Five of them, sharing one geometry layer. mcmodel.py reads Minecraft and MIAPI
models out of jars and implements both of the game's UV conventions separately -
entity cubes for vanilla armour, JSON model faces for every module - because
they disagree on four of six faces, which survives an eyeball on a symmetric
breastplate and then ruins a pauldron.
armour_editor.py places modules and writes the numbers back into the JSON they
came from. It replaces what preview_armour.py did and fixes what that got
wrong: sorting whole faces by average depth is not a depth buffer, and a gem
half-sunk into a plate was sorting arbitrarily - exactly the case the tool
existed to judge. VTK rasterises against a real z-buffer instead.
armour_gui.py draws new geometry onto a body part, with the origin settable,
since that is what decides which part a model is drawn under and therefore what
it moves with. It unwraps as it goes and writes a painting template beside the
model. The untextured view colours a hue per shape and a shade per face, and
the template uses the same key, so one is the legend for the other.
material_editor.py edits materials.py by rewriting one argument's source span
at a time, so ingots(...) stays a call, the comments stay put, and a two-number
change is a two-number diff. The generated JSON is downstream and would be
overwritten, so it is not what gets edited.
guiplatform.py prefers Wayland and falls back to X11. VTK's wheels have no
Wayland backend, but handing Qt the GL context works on both; where that fails
the process dies on an X BadAccess that nothing in-process can catch, so the
question is asked in a subprocess that renders the same features the tools use.
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72 materials sourced from Create, Mekanism, Ice and Fire, Iron's Spells,
Create: The Air War, Create: Cosmonautics and Aeronautics: Interstellar
Expansion.
Stats follow Tinkers' Construct 3 re-scaled onto MIAPI's vanilla-derived
numbers; materials with no Tinkers counterpart are built from what the
material actually is and then fitted to the nearest tier band.
Palettes are not hand-picked. tools/generate_materials.py reads each
material's texture out of the source mod's jar and samples it into MIAPI's
seven-stop grayscale_map, reproducing MIAPI's own hand-authored copper
palette to within ~2% per channel.
MIAPI's material loader honours no datapack conditions, and a material whose
ingredient item is missing fails to parse, so each mod's materials ship as a
built-in datapack registered only when that mod is installed. Titanium is
shared by both aerospace addons and so sources its ingredients from
c:ingots/titanium instead of an item id.
Cinder essence grants fire immunity through an attribute this mod registers
and watches itself, rather than coupling to MIAPI internals.
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Amir Alexander Abdelbaki