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Ever single time I log on here; looking at the menu bar at the top, reading new comments and messages, seeing things that's trending, I am always driven into a rage. So many people are calling them "texture packs", which is almost directly caused by you, Planet MInecraft, calling them that. I am not hating on you guys in any way, of course, merely your choosing to use a term that is just about eight years out of date. Yes, you heard that right- texture packs haven't been a thing since freaking 1.6.1- which was released in freaking 2013. And they've always been resource packs on Bedrock edition.
Texture packs were an old way of customizing the textures of the game- again, very old. They were buggy, incomplete, and very, very limited- wanna retexture a block? You gotta find it on a single image, called terrain.png, that was just a 256x256 mess of textures. And other things, such as items and entities, weren't much better.
However, in 1.6.1, this changed. Texture packs were replaced with resource packs- allowing for much more customizability, not just textures any more- currently, for Java, you can customize; all textures, block and item models, blockstates, lang, languages, particles, texts (credits, splash text on the title screen, and the beautiful end poem), sounds and sounds.json, and really advanced custom shaders (in 1.17). And it wasn't a mess either- you wanna customize just simply the dirt texture? Then you just modify dirt.png, which is at textures/block (blocks in 1.12 and below), leave the rest out, and boom- your pack now merely changes dirt, and you can do it without having three strokes and a mental breakdown.
Resource packs and their crappy, extremely outdated precursor texture packs, are completely different, other than the fact that you can customize textures with them (but again, resource packs can customize far more than just textures, and the way they do textures is a bajillion times better and more optimized). Hence the need that we need to take action and change it, lest even more people than currently continue to get them confused and use the drastically wrong term.
So Planet Minecraft team, if you're reading this (love you guys), please please please consider changing this. Terribly sorry for the aggressive feel to this, but I saw someone say "nice texture pack" one too many times and snapped, needed to get this out of my system.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Texture packs were an old way of customizing the textures of the game- again, very old. They were buggy, incomplete, and very, very limited- wanna retexture a block? You gotta find it on a single image, called terrain.png, that was just a 256x256 mess of textures. And other things, such as items and entities, weren't much better.
However, in 1.6.1, this changed. Texture packs were replaced with resource packs- allowing for much more customizability, not just textures any more- currently, for Java, you can customize; all textures, block and item models, blockstates, lang, languages, particles, texts (credits, splash text on the title screen, and the beautiful end poem), sounds and sounds.json, and really advanced custom shaders (in 1.17). And it wasn't a mess either- you wanna customize just simply the dirt texture? Then you just modify dirt.png, which is at textures/block (blocks in 1.12 and below), leave the rest out, and boom- your pack now merely changes dirt, and you can do it without having three strokes and a mental breakdown.
Resource packs and their crappy, extremely outdated precursor texture packs, are completely different, other than the fact that you can customize textures with them (but again, resource packs can customize far more than just textures, and the way they do textures is a bajillion times better and more optimized). Hence the need that we need to take action and change it, lest even more people than currently continue to get them confused and use the drastically wrong term.
So Planet Minecraft team, if you're reading this (love you guys), please please please consider changing this. Terribly sorry for the aggressive feel to this, but I saw someone say "nice texture pack" one too many times and snapped, needed to get this out of my system.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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I see "resource pack" as an umbrella term which covers both, it's whatever you're comfortable or used to saying. It's like calling dinner, lunch. I say both depending on the direction of the sun or whatever I feel like saying. It's meaningless because it means the same thing and everybody knows what you are refering to. If you know what they are talking about, why does it matter?