Making Custom Iron Bars help.

[KeeganDeathman]

Hi, I'd like to know the best way to make custom iron bars. In my mod, I want to make bars you can file away. I just have problems making the block render like iron panes. Any help?

[larsgerrits]

In the getRenderType, use the render type of the iron bars block.

[KeeganDeathman]

Which id is that? I can't find a list that is updated to include at least iron bars/glass panes

[larsgerrits]

Blocks.iron_bars.getRenderType();

As simple as that... Was that so hard to figure out?

[KeeganDeathman]

Doh! I was thinking that method worked more as a set method than a get. Not sure why, it is called getRenderId() or Type() or whatever. I'm not at home right now so I have no clue.

[KeeganDeathman]

I did that, but it tells me that it can't cast my block to a BlockPane. I would chnage my super to BlockPane but I'm unsure of the first two and last variable i need to pass in. I know it's

(String,string,material,boolean) I know the two strings are texture and blockname(from setBlockName), but which is which i'm not sure. The boolean, no clue.

[KeeganDeathman]

I changed my super to BlockPane, and had this in my constructor

super("blockIronBarsBroken", "portalcube:blockIronBarsBroken", p_i45394_1_, false);

 

And I get this error shortly after I either place a block or enter a world with the block in it.

java.lang.NullPointerException: Unexpected error
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderBlocks.renderBlockPane(RenderBlocks.java:3110)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderBlocks.renderBlockByRenderType(RenderBlocks.java:282)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.WorldRenderer.updateRenderer(WorldRenderer.java:181)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderGlobal.updateRenderers(RenderGlobal.java:1522)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.EntityRenderer.renderWorld(EntityRenderer.java:1178)
at net.minecraft.client.renderer.EntityRenderer.updateCameraAndRender(EntityRenderer.java:1011)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.runGameLoop(Minecraft.java:945)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Minecraft.java:835)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:103)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.launch(Launch.java:134)
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28)

 

In the version of forge I'm running, there's no source attachments, so I can't track the problem down.

[coolboy4531]

Is your class extending BlockPane?

 

 

[KeeganDeathman]

Yes. A superclass is a 'parent class' if you will. The superclass is whatever your class extends, which is where the super() methods come from.