Render Type (Data Type)

Picks how a texture is drawn onto the model: the blending, culling and lighting style of a render layer. It is used by the render_type field of apoli:custom_model_render, and is given as a string. Matching ignores case and separators.

Values

`render_type`	Description
`translucent`	The standard semi-transparent draw, with back faces drawn and alpha blended. The default, and the classic overlay look. It uses the tint and alpha.
`translucent_cull`	Like `translucent`, but with back faces culled. Slightly cheaper, so use it when the texture has no see-through faces inside.
`cutout`	Hard-edged: each pixel is either fully opaque or fully transparent, with no partial alpha. Good for crisp textures and decals.
`cutout_no_cull`	`cutout` without back face culling, so thin or flat geometry shows from both sides.
`solid`	A fully opaque draw that ignores the alpha channel.
`emissive`	Glowing: drawn unlit at full brightness and alpha blended, but still tinted. Aliases: `glow` and `translucent_emissive`. Good for auras and energy effects that should shine in the dark.
`eyes`	The vanilla eyes style, always at full brightness and untinted, so the tint fields are ignored. The classic glowing eyes look.
`energy_swirl`	The aura of a charged creeper or wither armour: added on top of what is underneath so it glows, tinted, with the texture sliding across the model at the power's `scroll_speed`. Alias: `swirl`.

tip

emissive keeps your red, green, blue and alpha tint while glowing, and eyes is brighter and additive but ignores the tint. Pick emissive for a coloured glow, eyes for a plain overlay glow and energy_swirl for a moving shimmer.

On a geometry mode model, which stands on its own, emissive and eyes hide whatever is behind them like any solid model does, so water, stained glass and other see-through blocks behind a glowing model stay behind it instead of showing through. As an overlay on the entity's own model they don't block anything themselves, because the model underneath already does.

Example

{
  "type": "apoli:custom_model_render",
  "wide_texture_location": "example:textures/entity/visor.png",
  "render_as_overlay": true,
  "render_type": "emissive",
  "body_parts": "head",
  "red": 1.0,
  "green": 0.3,
  "blue": 0.3
}

A red, glowing visor over the head.