Glowing Entity Texture

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a glowing texture, like enderman's eyes have for an entity by using materials and textures.

Texture #

To make your entity's texture glow, you need to open your texture in an advanced image editor (here, Blockbench) to half-erase the pixels alpha.

• Open your entity's texture file.

Don't mind strange bones rotation, Mojang likes to render models correctly through animations.

• Find the Eraser tool and set its opacity/alpha to something low like 71 or 23.

• Then, erase the part of the texture you want it to glow. The less visible a pixel is the more it glows, but be sure it is not 100% erased.

Example Pig texture:

Material #

We need to modify the RP/entity/my_entity.entity.json file of the mob we want to glow. Now, find "materials":{} and set the values to "entity_emissive_alpha". (Be sure to check if the textures are properly defined).

"materials": {
    "default": "entity_emissive_alpha"
}

{
	"format_version": "1.10.0",
	"minecraft:client_entity": {
		"description": {
			"identifier": "minecraft:pig",
			"min_engine_version": "1.8.0",
			"materials": {
				"default": "entity_emissive_alpha" // replace "pig" with "entity_emissive_alpha"
			},
			"textures": {
				"default": "textures/entity/pig/pig",
				"saddled": "textures/entity/pig/pig_saddle"
			},
			"geometry": {
				"default": "geometry.pig.v1.8"
			},
			"animations": {
				"setup": "animation.pig.setup",
				"walk": "animation.quadruped.walk",
				"look_at_target": "animation.common.look_at_target",
				"baby_transform": "animation.pig.baby_transform"
			},
			"scripts": {
				"animate": [
					"setup",
					{
						"walk": "q.modified_move_speed"
					},
					"look_at_target",
					{
						"baby_transform": "q.is_baby"
					}
				]
			},
			"render_controllers": ["controller.render.pig"],
			"spawn_egg": {
				"texture": "spawn_egg",
				"texture_index": 2
			}
		}
	}
}

Testing #

Now, load up Minecraft and open a word with this resource pack enabled. Set the time to midnight or find a nearby cave and test it out. The entity should glow as expected.