This API is a required mod for Immersive Railroading and other train mods in the future. It currently supports 1.12, but will be backported to older mc versions as required (coming soon)
It also provides backwards compatibility with standard minecraft tracks if the mod author so chooses to allow it.
Nice mod! I want to use this API in my mod; is there documentation available somewhere?
In reply to jonafanho:
I should put together a wiki page on this at some point, but here's the general gist:
If your tracks are tile entities you can implement ITrack: https://github.com/cam72cam/TrackAPI/blob/master/src/main/java/trackapi/lib/ITrack.java
If your tracks are plain blocks you can implement ITrackBlock: https://github.com/cam72cam/TrackAPI/blob/master/src/main/java/trackapi/lib/ITrackBlock.java
In general all you need to do to have your ents follow track is check if the block or tile entity you are sitting on implements ITrackBlock or ITrack.
I have a reference implementation (with a poorly named function) here: https://github.com/cam72cam/TrackAPI/blob/master/src/main/java/trackapi/lib/Util.java#L43
TrackAPI also attempts to expose minecraft track in the same manner, but my implementation of that is incomplete. Pull requests are welcome :)
The only change I may make to TrackAPI in the next year is adding getTrackGauges and deprecating getTrackGauge along with adding gauge to the getNextPosition as overlapping track may expose different paths for different gauges. Not sure if I'll actually do that though.
Another example is TrainsMod which has been written by Alemax who uses TrackAPI as an optional dependency.
The best way to reach me is on discord in the ImmersiveRailroading server.
Newest version for 1.12 isn't downloading, it just shows an error page, so I had to use an older version...
Edit: It worked after I waited a few minutes. No idea why it didn't work previously.