[Suggestion] JEI/REI/EMI compatibility/changes, dye calculation, and a potential method to color modded items

[GoldenFurredFox]

I use REI on my instance of Minecraft, but the same issue seems to carry over to the other two.

Custom Dye has 9 pages of recipes if you also have Polymorph. All of them are kind of just... color examples.

I think it would be really cool if, after crafting a custom dye, you'd be able to favorite it and have the sequence of recipes needed to get there appear in your list of favorites.

It'd also be really cool if you could use a dye calculator, akin to the one provided here, in-game, to get closer to a desired color.

Lastly, with regards to using dye on modded items, my solution is this: Make a sort of dictionary listing the 16 vanilla colors, check each pixel of any item/block textures which have colored variants matching colors in that dictionary once on the first runtime, and subsequently do something similar to Every Compat's wood creation methods to convert their white version into a custom version that exists under your own namespace (ala unidye:icarus/custom_feathered_wings or unidye:farmersdelight/custom_canvas_sign).

[DiemondPlayer]

REI uses “fillers” to show the examples of special crafting recipes, so I was going off the already existing code that REI uses for example, leather armor dyeing. On the other hand, something like EMI doesn’t have examples, but just has one recipe that cycles through random patterns every second, which is preferable in my opinion, but with recipe viewers I just usually look at how they did the leather armor dyeing and then use what they used. JEI straight up doesn’t show any special recipes, which is why there is no good compat for it with Unidye, there are only “item descriptions” back in mc 1.20.1 vers of the mod

So, I don’t think I will be changing REI “example” system since it is how they decide to implement special recipes, but the idea of favoriting recipes using recipe viewers is a great idea and I was already considering something like that for an upcoming update.

The dye calculator is.. a hard thing to implement . It was already suggested before and I am not sure how I will account for the fact that custom dyes themselves can be crafted into new custom dyes. Thanks for the provided color calculator, I will try to look into that!

And for compat, currently the upcoming 2.0.0 update has many changes that allows for myself or other modders to add compat more easily. It is not as automatic as Every Compat, and to be frank, I don’t want it to be as automatic, but compat is something that is being worked on and hopefully will be more widespread by the time 2.0.0 rolls out. If you have a list of mods you’d like to see compat with, don’t hesitate to suggest it!

Thank you for your feedback!

[GoldenFurredFox]

Could you add compat with the Sophisticated Storage mod's Decoration Table?