[1.15.2] Creating coloured particles

[GenElectrovise]

My aim is to make "glyphs" out of particles -- images to decorate the casting of rituals.

 

How can I create particles of different colours if ParticleType and BasicParticleType have no colourising variables and Particles themselves (and their subclasses) cannot be registered and have a texture bound to them?

 

Side note:

The way I am planning to make the images is to read an array of bytes from a png file in the mod resources. The Glyph class will then take those bytes in groups of 4 (red, green, blue and alpha for each pixel) and apply these attributes to a particle, then add it to the world. Particle has all of these variables in it, I just can't see how to utilise them, as I said above.

 

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Edited June 15, 2020 by GenElectrovise
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[TheGreyGhost]

Howdy

I'm not sure about the vanilla way of doing things, but it's pretty straightforward to make a custom particle renderer and then render whatever texture and colour you want.

 

Eg see here for a working example

https://github.com/TheGreyGhost/MinecraftByExample/tree/master/src/main/java/minecraftbyexample/mbe50_particle

 

-TGG