BCLib

The Latest Version of BCLib can be found here: https://github.com/quiqueck/BCLib/

BCLib is a library mod for BetterX team mods, developed for Fabric, MC 1.18

Features:

Rendering

• Emissive textures (with _e suffix)
  • Can be applied to Solid and Transparent blocks;
  • Can be changed/added with resourcepacks;
  • Incompatible with Sodium and Canvas (just will be not rendered);
  • Incompatible with Iris shaders (Iris without shaders works fine).
• Procedural block and item models (from paterns or from code);
• Block render interfaces.

API:

• Simple Mod Integration API:
  • Get mod inner methods, classes and objects on runtime.
• Structure Features API:
  • Sructure Features with automatical registration, Helpers and math stuff.
• World Data API:
  • World fixers for comfortable migration between mod versions when content was removed;
  • Support for Block name changes and Tile Entities (WIP).
• Bonemeal API:
  • Add custom spreadable blocks;
  • Add custom plants grow with weight, biomes and other checks;
  • Custom underwater plants.
• Features API:
  • Features with automatical registration, Helpers and math.
• Biome API:
  • Biome wrapper around MC biomes;
  • Custom biome data storage;
  • Custom fog density.
• Tag API:
  • Pre-builded set of tags;
  • Dynamical tag registration with code;
  • Adding blocks and items into tags at runtime.

Libs:

• Spline library (simple):
  • Helper to create simple splines as set of points;
  • Some basic operation with splines;
  • Converting splines to SDF.
• Recipe manager:
  • Register recipes from code with configs and ingredients check.
• Noise library:
  • Voronoi noise and Open Simplex Noise.
• Math library:
  • Many basic math functions that are missing in MC.
• SDF library:
  • Implementation of Signed Distance Functions;
  • Different SDF Operations and Primitives;
  • Different materials for SDF Primitives;
  • Block post-processing;
  • Feature generation using SDF.

Helpers And Utils:

• Custom surface builders.
• Translation helper:
  • Generates translation template.
• Weighted list:
  • A list of objects by weight;
• Weighted Tree:
  • Fast approach for big weight structures;
• Block helper:
  • Some useful functions to operate with blocks;

Complex Materials

• Utility classes used for mass content generation (wooden blocks, stone blocks, etc.);
• Contains a set of defined blocks, items, recipes and tags;
• Can be modified before mods startup (will add new block type for all instances in all mods);
• All inner blocks and items are Patterned (will have auto-generated models with ability to override them with resource packs or mod resources).

Pre-Defined Blocks and Items:

• Most basic blocks from MC;
• Automatic item & block model generation;

Configs:

• Custom config system based on Json;
• Hierarchical configs;
• Different entry types;
• Only-changes saves.

Interfaces:

• BlockModelProvider:
  • Allows block to return custom model and blockstate.
• ItemModelProvider:
  • Allows block to return custom item model.
• CustomColorProvider:
  • Make available to add block and item color provider.
• RenderLayerProvider:
  • Determine block render layer (Transparent and Translucent).
• PostInitable:
  • Allows block to init something after all mods are loaded.
• CustomItemProvider:
  • Allows block to change its registered item (example - signs, water lilies).

Importing:

• Clone repo
• Edit gradle.properties if necessary
• Run command line in folder: gradlew genSources eclipse (or Another-IDE-Name)
• Import project to IDE

Building:

• Clone repo
• Run command line in folder: gradlew build
• Mod .jar will be in ./build/libs