in game assets

Yes, that's possible with the GameImageInformation object (which is derived from ImageInformation). It can be used to reference game textures or icons. Using it is a bit tricky though, because you need to provide the "path" to the game image. By default it tries to look for a "texture" in the "textures.jar" (which is located in "Rising World/data/assets/"), but if you add "Interface/" at the beginning of the path, it looks for the image in the "interface.jar".

For example, to use the pickaxe icon (which is located in the "interface.jar" under "Interface/Icons/Items/", the file name is "pickaxe_0.png"), the code could look like this:

ImageInformation icon = new GameImageInformation("Interface/Icons/Items", "pickaxe_0.png");

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one thing i noticed while peaking around the .jars is there is no icons for block's. im guessing these icons are created during runtime using model/ texture?

Sorry for the late response, but yeah, the icons for blocks, objects (like furniture) and certain items (e.g. ores) are rendered during runtime, so there is unfortunately no way to access them this way

Can in-game models for items like pickaxes be accessed in a similar way, so we can use existing item models for custom items without needing to have new model files on the client end? Something like; ModelInformation modelInfo = new ModelInformation( {some path to in-game item model} ).

I tried something analogous to your GameImageInformation example; i.e. new ModelInformation("Models/Items/Pickaxe/pickaxe_modern.j3o") but that didn't work server side.

There is unfortunately no way to access the built-in models through the API This is planned for the new version though.

However, the ModelInformation class should support .j3o files, so basically you could extract them from the game files and ship them with your plugin (in terms of copyright, that's totally fine if you're just using them for RW plugins^^). But I haven't tested .j3o loading in a long time, so unfortunately I'm not sure if it still works properly

Thanks for the responses. Gives me something to work with.

EDIT: So the j3o model loaded just fine, though at size 0.5f it was way too big on screen. lol Adjusting the value helped reign in the model. Not sure how to get it to be one-handed but I'll figure it out.

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EDIT: So the j3o model loaded just fine, though at size 0.5f it was way too big on screen. lol Adjusting the value helped reign in the model. Not sure how to get it to be one-handed but I'll figure it out.

Hehe, I'm glad to hear it worked About the size, yeah, many models have an individual size factor that gets applied to the model once it's loaded Usually the size factors can be found in the definitions.db file (which can be opened with an SQL editor and is located inside the commons.jar in the data folder).