I used the most recent article I could find to help with this and I'm still having trouble. I've triple checked my formatting, doing exactly as the article tells me to, but I can't get the pack to show up in my client. I haven't added any content yet since I want to make sure the pack works. I saw some other posts like this one but I've made sure to check I didn't make the same mistakes. resourcepacks folder I believe it's everywhere it needs to be in my files and it still doesn't show up in the client. (For those wondering the top 2 aren't mine) This is my first time making a resource pack so sorry if I seem dumb.
edit: it might be that my resource pack isn't zipped? But I can't figure out how to zip a file I've created
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Make sure that you have show file extensions enabled, from what I can see, the file type description says Text File for the pack.mcmeta file this is because the actual filename is pack.mcmeta.txt, not pack.mcmeta as file explorer says. In order to actually change the file extension, you'll have to enable show file extensions in the "View" tab in File Explorer. Then remove the .txt file extension.
Ignore any warning about changing file extensions as this is irrelevant due to the fact that these are both plaintext files.
If the issue is specifically that Minecraft requires a .zip, and you are using Windows, Windows has a built-in option to zip your resource pack. Just select the folders/files for the resource pack, and then click Send to > Compressed file. There are also various 3rd-party applications such as Winrar, and 7zip that can do this for you as well.
