[1.8] Is it possible to "Mix" textures dynamicly at runtime?

[techstack]

Hello,

I had an idea for the mod I'm working on that would involve taking the texture from any block in the game game and "Mixing" it with a texture from my mod.

 

Example adding an overlay to make stone look cracked or damaged in some way.

 

It would be from the rendered in my mod's block but I wasn't sure if it would be possible given the blockstates etc. in 1.8 and having textures pre-defined and stored on disk.

 

I understand that the "Mixing" task could be CPU consuming and would probably be best done during start up not during rendering.

 

 

Thougths?

Tech

[Draco18s]

AFAIK, you'd need to have a two-pass block.  And I'm not sure how those work in 1.8, due to the way icons are handled now.

 

The first pass would supply the base texture ("stone") and the second pass would supply the overlay (the cracks).

[TheGreyGhost]

Hi

 

Just use a texture pack?

 

Alternatively, it's probably possible for you to gain access to the block texture sheet and overwrite it with the new texture (TextureStitchEvent.Post, perhaps?)  Never tried it myself.

 

-TGG

[Draco18s]

(TextureStitchEvent.Post, perhaps?)

 

I never found a way to get access to the texture sheet when I was poking around with it (1.7.10).  I gave up and used two-pass blocks.