Feature suggestions regarding holoprint's behaviour pack

[Hellothere1234627284yehnsndnsnwnd]

Hey brother , this is not any bug report so feel free to not respond to this and delete this one later but there is something of ur interest that I wanted to share :-

https://github.com/ForestOfLight/Construct

Check it out !!

[SuperLlama88888]

I've already seen Construct - but thanks for sharing!

[Hellothere1234627284yehnsndnsnwnd]

These two tools fits so perfectly ngl , it's just like a behaviour pack of holoprint XD

[SuperLlama88888]

An official HoloPrint behaviour pack will be developed sometime in the next few months. What features of Construct would you like to see in it?

[Hellothere1234627284yehnsndnsnwnd]

I've waiting to give a feedback on this for so long, so:
Features you can take from can be:
•Being able to add and place different structures
•Material grabber is a neat feature , and the feature of it that tells you which blocks of a build/it's layer a player is missing from inventory
• Layer wise material grabbing and layer wise block validation (I've some suggestions regarding material grabbing which I've included later)
• Statistics feature

Here is a list of feature you can work on once a basic layout of ur addon is ready , you can take these as enhancements:

• First and foremost I'd want to select add structures without leaving the game and without constantly adding .mcstructure file to addon files.
  it'd be great if I can use some stick or custom commands to select a build and add it to the tool without leaving the game , i hope it's possible on bedrocks very awesome and very well balanced limitations

• I'm guessing holoprint's BP will have all the controlling features that the RP has (change layer , opacity , layer mode etc)
  If possible in the BP make 2 extra buttons for later up and later down , tho i don't think it's possible in bedrock edition but if it is you can work on it when addon of this is somewhat complete and you'll start refining and adding features.

• Construct does not have options to rotate or flip builds , maybe the creator has planned it for future but it'll be nice to see this in holoprint's BP release

• material list: I think the construct's material list is good enough for most of the people , things you can add could be like

  • The UI that holoprint has
  • If there are multiple builds loaded at the same time, instead of it showing materials of all the structures, one can cycle through materials of different structures (and have list of all the structures combined to start with)
  • Upon placing holoprint of a structure you can cycle through layer by layer materials in the UI holoprint RP already has.

Imagine you're working on large build and it has 100 of different materials in a layer alone, so it'll be really annoying so go searching materials from this shulkar to that chest just to complete a single layer-
One feature that i thing would be neat is if a player is able to add shulkar box of material in their inventory and while auto placing items from inventory as well as shulkar boxes insides player inventory, can be grabbed and placed, i presented this idea to the construct's creator , he said that not possible so if it's not I've another idea , a work around sort of
A player can link shulkar box or chest to layer of a building they're working on so for that layer the auto place will suck material from players inventory and those linked containers
Once that layer has been completed the player will have to restock as much as he can in their inventory and link the container again for next layer to balance things and not make it feel like they are in creative mode and can build whole structure without even opening those shulkar.

• Alignment of structures: before making the BP add those invisible placeable blocks , the player can have an option to create holoprint (RP) and move around align and rotate it however they want , and then make the BP does it things , I think it'll be less laggy to move holoprint than to move the BP thing

• Block validation: construct's validation has everything so you can make it like that there isn't much to add except a few things

  • If possible make container with nbt data inside them have different coloured block validation, and later if possible make a feature one can know what items are there inside it like litmatica has
  • Building in the layer mode, if a player places let's say 70% or 80% of the blocks , then if the player check for Incorrect block , Block in different state and Unplaced blocks , they'll get coordinates of these blocks (colour coded) , this will make it easier to correct their builds if they do something wrong (very helpful for redstone machines)

Not necessary but very fun idea you can work on once ur addon is out is something like schematic cannon
It's like a cannon that shoots material to complete a build , i don't know exactly whether litmatica or create mod has this feature but if you've seen it you know , and being honest it'll be an amazing feature

That's it for now , I'll keep suggesting features and ideas as my mind comes across them.
And btw the development of bp bas started or it'll start in a few months ?

[Hellothere1234627284yehnsndnsnwnd]

A few other features could be if a player could ignore a certain block and if they could replace one to another
It'll provide flexibility to the player , they won't have to copy exact blocks of original build but at the same time utilising the already existing features(auto place) of BP

[SuperLlama88888]

Ooo, I'll look into that!

[Hellothere1234627284yehnsndnsnwnd]

Is the development of BP started or yet to be

[SuperLlama88888]

Not yet, I'm working on fixing the giant lag issue from the recent update.

[Hellothere1234627284yehnsndnsnwnd]

Hey so it's been long time and coming straight to the point I've got a suggestion/idea on how you can develop holoprint's addon so it wont need to extract and upload structures and can be made a hologram of any structure without using structure block.

Most if not all of this idea works around and assumption that it is possible for an addon to know or read all the blocks in an area like structure block does , it this won't work then all am gonna suggest will probably be of no use tho am confident that it's possible coz there are world edit add-ons which move structure here and there.

•So the idea goes like , players would be able to select 2 point in which their structure lies and the addon will start to read block from a certain point let's say (+x) (y=max) (+z) point of the selection then it will gradually move and in a line of x/z direction and when it reaches the end of the line it will shift to next line of x/z and repeat till that layer is done then it will move to y(-1) then repeat the same until it reaches (-x) (u=least) (-y) point of the selection.
•Then the addon after reading the selection will create a code/link which we can copy and use as hologram of that structure, i.e. when we will put that code in an item/gui the addon will decode it and will start pasting the structures in the same sequence it read earlier.
This way we hopefully won't need to leave a world and can use it from a world to another with that addon loaded since the decoder will work the same for all worlds

Now that is a way to make the BP but in practical use most of the players will copy build from a creative world and won't be limited to survival only , the only use case that I see of this idea is if there were to be a realm or server with this addon with the same idea, and the generation of code , I am assuming will be very long in character since it has to save it somehow, even if you assign a number to all the items of minecraft the code will definitely will be longer that any player's comfort , this is the first problem i came across

More practical way of using/making this addon would probably resolve the code issue and this idea revolves around the fact that most players will extract a build using structure block and layer they can insert that .mcstructure file in a website that will read that and will create a shorter code will they can copy and paste in game in the same way and that would generate hologram on the structure they extracted.

I know this ain't brightest of ideas but this was an attempt to solve the problem construct has of uploading .mcstructure file everytime you want to make something.
Hopefully this idea is good enough to pull off if not then I hope this gave you another aspect to think of while making this addon for us and you would come up with something better.

[Hellothere1234627284yehnsndnsnwnd]

Lmk how much of this idea is not possible to make in bedrock edition and then I will try to think of something else possible.