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I'd like some pointers on making a particle, the code for particles is honestly confusing and hard to learn from. I want to make a custom textured, generic, particle that I can spawn with "this.world.spawnParticle();"

Just a particle.

They're super confusing, any help would be nice. I'm going to get some sleep, I'll check this tomorrow.

Thanks!

P.S.

-Yes, I have experience with Java. I have made two (technically 3) functioning mods, one with 100+ downloads. (That's not really impressive, but I'm proud of it.)

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You'd be better off creating a method in your proxies, that spawn a custom particle on the Client with Minecraft::addEffect() (as such, the CommonProxy's method would do nothing)

 

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17 hours ago, Matryoshika said:

You'd be better off creating a method in your proxies, that spawn a custom particle on the Client with Minecraft::addEffect() (as such, the CommonProxy's method would do nothing)

 

Oh, the "Underworld" source code is helpful.

haha, "I frickin hate particles"

I agree with you.

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4 hours ago, its_meow said:

can someone just point me to a good source code with a particle properly added? That's how I learn best

Just go to the minecraft source code. There should be tons of examples there.

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5 hours ago, Leomelonseeds said:

Just go to the minecraft source code. There should be tons of examples there.

Actually, no. Particles are one of the things you can't quite figure out by looking at Vanilla code.

Spawning them, yes. Actually having your custom particle class render correctly and not fucking things up, no.

You have to bind your texture, do some GL settings (resetting them later) and doing some translations (and popping them off later).

 

Basically everything I do here:

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/blob/master/src/main/java/com/draco18s/ores/client/ProspectorParticle.java#L55-L61

and here:

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/blob/master/src/main/java/com/draco18s/ores/client/ProspectorParticle.java#L96-L98

 

Even the inbetween lines (62-95) aren't a direct copy of the vanilla code.

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On 3/17/2017 at 0:47 AM, Draco18s said:

Actually, no. Particles are one of the things you can't quite figure out by looking at Vanilla code.

Spawning them, yes. Actually having your custom particle class render correctly and not fucking things up, no.

You have to bind your texture, do some GL settings (resetting them later) and doing some translations (and popping them off later).

 

Basically everything I do here:

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/blob/master/src/main/java/com/draco18s/ores/client/ProspectorParticle.java#L55-L61

and here:

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/blob/master/src/main/java/com/draco18s/ores/client/ProspectorParticle.java#L96-L98

 

Even the inbetween lines (62-95) aren't a direct copy of the vanilla code.

I tried this code on my particle, basically changed the color green (the color I want it) and the texture to a grayscale of the texture I want it and it comes out just as a green square. is there something I have to do with the specific png file? does it have to be a certain resolution?

I basically changed PARTICLES_TEXTURE to

    private static final ResourceLocation PARTICLES_TEXTURE = new ResourceLocation("derpcats:textures/particles/binary.png");

which is where my texture is, assets/derpcats/textures/particles/binary.png.

 

but thank you, that's a very helpful reply

 

EDIT: I just realized, you can see it through blocks too..

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I'm pretty new to modding Minecraft so no idea if I'm actually doing this properly, but I call super.renderParticle() in my custom particle to let the vanilla code handle the rendering, mainly because I don't know how to properly use opengl and also I don't think writing the rendering myself is necessary for basic particles.

Here is my custom fire particle and where I call super.renderParticle():

https://github.com/Kriptikz/Archmage/blob/1.11.2-Refactor/src/main/java/kriptikz/archmage/client/particle/ParticleFire.java#L43-L48

The only custom code in my ParticleFire#renderParticle() is to change the scale of the particle over time so it shrinks. Then I just call super.renderParticle to do the actually rendering.

Also, in order to use the custom texture here:

https://github.com/Kriptikz/Archmage/blob/1.11.2-Refactor/src/main/java/kriptikz/archmage/client/particle/ParticleFire.java#L39

I register it here, in the TextureStitchEvent:

https://github.com/Kriptikz/Archmage/blob/1.11.2-Refactor/src/main/java/kriptikz/archmage/client/TextureStitcher.java

 

Also, remember you have to register the class using TextureStitchEvent, I do that in ClientProxy here:

https://github.com/Kriptikz/Archmage/blob/1.11.2-Refactor/src/main/java/kriptikz/archmage/proxy/ClientProxy.java#L24

 

 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, its_meow said:

EDIT: I just realized, you can see it through blocks too..

Which is part of what I made my code do, specially.

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