Resource Subpack Loading

[letsgoawaydev]

What feature do you want to see added?

A way to resource pack subpacks using Geyser API

There should be a list of subpacks somewhere like what ResourcePackManifest has right now for modules, but with subpacks instead.

SessionLoadResourcePacksEvent would have an extra register(ResourcePack pack, Subpack pack) function.

Are there any alternatives?

Manually loading individual packs

[Konicai]

Also https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/documents/utilizingsubpacks?view=minecraft-bedrock-stable

[letsgoawaydev]

yeah, the settings object in the manifest should also be exposed

[onebeastchris]

The settings toggles aren't shown while a Bedrock client is connected to a server, so that is not something that we can implement. However, it seems to be possible to specify which subpack to load when sending the resource pack info entries to the client.

[letsgoawaydev]

The settings aren't shown while a Bedrock client is connected to a server, so that is not something that we can implement. However, it seems to be possible to specify which subpack to load when sending the resource pack info entries to the client.

im saying that the settings object should be loaded and accessible in the api from the manifest.json because it has the list of all subpacks which can be helpful for optional pack loading extensions

[onebeastchris]

Made a PR - opened as a draft as there are some things worth discussing.
As proposed by you; it does load the subpack entries in the manifest, and allows setting a subpack name to send to Bedrock players.

Futher, instead of adding another register method, i have opted to instead make the subpackName modifiable - in other words, here's how you'd currently use it:

And then you'd be able to register this pack in the SessionLoadResourcePacks event (or, in the future, the GeyserDefineResourcePacksEvent).

that's a pretty dumb way to do it, re-implementing a better solution