whether you’re mining in a deep cavern or adventuring in a magnificent mountain range you will have 10 times as much fun because everything looks even better. Saying that, one of the best features of Flow’s HD is Home Design. Your home will look absolutely stunning. Any texture from the furnaces to the wood just seems to fit together nicely and look almost like the modern day.

The GUI also look stunning. Your toolbar is so shiny and perfect with that touch of gold. You can really see the hours of work Fettgondel has put into this piece of artowork. He/she bases the textures from the real life but makes them much more perfect and glossy while still fitting with the vanilla minecraft experience.

I promise you that you will be blown away by Flow’s HD. I wish I could sit here for hours on end writing about each and everyone of the textures; about how perfect, orderly, shiny and over all stunning they are. In the meantime you’ll just have to take my work for it and look at some screenshots.

Amazing, amazing… just, amazing! I lvoe it so much and I absolutely know you guys will too! (If your computer can handle it that is).

How to Install Flow’s HD Texture Pack for 1.2.5

1. Install either MCPatcher or Optifine.
2. Download Flow’s HD.
3. Place .Zip inside your texture packs folder.
4. Enjoy seeing your world in full out perfect HD!

A texture pack was a collection of files that were used to change the in-game textures of blocks, items, mobs and the GUI. They were .zip files that had various PNG images in them and a text document named pack.txt. The native resolution of Minecraft's textures were 16×16 (measured pixels in block height and width). 32×32, 64×64, 128×128, 256×256, 512×512, and 1024×1024 textures were referred to as 'HD'.

In Java Edition 1.6.1, texture packs were replaced with resource packs, which provide more control over textures and other game features.

• 2Installing a texture pack

Contents[edit]

A texture pack is identified by Minecraft based on the presence of the folder of the root directory, which contain a text file called pack.txt, which would contain a description of the texture pack which would appear in game.

The root directory also contains an optional image called pack.png, which will show as the thumbnail for the pack on the texture pack selection menu.

Installing a texture pack[edit]

1. Download a texture pack. Most texture packs are in ZIP file format, but as long as it has the necessary files (pack.txt), Minecraft will recognize a folder as a texture pack. In-depth instructions on obtaining the files to make custom texture packs are located at Tutorials/Custom texture packs. However this is not necessary, as of snapshot 12w23a, for as long as pack.txt exists, it will be recognized as a texture pack.
2. Run Minecraft. If Minecraft is already running, make sure to leave the world.
3. Click Texture Packs in Options.
4. Click Open Texture Pack Folder; this will open the folder where Minecraft stores all texture packs. If nothing happens, the folder will need to manually found. Depending on the operating system it is located at:

• Windows XP and above: %appdata%.minecrafttexturepacks .
• GNU/Linux: ~/.minecraft/texturepacks (this folder may be hidden in the Home folder).
• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/texturepacks (this folder may be hidden).

1. Minecraft does not have to be closed when placing the texture pack in the opened folder.
2. In a few seconds the texture pack will appear in Minecraft. Select it and click 'Done'. The texture pack is now applied. If Minecraft did not update, simply exit and reopen the texture packs screen.

Installation tips[edit]

• Texture packs may redesign only some textures. So if the main menu looks the same after a pack is selected, it doesn't mean the pack is not working.
• Many texture packs may be installed and overlap each other. The texture pack list can be scrolled by dragging the scrollbars up or down.
• Minecraft may lock the currently used texture pack (for example, if the pack contains custom textures for user interface), so the file can't be overwritten. If the pack needs to be updated, it may be necessary to temporarily switch to the default pack and then overwrite the file.
• To get an unzipped directory to show as a texture pack in Minecraft, that directory needs a pack.txt file in it. This, however, did not work prior to 12w23a.
• Keep in mind that, if a texture pack is downloaded in ZIP form, it may contain another folder inside of it that has the texture pack's title, this is the actual texture pack. In this case, this folder must moved to the texture packs folder.
• If an older version of Minecraft (1.2.5 for example) is being used and a texture pack for a newer version is installed, the texture pack will still run properly, and will ignore the unused items or blocks.
• An editor is a great way to make a texture pack.

Current versions of Minecraft support higher resolutions of texture packs. Traditionally, textures in-game work on a 16×16 block. Bigger texture packs can go all the way up to 512×512 (32×, 64×, 128×, 256×) but require better hardware to play smoothly.

• If an older texture pack is used in a more recent version of Minecraft, then the newer blocks and items will show a 'missing texture' because the texture pack isn't made for newer versions.

Converting texture packs to resource packs[edit]

Converting texture packs can be done with Mojang's converter tool (called 'texture ender'). Converting texture packs from before 1.5 is a two-step process, requiring a converter to convert it to 1.5 first (called the 'unstitcher') then the converter from 1.5 to 1.6. Links to both Mojang files are below:

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Trivia[edit]

• The selected texture pack is saved to the options.txt file in the .minecraft folder, so the 'skin:' value can be manually changed to the name of the .zip. This can be useful if the texturepack crashes the main menu, thus making impossible to change the pack using the texture selection screen. Simply erase the pack name and it will be reset to default.
• Resource packs that only add textures are called 'texture packs' in Minecraft Marketplace.‌^{[BE only]}

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