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Custom Particles

My suggestion is: make it so that you can put new particles into the particle folder (in a resource pack), and then you can use the particle command to create the particle. You could put a .mcmeta to set how long the particle lasts and how it moves, etc. This could be used to display information on a players screen, you could make 10 number particles, then you could represent score using

/particle custom:0 ^ ^.2 ^1  0 0 0 0 1

or

/particle custom:crosshair ^ ^ ^1  0 0 0 0 1

and have the particle last for only a tick

 

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• November 22, 2018 13:49
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  • January 06, 2020 17:47
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  We can add custom sounds and sound events into a resource pack, so it'd be nice if we could also add custom particles, too. They don't even need to have the more unusual capabilities the existing particles have (e.g. the elder_guardian particle).

  Just graphics, whether gravity affects them, lifetime, stopped by blocks or not, a handful of possible actions when the particles expire (e.g. spawn some different particles), not much else.

  Heck, even just copying a parent particle from the "minecraft:" namespace with custom graphics would be really useful.

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  • November 05, 2021 17:59
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  As other members of the community have stated, we have the ability to add custom sounds using resource packs (sounds.json) alongside the actual sound file (.ogg). These custom sounds are then used in the same using their provided namespace.

  Custom particles could function in the same way, having a particles.json file to register them and a special particles folder for the image icons. Similar to the sounds, in the json file, there would be a path to the texture files. Using multiple of these paths could indicate the particle is animated through various textures.

  Besides the actual texture, a wide range of attributes could be added to the json file such as the speed of the animation (if animated), whether the particle acts with gravity (like dripping_lava), the normal duration of the particle, whether or not the particle travels through blocks, whether the height of the particle (how far it travels up) is affected by a block beneath it like with the campfire particles, etc.

  Adding custom particles could act very similar to the already existing custom sounds.

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  • July 09, 2024 21:42
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  as the previous comment mentions it could be done with a particles.json, but i'd like to point out that with just That capability we could edit any particle already in the game to act/look differently!

  and we could potentially even attribute New particles to existing game events without particles, like elytra gliding, picking up and placing fluids, shearing sheep, priming fuses- the list goes on! the potential a change like this could give is Immense so i'm really hoping it gets looked at for the next update, despite the original post being 6 years old....