Drawing string to screen [SOLVED]

[cookie545445]

I'm probably missing something really obvious here, but I can't get a string to render on the screen. My aim is to get an update-every-tick meter of an NBT integer that only shows when you are wearing a certain helmet, but even just rendering the word "works" doesn't do anything.

 

FML (Tick) Event Handler

public class FMLEventHandler {

private Minecraft mc = Minecraft.getMinecraft();
private ScaledResolution sclRes;

public FMLEventHandler() {
	sclRes = new ScaledResolution(mc, mc.displayWidth, mc.displayHeight);
}

@SubscribeEvent
public void render(RenderGameOverlayEvent event)
{
	mc.fontRenderer.drawString("works", sclRes.getScaledWidth()/2, sclRes.getScaledHeight()/2, 0xffffffff, false);
}
}

 

I've registered the handler like so:

FMLCommonHandler.instance().bus().register(new FMLEventHandler());

 

Any (working ) help would be greatly appreciated!

[TLHPoE]

I'm almost 100% sure RenderGameOverlayEvent is a forge event, so register it in MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS. Don't forget to register it on the client side ONLY!

[strumshot]

Why don't you just make a gui screen that is not modal, etc, and draw it there? Maybe there's something I don't know about guis but wouldn't that work?

[TLHPoE]

Gui disable movement if you actually open the gui I believe, which is something you don't want to do when rendering a HUD.

[strumshot]

  On 9/27/2014 at 7:45 PM, strumshot said:

screen that is not modal

 

That's what "modal" means - the screen is on top and must be dismissed before play continues - and although I haven't done it myself and there are others here who would know more specifically... what about the HUD? It is a screen GUI I believe and game operates normally with it up.

 

 

edit: if nothing else, this is where I would look to find your answer. Do what the HUD does.

[cookie545445]

  On 9/27/2014 at 5:28 PM, TLHPoE said:

I'm almost 100% sure RenderGameOverlayEvent is a forge event, so register it in MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS. Don't forget to register it on the client side ONLY!

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I think I got it confused with the RenderTickEvent (on the FML bus) and it's not on the Forge Bus Event List so I put it on the FML bus. Also would this count as registering client side only?

@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
@SubscribeEvent
public void render(RenderGameOverlayEvent event)
{
	if (event.type == ElementType.TEXT) {
		mc.fontRenderer.drawString("works", 2, 2, 0xFFFFFFFF, false);
	}
}

[MultiMote]

Use RenderGameOverlayEvent.Post instead of RenderGameOverlayEvent.