Checking if a png file exists in a jar

[tlr38usd]

I have a weird system for texturing in my mod and I'd like to make it so that if texture packers include a png file with a certain name it will override my weird texturing system. I know in java there's a file.exists() function but that doesn't seem to work in a compiled jar.

[GotoLink]

Why would a texture maker put his png file in a jar ? 

[hydroflame]

in a compiled jar.

<the more you know >jar files are only zipped file with a different extension btw</the more you know >

but, you can use JarEntry or ZipEntry class to check the content of your jar

[tlr38usd]

Why would a texture maker put his png file in a jar ?

 

Good point. But hopefully you kinda know what I mean. I want my mod to check he current texture pack and if there is a png file with a certain name than overwrite my weird texturing system and use that png instead. How could I do this?

[hydroflame]

isnt it the same thing as a texture pack ?

[tlr38usd]

Not really. What I'm doing currently is that each of my items has two different textures that are recolored depending on different variables. I have gotten requests from texture packers that I have an option for them to not use the default coloring system and instead use there own textures.

[hydroflame]

well you can always use JarEntry or ZipEntry to check the content of a jar

[tlr38usd]

well you can always use JarEntry or ZipEntry to check the content of a jar

 

But as GotoLink mentioned earlier, which I completely forgot, texture packers don't use jars.

[hydroflame]

I have a weird system for texturing in my mod and I'd like to make it so that if texture packers include a png file with a certain name it will override my weird texturing system. I know in java there's a file.exists() function but that doesn't seem to work in a compiled jar.

yeah ok, sooo .. whats the problem now ?

[GotoLink]

Not really. What I'm doing currently is that each of my items has two different textures that are recolored depending on different variables. I have gotten requests from texture packers that I have an option for them to not use the default coloring system and instead use there own textures.

I thought this issue was already handled by Minecraft due to 1.6 changes ?

All a texture maker would have to do is make a resource pack with the same folder system as your mod: assets/modid/textures...

[tlr38usd]

Well as I mentioned earlier I have a weird texture system so if a texturer packer wanted to support my mod they'd have to work with that. Maybe what I need to do is add a mcmeta file similar to how mojang does it. How might I do that?