[SOLVED][1.10.2] Rendering Block's Animated Texture

[Furgl]

Hello,

 

I'm working on a mod with armor that uses the textures of certain blocks in the game. Currently I can get a block's quads, the quad's respective TextureAtlasSprite, and the sprite's icon name to get the texture location which works perfectly for most blocks. For blocks with animations (Prismarine, Magma, etc.) the only way I've managed to replicate the animation is to use reflection to access the sprite's frameCounter field and change the texture coordinates that I'm rendering the texture with to render the right texture at the right time. Unfortunately, this doesn't look to great as the textures don't change gradually as they animate.

 

Here's an example of it using the Prismarine texture (compared to actual Prismarine next to it):

 

 

 

Does anyone know of a way that I can render a block's animated texture (probably using its TextureAtlasSprite/BakedQuads)?

 

[Animefan8888]

I have a recommendation not sure if it is what you are looking for or not, but here goes. Instead of switching between textures, you could use them both, but apply the layers with transparency and have your own "counter" that determines when it changes like every time it renders decrease the transparency of the current overlay?

[Furgl]

Instead of switching between textures, you could use them both, but apply the layers with transparency and have your own "counter" that determines when it changes like every time it renders decrease the transparency of the current overlay?

That's a really good idea, I'll try that later today.

The mod maker MCreator can make animated textures. Generate a mod with animated textures in MCreator and then look at how it is done, then replicate that in your own code.

I understand how to make animated textures with normal blocks or items, but that's not what I'm doing; I'm trying to render existing blocks' animated textures on armor.

[Draco18s]

you can try to use some of the code from animated textures of blocks

 

Considering that's where he started....no, no he can't.

Block and item textures are animated with vanilla internals (there's no mod-based code involved) and his attempts to latch onto that system hasn't resulted in a clean result.

[Furgl]

Oh. Sorry, I didn't understand what you were trying to do right away. MCreator can't do animated armor textures, but you can try to use some of the code from animated textures of blocks and items for your armor. I can't be sure tough because I have never made animated textures, even if I want to do them, but I have not been able to find a decent tutorial on doing that...

For blocks, animated textures are essentially different "frames" for the animation stacked on top of each other for the texture (see prismarine_rough.png). Blocks that have animated textures need a .mcmeta file that describes the animation: time between frames, interpolation, order of frames, etc. (see prismarine_rough.png.mcmeta). I can render the appropriate frame of the animation, but as I show in the gif in my first post, I don't know how to mimic the blending between frames that MC does for animated textures. AnimeFan8888's suggestion may work, I'll test it when I have more time later.

[Furgl]

Instead of switching between textures, you could use them both, but apply the layers with transparency and have your own "counter" that determines when it changes like every time it renders decrease the transparency of the current overlay?

This took a fair amount of time, but it worked! Thank you!

 

For anyone else doing something similar or wondering how I did it:

• I got the AnimationMetadataSection from the TextureAtlasSprite via reflection
  
• I calculate the current frame and amount between the current frame, and next frame to use as alpha, each tick using the AnimationMetadataSection
  
• I have my model create pieces using the texture coords for the current frame and for the next frame
  
• When my model renders, it renders the current frame's pieces and then renders the next frame's pieces, on top, with the alpha
  

[kitsushadow]

U really didn't have to go through any of that.

 

I made a block with a custom block model and texture and literally copied exactly what was in prismarine_rough and the mcmeta file and the texture and got a perfect animation.

[larsgerrits]

I made a block with a custom block model and texture and literally copied exactly what was in prismarine_rough and the mcmeta file and the texture and got a perfect animation.

You made it for a block, which already has the standard animation with mcmeta files. He did it for armor, which doesn't have that, so he had to do it himself.

[kitsushadow]

I c, the title is severley misleading