Third person camera button

[timid kettle]

I don't like to just copy other addons and use them, so I try to understand them to do my own works, but this addon is difficult for me. What it does is add some buttons on the pause screen and on the player screen, one of those buttons is the camera switch to third person

The author used codes that I don't know if are necessary for the game recognize them or he only did it this way to prevent his work from being stolen. One of the files is this and it is what I would like you to help me understand.

It seems to be made up of Unicode text, random letter text, and the command to be true or false. I decoded the Unicode text (you can see what it says in the second image) and I can understand the true or false commands. What I don't understand are the random letters, does anyone know what encoding this is? I think that there is the key to know which is the function of which button. So I can know how the addon works.

[peak sluice]

if you gonna publicly asking everyone to decode that for you then, don't. The author used obfuscation to prevent people reading and stealing author's code. you'll need a permission for author to make it readable for you.

And also, if you meant about third person camera button on your gameplay, that does not exist. the author likely make settings screen as always rendering and making entire element invisible, only those buttons to be seen. these buttons are from settings screen to be used.

therefore you got usable third person button thing that you need to disable it before going to settings.

[timid kettle]

Take It easy, I'm not trying to steal anything, even people who enter this post will not know what addon this is, the file I show does not represent even a tenth of the original addon. I'm trying to understand that because after all the only way to learn how to make addons is by seeing how others do it. And the button really does work, it even generates a settings button that sends you directly to that menu

[placid moon]

But I do wonder how do they encrypt codes

[peak sluice]

I understand but you might want to read their TOS first before going your way to read the code, otherwise I'm not involved with this.

[peak sluice]

it's not code encryption, it's code obfuscation. the most legal way you could do it.

but, since this server has strictly rule against code encryption, I'd recommend not to talk anything about it.

[cold crown]

i wonder how the creator like managed to add the „ionsijnaln“ stuff

[carmine wraith]

the random stuff seems to just be comments or something, im pretty sure its just to confuse anyone trying to deobfuscate it, only the actual json should be needed

[placid moon]

got it👍

[timid kettle]

yes, after analyzing it, i found that they don't really mean anything

[carmine wraith]

yep

/**/ means comments

in most formats

[twin drift]

I bet this was tyel's overlay pack, simple to deobfus but not going to tell

[severe cliff]

Obfuscation is silly

[cold rampart]

https://hmm-web.github.io/JSON/Formatter/

use this to deobfuscate @timid kettle

this doesn't work anymore but basically it was buttons on the settings screen that changed it with a special toggle that looks like a button. tlgm then edited screen properties to make it overlay on hud

[vital hearth]

This is code is escaped or whatever it’s called

Just search up json unescaper

@timid kettle https://www.freeformatter.com/json-escape.html

[peak sluice]

The code that OP posted are JSON obfuscation and made it specially harder for people to deobfuscation with tricks of how to cause errors on website that trying to format and deobfuscation it. Author's really taking effort in doing that. and I'm pretty sure who that author was.

[twin drift]

it errors when {} Is at the end or /**/

like what ambro did to prevent people from deobfuscating it

[peak sluice]

Same thing as tyel's packs.

JSON are not meant to have comments, that's how it cause some of errors that website are facing.

( same thing that my editor syntax checker thing are doing I suppose )

[vital hearth]

Ambros code all still can be deobfuscated tho js delete the comments and stuff

It’s possible

Just a little bit harder

[severe cliff]

Minecraft reads invalid json if its after what the game is supposed to read

You could write fake pseudo code without comments after the actual json code and confuse people

[grand gazelle]

mc dont read invalid json

comments in json is not invalid in terms of engine

[silent siren]

not sure why people obfuscate things like that when most people that know what they are doing are the ones that look into the code in the first place

[carmine wraith]

fr

[carmine wraith]

yes minecraft uses jsonc

not json

jsonc allows the use of comments

[peak sluice]

My point still stands.

[carmine wraith]

yes yes

im just saying

[peak sluice]

minecraft kinda does tbf

[carmine wraith]

wdym

[peak sluice]

it reads comments too, but it stops when specific line has syntax errors, therefore loading half of the code.

[carmine wraith]

ye

technically

[peak sluice]

that only happens to json-ui though

iirc something like that does not occur in any addon topics.

[carmine wraith]

im pretty sure you can use comments in addons

[peak sluice]

yeah I suppose

[severe cliff]

{
     valid code which can include 
     comments which mc will read
}
anything valid or invalid which mc wont read

[grand gazelle]

comments in json is not invalid its part of json depending on engine

js based json parsers allow comments as a valid element of json

[cold smelt]

Minecraft uses jsoncpp (potentially their fork: https://github.com/Mojang/jsoncpp) for their JSON which can allow for comments etc