[1.7.10]Sending generic entity data that contorls rendering to client side

[Mecblader]

Hello, I am making a mod were I have a block that scans an entity and copies its entity data. Then it uses the entities id to render it on the client side. The problem that I have been experiencing is that I want this to be generic so it would work with entities in other mods, but I'm not sure if there is a generic way to transfer nbt that controls the render of a entity. For example, a sheep, I believe uses nbt to determine what color it is going to render. I know I could hard code that in, but I want to see if there are other option before I do something like this. All help is appreciated, Thank You!

[Mecblader]

Sorry for the big delay, but is nbt accessible from the client side?

[Sokaya]

You can use DataWatcher then write method do return your datawatcher data and use it ex. in render class

[Mecblader]

Again sorry for the delay, but is there some good ways to get the variable or keys that mod authors use for their entities in their mods. I can manage the sending to the client part, but I don't know how to specific variables to send across. For example, say that a mod adds a entity that is a random color and that color is stored in the nbt data or somthing like that, how would I be able to got that variable generically, without hardcodeing it in. I would like my mod to work with any mod that it installed with, as long as they don't setup their entities weird.

 

Also I would like to know if the method bellow would work for spawning an entity that is part of a mod, if not then could someone tell me a way that could work.

 

Method:

EntityLiving entityLiving = (EntityLiving) EntityList.createEntityByName(this.getEntityData().getString("id"), this.worldObj);

 

Basibally I have a variable that has an entities nbt data stored and in that nbt, there is a key that is labled id, that is the id of the entity. That variable comes from this method: EntityList.getEntityString();

[Mecblader]

How would I send the entire nbt of the entity? Is there a special way to do I need to Iterate over it  somehow.

[Mecblader]

Sorry I should have been more specific, I meant actually sending the nbt data, but never mind that because I was being a derp and didn't see that ByteBufUtils has a writeTag method. Going to see if it works now.