Hello,

 

I am trying to make a custom modeled bock change direction when I place it, as well as make it shoot a laser I have no idea how to.

 

Thanks.

Well, it is just a simple matter of rotating the model itself instead of the block.

 

So for instance, if you're using an wavefront model you can just call

 

GL11.glrotatef(angle, xvector, yvector, zvector);

 

before you render your model.

because I don't know what a wavefront model is I probably ain't using one.

Well, what are you using then? The hardcoded way(tesselator)?

 

Let me add some stuff since it seems that isn't the only place you are stuck.

 

You can get the way the player is facing with

 

int l = MathHelper.floor_double((double)(Player.rotationYaw * 4.0F / 360.0F) + 0.5D) & 3;

 

int the onBlockPlacedBy method.

 

Then write that value to metadata.

 

In your renderclass just read the metadata again and rotate the object accordingly(e.g. 2 == 0°, 3 == 90°, 4 == 180° & 5 == 270° or something like that)

and between your GL11.glpushMatrix() and gl11.glPopMatrix you just place

 

GL11.rotatef(yourpreviouslycalculatedangle, 0.0, 1.0f, 0.0f);

 

and this should actually work with whatever type of model you use.