Serverside Painting Selection | The Fabric Project | Page 1

acoustic wind Apr 4, 2026, 5:14 PM

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I'm creating a mod that allows the player to select what painting they want to place. When you right click to place a painting, it opens a simple gui that allows you to select the painting that you want. I want to see if I can render the paintings to the player, but the goal is to keep it entirely serverside so this would be accomplished through maps or maybe a resource pack.

full sparrow Apr 4, 2026, 5:59 PM

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hm I think a resourcepack could do that

honest tundra Apr 4, 2026, 8:28 PM

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There's an rp like that on vanilla tweaks

acoustic wind Apr 4, 2026, 8:42 PM

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acoustic wind Apr 4, 2026, 8:42 PM

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honest tundra There's an rp like that on vanilla tweaks

It took me a long time to figure out the datagen but I got it

honest tundra Apr 4, 2026, 8:43 PM

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Nice

stiff tree Apr 4, 2026, 10:43 PM

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it would be sick if you could add custom paintings too

honest tundra Apr 4, 2026, 11:07 PM

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if you want to do that the normal way without map shenanigans it would require a file upload page, a hosted server resourcepack, and a server restart

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it also wouldn't really connect to this menu beyond maybe a button in the menu so it should probably be a separate mod imo

acoustic wind Apr 4, 2026, 11:08 PM

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Yeah I actually started running into some hurdles

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It was working when on client and server but if you set the custom model for the itemstack and the client doesn't have the resource pack it shows null textures

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I couldn't get it to roll back to vanilla without setting up an entire clientside portion of the mod (applying the model clientside and removing the serverside portion that does that), but that's not ideal so I'm gonna try again another day when I haven't been staring at it as much

honest tundra Apr 4, 2026, 11:12 PM

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I would recommend overriding the default painting model to select based on the component painting/variant, instead of changing the item_model component

acoustic wind Apr 4, 2026, 11:16 PM

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Can you elaborate a little? When I was working only on the serverside I did:

itemStack.set(DataComponentTypes.ITEM_MODEL, identifier);

and then I used the datagen to make a resourcepack with model and texture info:
-# assets/minecraft/items/alban.json

{
  "model": {
    "type": "minecraft:model",
    "model": "minecraft:item/alban"
  }
}

and
-# assets/minecraft/models/item/alban.json

{
  "parent": "minecraft:item/generated",
  "textures": {
    "layer0": "minecraft:painting/alban"
  }
}

honest tundra Apr 4, 2026, 11:23 PM

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Don't set the ITEM_MODEL component and you don't need assets/minecraft/items/alban.json , instead
assets/minecraft/items/painting.json

{
  "model": {
    "type": "minecraft:select",
    "property": "minecraft:component",
    "component": "minecraft:painting/variant",
    "cases": [
      {
        "when": "minecraft:alban",
        "model": {
          "type": "minecraft:model",
          "model": "minecraft:item/alban"
        }
      }
    ],
    "fallback": {
      "type": "minecraft:model",
      "model": "minecraft:item/painting"
    }
  }
}

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that is assuming you're setting the painting variant component

acoustic wind Apr 4, 2026, 11:24 PM

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yes I am and that makes sense

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wish I had just asked more questions to people lol

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I'm not sure if I have time to fix it tn but I really appreciate it 🙏

acoustic wind Apr 5, 2026, 12:35 AM

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Ended up finishing so hopefully I can publish soon with fully optional clientside support

#Serverside Painting Selection