Bukkit

What is the enhancement in mind? How should it look and feel?
Add the ability to enable and configure a block to be displayed for the cockpit/driver seat of the minecart.
This will add a much needed ability to further improve the aesthetics of uCars, without resorting to using other plugins and a host of messy console commands to do the deed.

Please provide any additional information below.
NBT editing allows addition of any block to be displayed a given distance above the minecart. This can be done globally to all carts, or even on an individual cart basis.

Examples:
1) put glass block above the minecart to make it look like it has a glass top.
2) a halfslab to make it look like a convertible
3) creative editing of block + minecart textures = unlimited car designs.

Features are amazing, now lets make it LOOK amazing as well!

Comin soon to uCarstrade...

I came here to make the same recommendation...

Before using uCars, one of my players had a car dealership where he'd sell custom cars. He would use the summon command as seen below to create a minecart with a custom block above the player's head while sitting. Players miss that feature, as it made identifying their cars very easy.

/summon MinecartRideable ~ ~ 2 {CustomDisplayTile:2,DisplayTile:35,DisplayData:1,DisplayOffset:32}

DisplayTile:35 = Wool DisplayData:1 = Orange DisplayOffset:32 = Height above the minecart the wool is placed.

I really wonder what that looks like. I also think its good for identifying the cars.

Looking forward to this.

@jjkrause: Go

Sadly for plugins the code is totally different and is a slightly hack-ish CB thing, but I can get it done soon? :)

Thanks for the approval! I made no effort to dress up the resource pack in this screenshot, but imagine if you spend some time editing the texture...

@onisagi: Go

Ooh, cool. Is that just a block of glass? :)

Hows progress on this? I just realized I made this request back in March. Been busy since.

Yes, that is a block of glass. It's just how windows look on that particular resource pack. Hopefully you didn't run into any snags on the way.

@onisagi: Go

I have been very busy, sorry. For gameblade.net I am trial-ing the idea as a paid cosmetic enhancement, but will set a basic toggle in the uCars config for you non-developers. If you can make plugins, reply back and I can show you how to do it yourself. :) (so you can monetise it etc)