Death Echo

v0.0.0-beta.2 - The detail pass

The echo is no longer a flat mannequin, and it burns.

Added

• New model: 128×128 texture (was 64×64), 87 cubes (was 21) and 26 bones (was 14). The old head was a single cube and each arm was one cube, so there was no brow, no jaw, no shoulder and no elbow — and the figure read as a flat mannequin. It now has hollow eye sockets, a sword with a fuller and a proper crossguard, and a hem of 23 cubes in four loose layers that detach and fly off as it dissolves.
• Soul particles: soul fire lifting off the hem and motes of light drifting around every waiting echo, plus a burst on each of the three moments that matter — appearing, being claimed, and being released by the cap. The release burst is deliberately darker, because that is the one exit that is not a happy one.
• A fifth animation: the echo turns and lowers its blade when someone who is not its owner comes within five blocks, and goes back to idle when they leave. It is the only way it has of saying “this is not yours”.

Changed

• Config gains ambientParticles and eventParticles, both on by default, for servers that would rather not pay for particles.

Notes

• The render is unchanged on purpose. Still a single translucent pass, no extra additive layer. Less to go wrong on an already-bright model.
• Because that render is full-bright, nothing is shaded. All sense of depth comes from colour and alpha, so the contrast has to live in the texture. The eyes are the brightest thing in it, which is the intent.
• Still nothing verified in game. This model has never been on screen. If something looks wrong, the head's eye sockets are the first thing to look at.

JAR: death_echo-1.21.1-neoforge-21.1.249-0.0.0-beta.2.jar