Hey forums,

 

I recently made a block in my mod that has some fancy rendering when you place it down. I was wondering how I would render the same effects when the player is holding the block in their hand. I looked through the Item and Block classes to see if there was a method for when you hold the item, I found nothing. I also have tried a tick handler recently, but I'm unsure about which type of tick handler to use.

 

Any help is appreciated.

You could make a custom item renderer that renders like the block. Try this http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php?topic=252.0. I don't know how to do it myself.

Hi

 

This link might help

 

http://greyminecraftcoder.blogspot.com.au/p/list-of-topics.html

 

(The Item Rendering sections).

 

-TGG

I could be thinking about this incorrectly because i have never tried it, but I think it will work.

 

When you create a custom weapon 3D render/model you have to give it the case if it is 3rd person, 1st person, or inventory.  For each case, you can point it to your block render.  Might have to make some adjustments.

 

I 'think'

The other trick is you need to tell your block to drop as a custom entity instead of the normal itementity.  When it is picked up, it deposits a custom item intead of the normal one for a block.

 

It is also possible you might just be able to register the item renderer to your blockitem if you can get the name right.

Forgot about IItemRenderer, thanks guys! I'll try the code out later today. I assume I can register the IItemRenderer to the block somehow? Maybe through an ItemBlock? Not sure exactly.

Item.getItemFromBlock()

Oh, that works too.