All Blend Modes

[fickle echo]

Courtesy of @loud umbra for kickstarting this

Shown are all supported blend modes available to both entities and particles. From left to right:

1. Normal
2. Exclusion (Inverts based on lightness)
3. Multiply (Overlays bright colors over white; darkens most colors)
4. Double Multiply (Brightens or highlights backgrounds when used with brighter colors; darkens most colors)
5. Additive (Merges toward white)
6. Additive Blend (Merges toward white based on alpha value)
7. Premultiplied Alpha (Inversely blends to Additive based on alpha value)
8. Opaque (Makes all pixels opaque)

[fickle echo]

Download and try them out here:

Just run /function blend_materials_demo/main.

Check a closer look at the inversion effect provided by "Exclusion":

Also see the world brightening and color overlay benefits of "Double Multiply":

[ancient trellis]

Ooh those red-lighting examples are amazing

[dusty pollen]

You've mentioned these are available to entities and particles. But is there anything like this for UI?

[proud fossil]

just to be sure, this is outside of experimental, right?

[silver wadi]

yeas, just slap one on the player's face

[sour geyser]

how can i use it for an entity?

[untold cedar]

Wow new generation of night vision devices

[fickle echo]

Yes, it is very possible to do that. 😄

[untold cedar]

I can't wait

Make something with it

[glossy palm]

Could I apply this to the players view always via a resource pack?

[fickle echo]

Yes, I've done this for Marketplace. Be warned of F1.

[glossy palm]

Could you give a simple explanation on how to accomplish this? I made a post 9 hrs ago and no one has said anything.

[fickle echo]

You place a cube over the head only in 1st person and only for the local player… configured with the materials above.

[glossy palm]

Ngl I don’t really know where to start but thx for answering

[fickle echo]

Yeah, sorry, when I did this, it was strictly under NDA. I have no code to give and can only leave you with the broad idea. I'd start with trying to add additional geometries to the player using render controllers.

[glossy palm]

Ah ok thx

[ancient trellis]

Would I be allowed to explain it?

I'm not under NDA for it and I know what you did

[glossy palm]

Could you explain it? (I know it uses client entity on player.json but I don’t really understand all that 💀)

[ancient trellis]

Sure @glossy palm

To get it working you would just need to render a cube over the player's camera using a first-person animation

Pretty trivial, most 3d item setups also use this method to get a model to render in the player's hand

Just position a cube over the player's head, add the geometry to the player's entity rp file,
create a new render controller for it and set the render controller to be enabled when v.is_first_person is true

[glossy palm]

How do I make sure it rotates with the player’s head? Or will it automatically do that? Sorry I’m pretty new to things out of the norm like this

[ancient trellis]

If you keep the bone structure in the new geo file the same then it will rotate with the head, as the default animations will apply to it too

So just keep all the bones and remove the cubes, then remove all bones that aren't in the direct "tree" - So legs and arms can be removed, etc

[glossy palm]

K thx

[glossy palm]

So I can’t find the player geometry anywhere in the vanilla resource packs

[mental cipher]

Doesn't exist in the vanilla packs.

[mental cipher]

It exist in the default skin pack.

Here's the default skin pack.

Hope that is of help to you 🙂

The geometry.json file has the player models in it.

[ancient trellis]

What? Should be in mobs.json no?

Yeah it is

[sour geyser]

I already did it but it doesn't work with the material it looks the same and what is transparent disappears 😦

[fickle echo]

@weary tulip

[viscid cypress]

@sturdy mesa ^

[sturdy mesa]

Ohh

[sturdy mesa]

Wait no one seems to use it with the entity material

[viscid cypress]

It's not too far off, I'm sure you can extrapolate

Given this and the messages Veka sent on OSS answering you

[sturdy mesa]

I'm confused

This doesn't really explain it

Additional geometries?

[sturdy mesa]

@viscid cypress

Please explain

[slim cape]

If I slapped particle on the players face, this would work right?

Like I would want the player to see everything but inverted

[ancient trellis]

@slim cape Should do yeah. You may even be able to use it as an entity material and have a cube over the player's face but still inside their head (so it looks normal from 3rd person). Though unfortunately 3rd person wouldn't have the effect applied

[lucid mason]

Can I use these methods in a custom block?

[ancient trellis]

No

Could make a fake block entity and use it tho

[lucid mason]

Oh okay

[sturdy mesa]

Doesnt realy work in entity

Not as well as with particle

[loud umbra]

Idk, works perfectly for me.

[sturdy mesa]

Wait realy?, how did you do it?

@loud umbra

Sorry ,but realy gotta know , since all i could do was this:

https://youtu.be/smMmgVS-jMc?si=k6KnJVk0utL_UD91

Cant say this is realy good

[loud umbra]

Is that entity material?

[sturdy mesa]

Yes

That's why it doesn't look good

[loud umbra]

Add "-defines": ["FANCY"] to that material and in RC use "ignores_lighting": true. Also I hope you're using the double multiply material, and not additive.

[sturdy mesa]

I think i already did that, also what material does it use? I used beacon

[loud umbra]

See example pack in this post for blendSrc and blendDst values for double multiply blending mode

[sturdy mesa]

{
  "materials": {
    "version": "1.0.0", 
    "night_vision:entity_alphablend": {
      "blendSrc": "DestColor",
      "blendDst": "SourceColor",
      "-defines": ["FANCY"]
    }
  }
}

This is what im using

Its nowhere as good as the particle material

this is what it should look like

But this is what it actualy look like:

[loud umbra]

On that screenshot I stacked multiple particlest together, to amplify effect

[sturdy mesa]

I did the same with the model

I stacked multiple layers of intensifying model parts

[loud umbra]

Make sure the texture is 100% green, 0% blue and 0% red

[sturdy mesa]

I think it was even

But the contrast in yours is much clearer

Much brighter without being too bright too

[loud umbra]

Try "+states": ["DisableDepthWrite"], intensifying layers might be blocking each other

[sturdy mesa]

Ohh

In material?

{
  "materials": {
    "version": "1.0.0", 
    "night_vision:entity_alphablend": {
      "blendSrc": "DestColor",
      "blendDst": "SourceColor",
      "-defines": ["FANCY"],
      "+states": ["DisableDepthWrite"]
    }
  }
}

[loud umbra]

Nvm

[sturdy mesa]

Oh

[sturdy mesa]

Just this than ig

[loud umbra]

If this doesn't work, try also adding +defines EMISSIVE and try with transparent texture

Actually hold on, how are you displaying this geometry? In UI paper doll or in hand?

[sturdy mesa]

Ah, ok, i will

[sturdy mesa]

Geo

In attachable

So it doesnt require player json

[loud umbra]

Alright, good

[sturdy mesa]

• it becomes brighter when look down

How much of an issue is it when its not 100% green

?

[sturdy mesa]

I tried it with emmisive too but without transparent texture and it did same

[sturdy mesa]

whats the color green in color code btw?

is it #008000

?

[loud umbra]

00FF00

[sturdy mesa]

alr

with and without "+states": ["DisableDepthWrite"]

[loud umbra]

What's that thing on the right?

[sturdy mesa]

without

with

[loud umbra]

Also what is the alpha value of your texture?

[sturdy mesa]

its 100%

you mean opacity right?

[loud umbra]

yes

It looks like you're using wrong material somehow

[sturdy mesa]

emmisive one

[loud umbra]

lets move to https://discord.com/channels/523663022053392405/1067870133328027730

[sturdy mesa]

how too

kk

[pale furnace]

I've tried using this and I can make it work for particles, but it says materials not defined when I try to use it for entities and it just crashes my game

[loud umbra]

You have to edit entity materials file, and name your materials something like "example:entity_alphablend"

[sturdy mesa]

yea, well it doesnt work with that too, we have to use particles

[loud umbra]

It does -_-

[slim estuary]

Can confirm, it does work

Been using these on entities since the day this post was written

[sturdy mesa]

what, i already tried it

[sturdy mesa]

have you tried it on attachables?

that would only mean attachables are different

[slim estuary]

#1074489365243363408 message

[sturdy mesa]

nono

still same as in my image

[slim estuary]

Attachables are the sole reason everything in this showcase post worked

What?

[sturdy mesa]

it does multiply , but isnt 100% transparent

as i can read out of that image

[slim estuary]

Well idk how you control opacity with an emissive material. Normally, you could set the alpha value from the RC assuming the entity supported that feature, but not sure about attachables.

Saying “blends don’t work on attachables” is simply not true though, that’s not the root of your problem

[sturdy mesa]

hmm, alr

[serene vapor]

i know this is pretty old, but do you have the material or how they did this?
-# i'm stupid at materials lmao

[mossy quiver]

How to do it white black like an impact frames??

[fickle echo]

You can open the linked mcaddon to see. It's in there.

[serene vapor]

Can you help me a bit? I did the inversion effect in particles but in entities idk how to have the materials... How do I do it?

{
   "materials": {
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "inversion:particles_blend": {
         "blendSrc": "OneMinusDestColor",
         "blendDst": "OneMinusSrcColor"
      }
   }
}```

[fickle echo]

I'm afraid I don't remember the ramifications of doing this in entities.

[serene vapor]

Damn... Thanks tho

[loud umbra]

Fun fact, framebuffer in MC actually has an alpha channel that you can write to... The issue is that you can't read anything from it because there is no blend mode that utilises DestAlpha which is a real shame because having a whole new invisible color channel would've been very useful for various effects

[wooden pawn]

Is it possible to create a material that converts lighter color to white and darker ones to black?

Black and white in short

[fickle echo]

I don't think you have enough to pull this off right now, but I'm not the end all-be all in this field.

[deep galleon]

Amazing

[hazy sphinx]

Interesting

[potent pelican]

this is peak

[stone breach]

How to make this?

[stone breach]

Did you succeed?

[fickle echo]

It's in the add-on.

[hot siren]

Is there any way to reproduce this rendering bug on a custom fence? Using render_method or some other approach?

[wraith horizon]

this is the wrong channel. go to https://discord.com/channels/523663022053392405/1067876857103536159