[Creating a "hang to wall" item]

Hi,

 

I ended up finding these renderers and I started to do just that, but kind of randomly with no background info, so it didn't work, but with your links I will probably be able to understand what I'm doing. Thanks !

[Creating a "hang to wall" item]

Hi,

 

I've just finished some of the first forge tutorials to get started. Now the first mod I want to make is a simple thing : I have a few objects that I would like the player to be able to hang to walls (like paintings, but standard block size and no random texture).

 

So I looked a little bit at Minecraft's code and saw the EntityPainting and EntityHanging, but I have no idea how they actually work, the code is pretty obscure.

More specifically I didn't find anywhere in these classes where the texture is set. Also, I assume they are not created the same way a standard block so I'm not sure what I exactly need to do to make it work.

 

Edit : I also couldn't find where the actual painting Item is in the code. I initially wanted to look at how it's done but the only thing I found is the EntityPaiting, which I assume is the result of the painting item being placed.

 

Could anyone point me in the right direction to get started doing that ?

 

Thanks !

[I'm new to modding. Should I get started now or wait 1.7 ?]

Hi,

 

I wanted to start modding Minecraft, but saw that there is not yet the 1.7 version, ans that the dev team changed a lot of code so it will take time to desobfuscate it.

 

So I'm wondering, should I start on 1.6.x anyway, or wait ? I'm affraid that considering the code has been refactored, it would be a waste of time to learn how to mod 1.6 first.

 

Any thoughts ?