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[bit.ly/DevelopGoldenSun]

UPDATE 9/13:

Some bad news on the Golden Sun Minecraft update recently posted on the forum for anyone interested. The developer I was working with, Flaw, decided to have a tantrum over a minor project design disagreement and restricted access to the code repository for the project. Unfortunately this means I have withdrawn my contributions to the project and will no longer be assisting with development for this project, for which I was the design lead with roles in marketing, audio design, texturing, CTM resource pack design, 3D modeling, and building, among other tasks. This is a real shame, as this was a dually ambitious but feasible project that I was more than happy to devote my spare time towards for the majority of a year, and development of this project came along farther and was of a higher quality than any Golden Sun Minecraft project I had seen -- we were fast approaching a testable state where we planned to advertise the in-progress project to interested Golden Sun fans who may have been interested in joining the team to supplement our two-man band developer and designer team. It is unfortunate Flaw has decided to take the project in this direction. I apologize on his and my behalf to anyone who may have been looking forward to following the progress of this project. Wishing Flaw all the best in his future endeavors.

Original Post:

Updated with a quick project update:

Golden Sun is expanding! The 2.0 mod series has merged with a unique and exciting project currently in development for Minecraft version 1.12.2! The beautiful objects and textures from the 2.0 series of Minecraft mods will feature as part of this expansive in-development Golden Sun project, which will bring in-depth classic Golden Sun gameplay to the Minecraft experience. We will provide an official reveal in the near future.

If you would like to volunteer your development or pixel art skills, (or simply want to follow the project's development, no shame!) check out the Discord: bit.ly/DevelopGoldenSun

If any of these are your thing, we want to hear from you. Click here: bit.ly/DevelopGoldenSun

• JVM development
• Web development
• Typescript on node.js, React, or Vue
• Cubik Studio texturing and modeling
• Minecraft world building
• Playtesting

We will provide an official reveal in the near future. Check back later for details!

[bit.ly/DevelopGoldenSun]

UPDATE 9/13:

Some bad news on the Golden Sun Minecraft update recently posted on the forum for anyone interested. The developer I was working with, Flaw, decided to have a tantrum over a minor project design disagreement and restricted access to the code repository for the project. Unfortunately this means I have withdrawn my contributions to the project and will no longer be assisting with development for this project, for which I was the design lead with roles in marketing, audio design, texturing, CTM resource pack design, 3D modeling, and building, among other tasks. This is a real shame, as this was a dually ambitious but feasible project that I was more than happy to devote my spare time towards for the majority of a year, and development of this project came along farther and was of a higher quality than any Golden Sun Minecraft project I had seen -- we were fast approaching a testable state where we planned to advertise the in-progress project to interested Golden Sun fans who may have been interested in joining the team to supplement our two-man band developer and designer team. It is unfortunate Flaw has decided to take the project in this direction. I apologize on his and my behalf to anyone who may have been looking forward to following the progress of this project. Wishing Flaw all the best in his future endeavors.

Original Post:
Updated with a quick project update:

Golden Sun is expanding! The 2.0 mod series has merged with a unique and exciting project currently in development for Minecraft version 1.12.2! The beautiful objects and textures from the 2.0 series of Minecraft mods will feature as part of this expansive in-development Golden Sun project, which will bring in-depth classic Golden Sun gameplay to the Minecraft experience. We will provide an official reveal in the near future.

If you would like to volunteer your development or pixel art skills, (or simply want to follow the project's development, no shame!) check out the Discord: bit.ly/DevelopGoldenSun

If any of these are your thing, we want to hear from you. Click here: bit.ly/DevelopGoldenSun

• JVM development
• Web development
• Typescript on node.js, React, or Vue
• Cubik Studio texturing and modeling
• Minecraft world building
• Playtesting

We will provide an official reveal in the near future. Check back later for details!

[bit.ly/DevelopGoldenSun]

UPDATE 9/13:

Some bad news on the Golden Sun Minecraft update recently posted on the forum for anyone interested. The developer I was working with, Flaw, decided to have a tantrum over a minor project design disagreement and restricted access to the code repository for the project. Unfortunately this means I have withdrawn my contributions to the project and will no longer be assisting with development for this project, for which I was the design lead with roles in marketing, audio design, texturing, CTM resource pack design, 3D modeling, and building, among other tasks. This is a real shame, as this was a dually ambitious but feasible project that I was more than happy to devote my spare time towards for the majority of a year, and development of this project came along farther and was of a higher quality than any Golden Sun Minecraft project I had seen -- we were fast approaching a testable state where we planned to advertise the in-progress project to interested Golden Sun fans who may have been interested in joining the team to supplement our two-man band developer and designer team. It is unfortunate Flaw has decided to take the project in this direction. I apologize on his and my behalf to anyone who may have been looking forward to following the progress of this project. Wishing Flaw all the best in his future endeavors.

Original Post:

Updated with a quick project update:

Golden Sun is expanding! The 2.0 mod series has merged with a unique and exciting project currently in development for Minecraft version 1.12.2! The beautiful objects and textures from the 2.0 series of Minecraft mods will feature as part of this expansive in-development Golden Sun project, which will bring in-depth classic Golden Sun gameplay to the Minecraft experience. We will provide an official reveal in the near future.

If you would like to volunteer your development or pixel art skills, (or simply want to follow the project's development, no shame!) check out the Discord: bit.ly/DevelopGoldenSun

If any of these are your thing, we want to hear from you. Click here: bit.ly/DevelopGoldenSun

• JVM development
• Web development
• Typescript on node.js, React, or Vue
• Cubik Studio texturing and modeling
• Minecraft world building
• Playtesting

We will provide an official reveal in the near future. Check back later for details!

Had this problem recently and Teawater's suggestion did the trick, restarting your machine should help.

Have you considered creating a Wordpress site and mirroring GSHC's content? WP has some great forum plugins

I'm glad you like it!

[4/8/2018: Updated to version 1.0.3 with the following fixes:]

4/8/2018: Updated to version 1.0.3 with the following fixes:

- Re-scaled block and model textures for compatibility with Optifine. This fixes an issue where certain textures looked blurry if Optifine was active
- Disabled vanilla Minecraft shading on all models. This prevents Minecraft from adding artificial shading to the models, allowing the vibrant colors of Golden Sun to shine
- Disabled ambient occlusion on all models to resolve a bug where Minecraft would add black shadows to model block faces if Smooth Lighting was enabled

[4/8/2018: Updated to version 1.0.2 with the following fixes:]

4/8/2018: Updated to version 1.0.2 with the following fixes:

- Re-scaled block and model textures for compatibility with Optifine. This fixes an issue where certain textures looked blurry if Optifine was active
- Disabled vanilla Minecraft shading on all custom models. This prevents Minecraft from adding artificial shading to the models, allowing the vibrant colors of Golden Sun to shine
- Disabled ambient occlusion on all models to resolve a bug where Minecraft would add black shadows to model block faces if Smooth Lighting was enabled

Below are a few quick screenshots showing how vibrant, sharp, and awesome the textures are in version 1.0.2:



MORE SCREENSHOTS:
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In the spirit of admitting mispronunciations and spelling issues, I grew up reading Psynergy as "piss-n-err-gee", and it still registers that way in my inner voice when I read it! Forget "sin energy", this is the energy you definitely do not want used on you...  

It's easy to doubt a future release during downtime. With Nintendo, no series is really "forgotten", as they are very in tune with bringing IP in to match their current hardware, finding the right software to make good use of their unique products. Metroid was a dead series, until it wasn't; going from being infamously inactive to getting a new 3DS title and a Metroid Prime 4 for Switch announcement in the span of one year. It will come.

Awesome, I'm glad you like it!

[12/10/2017: Updated download link with the following additions:]

12/10/2017: Updated download link with the following additions:

- Added Vale Essentials Misc creative tab with several new 3D objects and blocks

The update is available as a separate JAR file deliverable. Simply extract the two files from the zip file in the download link and place them in your minecraft/mods folder to install.

Working on a small update to add a couple of nice-to-have 3D objects and scenery found in the Vale plaza. The update itself is just about done, just adding a couple of things here and there before uploading it.

Some quick screenshots, one is vanilla and the others have HD Minecraft shaders enabled (it's crazy seeing Vale in HD!):
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[(a Golden Sun Minecraft mod for version 1.11.2)]

(a Golden Sun Minecraft mod for version 1.11.2)

Adds a wide assortment of 3D models and world-building blocks and set dressing from the town of Vale from the Golden Sun series to Minecraft!

DOWNLOAD
(by clicking this link, you promise you'll make a back-up of your world before loading up the mod)
[spoiler]LATEST VERSION:
Version 1.0.2: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ABG4ZI1WDxIb3TNsCbvLSNTonXExdiSM

PREVIOUS VERSIONS:
Version 1.0.1: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tj8xQnkDGmswphXk52G5lX_PiK4y43sc
Version 1.0.0: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Ktbo8lEQqmecAci0dxV_TOBaddZ2Jlsd
[/spoiler]

This mod was created using code generated by Pylo's MCreator.
If you wish to create your own Minecraft mod: https://mcreator.pylo.co/

To install, simply extract the contents of the .RAR archive and place the resulting .JAR files in your Minecraft mods folder. Forge is required to run this mod.

Creator's comments...
Version 1.0.2: "This mod is part of the Golden Sun Decor 2.0 family of Golden Sun mods for Minecraft 1.11.2. This is a dual entry in the 2.0 series, containing the sub-mods Golden Sun: Vale Essentials and Golden Sun: Fauna. These two mods were lumped together for several reasons, mainly due to a degree of cross-over in the content they add to Minecraft (you can't have Vale without the trees!). The Vale Essentials sub-mod adds a variety of 3D models, blocks, and set dressing from the town of Vale, allowing for near 1:1 Minecraft recreations of the town as it appears in-game. Some structures are included, such as the Vale Sanctum. The Vale bridge objects are modular in that they are broken out into a front piece, middle piece, and end piece, one set for each compass direction, allowing the user to customize the length of their bridges if they wish. Special blocks such as corner pieces are included as well, with a variety of grass and wall block articulations, allowing for decent transitions from walls to corners to grassy tops.

The Golden Sun: Fauna sub-mod includes a utilitarian variety of trees and plants found in the game with additional plant life planned for a future, more content-dense Fauna mod. Included so far are trees commonly found in Vale and several other GS1 cities such as Bilibin. Garet's sister's garden is included, of course! Between these two mods, users should have roughly all of the tools they need to recreate Vale as it appears in the Golden Sun series, or their own completely new Golden Sun towns! Have fun!"

SCREENSHOTS

[spoiler]

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The mod goes great with Custom NPC mods, such as Noppes' Custom NPCs, which allows custom user-created quests, in-game dialog, essentially everything anyone will ever need.

FEATURES



Golden Sun: Vale Essentials and Golden Sun: Fauna
add a huge selection of 3D models, structures, and blocks to Minecraft, including:

The Vale Sanctum
Modular Bridges
Vale Grass, Wall, Shade, and Dirt Paths with corner blocks and articulations for all block types
Foliage including flowers, ivy, bushes
Trees, large and small
And more!

PROBLEMS?

If you encounter any problems, post a crash report here so I can take a look at it.
It should be 99.8% stable. I'd be surprised if it caused any issues for anyone other than ID conflicts with other mods, which is unlikely and easily fixed.

CHECK OUT THESE BEAUTS:

Previous Golden Sun Minecraft mods I've created:[spoiler]

Golden Sun Decor 2.0 (Minecraft 1.11.2)
http://forum.goldensunhacking.net/index.php?topic=2861.0

Golden Sun Statues (Minecraft 1.11.2)
http://forum.goldensunhacking.net/index.php?topic=2863.0

Golden Sun Decor (Minecraft 1.7)
http://forum.goldensunhacking.net/index.php?topic=2436.0

Golden Sun Djinn Mod (Minecraft 1.7)
http://forum.goldensunhacking.net/index.php?topic=2645.0
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COMING SOON...

[spoiler]Fauna, fauna, fauna...



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GOLDEN SUN 2.0 MODPACK

Each mod in the Golden Sun 2.0 series of mods for Minecraft 1.11.2 is also available via the below modpack
in case anyone wishes to install them all at once.

The modpack includes:
- Golden Sun Decor 2.0
- Golden Sun Statues
- Golden Sun: Vale Essentials
- Golden Sun Fauna

Click here to download the exclusive
Golden Sun 2.0 modpack:
[spoiler]
Golden Sun 2.0 Modpack: https://drive.google.com/open?id=16buk4n0Zh3sQwZWZqG7qLBfPVNxC3aFL[/spoiler]

[(a Golden Sun Minecraft mod for version 1.11.2)]

(a Golden Sun Minecraft mod for version 1.11.2)

Adds the beautiful statues and sculptures from Golden Sun to Minecraft!

DOWNLOAD
(by clicking this link, you promise you'll make a back-up of your world before loading up the mod)
[spoiler]LATEST VERSION:
Version 1.0.3: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wUI3hHJ1alyLVmfwrIe4FyMdv85OgrCf

PREVIOUS VERSIONS:
Version 1.0.2: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5iuWHoKjGVMNy1pSmJZMXdheWc
Version 1.0.1: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5iuWHoKjGVMeGFvOWVnZHBFanM
Version 1.0.0: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5iuWHoKjGVMRDlIa1BvU3VxMmM

[/spoiler]

This mod was created using code generated by Pylo's MCreator.
If you wish to create your own Minecraft mod: https://mcreator.pylo.co/

To install, simply download the mod from the link above and place the resulting .JAR file in your Minecraft mods folder. Forge is required to run this mod.

Creator's comments...
Version 1.0.2: "This mod is part of the Golden Sun Decor 2.0 family of Golden Sun mods for Minecraft 1.11.2. The goal of Golden Sun Statues is to add some beauty to your Golden Sun builds by adding 3D statues from the Golden Sun series to Minecraft that aren't already accounted for in Golden Sun Decor 2.0. I aimed to get every statue from the first two games, but if you find one missing from the mod, please let me know and I will add it in a future update. Modeling these beautiful objects was a breeze thanks to oBeeWare's Cubik Studio. In cases where a statue's sprite included shadows or pedestals in-game to create the illusion of 3D, those elements were hand-modeled in 3D and appended onto the base statue object using the sprite as a texture to best translate the 2D objects to 3D while keeping as much original sprite work intact as possible.

Unlike the 3D objects in Golden Sun Decor, the statues in this mod can face in any compass direction. Object positioning is determined by the direction the player is facing when placing the statue (this choice was made to remain faithful to the original statue-based puzzles in Golden Sun, which are sometimes oriented diagonally or facing certain directions). Statues such as the Sol Sanctum Trap Statue are gravity-enabled, they will fall if the block they are placed on is moved or destroyed. To increase the size of a large statue or set piece such as the Desert Statue, place it on an Item Frame (a default Minecraft item found under the Decoration Blocks tab). Overall, this simple mod adds the many beautiful sculptures from the Golden Sun series to Minecraft. A great addition to Golden Sun Decor 2.0. Very cool!"

SCREENSHOTS

[spoiler]

[/spoiler]

The mod goes great with Custom NPC mods, such as Noppes' Custom NPCs, which allows custom user-created quests, in-game dialog, essentially everything anyone will ever need.

FEATURES



Golden Sun Statues adds a huge selection of 3D Golden Sun statues and sculptures to Minecraft, including:
The Venus Lighthouse Aerie Statue
Sol Sanctum Entry Statue
All color palettes of the Venus Lighthouse statue
All Jupiter Lighthouse statues
And more!

PROBLEMS?

If you encounter any problems, post a crash report here so I can take a look at it.
It should be 99.8% stable. I'd be surprised if it caused any issues for anyone other than ID conflicts with other mods, which is unlikely and easily fixed.

CHECK OUT THESE BEAUTS:

Previous Golden Sun Minecraft mods I've created:[spoiler]

Golden Sun: Vale Essentials (Minecraft 1.11.2)
http://forum.goldensunhacking.net/index.php?topic=2871.0

Golden Sun Decor 2.0 (Minecraft 1.11.2)
http://forum.goldensunhacking.net/index.php?topic=2861.0

Golden Sun Decor (Minecraft 1.7)
http://forum.goldensunhacking.net/index.php?topic=2436.0

Golden Sun Djinn Mod (Minecraft 1.7)
http://forum.goldensunhacking.net/index.php?topic=2645.0
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COMING SOON...

[spoiler]Might make certain statues pushable at some point. A sound effect would occur when the statue is pushed by the player. Could add a function where the statue will not move further if the neighbor block is a puzzle floor border block as well as a Button block for the statue to be pushed onto, the "kerchunk!" sound effect would occur and the Button block would emit a redstone signal, allowing for functional puzzle designs.[/spoiler]

GOLDEN SUN 2.0 MODPACK

Each mod in the Golden Sun 2.0 series of mods for Minecraft 1.11.2 is also available via the below modpack
in case anyone wishes to install them all at once.

The modpack includes:
- Golden Sun Decor 2.0
- Golden Sun Statues
- Golden Sun: Vale Essentials
- Golden Sun Fauna

Click here to download the exclusive
Golden Sun 2.0 modpack:
[spoiler]
Golden Sun 2.0 Modpack: https://drive.google.com/open?id=16buk4n0Zh3sQwZWZqG7qLBfPVNxC3aFL[/spoiler]

[9/27/2017:]

9/27/2017: Fix one thing, break twenty other things! Updated to version 1.0.2 with the following fixes:

- Fixed some object textures that broke in v.1.0.1.
- Updated certain objects to include rotations based on which way the player is facing when placing the block to provide continuity with Golden Sun Statues.

9/24/2017: Updated to version 1.0.1 with the following fixes:

- Fix for incorrect object names in GUI.
- Moved Venus Lighthouse Pad object to correct Creative tab.

Here are a couple of quick screenshots of a structure built with Venus Lighthouse blocks:









A model for one of the bridges in Vale. This model will be scaled-up slightly and then broken out into three or more separate parts, so that the player can customize the length of the bridge in-game as part of a future Golden Sun mod:

[Villain Encounter]

9/23/2017: Updated with a quick piece in the style of Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age. Wrote this piece for a short video trailer in the works for one of the Golden Sun Decor Minecraft mods.

Villain Encounter
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I can chip in with coding where I can. C# would be new to me but I can learn. We use a lot of SQL sprocs and use Java for backend stuff occasionally. Learned Visual Basic For Applications for fun in 2015 just from coming up with solutions for Excel problems and asking Google for the basics and stack overflow for the crazy stuff, lol.

Hmm, that is a good question. There are two ways of looking at it that I can think of. On one hand, the development of a tool designed to work with ROM or ISO copies of a complex game with valuable features like reading and writing data, viewing game assets, value editing, etc. requires a healthy amount of research time and a specialized skill set that may even be foreign to many software engineers. Out of any big development task I can think of, this is one that would definitely warrant a good paycheck and the work of a team. Nothing crazy like a SCRUM project or anything lol, but it's a big enough project that it could easily overwhelm any one person. On the other, a bit of a precedent has been set in that Atrius' editor is a labor-of-love freeware release, and this editor is the inarguable trendsetter for similar tools (just recently I randomly came across a Pokemon site discussion talking about how much they wish they had an editor like Atrius' editor for Pokemon games -- it's a wonderful tool!). Perhaps a shareware, trialware, or commercial release would leave a bitter taste in the mouth for users accustomed to the free tool, especially for Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, which doesn't receive quite the same amount of praise as its predecessors (a bit unfairly all in all; I think of it in the same way as StarFox Adventures -- a great game, but fans more set in their ways than others often receive change poorly, which can stifle creativity and impede the success of a series in the long run).

If I had to think about it, if the tool delivers the same features in a way as easily understood and used as Atrius' tool, users would be willing to pay for it at the end of the day. One comparable example I have is the paid Minecraft modeling software Cubik Studio by oBeeware. I've recently changed over to it from several years of Java modeling in Techne, a similar software. It has the same features as the latter, but offers improved compatibility with other model formats like OBJ, JSON, etc. and importantly, it improves on its modeling features, offering greater user control and a great UI. That product sells as a one-time payment for a user license with lifetime updates for roughly $20-25 USD.

Perhaps crowdfunding through Patreon is an option? Do you know which language you want the tool coded in?

In a perfect world, I would plan the project in phases, starting with the completion of research and documentation of Dark Dawn during a period of time spent crowdfunding online (on sites such as the Golden Sun Subreddit, fansites, Nintendo fan sites, etc.) and beginning development of the tool soon after, using any funds to commission a UI designer to model the tool and software engineer to design the backend and implement the features prioritized by how easy they are to add.

This is an awesome idea, I'd love to see a Dark Dawn editor.