Texture Gallery Preview

[oparisblue]

Hey dude!

Firstly, I just wanted to say that this is amazing work!

Secondly, I found myself really wanting to preview the whole gallery, especially the animations, but there's not currently an easy way to do this.

To this end, I created a really simple (single file) web app which previews the whole gallery, and the animations. It doesn't support everything (in particular, the mcmeta interpolation feature), but overall gives a pretty good feel for your amazing collection of work I think:

recording-compressed.mp4

The index.html file for the tool is here: https://gist.github.com/oparisblue/3881d98aa495dcf58067f8ce32133e57

I'd be more than happy to create a PR to add this into the repo if it's something you'd be interested in --- potentially you could also set up Github Pages so that people can browse your textures online when they first visit the repo.

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Also, I think the part_electronic_microchip_blue.png.mcmeta file needs to be renamed to part_electronic_microchip_blue_2.png.mcmeta, I'm happy to do that as part of a PR as well.

[malcolmriley]

This is a very cool project you've made! I agree that the lack of gallery view and ability to search is a major weakness in the utilization of the repository that this tool effectively solves, and solves well. It also has the happy benefit of allowing one to catch errors such as the blue microchip meta-file name you mentioned; one can catch a glimpse of it between 0:13 and 0:16 of the video you posted, just happily partying away as its compatriot is glumly sitting there, squashed into the wrong proportions.

My concern with accepting a PR incorporating this into the repository is, admittedly, selfish. I worry that adding a feature like this entails or implies a commitment on my end to continue to support the feature, which is not something I'm interested in at this time as I know little about web development. I do see the remarkable potential of this project, however, and I note that I'm not the only artist offering a repository of this kind (Foreck, of Rebirth of the Night is another). Could this project be adapted to a standalone GitHub Pages site? I await your insight.

As for the microchip issue, I can just rename the file on my end to save you the bother of a PR. Thank you for the report, and thank you for making this splendid project!

[oparisblue]

Hey, that totally makes sense that you don't want to host yourself, and as you mention, it could definitely be a useful standalone tool too, whether for viewing other projects on GitHub or even local assets on your own computer. Thanks for the idea!

To that end, I've refactored a couple of things and thrown together a simple repo + github pages site for it. It has a button which allows you to input a URL to a GitHub repo, or you can choose to select a local folder too. Either way, once selected, it shows all textures contained within any of the subfolders and their animations. I've also added a couple of other niceties, such as improved search and a preview modal so you can see some files a bit bigger (really useful for e.g. entity models or GUI textures). Every mcmeta animation feature should now be supported too, so all the animations should now be pretty much as they appear in the game.

It allows specifying the repo in the URL, so you can view it live for your repo here! https://oparisblue.github.io/minecraft-textures-viewer/#github/malcolmriley/unused-textures/master. If you think it might be useful to link other people there, I'd definitely be happy for you to place that link in your readme, but of course no pressure there.

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Great to see you solved the microchip issue, I did find another one btw when debugging my program, artifact_bound_crystal_2.png.mcmeta seems to be missing a comma in its mcmeta json

[malcolmriley]

The standalone refactor looks great. I can easily see this project becoming a very useful utility site, or possibly an Electron app. My only suggestion would be to add a small "Fetching from GitHub" notice while it does just that; I think GitHub rate-limits repository downloads after certain thresholds so it can take a few moments for the gallery to populate.

I'd be very happy to add a link to your gallery in the README, and indeed have done so in b6dd82c. If you'd like me to change the wording or anything (or the project relocates), just drop me another message.

In 404e2d7 I have implemented a fix for the other .mcmeta issue you noticed; thank you for pointing that out.

[oparisblue]

Thanks for the feedback, and for the kind words in the readme! I'll definitely consider adding a better loading indicator when it pulls from GitHub.

And, also, thanks again for the amazing work you've been doing on this repo!