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