Experience element

Display the stored xp or add buttons to store/take xp.

The experience gui element is used to display the amount of xp stored in the machine's experience component.

It can also be used as a button that will take/give xp from/to the player when pressed.

The behavior of the experience element depends of its mode property (see below).

Experience elements are defined in json with "type": "custommachinery:experience".

Properties

The experience gui element has 4 mandatory properties and 7 optional properties :

Mandatory properties

"type": "custommachinery:experience" //Mandatory to define an experience gui element.
X

Name : x

Description :

A positive integer value that define the x axis position of the element to be displayed on the Machine GUI.

Example :

The element will be rendered 100px to the right from the top-left corner of the gui.

"x": 100
Y

Name : y

Description :

A positive integer value that define the y axis position of the element to be displayed on the Machine GUI.

Example :

The element will be rendered 100px to the bottom from the top-left corner of the gui.

"y": 100
Mode

Name : mode

Description :

The mode define the behavior of the element, valid values are :

  • "input_one" : The player who press the button will give 1 level of their xp to the machine.

  • "input_ten" : The player who press the button will give 10 levels of their xp to the machine.

  • "input_all" : The player who press the button will give all their xp to the machine.

  • "output_one" : The player who press the button will be given 1 level from the machine.

  • "output_ten" : The player who press the button will be given 10 levels from the machine.

  • "output_all" : The player who press the button will be given all the xp in the machine.

  • "display" : The element will only display a texture and, when hovered, will show the amount of xp stored in the machine.

  • "display_bar" : The element will show a bar representing the amount of xp stored in the machine.

Example :

When pressing this gui element the player will give one level of xp to the machine.

"mode": "input_one"

Optional properties

Width

Name : width

Description :

A positive integer value that define the width of the element on the Machine GUI.

Default :

The same width as the texture specified in the texture property.

Example :

The width of the element will be 100px.

Height

Name : height

Description :

A positive integer value that define the height of the element on the Machine GUI.

Default :

The same height as the texture specified in the texture property.

Example :

The height of the element will be 100px.

Priority

Name : priority

Description :

An integer property that define the priority of the Element to be rendered.

Elements with higher priority will be rendered first. If 2 elements are at the same position the first to be rendered will be under and the last will be above.

Default : 0

Example :

The element will be rendered under each element that have a priority lower than 1000.

Texture

Name : texture

Description :

The location of the texture that will be rendered into the GUI.

The location must be referenced by : namespace:path/file.png The texture loader will search for textures in the assets/namespace folder, the .png extension is required or the file will not be found.

The texture can be any size, if the texture size is different from the default size the width and height properties of the element will be automatically changed to fit the texture size if not provided.

If the width and/or height properties of the element are provided, the texture will be stretched to fit the dimensions of the element (it can render weirdly in that case).

Default :

Example :

The file assets/textures/my_texture.png will be used for the dump element.

Texture hovered

Name : texture_hovered

Description :

The location of the texture that will be rendered into the GUI when the players mouse cursor is hovering the element.

The location must be referenced by : namespace:path/file.png The texture loader will search for textures in the assets/namespace folder, the .png extension is required or the file will not be found.

The texture can be any size, if the texture size is different from the default size the width and height properties of the element will be automatically changed to fit the texture size if not provided.

If the width and/or height properties of the element are provided, the texture will be stretched to fit the dimensions of the element (it can render weirdly in that case).

Default :

Example :

The file assets/textures/my_texture.png will be used.

Tooltips

Name : tooltips

Description :

A list of Text components that will be shown as tooltips when the player mouse cursor hover the element.

Each tooltips of the list will be a new line.

Example :

Replace the default tooltips with a single line that say "Click me !" :

Display

Name : display

Description :

Only used when the mode property is set to display or display_bar`.

This define if the tooltips of this component should show the stored amount of xp as literal or level xp values.

Valid values are :

  • "literal" : Display the amount of xp points stored in the machine.

  • "level" : Display the equivalent amount of xp levels stored in the machine, rounded down.

  • "both" : Display both.

Default : level

The experience gui element's tooltip will display the stored xp as levels.

Example :

The experience gui element's tooltip will display the stored xp as xp points.

Example

A series of experience gui elements to make a machine similar to EnderIO's experience obelisk :

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