Add ability to retexture wooden escalators using planks (like water wheels)

[serverside-swzo]

Allow players to right-click wooden escalators with plank blocks to change their appearance based on the wood type used, just like how water wheels can be retextured in Create.

Why It’s Useful

• Improves visual customization for builds
• Keeps escalators consistent with Create’s polished UX
• Leverages an intuitive mechanic already familiar to Create players

Suggested Behavior

• Right-clicking a wooden escalator with a vanilla (or supported modded) plank changes its texture to match that wood type
• Optionally emit a sound or particle effect for feedback

Thanks for the awesome mod ❤️

[serverside-swzo]

Just wanted to add, Create doesn't actually use custom textures for each wood type on water wheels. Instead, it dynamically pulls from the existing plank textures, which makes things way easier for the texture artist and keeps the mod lightweight.

If escalators used the same approach, you'd get automatic support for modded planks too, without needing extra assets or updates every time a new wood type is added. Seems like a low-effort, high-reward feature!

[serverside-swzo]

Another possible approach, if the escalator texture is too different from standard plank/log visuals, would be to sample the color palette from the plank texture and apply a palette map to the escalator mode, this palette map could be sorted by brightness and mapped to the texture of the wooden escalator accordinglly.

This would allow escalators to maintain their unique texture layout while still matching the look and feel of different wood types. It’s more flexible stylistically, but would likely need to be generated at game launch rather than using simple model overrides, similar to how Create handles some dynamic textures.

Might be a good fallback if direct texture replacement doesn’t look quite right. Thanks!

[rbasamoyai]

This may be better done as copycats, which I have contemplated

[serverside-swzo]

alright then that good, if u need any help or a basic implementation i can write one for you as a proof of concept