ConnectedTexturesMod Mod

ConnectedTexturesMod is a mod which adds a new format of connected textures to make your game more advanced and give it the possibility to look nicer. It allows mods and resource packs to connect these textures and use the custom format.
The mod lets you do many other things, such as emissive rendering, Fullbright and fading.


Most of the changes are made in JSON. You can either use CTM’s .mcmeta format (with the same name as the block/item, including the .png before the .mcmeta in the textures folder), similar to vanilla while adding more JSON to it (ctm tag is needed) or for some more advanced things, you may need to edit the actual JSON model for the item/block. Like other resource packs, this can work with mods, and some mods, such as Chisel, require CTM.


With the mcmeta format, you can change basic elements such as layers, the ctm version, and extras such as lighting info.


Most other things either need the model JSON or block state JSON updated.
You can see the default texture pack they used to demonstrate here https://github.com/Chisel-Team/ConnectedTexturesPack to learn how to implement it in your texture pack. It is similar to Optifine, but not exactly.