FreneticFeline

Thanks, I have spent quite a bit of time with those tutorials. I have rendered many items as described there. It doesn't address my current situation. I am aware that item rendering has changed quite a bit in 1.8, and so far I have avoided doing any GL rendering directly. I have in fact sat and analyzed code for hours already . I will spend some time with ISmartItemModel to see if that will allow me to do what I want.

I would like to do some custom overlay rendering on items in the inventory. In fact, it is very similar to this tutorial here http://www.minecraftforge.net/wiki/Custom_2D_Inventory_Item_Renderer. However, that tutorial appears to be for 1.7.x, and a lot of what that tutorial is doing has been removed or is deprecated in 1.8. How can this be done in 1.8? I just need a pointer in the right direction, and I should be able to work the rest of it out for myself.