hello people from planetminecraft, how's your 2023 going?

Even though I have 4 projects to work on and 1 to wrap up and upload... I got bored somehow, and decided to make this small things! No mods, and very fancy!

Works anywhere text can go, so chat, bossbars, names/lore of items, anything!

What does it look like when you work on a minigame for around 3,5 years? It looks like this;

All of these were objectives with 0 mentions in the datapack... xD

Wait I almost have a quarter million submission views? Thats a bit more than I expected :EYES:

The good news: I think the Wolf Boss Datapack is all done now!!!
The bad news: Its 8 am now and I haven't slept...

Working on the wolf boss, all I can think is how much more relaxed it would be had I not spend most of day 3&4 watching tv shows... Oh well xD

Good progress!

I'm coding for the datapack jam now! Feel free to watch :eyes:

https://www.twitch.tv/commandwitchery

Alright maybe I should start working on the boss battle instead of doing random stuff... But hey now I know how to make customish particles?

Taking a quick detour from my main datapack I've been working on, to take part in Datapack Jam 6; Blizzard!

I am going all in on Technicality points, so here is the arena, made out of blocks that have custom textures... but without changing the normal textures... Brought to you with shader magic! (I am considering making a tutorial on it, since how I am doing this is very interesting and fancy and stuff, let me know if you are interested!)

Hrnmmmmm...

I suppose I might as well make a post here, I finally managed to finish editing my first tutorial in a new line, where I help you make datapack through examples! In this video (part 1/2) we create a custom item (Thors hammer (I feel like that went without saying)), detect actions like kills and right clicking, and much more!

If you have wanted to learn Datapacking, or have been considering wanting to learn it, I suggest giving it a watch!

https://youtu.be/QpkpmWueWOk

So I thing I wanted was for my custom dimensions to look different and unique. So, a thing I realised, is that a lot of the shaders that render the game actually have access to the fog color... This means that dependent on the (custom) biome, I can change how things render. So this is a very simple test, making things grayscale!



The green seems to sadly be unable to be taken away, because for some reason that doesn't seem to be part of any shader. The solution I'd use in the final version would probably be to instead of making the fog effect bright green, and then in rendering changing it to gray, to simply make it gray, and just detect this specific gray color (or whatever color the sky would be)

There is still a problem of that if its night time, then the fog color changes... Meaning I need the day night cycle to be fixed in the custom dimension, but thats of course a setting in worldgen, so there isn't any issue there!

All in all, pretty cool imo!

After some amount of procrastination, I have started working on a slightly less reusable part...



So in case you are wondering what you are looking at, this is (assuming it doesn't look bad ingame) going to be some trees for a custom dimension! They will be placed using custom structure, which is definitely the most efficient way of adding trees to a dimension!

Also in case you are confused by all the lime glass, or the wool, those will be replaced using percentages! So around 30% of the glass will be leaves, the rest air! That way, every single tree will be slightly unique! The wool will be a % jungle wood, and a % mangrove wood. The yellow will have more jungle, and the orange have more mangrove, and that way it should create a really nice gradient!

Once again, definitely the best way to do worldgen; not doing worldgen! xD

(p.s. I will probably make like a couple more small trees, in order to add variation)

Alrighty, so I've started with my classic approach for the new massive datapack; first make the things that are reusable, so if you scratch the project at least you can reuse it! xD

So what I did was prepare the armorbar for the possibly higher armor values that custom armor will have (to balance for the absence of enchantments)!



The way I do it is actually quite clever imo, I created a custom font that shows the 0 character as an empty armor bar, a 1 as half, 2 as full, 3 as golden half, 4 as full gold, etc.

Then I make the armor value that is stored on a scale of 0 to 20 while still keeping track of which type of character it is (on a range of nothing to iron, or iron to gold, etc).

Then, all I need to do is look at if the armor value and store it for the first character. If its higher than 2 then its set to 2. Then after that is done, the value of which type of character it is is added (0 for iron, 2 for gold, 4 for diamond) to the number. And now for the first icon all I need to do is show this number with my custom font! For the other characters, just do the same thing!

It was a lot of copy paste, but still an efficient solution because scoreboard operations are not that intensive on the game!

The only issue with it is that I use the armor scoreboard to check how high a players armor value is, and apparently that wont go higher than 30 (1,5x full diamond) for some reason? So I'll need to add something to check if its 30, and if so look at your inventory and check the real amount!