Item Render

[calclavia]

How would I create a custom Item Renderer? I've looked for tutorials and no one seems to have done it before...

 

My tile entity is basically shaped exactly like a block. The reason why I am using a custom render is because the textures will change without the metadata or the block changing (hence it will update the texture). More about this here: http://minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php/topic,244.msg1589.html

 

How can I render the item to be just like a normal block instead of becoming a flat piece of texture when I set the renderType in the block to -1?

 

I see that the enchantment table seems to have created their item texture file based on the enchantment table block. How do they do this?

[calclavia]

Ok since there was no response I looked around and found this function called ModLoader.renderInvsBlock(). The java doc says it will render a block in the inventory. I am not sure how this function can be called to work. Anyone can help?

[calclavia]

Right. I found a way but it requires modifying base files of the Render class. I had to add a new render number to make the item render as a block instead of a flat texture =_= Is there a way to do this withou modifying base files?

[LexManos]

.... There are plunty of tutorials for this crap out there, Go look at ModLoader.getNextBlockModelID

[calclavia]

.... There are plunty of tutorials for this crap out there, Go look at ModLoader.getNextBlockModelID

 

I looked at ModLoader.getUniqueBlockModelID. I am not sure how I can assign my block renderer to render that specific block. Also I did a bunch of searching about this topic on Google and there doesn't seem to be tutorial that is really relevent. It would be great if you could provide me with a link to one.

 

Sorry if the questions are very noob to you. I am not an experienced modder afterall.

 

This is the closest thing I found: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/946596-modloader-using-a-custom-2d-texture-for-a-customly-rendered-block/

 

Is the renderInvBlock function supposed to be in the BaseMod/NetworkMod?

[DarkGuardsman]

Though forge had something for this. Saw this in the player render class might lead you too something.

179  IItemRenderer customRenderer = MinecraftForgeClient.getItemRenderer(var3, EQUIPPED);

[calclavia]

THANKS! renderInvBlock function worked perfectly!

[calclavia]

Right. I still can not render the item properly. The problem is I don't know how to bind a texture to an item render. I have a 3D model. It has a unique texture file for it. I can call the model render function from Base Mod's "renderInvBlock" function. The problem is I do not know how to specify a texture to the specific model to be rendered...

 

Also, I can not use the function getTextureFile from forge because my texture file depends on the metadata and getTextureFile seems to not be metadata sensitive. Help would be appreciated.

[calclavia]

Though forge had something for this. Saw this in the player render class might lead you too something.

179  IItemRenderer customRenderer = MinecraftForgeClient.getItemRenderer(var3, EQUIPPED);

 

I am currently trying that approach. But I still don't know where I can set the texture for that render...

 

I got this so far...

 

 

It's kinda funny that the missile launcher is big, I will fix that soon. But the problem here is that my different missile launchers have different texture files and they all use the same block...

[DarkGuardsman]

That... looks very very nice. I always like it when mods have 3D model that are not block shaped. And is that a radar disk over there

[calclavia]

Yes you will see that in the next version of the mod although it doesn't actually work yet.