Tutorials/How to create a texture pack

Prerequisites

• An Idea
• An Image Editor or Access to images you want to use
• Knowledge of JSON (Learn)
• A GitHub Account
• Box Critters Texture Pack Manager

Setting up

1. Download Github Desktop and Create a repository
2. Open the hamburger menu and click create, then scoll to the bottom and click Download One Click File.
3. Download this to your newly created folder when you created a repository
4. To get a copy of all currently used assets, go to https://bc-mod-api.herokuapp.com/getassets.

How to read OneClick file

{
    "version": "2",
    "name": "",
    "author": "",
    "date": "",
    "packVersion": "",
    "description": ""
}

• version - Integer specifying the OneClick file format requires. As of 2.1.0 this should be set to 2.
  

If you really want to know what the versions mean. See Version Definitions.

• name - The name of your texture pack displayed when listing texture packs and when installing.

• author - The name of the creator of the texture pack, how ever they want to be named.

• date - the date it was created. format: dd-mm-yyyy
  

When you generate a one click file then the date will be in unix form.

• packVersion - One to four dot-separated integers identifying the version of this texture pack.
  

Here are some examples:

• • "packVersion": "1"
  • "packVersion": "1.0"
  • "packVersion": "2.10.2"
  • "packVersion": "3.1.2.4567"

• description - Describe what your texture pack is and does.