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tidal lilyBOT Oct 23, 2023, 9:32 AM

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real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:34 AM

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I think a good way would be to extract the vanilla assets, and see how it’s done there

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:34 AM

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like in the versions folder ?

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:35 AM

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Yeah, if you extract the version jar it gives you a bunch of Java classes and two folders: “data” and “assets”, where you can find the vanilla datapack and resource pack

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:37 AM

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found the bitmaps

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and that

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:39 AM

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So yeah you can use any texture for those, they can have colours as well. As long as each character isn’t bigger than 128x128 or something

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:39 AM

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alright

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:40 AM

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proper quarry and that

These refer to different fonts, if you open those it should show the correct format

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Probably the include/default

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:40 AM

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gives me this gigantic thing

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:41 AM

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Yes, that’s the one

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So that giant block of text is all the characters that are in your sprite sheet

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The \u… is the Unicode code for the character, but I’m pretty sure you can also use just “a”, “b”, etc.

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:42 AM

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alr

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so I can just copy that one in my ressourcepack right ?

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:43 AM

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Yes you can, and if you put it in a different namespace you can use it alongside the default font

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:43 AM

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real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:43 AM

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If you use something like ‘{“text”:”a”,”font”:”namespace:font”}’, you can select your custom font

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:43 AM

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I use the namespace gun

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:44 AM

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That should work just fine, then the font is gun:emoji

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:44 AM

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so then I need to refer the .png after that I guess ?

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:45 AM

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Yes

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:45 AM

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proper quarry gives me this gigantic thing

And I think the last big block in this one is the normal ascii characters, so that’s probably easiest to test with

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:46 AM

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so I need to delete the other blocks then

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:46 AM

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You probably won’t need those no

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:47 AM

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like this then

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:48 AM

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The nonlatin European is just weird characters like ß (queue the Germans taking over the thread)

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:48 AM

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proper quarry

Yes so that one has all the ascii characters like the alphabet, 0-9, etc

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:49 AM

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alr

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I already use the gun:emoji somewhere in my code but do I need to use the unicode or just the letter

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:49 AM

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So like, if you do [“a”] instead of the whole block, then the letter a will look like the full image

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:50 AM

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proper quarry I already use the gun:emoji somewhere in my code but do I need to use the unicod...

I think the letter works too, but I’m not 100% sure

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:50 AM

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alright

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gonna try it then

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nope

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doesnt work

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:52 AM

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What does your font look like now?

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:53 AM

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just an empty character

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the whites

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:54 AM

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Hmm, and what does the JSON look like?

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:55 AM

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this one ?

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:55 AM

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Yeah

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:55 AM

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real panther So like, if you do [“a”] instead of the whole block, then the letter a will look...

Try this

proper quarry Oct 23, 2023, 9:56 AM

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alr

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it broke my lore x)

real panther Oct 23, 2023, 9:59 AM

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Well I gtg now, but if you want to see another example you can check out https://github.com/Eroxen/MC-Paint-resourcepack/blob/main/assets/mcpaint/font/icon.json, that one is also for emoji

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