quat1024 / dazzle-2

Heat lamps for your lizards, now for 1.16

Dazzle 2

welcome to dazzle 2, the "i don't want to ship hundreds of json files this time" edition i am now shipping hundreds of json files

fabric 1.16.5

building

You will find some gradle tasks under the d2 category.

runGenerator: launch the game, spew a bunch of generated assets and data into src/gen_out/resources, and exit. cleanGeneratedResources: delete src/gen_out/resources.

These run real honest-to-goodness vanilla datagens (no more string replacement hackery, yahoo). due to source-set magic i cribbed from botania the generated resources can stay in that directory too.

things that are generated:

• blockstates for lamps and flare lights
• item models for lamps and flare lights (parents to the block model)
• language entries for lamps and flare lights
  • most are placed outside of the generated resources folder, in the main mod's en_us.json file (see note below)
  • en_au, en_ca, en_gb, and en_nz jsons are also generated, containing the entries that differ from en_us (gray/grey)
• All recipes and recipe advancements
• All tags

Quick note on en_us.json

You can't ship two language .jsons for the same language in the mod, but i only want to generate some lang entries, so i made a compromise:

running the datagens has a side-effect of overwriting en_us.json to include generated data at the bottom. This avoids a manual copy-and-paste step where you have to paste in generated item names.

I make an effort to preserve the JSON formatting through the round-trip, including blank-lines. However it's kind of buggy so the json object inside en_us.json cannot end with a blank line, or it will fail to parse. The file has to end with "closing quote", "exactly one newline", then }.

current featureset

• an all-new type of light!!!!, we're up to 5 types of lights now!
• as usual they come in 16 colors, digital/analog (craft with a comparator), regular/inverted (click with a redstone torch) variations
• the Light Sensor. conceptually similar to a daylight sensor, but places like an observer, and detects blocklight instead of sky light
• invisible lights
• light panels, which project light up to 45 blocks away depending on signal strength
  • should be a lot less buggy than the ones in dazzle 1, give em a look!
• dim redstone torch - emits light level 3 and redstone signal 1
• colored flare lights, emit happy little particles

todo

anyway

• more "natural" light sources, e.g. more types of lanterns and torches
  • something animated could be fun, like a lantern with a fire in it
  • Spend MORE on candlesi forgot they're in 1.17 lol
  • modern-style light bulbs and lampshades, maybe
  • art is hard ;)
• some way to see the invisible lights (consider: like barrier blocks)