[Feature] Add ability to create a box shape using width/length/height and center location

[ChristopherHaws]

I would love to have the ability to create a box shape where I could input the width/length/height and center location instead of min and max.

Some use cases for this are:

• Visualizing the effect radius of beacons before placing them
• Visualizing the spawn chunks

Thanks for the awesome mod!

[maruohon]

Is there any particular reason why you aren't using the separate dedicated Beacon Overlay and Spawn Chunk Overlay for those?

For the "before placing" case in particular there is a somewhat hidden feature that when you have the Beacon Overlay enabled, if you hold a beacon item, a range overlay will be rendered around the player. And the size of that overlay in hotbar slots 1-4 is the slot number's corresponding beacon level. In the rest of the hotbar slots it will be the size of a lvl 4 beacon range.

But as to the center point and radius input method, I did consider it while I originally added the box shape, but I was just lazy and didn't add it yet. I'll probably add it at some point, maybe during the mod rewrites in 1.12.2 once I back-port the box shape to 1.12.2 in the first place.

[ChristopherHaws]

@maruohon Thanks for the quick reply! The reason I dont use the built in beacon overlay is because I'm dumb and didnt realize it was a thing! As for the spawn chunks, our server uses a modified spawn chunk radius, however adding a config value for "Spawn Chunk Radius" could solve the problem. In general, it would be nice to have width/length/height and center here as options for boxes though. :)

[Asapin]

Another use case would be to visualize iron golem spawn box. I just made a shared platform for the golems to spawn, and then placed 4 villager clusters at the corners of the platform to increase the spawn rate without using redstone or chunk loaders.

Having such a box shape would've been very helpful when deciding where to place villager beds to minimize the intersection between different villager clusters

[PlaceReporter99]

Another use would be to see the spawn area for a pillager outpost. Useful to find which areas need spawn proofing to prevent pillagers from interfering with a raid farm.