JSON Generators

Dynamic Asset Generator can be used to add or overwrite assets or data using JSON files. These files live in assets/<namespace>/dynamic_asset_generator/generators or data/<namespace>/dynamic_asset_generator/generators, and can be placed under any namespace and within subfolders. Their general format is as follows:

{
    "type" : "<type identifier>",
    "args" : ...
}

Where the type defines what sort of generator it is and what it does; the other specified arguments will depend on the type of generator.

Sprite Sources

Dynamic Asset Generator's texture sources can also be used as a sprite source in a texture atlas, similar to vanilla's paletted permutations. To use them this way, a sprite source of type dynamic_asset_generator:tex_sources should be added to the texture atlas JSON file you wish to generate textures for. This sprite source takes several parameters:

• sources - a map of the resource locations of textures to generate, to the texture source to use to generate them.
• location - optional; a path representing a folder to search for texture sources to generate.

For instance, if the following were placed at assets/minecraft/atlases/blocks.json:

{
  "sources": [
    {
      "type": "dynamic_asset_generator:tex_sources",
      "sources": {
        "minecraft:block/clay": {
          "type" : "dynamic_asset_generator:texture",
          "path" : "minecraft:block/iron_block"
        }
      },
      "location": "namespace:path"
    }
  ]
}

Then the texture for clay would be replaced with the texture for iron, and a file placed at assets/minecraft/namespace/path/block/end_stone.json containing a texture source would replace the texture for end stone. This sprite source takes the same types of texture sources as Texture Generation. If the texture source accesses other textures, the sprite source will attempt to generate animation metadata from those textures.