minecraft-java-edition
I was making my own texture pack and I fell into a problem. I was changing the texture pack of the diamond armor, and then I wanted it to have transparency so I went to GIMP(a photo editing software) and made this
I replaced the old texture with the new one. then I made the texture pack and added it to Minecraft. nowhere is the problem, when I wear the diamond armor the transparency doesn't work and you can still see the diamond armor under it
What should I do?
To cleanly uninstall Minecraft you need to remove the entire .minecraft folder. If you want to keep your worlds, move the saves folder somewhere else before deleting the folder. You can always drop it back in once you reinstall Minecraft and run it once to re-create the .minecraft folder.
(The program you click isn't really Minecraft itself – it's just the launcher. You can get rid of it too if you want, but deleting it or not is separate from uninstalling Minecraft itself. It doesn't keep any settings or matter much, since it's just a convenience for launching the actual Minecraft program, which is stored in .minecraft. In fact, if you know how, you can start Minecraft without it entirely.)
In particular, I think your texture pack options are causing the crash. I've had that happen before, with an old texture pack crashing the game after I updated it.
I suspect that because, from your other question, it sounds like you were trying to use a 128x texture pack and it was crashing it. By choosing it, that choice is saved in your options.txt file in your .minecraft folder – deleting bin and resources will leave that intact! This option is probably what's crashing Minecraft. (Texture packs that are incompatible with the current version of Minecraft, or which are too large for your computer to handle well, can sometimes crash Minecraft.)
To fix it, open options.txt (using a text editor) and find the line that begins with skin:. It should say "spahx" or something like that. Change the line to:
skin:Default
And then run Minecraft. It should work now, no un/re-install needed.
Buying a cheap $50(AU) graphics card completely solved the problem. The graphics card that I was using was an integrated graphics card (Intel 82945g) and despite me upgrading basically everything else in the computer, I hadn't upgraded the graphics card, because it worked for the games I was playing.
This is the result, and I can now play in far render with no lag! If you're graphics card is old, I suggest buying a new one. It literally makes your PC so much more enjoyable.
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Transparency works perfectly fine for me.
(Note: I'm no artist and this was for testing purposes)
I used this for my 'diamond_layer_1.png':
And it worked correctly (without armor on for reference):
Layer 2 is used solely for the leggings, as far as I can tell.
I'm not sure why yours would keep the original texture, but make sure the 'transparent' pixels actually have 0 opacity. I use paint.NET for my image editing, so I don't know how GIMP works exactly. If you want, download the scribble I used and edit it making sure to preserve the alpha channel (save as png)