How do i add an item with animation?

[rugged quest]

i want to add an item with animation, i already have the spritesheet but don't know how to add

[velvet jay]

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[south stirrup]

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[rugged quest]

but i don't know how do i modifi the texture

after i create it

im guessing i should do something on client events

[indigo granite]

you need an .mcmeta file, which will be named [item_name].png.mcmeta, with [item_name] of course being replaced with the name of the item

[rugged quest]

oh, and it needs to be horizontal strip or vertical strip?

[indigo granite]

vertical

[rugged quest]

and how do i save something as a .png.mcmeta? i just rename it as that?

[indigo granite]

yeah

[rugged quest]

cuz if see the archive it just says file png

[indigo granite]

do note, this will store things in plain text, so probably use a .txt file as a base

[rugged quest]

oh, ok

but how do i transform an image into.txt file?

[indigo granite]

uh, you can probably just rename the extension

but don't do that

you need both the .png and .mcmeta file to make it animate

[rugged quest]

like that?

[indigo granite]

the .mcmeta will basically be a JSON-formatted set of parameters for the game to use to transform the image

[rugged quest]

but it just ends as .png.mcmeta.png

[indigo granite]

do you have file extensions enabled in your file explorer

[rugged quest]

what is that?

[indigo granite]

on some OSes, by default, you can't see the part of a file's name that says and defines what type of file it is

what OS are you on?

[rugged quest]

windows 10

[indigo granite]

if you go into a file explorer window, there should be one tab option that says View, or Home

[rugged quest]

oh i see now

[indigo granite]

one of those two, i honestly' can't recall, but among the options at the top bar, more towards the right, there should be some checkboxes

[rugged quest]

i managed to rename it, i'll reopen my minecraft to see if it worked

didn't work

here's the file

[south stirrup]

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[rugged quest]

and here's the script

[south stirrup]

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[indigo granite]

you don't take the png file and rename it

you have the png file, and another file that is the mcmeta

[rugged quest]

wdym?

[patent light]

he means your mcmeta file and the actual png file are seperate files

make your png a normal png file again

and create a new file with the file name of your png file with .mcmeta at the end

[rugged quest]

like that?

[indigo granite]

just about

[patent light]

uh no

[indigo granite]

but because reasons, it would be enderium_mechanism.png.mcmeta

[patent light]

create a text file

[indigo granite]

o, well yeah

[patent light]

not a png

[indigo granite]

the filename is right, but the base type uh, not really

the mcmeta file is like a set of instructions, that's the simplest way to put it

[rugged quest]

this way?

[patent light]

hold on

[indigo granite]

nearly there

png instead of txt

just rename it and change that out

[patent light]

then put this in there json { "animation": { "frametime": 2, "interpolate": false } }

put it in the same folder as your texture and reload textures with f3+t

[south stirrup]

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[rugged quest]

i got it!

thanks

[patent light]

poggers

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