Figuring out Resource Pack magic

[silver wolf]

So there's a server called Origin Realms (IP: play.originrealms.com, 1.17.1) which pulls off some weird Server-Resourcepack shenanigans that I cannot for the life of me figure out.

Generally servers put their resource pack in the ./minecraft/server-resource-packs folder, and to an extent, so do they. But if you open it, (or, attempt to), it's a single, corrupted, .ogg file. No mcmeta, no .json, no textures, nothing.

But somehow the textures still load. And it seemingly exceeds the 100MB limit as well. How in the hell do they do it?

[alpine crest]

Haha yeah @silver wolf I went through this same thing trying to figure out how they were doing certain things. I was particularly after the gem indicator above the hunger bar, if you're wondering its done using a bitmap font character with a negative ascent value constantly being displayed in the actionbar. As for actually being able to view the resource pack, I was not able to do that.

[silver wolf]

Interesting, I didn't really know how they did that either, definitely smart.

The way they're applying the resource pack is pretty insane, I haven't the slightest clue how they're doing it.

[alpine crest]

Yes, it is really great as it lets you quite literally make custom meters display like vanilla ones. I am using it for a mana bar. It works extremely well.

[silver wolf]

Yeah I need to figure out how the custom character things work. So far I've worked with just the textures and sounds. Blocks & Characters to go

[alpine crest]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb4vjzzl53E

Looks like someone found the solution

Not sure if it still works though

[silver wolf]

I'll try it rq

It does

wtf

[alpine crest]

This raises more questions tbh

Is the zip file java bytecode???

Minecraft sees that as valid??

super interesting

[silver wolf]

I wouldn't think it would, Minecraft uses ZipFile iirc to load texture packs

Maybe ZipFile just so happens to support it.

[alpine crest]

Very strange. Happy I found this though. time to make origin realms clone...

[silver wolf]

Genius! Definitely won't take forever

[alpine crest]

You know at first I was skeptical about this discord threads feature but its really great. Little user-made channels for specific topics which dissappear after a while. Perfect!