Create: Steam 'n' Rails•3mo ago

Making new rails

I don't know if this is the right spot to post this, but I don't know where else. So, I'm working on an addon that adds a wood type matching that of the Copper Casing, and I want to have it compatible with Steam n Rails. I already have all of the textures made, but I was wondering how I would be able to add the different rails in my mod? I'm still somewhat new to modding and if someone had some sort of guide it would be really appreciated. Note: This is on Forge 1.20.1

6 Replies

Steam 'n' Rails Bot•3mo ago

Hello @Encased Fan! Someone will help you shortly, please do not ping moderators or other people and just wait for someone to come help.

Slimeist•3mo ago

you don't need SnR for this, actually. We PR'ed the custom track API into Create, so what you need to do is register a new TrackMaterial, and register a TrackBlock for that material - you can basically just copy the registration for Create's andesite tracks

Potatowen•3mo ago

Where would i do this? Also, would this also add the wide and thin tracks too?

Slimeist•3mo ago

Foreword: You can either depend on SnR, or have an optional dependency for wide/narrow tracks. A hard dependency is easier for you, but potentially annoying for your users. I'm going to assume that you're already set up with Create and are registering your blocks with Registrate (and therefore have datagen set up). If that isn't the case, you'll have to adapt this a bit: to start, you'll want a class called something like MyModTrackMaterials. You'll want to

import static com.simibubi.create.content.trains.track.TrackMaterialFactory.make;

import static com.simibubi.create.content.trains.track.TrackMaterialFactory.make;

Then you can register a track material like so:

public static final TrackMaterial MYWOOD = make(MyMod.asResource("mywood"))
    .lang("Mywood")
    .block(() -> MyModBlocks.MYWOOD_TRACK)
    .particle(MyMod.asResource("block/mywood_planks"))
    .sleeper(() -> MyModBlocks.MYWOOD_SLAB.get().asItem())
    .standardModels()
    .build(),

public static final TrackMaterial MYWOOD = make(MyMod.asResource("mywood"))
    .lang("Mywood")
    .block(() -> MyModBlocks.MYWOOD_TRACK)
    .particle(MyMod.asResource("block/mywood_planks"))
    .sleeper(() -> MyModBlocks.MYWOOD_SLAB.get().asItem())
    .standardModels()
    .build(),

The standardModels() call means it'll use standard track models, with textures at src/main/resources/assets/mymod/textures/block/track/mywood/ The textures you'll need in that directory are: - standard_track_mywood.png - standard_track_crossing_mywood.png - standard_track_mip_mywood.png - portal_track_mywood.png - portal_track_mip_mywood.png Note that the last two can be generated by this script: https://github.com/Layers-of-Railways/MinecraftGraphicsScripts/blob/master/railway/convert.py Just clone the repo, install the requirements.txt, throw the first three textures in the base_tracks directory (according to the existing structure), and run the script. Then you'll get the portal textures in the portal_tracks directory (which will be newly created) In your track materials class, you should also make an empty static method called register that you call in your mod constructor actual block registration in next message (reaching character limit) As to registering the track block itself: If you're hard depending on SnR, you can just use the class https://github.com/Layers-of-Railways/Railway/blob/1.19/dev/common/src/main/java/com/railwayteam/railways/content/custom_tracks/CustomTrackBlockStateGenerator.java. Otherwise, you'll have to copy it. Note that I'm intentionally linking the 1.19 version, because the 1.20 version has some multiloader stuff abstracted out, but it should be trivial (or unnecessary to port). Next, whether you are hard depending on SnR or not, in your block registration class, copy the makeTrack methods from https://github.com/Layers-of-Railways/Railway/blob/1.20/dev/common/src/main/java/com/railwayteam/railways/registry/CRBlocks.java. There's a few (fairly obvious) places where you'll need to remove or edit SnR-specific bits, particularly changing line 159 to just directly use Create's tag, and changing line 166 to use MyMod.asResource instead of Railways.asResource. Next, if you are NOT hard depending on SnR, you'll need to copy addToBlockEntityType from https://github.com/Layers-of-Railways/Railway/blob/1.20/dev/common/src/main/java/com/railwayteam/railways/registry/CRTrackMaterials.java, as well as the https://github.com/Layers-of-Railways/Railway/blob/1.19/dev/common/src/main/java/com/railwayteam/railways/mixin/AccessorBlockEntityType.java mixin Finally, you can simply register your track block like so:

public static final BlockEntry<TrackBlock> MYWOOD_TRACK = makeTrack(MyModTrackMaterials.MYWOOD);

public static final BlockEntry<TrackBlock> MYWOOD_TRACK = makeTrack(MyModTrackMaterials.MYWOOD);

Wide/Narrow track details in next message

Potatowen•3mo ago

I really appreciate your help.

Slimeist•3mo ago

If you are hard depending on SnR, you can do the wide/narrow registration in MyModBlocks, otherwise you have to do it in a separate class that you must be careful to only load if SnR is present. I'd look at https://github.com/Layers-of-Railways/Railway/blob/1.20/dev/common/src/main/java/com/railwayteam/railways/compat/tracks/GenericTrackCompat.java to base that bit off of

GitHub

Railway/common/src/main/java/com/railwayteam/railways/compat/tracks...

Official repository of the Create Railways mod for Minecraft - Layers-of-Railways/Railway

Gaming

Programming

Making new rails