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Allow resource packs to change tooltip texture

Seeing as enchantment glints were changed to have the purple colour baked into the texture (allowing resource packs to have enchantments coloured to their liking), it seems fit to have item tooltips (one of the last hard-coded graphics in the game) re-skinnable by resource packs.

Perhaps via three textures, one a nine-slice setup, with each quadrant's size and position defined in an mcmeta file (as the base tooltip), one that gets stretched over the entire size of the tooltip (for the gradient), and one that is an effective duplicate of the first nine-slice, where the transparency acts as a mask for the "Gradient" texture.

(Example of what these three would look like. Purple Grid added to the nine-slices for transparency clarity)

While a bit overly complex in comparison to other textures in the game, it would allow the current tooltips to be accurately recreated while also giving flexibility to resource pack creators.

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    I'd love to see this implemented. There have been multiple times in the past when I've wanted to customize the item tooltips, but have been unable to because that graphic is hardcoded.

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    I think it could easily be accomplished with a single texture split into its 9 components, and also an mcmeta file describing whether to stretch the components, tile them, or both.

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    It's possible to do via core shaders, so it's not impossible with a resource pack, however it should be a texture in my opinion, since that'd open a whole new world for the people who don't know how to even edit core shaders.