So, I've been looking over the Minecraft coding a bit, but I can't figure out how to do this... I want to put a name plate over an entity's head (like the player has). I want to do this because I'm making a mod that involves minecraft players (it's a youtubers mod) and I want to put their names over their heads as if they were actual characters. How would I go about doing that? I can't seem to find that coding in Minecraft (unless it's the NBTTagCompound in EntityPlayer, in which case, I don't understand it...)

Hey, first your entity must be extending EntityLiving, then in the constuctor put setCustomNameTag("myYoutuber");

Go to net.minecraft.client.renderer.entity.Render class and look into renderLivingLabel() method. You can either call it, or copy and use in your render class.

hmm...I don't see a "renderLivingLabel" method in the Render class. I'm using forge 1024 for Minecraft 1.7.

 

The setCustomNameTag works, but is there a way to keep it up on the character? When I mouse off of the entity, it disappears.

Try experimenting with this.

protected void func_147906_a(Entity p_147906_1_, String p_147906_2_, double p_147906_3_, double p_147906_5_, double p_147906_7_, int p_147906_9_)
    {
        double d3 = p_147906_1_.getDistanceSqToEntity(this.renderManager.livingPlayer);

        if (d3 <= (double)(p_147906_9_ * p_147906_9_))
        {
            FontRenderer fontrenderer = this.getFontRendererFromRenderManager();
            float f = 1.6F;
            float f1 = 0.016666668F * f;
            GL11.glPushMatrix();
            GL11.glTranslatef((float)p_147906_3_ + 0.0F, (float)p_147906_5_ + p_147906_1_.height + 0.5F, (float)p_147906_7_);
            GL11.glNormal3f(0.0F, 1.0F, 0.0F);
            GL11.glRotatef(-this.renderManager.playerViewY, 0.0F, 1.0F, 0.0F);
            GL11.glRotatef(this.renderManager.playerViewX, 1.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F);
            GL11.glScalef(-f1, -f1, f1);
            GL11.glDisable(GL11.GL_LIGHTING);
            GL11.glDepthMask(false);
            GL11.glDisable(GL11.GL_DEPTH_TEST);
            GL11.glEnable(GL11.GL_BLEND);
            OpenGlHelper.glBlendFunc(770, 771, 1, 0);
            Tessellator tessellator = Tessellator.instance;
            byte b0 = 0;

            if (p_147906_2_.equals("deadmau5"))
            {
                b0 = -10;
            }

            GL11.glDisable(GL11.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
            tessellator.startDrawingQuads();
            int j = fontrenderer.getStringWidth(p_147906_2_) / 2;
            tessellator.setColorRGBA_F(0.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F, 0.25F);
            tessellator.addVertex((double)(-j - 1), (double)(-1 + b0), 0.0D);
            tessellator.addVertex((double)(-j - 1), (double)(8 + b0), 0.0D);
            tessellator.addVertex((double)(j + 1), (double)(8 + b0), 0.0D);
            tessellator.addVertex((double)(j + 1), (double)(-1 + b0), 0.0D);
            tessellator.draw();
            GL11.glEnable(GL11.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
            fontrenderer.drawString(p_147906_2_, -fontrenderer.getStringWidth(p_147906_2_) / 2, b0, 553648127);
            GL11.glEnable(GL11.GL_DEPTH_TEST);
            GL11.glDepthMask(true);
            fontrenderer.drawString(p_147906_2_, -fontrenderer.getStringWidth(p_147906_2_) / 2, b0, -1);
            GL11.glEnable(GL11.GL_LIGHTING);
            GL11.glDisable(GL11.GL_BLEND);
            GL11.glColor4f(1.0F, 1.0F, 1.0F, 1.0F);
            GL11.glPopMatrix();
        }
    }[/close]