Discord?

[ryantheleach]

Is there a community associated with this plugin at all? It seems a really cool idea, but it feels like it needs more art-sharing between users.

[Alvinn8]

There is no discord server for the project, and honestly I think I'm the only one who has used it. Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to work more on this project recently, and nowadays my players require advanced redstone features and exploits so I have been forced to switch to fabric.

It would be really cool to continue development on this, especially now that Mojang has added new interesting features like the ability to have multiple resource packs (not just one) on the server. And possibly refactor so that praeter's core features like GUI and resource pack generation could work on both bukkit and fabric, although this might be too much work for the benefit it gives. Idealy I'd also want to avoid forcing a plugin as a dependency altogether, and have praeter be more like a library that you can add to your plugin, although I don't know if that would be a good idea. But it's certainly easier now that we could have one resource pack per plugin.

There is a similar project with some shared goals called Fiddle which is a Paper fork that attempts to add custom items and blocks mainly. I know it has a discord community of people who share similar ideas of liking server-side-only "modded content". But feel free to add me on discord @alvinn8 if you want to chat, and maybe if we have the time and motivation we can kickstart this project again and create a community for it. It makes me happy you found the project and think it's cool :)

[ryantheleach]

For what it's worth, I'd been looking at various resource pack merging stuff for a while, and had contributed a little bit to vane https://github.com/oddlama/vane

I'd also seen https://unnamed.team/docs/creative

as well as https://mc.oktw.one/en/wiki/galaxy-manage-tutorial Who have been doing open source stuff on Sponge.

The main thing that had been holding me back (and I suspect others too) is closed source projects + 1 resource pack per server.

I suspect now that multiple resource packs are possible, that eventually the amount of packs offering just icon's, fonts etc is going to explode somewhat.

[ryantheleach]

Also, in vane, we worked out a (hack) that allows you to host resource packs over the same port as the game is running on... Pretty good for small servers.

[Alvinn8]

I've also used a similar hack before, it's very convenient haha