Sculptures is the successor to the Armor Statues book!

While Armor Stands have tick updates and extra rendering that can cause a lot of lag when there are many in an area, Sculptures uses Display Entities which do not have tick updates or extra rendering. This helps reduce the amount of lag per project drastically.

Sculptures also allows more freedom when manipulating scale of objects used in projects. Armor Stands have 4 sizes. Hand on Big Armor Stand, Hand on Small Armor Stand, Head on Big Armor Stand, and Head on Small Armor Stand. Sculptures allows you to fully customize the X, Y, and Z scale of your displays.

Sculptures also allows you to configure the lighting shading on your displays, so you can make blocks really dark, full brightness, or anywhere in-between.



We use sculptures frequently on the Hitchhikers' SMP!

To initialize the datapack you must first run the install function: sculptures:install
This will allow you to use the book and setup everything required

To use, the player must have an item in their offhand to be added as a Display Entity. I have included a tutorial video to showcase what each page is for and how they work, hopefully it gives a really good idea as to how it works.

For admin control there are three config settings for sculptures. These are all listed as Scoreboards!

scoreboard players set #MaxScale sculptures.Config 10


scoreboard players set #MinScale sculptures.Config 0


scoreboard players set #UseUpItem sculptures.Config 1


#MaxScale sculptures.Config is used to determine the maximum scale you can increase a display. At default this is 10, which means that it can be up to x10 its normal size.

#MinScale sculptures.Config is used to determine the minimum scale you can decrease a display. At default this is 0, which means almost non-existent.

#UseUpItem sculptures.Config is used to determine if the item gets taken out of the players offhand when used to create a display. At default this is 1, which means that items will get removed from the players offhand, if this is set to 0 then the item will remain in the players offhand. If this is 0 players will also be able to copy and paste entire groups of display entities around the world. Making it easy to replicate displays in multiple locations.

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V2 will now allow you to:

• Manipulate the Pivot point of Display Entities
• Lock Aspect Ratio for Scaling
• Manipulate both Sky/Block lighting at the same time while using the Modified Brightness option
• Put the Display Entities in Minecarts, Boats, and attach them to Armor Stands
• Change the Max Pivot distance through a new config #MaxPivot in a similar manner the other configs can be configured. I.e. scoreboard players set #MaxPivot sculptures.Config 30

If you already have V1 installed on your server or world, all you will need to do is use the reload command followed by running the sculptures:install function. All old books will be broken and buggy, and new books will have to be created.