How do I add new texture for blocks on iPad? I’m pretty confused

Questions
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Like the title suggests how do I add a new block texture?

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Whatever new textures you find, you can save them in the Documents or Dropbox folders. From there you can use them in your Codea code.

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Thanks, but What command would I call to set the texture from my Dropbox file.

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@chrislightsaber Here’s an example of a cube that uses the Planet Cute:Icon image for a texture. To use Dropbox, use Dropbox:imageName where imageName is the name of your image in the Dropbox folder. See the 2 lines of code near the bottom for cube.texture.

Removed code because it didn’t apply.
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@dave1707 yup this is exactly my issue too. I’m stuck there sadly. Maybe someone else will know what to do

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@chrislightsaber I think Dropbox can be used, but there’s a lot of other code that needs to be added to allow it. Just looking thru the code for allowing Blocks, there’s a lot of code in some of the other tabs. More than I want to try adding for Dropbox. I tried adding another texture to the Blocks folder, but it wouldn’t let me.

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Hi @chrislightsaber, hopefully I can help with this one.

If you want to add a single texture from documents or dropbox you can do the following

scene.voxels.blocks:addAsset("Documents:My Asset")
local newBlockType = scene.voxels.blocks:new("NewBlockType")
newBlockType.setTexture(ALL, "Documents:My Asset")

I just tried this with a random image from my documents folder and it appeared to work. At the moment the image must be a PNG, which it will warn you about it you try to use some other image type. You can also create a custom asset pack and use the Files app to place it in Codea which would allow you to use addAssetPack() instead.

Have a look at this thread if you want to see how to make a new asset pack: https://codea.io/talk/discussion/9218/project-asset-packs

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Thanks @John sadly when I try this the block places but has not texture still :neutral:

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That black square is a hole in the ground that I can fall through. It’s where I placed the new block I made with the texture that I added. If I change the texture to be one from the blocks pack this does not happen though

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This is the exact code I’m using. Also no item icon appears its empty in my inventory but I can place it

scene.voxels.blocks:addAsset(“Documents:test2”)
local newBlockType = scene.voxels.blocks:new(“NewBlockType”)
newBlockType.setTexture(ALL, “Documents:test2”)

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That works fine if I’m making a normal cube, but i was trying to do this in the voxe, terrain project. I tried adding a block with custom image but it doesn’t work
This is my code:
local test2 = scene.voxels.blocks:new(“Test2”)
test2.setTexture (ALL,“Documents:cool”)

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@chrislightsaber I found this code in the example Block Library, basic tab. I wonder if you need something like this for the Dropbox folder.

-- Assets must be added to the voxel system for them to be available
scene.voxels.blocks:addAssetPack("Blocks")
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Ive tried this but it errors when I add it in sadly

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It says unable to find asset named documents:rock moss
The rock moss is the first texture from the blocks asset pack so maybe I need to change something

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Do you have Documents capitalized and do you have rock moss in the Documents folder. I’m just guessing at all this stuff because I haven’t played around with changing anything in the examples.

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Yes and no I don’t have moss in the assets folder.

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Look at the Basic tab in the Block Library example. That might give you some ideas. That seems to be where everything is created.

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@dave1707 That’s where I’ve tried to do everything. The issue is that new textures can not be set other than the ones from the blocks assets. And if I try to add a new asset it errors. I’m quite uncertain what to do I’ve tried everything I can think of

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@chrislightsaber I was able to change the textures on the blocks in the Block Library example, but only if I used a texture from Blocks. If I tried a texture from Dropbox, I didn’t get an error, but the block didn’t show a texture.

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@chrislightsaber I used this code and my texture worked. My test image had a size of 128x128 pixels. Not sure if the size matters or if it has to be a multiple of 2.
I tried an image with a size of 256x256 and it just made a black square, no textured cube.

    scene.voxels.blocks:addAsset("Dropbox:test")
    local newBlockType = scene.voxels.blocks:new("NewBlockType")
    newBlockType.setTexture(ALL, "Dropbox:test")