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updated Installing Textures section of the docs

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Added a command to download the official textures. Reworded the rest of
the section for clarity.
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Andrew Brown
2013-07-05 23:36:55 -04:00
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@@ -230,10 +230,18 @@ Installing the Textures
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.. note::
This procedure has changed with Minecraft 1.6's Resource Pack update.
This procedure has changed with Minecraft 1.6's Resource Pack update. The
latest versions of Overviewer are not compatible with Minecraft 1.5 clients
and below.
If Overviewer is running on a machine with the Minecraft client installed, it
will automatically use the default textures from Minecraft.
.. note::
Overviewer will only search for installed client *release* versions, not
snapshots. If you want to use a snapshot client jar for the textures,
you must specify it manually with the :ref:`texturepath<option_texturepath>`
option.
If, however, you're running on a machine without the Minecraft client installed,
or if you want to use different textures, you will need to provide the textures
@@ -241,12 +249,23 @@ manually. This is common for servers.
If you want or need to provide your own textures, you have several options:
* If you're running the Overviewer on a server without the client, you can run
the launcher to install the client, and Overviewer will use the textures from
that.
* The easy solution is to download the latest client jar to the place the
launcher would normally put it. Overviewer will find it and use it.
You can use the following commands to download the client jar on Linux or Mac.
Adjust the version to the latest since these docs may not always reflect the
latest Minecraft version.
::
VERSION=1.6.1
mkdir -p ~/.minecraft/versions/$VERSION/
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/$VERSION/${VERSION}.jar -P ~/.minecraft/versions/$VERSION/
* You can also just run the launcher to install the client.
* You can put the client jar in the correct place manually, from a computer that
does have the client, to your server. The correct places are:
* You can transfer the client jar to the correct place manually, from a computer
that does have the client, to your server. The correct places are:
* For Linux: ``~/.minecraft/versions/<version>/<version>.jar``
@@ -254,21 +273,9 @@ If you want or need to provide your own textures, you have several options:
* For Windows: ``%APPDATA%/.minecraft/versions/<version>/<version>.jar``
* You can take the client jar from a computer that has the client installed, or
take a resource pack from a third party that contains textures, and specify it
with the :ref:`texturepath<option_texturepath>` option.
.. note::
Unfortunately we no longer have an easy wget command to run that will
download the official minecraft textures. The launcher is the only way to
download the official textures until we can figure out where they're coming
from.
.. note::
Overviewer will only search for installed client *release* versions, not
snapshots. If you want to use a snapshot client jar for the textures,
you must specify it manually with the :ref:`texturepath<option_texturepath>`
option.
* You can download and use a custom resource pack. Download the resource pack
file and specify the path to it with the
:ref:`texturepath<option_texturepath>` option.
If you copy your world before you render it
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