Have you ever wanted to build with VERTICAL halfslabs in your own world? Well now you can. Just download this addon and you can build with them in your own creative world.
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Disabled the requirement to activate notifications when downloading through browsers
My one thought is why don't you set the texture of the entity to the 'textures/blocks/' texture. This could make it were people who are using a texture pack doesn't have to change anything because the addon gets the changed block texture.
Again, great addon.