WorldEdit tool integration
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Thinking a little bit about ways to gradually expand the functionality of the mod as time + interest allows...
WorldEdit's tools are often a bit tricky to use since there's no visual feedback about a) a certain item being a tool and b) what sort of action that tool might be able to do. WECUI could provide some help with that.
Initial steps
- Show the target block of the currently held tool, with an indication of whether the tool supports primary action, secondary action, or both
- Indicate that certain items are bound as WorldEdit tools (add to the items in inventory/hotbar)
The protocol this uses should allow WECUI to connect tools with both any item of a certain type (how WE currently handles tools), as well as specific ItemStacks (with something in the item's NBT data?).
A tool definition would carry one type Identifier (or perhaps multiple, to use in some sort of tags system) which describes the tool type, type-determined parameters (such as size, unique id (for eventually sending block volumes), tool name, or block pattern).
Longer-term
- Display an outline of the target area of a tool -- would have to know specific tool types. Could eventually go up to showing a ghost-image of what the brush's action area could look like
- Make the functionality easily extensible so other plugins that provide tool types can take advantage of the functionality
- Provide custom item textures for the tool types
Just wanted to drop EngineHub/WorldEdit#448 here, showing basically this done on the server side, though it was a pretty hacky quick draft of an idea at the time.
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