Chime: The better Optifine CIT
This post is the first episode of a new series called “Minecraft mods that deserves more attention!”
Chime allows resource packs to change the model, and the texture with it, of items, based on countless conditions! It has every feature what Optifine CIT has, with a lot more new ones, allowing resource pack makers to create a truly dynamic experience!
Upsides
Chime is built in with vanilla’s predicate system, building on it instead of replacing it with a foreign system. Which means it has a friendly and similar format, making adopting this mod easier. Chime’s format is pretty different from the Optifine CIT format, but it is a lot faster to work with Chime.
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I have a personal experience with both of them. As writing this I have two packs published using both Chime and CIT.
The first called Viabackwards Plus, although the implementation of CIT is still in progress I already feel, that it is a lot slower process, then with Chime. This is because this pack works with many different items, if you want to stay organised with CIT you have to have some kind of folder structure, which means that when I got to write the info into the file, I already write it to the folder structure, so sometimes I forgot to fill out the file with the required information. Chime on the other stores everything for one item in one file, and the item’s ID is grabbed from the name of the file, making it a comfortable experience!
The second of mine is What Painting I’m Looking At?. This only works with one item, making the CIT port much faster, but Chime still doesn’t fall behind, although it less noticeable now.
CIT’s conditions are also more static, only enabling to read the information's of the item, while Chime has more dynamic conditions, allowing creators to change the item’s look based on it’s surroundings! For example, you can make the water bucket boil when you are in the nether, or make the wheat have some hearts when you are looking at a cow, and so much more!
Downsides
The biggest weakness of Chime is the lac of attention. Unfortunetly most packs that use CIT, doesn’t support Chime. This is partially because the mod get updated late, for example 1.20 came out on Jun 7, Chime didn’t updated till Oct 21.
All of this can be solved with just a bit more attention!
