Shiny building blocks?

[Amnaa]

What would it take, to create a block color in the builder which would be using:

  "render_info": {
     "material": "materials/shiny.material.json"
				 },

The only thing I have discovered is, that the material is decided somewhere deeper than the palette level.

I’d like to create a palette for gold, silver and copper (at least) which will be using the ingots as building material and render shiny.

[Thaly]

That’s a really awesome idea. Metal building blocks would be great. Maybe even something like polished stone would be great.

[Wouter_Sikkema]

I suspect this would run into the same problem as my idea for ice, I don’t thing there is code support for it

[Thaly]

@Wouter_Sikkema

[Wouter_Sikkema]

repeatpan tells it more clearly then i can

Lets talk ice. and how to implement it

There were various reasons why Frostfeast did not incorporate ice: It’s not possible, or was not possible, to have translucent terrain blocks. For me, this is a deal breaker. Ice isn’t just some glittery, blue-ish stuff, it’s supposed to be transparent. Because water bodies are all cuboids, you would have to perform (expensive) checks on what cuboid is actually the top-most body, and which one is touching air. Not all water freezes to ice, only the top layer. This could be done, but: There nee…

[Amnaa]

Hmm… the post is just pointing out translucent terrain blocks. The other stuff relates to water. There might still be a chance to have a different renderer for some building blocks

[BrunoSupremo]

I think kitty did that already, with glowing building blocks.
Edit: Not kitty, this guy here:

[MOD-A22.5] Color Blocks! (and you can help)

Download: color_blocks.smod (634.6 KB) Inspired by the terrain colors mod I wanted to add some myself. Initially I wanted to add just regular building blocks, but after experimenting I thought; would glass be possible? And even glowing blocks. It resulted in this vibrant collection: [1] So currently this mod adds 52 building blocks: 32 regular, 10 transparent and 10 glowing. Or: plaster, glass and luminescent respectively. [2][3] I figured that blocks of finished buildings are being rend…

[Amnaa]

Ohhhh Thank you for finding that! I shall dissect it! >:D

Edit: Oh, I see. Those are entities, not building blocks

[Wouter_Sikkema]

yea hthats what repeatpan said, entities: go for it, blocks just dont support it as of now. you would have to write the stuff the allows it to do it. (which i at least, cant even dream of doing)

[RepeatPan]

Well, like I’ve said, my information might be outdated. How are the glittering effects for the ores made? If it’s anything with a material or shader, there’s a chance it could work too.

If it isn’t, then it’s something that can’t be modded in by normal means. It’s part of the engine, which is sealed off in C++ land.

[DaniAngione]

In that case it might be possible, since built blocks are slightly different than terrain blocks in terms of definition, and there might be a place somewhere where you could probably define different material maps for your built blocks.

Not sure tho, just guesswork - never delved much into building, I do know that the blocks are rendered differently however, and with more flexbility.

I remember I got a “glass” building block to work once, while testing greenhouse building for glassworks - but it was slightly bugged out (mostly because it was transparente) so you can definitely get shiny materials.

I think that the problem you might encounter was the same that I encountered when making obsidian (which is also shiny/uses that exact shader), which is the fact that for some reason the shine/glow only appears on the top faces of objects, not on sides

Which means that larger objects aren’t as shiny unless someone edited the shader to make the shine effect render on vertical surfaces too, something which I don’t know how to