ScreenEffects

ScreenEffects by Trplnr

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A small flexible library for showing animated screen overlays to the user.

Demo

Usage

Making Screen Effects using the builder Deno file:

> IMPORTANT: > Using this method requires the following to be installed in your system: IMPORTANT, %%MD1%%. After getting those, restart your computer.

A screen effect is composed of multiple font frames that the datapack uses to show the animation.

A utility Deno JS file is provided with the resource pack inside the `screen_effects` folder to make this process easier.

1. Making the animation

> 256x256 .png file: > - You can use any image editing software you like as long as it can 256x256 .png file. 256x256 .png file has this functionality. > - It is recommended to make a 256x256 .png file for the best results. - Start by creating an animation.

- Export your animation into a vertical spritesheet inside the `screen_effects` folder.

- You can add more spritesheets inside the `screen_effects` folder if you want more screen effects.

2. Building the animations

- To prepare for building the animations, go inside the `buildScreenEffects.js` folder and adjust these configs. ```js // -------------CONFIGS--------------- // Replace with the namespace you use! const NAMESPACE = "trplnr";

// If you want the font JSON files to be formatted, make this boolean true. const prettyPrintFontFiles = false;

// If you want to see the ffmpeg logs, make this boolean true. const showFFMPEGLogs = false; // ----------------------------------- ``` - To make your amazing animations usable by the datapack, You can run a command in your terminal to convert your spritesheets into frames! - Open your preferred terminal and make sure you are inside the `screen_effects` folder. - After that, run this command ```sh deno run --allow-all .buildScreenEffects.js ```

- After running that, if everything is successful, it should look like this:

- Congrats! You've successfully turned your wonderful animations into frames! :tada:

- If you only want to to compile 1 spritesheet, simply run ```sh deno run --allow-all .buildScreenEffects.js filename.png ``` ---

Registering the Screen Effects

The datapack needs to have data to know what a screen effect is so you have to register it.

Here is an example on how you can register one.

> ScreenEffect schema shown below this section. ```mcfunction

To add your own screen effects to the global registry,

simply copy what is shown here.

data modify storage example:scrfx_data screen_effects set value { "examples:toast": { tps: 1, frame_count: 31, path: "example:scrfx/exampletoast" }, "examples:transition": { tps: 1, frame_count: 69, path: "example:scrfx/exampletransition", callbacks: { "26": "say This frame covers the whole screen" } }, }

function scrfx:add_screen_effects {storage: "example:scrfx_data", path: "screen_effects"} ```

The ScreenEffect Schema

This is the definition of a ScreenEffect.

```ts { /** * The name of the screen effect, * preferrably namespaced. */ "ns:identifier": { /** * How fast each frame * shows up measured in ticks. * * Just like fps but well in ticks. * * Must be above zero. */ tps: <int>,

/** * How many frames are in the animation. */ frame_count: <int>,

/** * The font resource location * of the animation with the * number at the end removed. */ path: <resource_location>, /** * Defines what commands run in a certain frame. * * Optional. */ callback?: { "<frame_number>": "<command>", ... } } } ```

Running the Screen Effects

- Declare the animation to be played inside the `scrfx:in id` storage. - Then execute as a player and run `scrfx:play`!

> Example: ```mcfunction data modify storage scrfx:in id set value "ns:identifier" execute as Trplnr run function scrfx:play ```

- You have successfully played a screen effect! 🎉