Data Material - Rendering - Truly Modular: Modular Item API

Description

Color

its a simple rgb hex or rgba hex for a color

{
    "color": "FF55FF"
}

This is only used as a fallback and for setting the glint behavour

Textures

{
    "textures": [
        "rough"
    ]
}

this is used to select potentially existing models for this material. when a module sets a module it ends with [material.texture] in its path. this part is potentially replaced by these variants. they are executed in order, first entry in the list is checked for first.

Color Provider

now, this is how modules with this material are colored. on a fundamental level, there are multiple color providers:

`grayscale_map`

{
    "color_palette": {
        "type": "grayscale_map",
        "colors": {
            "24": "2D0500",//maps brightness to color.
            "68": "4A0800",//most materials will be fully content with this
            "107": "720C00",//values in between brightness values are interpolated
            "150": "720C00",
            "190": "BB2008",
            "255": "E32008"
        }
    }
}

`overlay_texture`

{
    "color_palette": {
        "type": "overlay_texture",
        "atlas": "block",
        "texture": "minecraft:block/sculk"
    }
}

This overlays an texture and multiplies the base Brightnesses with it. Great to add custom patterns/texturing to materials for a cool effect.

`layered_mask`

{
    "color_palette": {
        "type": "layered_mask",
        "base": {//this is used as the foundation
            //when the mask is black this is scaled to 100%
            "type": "grayscale_map",
            "colors": {
                "24": "2D0500",
                "68": "4A0800",
                "107": "720C00",
                "150": "720C00",
                "190": "BB2008",
                "255": "E32008"
            }
        },
        "layer": {
            //when the mask is fully white, this completly covers the base.
            //when the mask is black,only the base renders.
            "type": "grayscale_map",
            "colors": {
                "24": "002d00",
                "68": "005300",
                "107": "007b18",
                "150": "009529",
                "190": "00aa2c",
                "216": "17dd62",
                "255": "41f384"
            }
        },
        "mask": {
            "type": "texture",
            "atlas": "block",
            "texture": "minecraft:block/water_still"//works with animated textures too
            //mask textures are repeated when out of bounds
        }
    }
}

Now, this is where the magic really happens for complicated rendering.
This allows you to stack and combine different other palettes to create custom effects