A Little Help With 1.6.4 Preload Textures + Armor Textures please? :)

[TechieCrow]

Hey guys so I know basic java and have modded a simple ore/item mod with ModLoader but now my girlfriend can use Forge 1.6 (1.5 hated her NetBook) I decided to recreate my mod with Forge but this time with a lot more different features.

 

Anyway I've been following tutorials and getting to grips with Forge modding and I have managed to get my mod up to date but I cannot seem to figure out how to get custom textures to show on armor, all I did see a ModLoader method of adding textures but I believe I read it was being removed when Forge updates to 1.7 so I figured if there is a Forge method I would use that in stead to save a lot of headache, I couldn't find any tutorials that I can get to work.

 

I also ways to "preload" textures, all of which doesn't seem to work anymore so I was wondering if this is still implemented?

 

Any help would be really appreciated as I only started recreating my mod with Forge 2 days ago. :3

[Draco18s]

"Preloading" textures hasn't been necessary since 1.5.0 with the new texture system.  Vanilla handles that for you.

[TechieCrow]

"Preloading" textures hasn't been necessary since 1.5.0 with the new texture system.  Vanilla handles that for you.

Thank you Draco

 

Anyone able to help with armor textures? I tried as many tutorials as I can and it's starting to give me a java headache.

[GotoLink]

The Item class has a forge hook for it.

Look at getArmorTexture(args).

[TechieCrow]

Thanks helpful but still trying to figure this out unfortunately.

 

It seems the tutorials I've been reading/watching either the textures just don't show or the items don't show up ingame.

 

When I get back on my modding computer I'll try again then pastebin the classes here if it doesn't work again.

[Draco18s]

A source code base you can peek at:

 

https://github.com/Draco18s/Decaying-World

 

Mind I didn't make any armor, but armor should use the same basic functions.

[TechieCrow]

Thanks guys, it's really helped I have now managed to get textures to show up for the armor only problem now is it's the wrong textures :3

 

Here the code I've been working with:

 

XenoriteMain.java:

 

static EnumArmorMaterial xenorite = EnumHelper.addArmorMaterial("xenorite", 25, new int[] { 2, 6, 5, 2 }, 9);

 

		XenoriteHelmet = (new XenoriteHelmet(XenoriteHelmetID, xenorite, 5, 0));	//Xenorite Helmet
	LanguageRegistry.addName(XenoriteHelmet, "Xenorite Helmet");

	XenoriteChestplate = (new XenoriteChestplate(XenoriteChestplateID, xenorite, 5, 1));	//Xenorite Chestplate
	LanguageRegistry.addName(XenoriteChestplate, "Xenorite Chestplate");

	XenoriteLeggings = (new XenoriteLeggings(XenoriteLeggingsID, xenorite, 5, 2));	//Xenorite Leggings
	LanguageRegistry.addName(XenoriteLeggings, "Xenorite Leggings");

	XenoriteBoots = (new XenoriteBoots(XenoriteBootsID, xenorite, 5, 3));	//Xenorite Boots
	LanguageRegistry.addName(XenoriteBoots, "Xenorite Boots");

 

If I decrease the "5" it shows the vanilla armor textures and if I increase it, it shows no textures, from what I learned from ModLoader "5" is the next texture to be added which in this case would be xenorite_layer_ but I am new to Forge and might be missing something.

 

 

getArmorTexture in the XenoriteHelmet.java:

 

	public String getArmorTexture(ItemStack stack, Entity entity, int slot, int layer)
{
if(itemID == XenoriteMain.XenoriteHelmetID)
{
return "xenorite:textures/models/armor/xenorite_layer_1.png";
}
else return null;

}