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!
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!
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!
Alright, so this is quite a fun announcement I think, I've been thinking about starting on a massive datapack, straying slightly further away from my principle of only adding new things while keeping vanilla gameplay the way it is. So I would kinda like some feedback, and gauge how much people would enjoy something like that.
So I have been wanting to make a thing like this for quite a while, so this will be merging a bunch of ideas! In order of smallest to biggest;
First of all, change some small gameplay things, like making boats able to use firework rockets, making it a bit more viable to use, and stuff like making stars more bright (I did this as a test and omg it looks amazing, I want mincraft to add this to the game normally);
Secondly, in order to balance for the other changes, I want to change gear. So first of all, I want to change the amount of regeneration that eating gives you, because I just dont think its at all balanced xD Beyond that, I'd also like to remove enchantments, because full prot 4 is just way to overpowered, and that makes balancing bosses very hard. I would try to add some custom item sets, in order to add some fun stuff and balance the removed enchantments a bit.
Then here is the part that would take the most. I'd want to add new dimensions. Its been a while since I did worldgen, but I think that adding a dozen new dimensions (properly) could add a lot! The main thing is that I would want every dimension to serve a purpose, so that would be a bit of work. A thought I've had for one is making it have scaling on a crazy level; the nether has 1:8 ratio in terms of cords, this one could have 1:80, making it the best fast travel method, but then balancing that with a danger aspect!
Then there are still some more stuff in mind that I haven't mentioned, such as leveling weapons and cool minecart additions, but I think this is the gist of it! So let me know if you think you would like to play this once finished, and maybe if you'd want to watch me work on it live on my Twitch!
I did a bit of work, and now I have something that looks a bit better!
For the record, this is 1 armorstand with 1 item on its head, which even supports animations, and if I understand correctly, thats not even limited to 20 fps unlike datapack solutions.
So this is what I actually made, its rather simple, because I want it to still feel like minecraft, but there is a bit of shaping, you can tell that the cape is rotated in a unique angle, and also itself is curved slightly, of course the arms are rotated and the crown is wider at the top than it is at the bottom!
One thing that is funny, is that if I use it in a datapack and someone wants to find out how I did it, they will not be able to understand any of it xD
So the texturing is abysmal, but this is just me testing and I wont spend an hour texturing something when it'll get trashed anyway xD
Anyhow, the main thing to focus on is the shape, which isn't cuboid... Idk if I'm late to this party but I am truly loving objmc xD Going to try to actually make a good looking model now
Yes absolutely!! If you need a hand with anything, I am not the best at shaders or anything but I'd be happy to try and help! (CommandWitchery#3313 on Discord)
Yoo, that’s actually so cool :o I've been wanting to try out shaders for quite some time now, really think i should rather do that rather sooner than later now
Indeed, changing how the game renders is something I've come very frequent in xD
Like for this minigame that this screenshot is from I do; - Change the way advancement backgrounds renders - Change the way text renders (to delete the item id & nbt data text, its ugly) - Delete the item background (because it still renders around the item id text (and then use custom fonts to make an entirely new background system)) - Change the way text renders to make the custom background render behind the name of the item - Change the item hover effect (to make it so that its only shown over some slots, as the inventory is largely deleted by traditional texture changes) - Change the hover effect for bundles (they have a preview highlighter, thats gone now (because I wanted bundles for right click detection in the inventory)) - Change the way text renders (to move it up when it has a specific color, because the bundle has stuff below it for the items, and that pushed the lore down)
You know, casually using shaders absolutely everywhere just to make it that tiny bit better!
I may or may not be opening the dark book of witchcraft that is Minecraft Vanilla Shaders, going better than expected (The text is using a custom font, everything else is using shaders) (Also, the background is animated slightly)
Deesaster
11/8/22 4:42
• posted 10/26/22 12:18
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