SignTypes

100s of signs? no! 1000s of signs? no! 1000000 signs? STILL NOT ENOUGH.

Road Signs need some way to have a texture, name and a way to tell the Dynamic Sign which model shape to use. This is made easy by using SignTypes, a custom registry that uses datapack functions and such.

SignTypes are a Data-Driven feature. You can add as much as you want (within limits of course).

All that is required is a resource pack and a datapack, and you can get building!

All sign textures must go into this directory:

"thingamajigslongroads:textures/entity/signs", otherwise, the textures won't be found by SignTypes!

The datapack structure is this (from top level 'datapacks' in a world folder):

"datapackname > data > thingamajigslongroads > thingamajigslongroads > sign_types > put your sign types here"

Sign Types have the following formatting in JSON:

JSON

{
  "asset_id": "thingamajigslongroads:sign_texture_name",
  "sign_model_type": "square",
  "translation_key": "sign_type.sign_type_title.name"
}

The asset_id is the ResourceLocation to be used for the SignType. Since most of the work is done for you, just put your textures in the thingamajigslongroads:textures/entity/signs folder and make sure that your texture file name is the same as the asset_id.

The sign_model_type is the kind of sign model you want to use for your texture. It can be any of the following:

• square

• double_square

• rectangle

Square is the standard 1x1 block shape, double square is the 2x2 sign, and rectangle is the 2x1 sign.

The translation_key is the title of the SignType, shown in the Dynamic Sign GUI. You must provide a translation for this or key will be used as the text in the GUI instead.

These are the basics of SignTypes, just experiment and see what you can make!