[Complex feature request] Advanced visual packs

[Matyas-Pilz]

Problem

Actually, for change the client-side design, we have only texturepacks that supports only different textures. But If somebody want to have simplified design (not 2000-faces shapes for their old computer) or more difficult design (for example, realistic instead of by-mod-included low poly shape), actually isn't way for it.

Solutions

Support advanced visual packs that supports not only textures but too texture modifiers, animations (if mod have only static texture, support animation), meshes, or too different visual nodebox.

This solution and too all alternatives are written as "it isn't problem to make more from this idea list"

Alternatives

2. Supports in settings "preffered type of mesh" and in registering meshes tables: mesh={{meshtype="low_poly",name="thismod_node1_lowpolymesh.obj",default=true},{meshtype="high_poly",name="thismod_node1_highpolymesh.obj"}}, and similar for not-animated/animated textures

3. Supports in settings "preffered theme of design" (or/and sounds) - for example: {"medieval","steamtopia","scifi_starwars","viking_mythology","ancient","oriental"} and in registering meshes tables: mesh={{meshtheme="medieval",name="thismod_node1_mesh_medieval.obj",default=true},{meshtheme="steamtopia",name="thismod_node1_mesh_steamtopia.obj"}}, and similar for textures

4. Support different visual style similar as in points over in CSM or SSCSM

5. Supports too different theme-based / graffic-setting-based mesh-animations / entity visual animation

Additional context

No response

[appgurueu]

I think the "interesting" part of this is mostly a duplicate of #11936.

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If somebody want to have simplified design (not 2000-faces shapes for their old computer) or more difficult design (for example, realistic instead of by-mod-included low poly shape), actually isn't way for it.

This can be solved by allowing the override of model media files.

texture modifiers

How would that work? Something like a lookup table that remaps texture modifiers will be extremely brittle, I don't think this is a clean interface; whereas overriding media files is a relatively clean interface (though there are still some problems e.g. when it comes to resolution assumptions for textures).

[Matyas-Pilz]

If somebody want to have simplified design (not 2000-faces shapes for their old computer) or more difficult design (for example, realistic instead of by-mod-included low poly shape), actually isn't way for it.

This can be solved by allowing the override of model media files.

I expected that similar grand-idea is an existing issue. I have got own idea of very different solutions using the code.

1. server-mod-side more variants of design (without interaction of work)
2. SSCSM + CSM that provides alternative design
3. Visual/media packs as specific version of modification that does the same instead of SSCSM or CSM (I think that this isn't good way for modifications using the code - for example, adding/removing/changing the animation of textures, adding/removing overlay textures, changing meshes with different number of groups of faces)

texture modifiers

How would that work? Something like a lookup table that remaps texture modifiers will be extremely brittle, I don't think this is a clean interface; whereas overriding media files is a relatively clean interface (though there are still some problems e.g. when it comes to resolution assumptions for textures).

Yes, one of my partly ideas contain search in code of modifiers.