I made a few 32x32 textures of chemical structures for a modpack I'm working on

[drifting ferry]

My plan is to use them to decorate the questbook a bit. More textures will be added later. I'm not very experienced when it comes to pixel art, but I think these turned out quite well. Suggestions are welcome.

[low egret]

ok now this is epic

[eager mountain]

very nice

[hardy rock]

they look very cool

[drifting ferry]

Thanks!

[sonic talon]

awesome textures 😍

[brittle hinge]

Mmmmm chemicals

Is Row 3 Column 1 an Amonia molecule?

[drifting ferry]

The one in the top-left corner is ammonia, the black and white one in the 3rd row is methane

[low egret]

the bottom one is benzene right

[obtuse heart]

No

That’s ethene

And the one to the right is sulfuric acid

[drifting ferry]

Yes. It is:
Ammonia - hydrogen
Nitrogen - oxygen
Methane - chlorine - fluorine
Ethylene - sulfuric acid
Ethane

[brittle hinge]

ohhh, that's not a reflection on the carbon, that's another hydrogen

[swift quartz]

Now that's what true gregtech is !

[eager mountain]

The sulfuric acid one looks like it’s walking

[brittle hinge]

Lol

[drifting ferry]

True. I think I'm going to rotate it slightly

I also wonder how the more complex molecules are going to look. Larger hydrocarbons are a bit hard to recognize I think

[drifting ferry]

Added a few more: hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride, nitrogen dioxide, nitric acid, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, sulfur trioxide, hydrazine.
Once you have a template for all those colored balls, it becomes quite easy to make the chemical structures.

Also corrected the sulfuric acid a bit :p

[swift quartz]

gt devs should add a block or multiblock just so you can look at them

[eager mountain]

Could these textures be used to replace the liquid texture when looking at jei or in a machine gui?

[swift quartz]

I was thinking that but it is probably impossible and confusing looking :(.

[grim hawk]

Methane's texture looks a bit confusing, it's easy to misunderstand the hydrogen atom in the middle as the reflection light of the carbon atom, thus misunderstanding Methane as -CH3 ( Methyl group ). Maybe make it more like Tetrahedron?

[obtuse heart]

Methane is really hard to draw and show all 4 hydrogen atoms

[drifting ferry]

Yeah. I think I'm going to rotate it a bit more just like I did with the sulfuric acid

[drifting ferry]

Corrected the methane texture. It looks a lot better now. Also corrected some other textures a bit and added acetylene, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, methanol, water, hydrogen peroxide and some cute isotope symbols of deuterium, tritium, helium-3 and lithium-6

More hydrocarbons are on the to-do list, as soon as I figure out how to make a proper benzene texture.

[low egret]

oh wow that methane does look a lot better

that all looks amazing

[low egret]

benzene ring

[obtuse heart]

It’s kinda easy

[drifting ferry]

The problem with benzene is that it's very hard to fit inside a 32x32 grid. Reducing the size of the atoms made the structure messy and hard to recognize, so I'm going to try a 64x64 grid to see if that works.

If it works I'm going to make textures for benzene, toluene, xylene, phenol, ethylbenzene, styrene and butadiene next

[obtuse heart]

Once you reach PBI, you pretty much have to resort to 1024x1024 for a really large chemical

[drifting ferry]

True, but I don't think I'm going to make symbols for polymers.
The biggest single molecule is propably going to be bisphenol A or something, but that one is basically impossible to make.

[obtuse heart]

You can just take a single monomer of a polymer, but you do you if it’s too hard

[leaden remnant]

@drifting ferry Can you make this

[drifting ferry]

I wish I could. It's beautiful

[low egret]

RING RING

[obtuse heart]

Protein

[leaden remnant]

thats no protein

[stray seal]

ruthenium compex

[kindred grove]

i wish there were chemical structural formula as a tooltip for chemicals in GT

[leaden remnant]

that would be annoying to do

some chemicals are like that already though

[drifting ferry]

Finally found some time to make more textures. Here are chloroform, TFE, vinyl chloride, propene, propane, acetone, benzene, toluene, phenol and nitrobenzene

This is how the collection looks now. Gotta say, it looks very satisfying

This image also has butadiene in it, but I think I'm gonna change that one. Butane and butadiene have been the hardest ones so far because it is really difficult to get the geometry right on a 32x32 grid

[manic sigil]

Make protein

[shy crystal]

make dna

[leaden remnant]

make some fullerenes

[shy crystal]

You know, one thing that always annoyed me in GregTech is that hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine and over subtances that in real life are binary(2 atoms) in GregTech are singlets(1 atom)

For example to make sulfur trioxide the reaction is 2SO2+O2=2SO3. In gt it's SO2+O=SO3

[leaden remnant]

Yeah

Theres no distinction between their elemental form and actual gas

[low egret]

in gt its 1000SO2 + 500O2 -> 1000SO3

[leaden remnant]

1000L is considered 1mol

for most things

[shy crystal]

1000L/mol..... What kind of pressure and temperature the the Minecraft world have? It's normally 22.4 l/mol irl

[leaden remnant]

don't think of litres as litres (SI unit)

[shy crystal]

So 1 L is 44.64 litres

[low egret]

https://tenor.com/view/ohhh-damn-bro-daamn-that-was-obvious-realising-gif-24880382

[shy crystal]

so one block of iron which is 1296 L would be 57853.44 litres which is 57.85344 m^3. If we multiply that by iron density (7800 kg/m^3) we would get 451256.832 kg or 451.256832 tons of iron. So a GregTech Steve can hold a lot more than vanilla Steve

just calculate that with neutronium

which is 10^14 grams per cubic centimeter

i'll do the math

37 inventory slots * 64 blocks per slot * (144 L per ingot * 9 ingots per block) is 3068928 L of neutronium. Transforming that to irl litres would be 3068928 L * 44.64 litres/L = 136996946 litres of neutronium. Transforming that to m^3 we get 136996,946 m^3. Multiplying that by neutronium density we get 1.36 * 10^19 kg of neutronium or 1.36 * 10^16 tons of neutronium. That is 0.23 of Earth's mass. An UHV GregTech player can hold almost a quarter of earth's mass in his inventory. And that was calculated WITHOUT shulker boxes!

correction it's actualy 1.36*10^16 kg of neutronium. fogot to transform 10^14 grams per liter to kg per liter

[leaden remnant]

consider: minecraft in the inventory is completely different to minecraft in the world

[shy crystal]

minecraft inventory is actually a micro blackhole storage unit

[buoyant heron]

make fullerene polymer matrix (gcyl reference)

[manic sigil]

Make signalum 🤓

[low egret]

make garnet sand

[eager mountain]

titin

[sturdy kayak]

titin

[radiant spoke]

I don't think that's how ingots work ngl

[sturdy kayak]

me when i used titin_ingot instead of just titin in the material registry

[radiant spoke]

Titin Ingot Dense Plate

Titin Ingot Spring

Titin Ingot Long Rod

Titin Ingot Ingot

[low egret]

oh god i cant unsee it

nooo

[radiant spoke]

the oredict is literally

titinIngotDust

[low egret]

[sturdy kayak]

ortho-diethynylbenzene dianion

[radiant spoke]

where's DNA Ingot

[low egret]

none of these words were in the Bible

[radiant spoke]

Nrmot step up your game smh

[sturdy kayak]

Deoxyribonucleic acid is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. The polymer carries genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all known organisms and many viruses. DNA and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are nucleic acids. Alongside proteins, lipids and complex carbohydrates (polysaccharides), nucleic acids are one of the four major types of macromolecules that are essential for all known forms of life.

DNA is a polymer, should be very easy to implement

[radiant spoke]

:deranged:

[sturdy kayak]

polynucleotide is a biopolymer composed of 13 nucleotide monomers, covalently bonded in a chain.

[low egret]

dna is a polymer...

[sturdy kayak]

should I make a DNA flowchart

[low egret]

already done

[sturdy kayak]

DNA's chemical formula is C15H31N3O13P2 , easy to implement

[shy crystal]

indeed

that is why you should add einsteinium III complex

[sturdy kayak]

https://genomics.senescence.info/genes/allgenes.php

[shy crystal]

bro you just made me want to add all of those to simulate life in my modpack

[sturdy kayak]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_chemical_formulae I'm not done yet

[shy crystal]

that's not as appealing

[sturdy kayak]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inorganic_compounds

[shy crystal]

they got lazy lol

NEW POLYMER TO ADD

NUCLEAR

[vernal sapphire]

Add Dendrimer 21

1-(4-{{2-(13-(2-[{4-{[3,5-bis({[(4-{[2-(13-(2-[(4-{[3,5-bis({[4-{[2-(13-{2-[(4-{[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]methyl}phenyl)bis(propan-2-yl)silyl]ethynyl}pentacen-6-yl)ethynyl]bis(propan-2-yl)silyl}phenyl)methoxy]carbonyl})benzoyloxy]methyl}phenyl)bis(propan-2-yl)silyl]ethynyl}pentacen-6-yl)ethynyl]bis(propan-2-yl)silyl}phenyl)methoxy]carbonyl})benzoyloxy]methyl}phenyl)bis(propan-2-yl)silyl]ethynyl}pentacen-6-yl)ethynyl]bis(propan-2-yl)silyl}phenyl)methyl 3,5-bis[(4-{[2-(13-{2-[(4-{[tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]methyl}phenyl)bis(propan-2-yl)silyl]ethynyl}pentacen-6-yl)ethynyl]bis(propan-2-yl)silyl}phenyl)methyl] benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate

for long

[shy crystal]

what uses does it have?

[vernal sapphire]

solar panel coating

[shy crystal]

ooh

[vernal sapphire]

the synthesis for it is unruly though

[shy crystal]

if i figure out how to add custom generators, then maybe

for dysonsphere

[vernal sapphire]

#flowcharts message

[wintry trout]

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Dendrimer 21 Chain by Zemblark

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From #flowcharts · Jan 1, 2022, 1:32 AM

[leaden remnant]

Einsteinium complex (gone within an hour)

[shy crystal]

nomi's metastable einsteinium

or smth like that

[sturdy kayak]

metastable uranium-238-2

[shy crystal]

why be realistic?

[radiant spoke]

looks like a conjoined twin

[teal hornet]

are you at all open to releasing a resource pack so I can use the cool molecule textures on other gregtech packs

[drifting ferry]

I think I will once I find the time to actually work on my modpack. Once the pack reaches a somewhat playable state I may release the textures and the kubejs document as a separate package. No promises yet though, development has been brain-numbingly slow lately.

[teal hornet]

👍

[weary wadi]

What modpack is it

[drifting ferry]

Just a little hobby project of mine. The chemical structures are used to make the questbook a little more interesting to look at :p
I am also going to make them craftable so you can decorate the base with them in itemframes and stuff

[weary wadi]

Ok

[drifting ferry]

Regarding the modpack: I plan to resume with the actual content soon. I hope to have most of the progression fully in place from vanilla tier to HV by the end of the year. Most of it is still a concept, but implementing it shouldn't be too terrible

It's going to be for 1.20.1

[drifting ferry]

A draft version of the LV chapter is done, showcasing some of the chemical structures. I also added nickel tetracarbonyl which will be used for an updated nickel processing line. The missing texture is an item of which I still need to make the textures for. It's part of some modifications I'm going to make to the circuit progression tree.

[stray seal]

that looks fucking awesome

[drifting ferry]

Thanks!

[austere swan]

wondering what is the molecule with the yellow ball

other i deciphered kinda easily

[drifting ferry]

It's nickel tetracarbonyl, but thinking about it I'm propably going to change the yellow to greyish/purple/blue so it matches the gregtech nickel ingot colour. I guess I got confused with the nickel ingots of other mods, which are generally pale-yellow

[weary wadi]

We'll like to see the modpack on curseforge

[drifting ferry]

Update: the symbols are craftable now with the good ol' stonecutter. Also updated the nickel tetracarbonyl colour.

[low egret]

sweet

[shy crystal]

will it be exclusive to your pack?

[drifting ferry]

I haven't decided yet, but I am considering releasing it as a separate package when the modpack is in a somewhat playable state, which may take a while

[south blade]

i think the nitrogen is too blue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPK_coloring

[harsh field]

What is the gray reflective ball

[drifting ferry]

Yeah you may be right. I think I will make them a few shades lighter because it may cause confusion when I'm going to add iodides and stuff. Thanks for the suggestion 👍

[drifting ferry]

It's a craftable "blank template" which can be used to craft all other molecular symbols. The texture is a placeholder.

[austere swan]

the color blind people

[south blade]

😴🥱 just get new eyes

[mental depot]

This looks very cool

[modest bloom]

[drifting ferry]

After taking a long break from making textures for molecules (because real-life takes a lot of time), I have managed to make some new things. This time it's symbols for the modpack chaptes/voltage tiers. I quite like the result. The colour gradient also works quite well and looks very satisfying.

Chapter names may change and plans for post-UHV content is planned once I find out what theme I'm going to use for everything. Once I finish the textures for some custom items I have planned I can actually start making the modpack playable.

[weary wadi]

When will this modpack be out?

[drifting ferry]

Hard to say. I don't have a lot of time to work on the modpack so I usually add small bits every once in a while. If I manage to get everything working the way I want it to, I will make a new thread with more detailed info about the pack. But this is going to take a while.

[weary wadi]

I would like to know what the modpack goes about

At least

[drifting ferry]

The plan right now is to make a type of skyblock-style pack. The idea is that you start on a volcanic island devoid of life or even water. As you progress though gregtech your island will become more habitable, eventually introducing lifeforms.
I have quite a few ideas about how I want to implement it.

Basically a tech version of Earth's own history

Also: no ex nihilo for resources. I have something else in mind but I need to work out the details more

[weary wadi]

Wow

[eternal spade]

better terra nil (the videogame)

[onyx thorn]

This Gives Me An Incomprehensibly Horrible And Nefarious Idea…

[teal hornet]

thats awesome

[jagged cargo]

bruh wtf is this used for???

[jagged cargo]

uh-huh

I don't understand anything lmao

[teal basalt]

name of modpack?

[drifting ferry]

No name yet. Development is om hold for now to take care of some real life stuff. In the meantime I'm trying to figure out how each resource can be obtained.

[wide island]

this is the only acceptable use of pixel inconsistency

[drifting ferry]

Alright. Development of the pack is going decently well now. All resource chains from vanilla to uhv have been figured out. The questbook framework is complete and my plan for the customized circuit lines is done. I think I will make a new thread to post more of the pack progression. This will propably happen when MV is fully implemented.

[drifting ferry]

Eventually I may revisit the chemical textures because I am not completely satisfied with how the spheres are textured, which does not completely fit minecraft's texturing scheme and looks a bit out of place

Would be a good way to practice and improve my pixel art skills

[jagged cargo]

how did you make those textures?

[drifting ferry]

Those letters? I just made a base texture, cut out the letters and added some outlines. Not that complicated :p

[jagged cargo]

did you have to make custom items as placeholders?

[drifting ferry]

Yeah. I used kubejs to create the items and used them as the icons for the quest chapters

[jagged cargo]

ah ok, epic

[drifting ferry]

After a little practice I finally started working on some updated textures for the chemical balls. This is a before and after image of the oxygen textures. They look a bit more vibrant and generally look better imo.

[drifting ferry]

ammonia before and after