[1.12.2] Simple way of exporting block icons?

[Kinniken]

Hi,

 

Is there a simple way of exporting the icons of blocks as rendered internally by Minecraft? Something more elegant than using screenshots or re-rendering them outside the game?

 

Thanks

[Draco18s]

What is your end-goal? What are you using these icons for?

[Kinniken]

A steam-like advancement page on my mod's site, with the advancement completion rate for each advancement. Since the icons for advancements are items or blocks in Minecraft, I'd like to be able to display the same on my site.

 

If there's no cleaner way I'll just do a screenshot of my advancement screen and cut out the block icons.

[Draco18s]

There really isn't. You could probably write a mod to generate them for you, but they still need to be rendered (they're literally 3D objects even when they're in your inventory).

[Kinniken]

Ah, didn't know that last part. A screenshot sounds easier at this point...

[Draco18s]

Yep, that's how the display tags work:

models/block/block.json:

    "display": {
        "gui": {
            "rotation": [ 30, 225, 0 ],
            "translation": [ 0, 0, 0],
            "scale":[ 0.625, 0.625, 0.625 ]
        }

 

[Kinniken]

I had seen that, but assumed that Minecraft just rendered it once and then stored it as a raster image somewhere. Never mind then.