Description
This small client side mod allows you to change the boring old dirt background of your minecraft menu to something nicer.
Usage
When you first install the mod on your client it will be in random mode. It will randomly select a background out of a pool from blocks i found looked quite nice as backgrounds.
You can also specify your own background in the config file (Fixed-Background), it takes a Resource Location. For example "textures/blocks/stone.png" will be stone and "textures/blocks/bedrock.png" will be bedrock. If you open up your minecraft.jar in a zip program you can see all the names of the vanilla minecraft textures.
This also works for blocks (/textures) from other mods, just open up the mod jar in a zip program and locate the texture you wanna use in their assets folder and stick "modid:" in front of it. For example "mineralogy:textures/blocks/drywall_yellow.png" will use the yellow drywall texture from Mineralogy.
If you wanna use your own texture you can add that using resource packs or with Resource Loader (easier).
Some possible examples:
Feel free to use this mod in any modpack
In reply to trjasempai:
Is there any way to config the mod so it chooses a certain block for a certain screen? For example, set the Nether loading screen to a Netherrack background, the Overworld loading screen to dirt, the Aether Legacy's Aether loading screen to Aether Dirt, and/or the Options background to Quartz Pillar?
In reply to Genny_Flo:
Aroma1997s-Dimensional-World-1.9.4-1.2.0.7.jar\assets\aroma1997sdimension\textures\blocks
That is the texture I want to be the background
# Configuration file
settings {
# If you set this to something this texture will be used as the background. (For more information on how to use this see the curse mod post) [default: ]
S:Fixed-Background=aroma1997sdimension:textures\blocks\portalFrame.png
}
This is the code
But it shows up as the missing texture(purple and black) any help?
https://imgur.com/a/wxzsW
Also, how do I use multiple textures so it changes between a selection?
In reply to Lumien:
What is the point of this mod? You can already do this with ease via texture pack or resource loader.
EDIT: Oh I see now, it can alternate the backgrounds. I still don't find this useful. Resource Loader and Custom Main Menu are so great, but this mod a bit of a let down compared.
In reply to BambooBob:
In reply to BambooBob:
Of course it's not useful! It just looks nice. Terrible critique 0/10.
1.12.1 support?
Hi Lumien, have been using this mod for a few minecraft version now, 1.10 and 1.11 I had no problems, but I can't get a custom background to show up in 1.12.
Normally i just point to a minecraft texture, say: textures/blocks/hardened_clay_stained_red.png which is in the minecraft jar file but this doesn't work in 1.12, I have even tried other textures like end_bricks.png etc.
Have there been any changes between versions? does this not work anymore?
Any help would be great.
In reply to jasonsaggers:
I first use this mod on 1.12 ..
Everything works.
I just indicated in the file (custombackgrounds.cfg) a link to the texture
This is what happened:
# Configuration file settings { # If you set this to something this texture will be used as the background. (For more information on how to use this see the curse mod post) [default: ] S:Fixed-Background=textures/blocks/stone.png }wait, where is the config folder?
Am I missing something or couldn't you just do this with a resource pack?
In reply to itskoilofficial:
Are we able to specify a list of backgrounds to use (or even a blacklist) in the config file, rather than just one?
I love the random backgrounds, but personally I don't like some of the choices (Purpur, for example :P)
can i use custom images that aren't textures?
yes!! thank you for clarifying im so bad at explaining things LOL
what about animated backgrounds
or even different images for diferent gui's