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Chroma Tech 2.0 - A complete overhaul!
🕑 Added 2022-07-24 22:35:54 +0000 UTCFinally, after an entire month of work on rewriting many of Chroma Tech's functions into Minecraft's new GameTest framework, I can release this super massive update! There are so many improvements and feature additions in store, and I'm super happy to finally get this out for you all!
For those of you who aren't familiar with Chroma Tech, it is an addon that adds fully dynamically shaped RGB light strips to the game, craftable in survival and automatically connecting to other nearby light strips. With these light strips, you can also craft doors, trapdoors, fences, and fence gates!
What's new in 2.0:
There's been a massive amount of changes to how the addon behaves in every which way, mainly due to the heavy integration with the scripting API that I've worked on.
- Added custom sounds for all custom blocks
- Light Strips now require a supporting block
- Chroma Fences now only connect to full blocks
- Light Strip Doors now require a supporting block
- Tweaked the colours of the animated Chroma texture
- Light Strip pick collision now updates when it is a corner shape
- Light Strips will no longer make connections through full blocks
- Added language localization for all block names and How To Play pages
- Light Strip Doors can no longer delete the block above them when placed
- Be Right Back and Starting Soon signs can now be crafted with Mangrove Signs
- Added individual Light Strips, Trapdoors, Fences, Fence Gates and Doors for every stained glass colour
- Light Strip Doors, Trapdoors and Fence Gates will no longer have a delayed action on their first interaction
- Fixed an issue that caused the other part of doors not to break when one part was broken by a player in creative
- Chroma Tech now includes a supplementary resource pack that enables the Light Strip block geometry to render correctly, and will be applied automatially
- The behaviours for Chroma Light Strip and Chroma Fence connections have been completely rewritten using the GameTest framework, giving them significantly better performance
Specifically with the performance of blocks like the lightstrips and fences, in the previous version of Chroma Tech these blocks would update their shapes by checking several neighbouring blocks every single game tick. This means that every single light strip and fence block within simulation distance would run these updates 20 times per second, leading to a terrible in game experience once you placed enough of them. With GameTest, I've given their shape updating code a complete overhaul, providing them with much more advanced check logic and making them run only when necessary, leading to infinitely scalable performance. GameTest is what makes demo worlds as large as the one shown in the video possible to create!
Chroma Tech requires some experiemental features to be enabled to function properly, of which you can find a list of them here:
Included in this post is a download for the addon, as well as the demo world I created for the project (which will remain exclusive to this Patreon!). I hope the overhauled addon will lead to incredible builds from all of you who choose to install it!
Comments
Ivan Cadelina
When is the estimated date for this release??
MADLAD3718
I have an update coming for this to ensure compatibility with the latest release!
Ivan Cadelina
Not working in 1.20 and where to find light strip? Only fence and gate there. Also any up comming uptade for this?
Pink Sheep
Dear MADLAD3718, in the 1.19.41 update the chroma lights no longer work, I've tried everything to get them to work again but they just show up as black and dont have any colour.
Jose Humberto Montoya
I already turned off my laptop but I’ll try it tomorrow, thank you so much anyways ;)
MADLAD3718
Would you mind redownloading the addon from this post again? (You'll probably have to delete the old version from your game's storage before doing this). I just updated it with my latest changes and they might return it to full functionality for you.
Jose Humberto Montoya
I opened your demo world and everything looked good but when I tried to place the light strips they just dont work
Jose Humberto Montoya
yup, I even have the rtx on
MADLAD3718
Have you made sure to enable all of the required experimental feature toggles in your world?
Jose Humberto Montoya
I just downloaded the addon and when I put a light strips they dont connect each other, can you help me solve this please :(
