For me I mostly enjoyed the ability to change the icons on the top, the alternate icons used in that mod were really nice and clean.
- Have you tried asking the author of the mod if you can pick up where they left off and carry on in their stead? I can't imagine why they wouldn't want to share their code with you.
If you scroll earlier on in this thread I'm pretty sure the author gave anyone permission to continue updates to the mod. I personally would love to update the mod myself, my problem is that of time due to nearing the exam season of my masters degree. If any of you want to continue auroramod, make sure you ask Steve for his blessing and do not change the scope of the mod.
My advice would be to download and decompile/deobfuscate both 1.13 and 1.12 auroramod and just try to port over the UI changes but understand that you will spend a good amount of time with a profiler tracking variables to understand what the variable names are for.
But please, if you intend to do this ask Steve first.
Edit: I could not find the author explicitly giving permission after reviewing the thread but for some reason I remember something to that effect being said. However I do now that there isn't some github with auroramod out there because that is essentially sharing deobfuscated aurora code, which I'm pretty sure is a big no no.
Edit 2: It was on the 1.11 version thread:
You'd have to take it up with Steve. I would love nothing more than to open source the work I have so far and let the community manage it, but that would go against my original agreement with Steve.
Admittedly I am losing interest/steam. Work and a house purchase/move is keeping me busy.
I recently formatted my rig so I'll have to setup my dev environment again. I'll try to have 1.12 out by the end of the weekend.
So it really all depends on your dealings with Steve