JSON Content System

There's a lot of "stuff" that needs to be represented in the world, so having automatic content loading is super convenient. The content system loads data from JSON files in the assets folder, and saves them to be used and reused. It also tries to provide helpful messages when something is missing, it isn't perfect but will catch most common mistakes.

Each subheader below specifies the format of each object in its list within the JSON file:

textures.json

Key	Type	Status	Possible Values
name	string	required
path	string	optional, defaults to name	path from assets/ without file ending
type	string	required	sprite, texture, voxel, connected, sheet
transparent	bool	required, except for voxels and sprites*
sprite-type	string	optional, sprite only	static, human; defaults to static
sprite-size	v2i	optional, sprite only	size of sprite in its sheet, defaults to image size
sprite-offset	v2i	optional, sprite only	offset of sprite drawing
anim-lengths	int[]	optional, sprite only	lengths of each animation row, defaults to [1]
connected-tags	string[]	optional	connected textured-blocks connect to blocks with shared tags

*voxels and sprites are never transparent.

blocks.json

blocks

Key	Type	Status	Possible Values
name	string	required
type	string	optional, defaults to stateless	stateless, plant
texture	string	optional, defaults to name	texture name
sheet cell	v2i	optional	initial sheet cell for sheet textures
collision	string	optional, defaults to default	none, custom, default
bbox	bbox_t	required for custom collision	[v3d position, v3d size]
subtype	string	required for certain block types*	name of subtype

*see subtypes below for which are required

subtypes

plant

Key	Type	Status	Possible Values
name	string	required
fullgrown	int	required	maximum growth value (number of textures - 1)
growth-rate	double	required	growth delta per second

fonts.json

fonts does not use a list, but a set number of fonts corresponding to font_e (see fonts.h and fonts_load in font.c)

Key	Type	Status	Possible Values
path	string	required	path to font sheet from assets/
char-size	v2i	required	size of one character