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I want to be able to control entities as if they were like players, with an inventory, and armor slots.

I also want to be able to "control" the entities. Is there a better way for controlling entities?

How would I go about rendering as/from a different entity? I want it to be possible to either render as a different entity, or render at a different entity. Edit: I am coding this mod for 1.12.2, because other versions are still beta, mods for 1.14/1.13 are small in number, and nobody is really in a rush to make their mods 1.14

I looked at the at the aether-legacy repository, and in the class AetherEntityRenderingRegistry.java, I looked at the code and saw: public static <ENTITY extends Entity> void register(Class<ENTITY> classes, final Class<? extends Render<ENTITY>> render) { RenderingRegistry.registerEntityRenderingHandler(classes, new IRenderFactory<ENTITY>() { @Override public Render<ENTITY> createRenderFor(RenderManager manager) { try { return render.getConstructor(RenderManager.class).newInstance(manager); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return null; } }); } and I checked the license, and it was the GNU General Public License v3.0 license, so you can use the code. So thank you Aether-Legacy.

Instead of using maven, you could probably just copy the finished jar to a repository and then add that to the build path. But, if you don't want to do that, I don't really know how forgegradle works, so you might want to check out the forgegradle github repo.

how about initializing the render, in pre-init.

What do I do with the black texture?

Ok. It is in project, but now I have to retexture it. at least it's a puck and it's black.

I used block bench. And I'm pretty sure they are jsons.

Where does my model go?

What should my render extend?

Is entityentry builder really the best way to register your entities?

What about all the methods? Do I ignore them?

I am not new to java and sometimes code plugins for Bukkit/Spigot. Sometimes I try to make a forge mod, but I am seriously confused on entities. All the tutorials are about living entities. I'm just wondering how to make a non-living entity, because I would like to make a hockey puck, so I can code a game of hockey. Even when I did get helpful info, it was conflicting info. I just want to clear up some confusion in my head.

The title explains my dilemma.