Screen documentation for ~1.21.6-1.21.8: Change in functionality to color arguments in text rendering methods #340
Description
The reason why I'm making this an issue and not a PR is because as far as I'm aware, there's no documentation for 1.21.8, only 1.21 and 1.21.4. However, this specific change was made at some point in between 1.21.6 and 1.21.8, as mods I have created with 1.21.5 do not have this issue, and I'd like to make people aware of this issue so they don't question their sanity like I did for about 2 hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong (lol).
The color arguments in text rendering methods (usually the final int argument) such as net.minecraft.client.gui.DrawContext#drawCenteredTextWithShadow(net.minecraft.client.font.TextRenderer, net.minecraft.text.Text, int, int, int) have been silently changed - previously, using a 24-bit literal (e.g. 0xFFFFFF) as the color argument would work as expected, and render the text as completely opaque white. However, at some point between 1.21.6 and 1.21.8, this functionality was silently changed, and doing this will now cause the text to be rendered as completely transparent. To render completely opaque text, you now need to use a 32-bit literal (e.g. 0xFFFFFFFF), as the color argument is now in 0xAARRGGBB format.