[1.8] Making IIcon storage.

[Ernio]

So in 1.7.10 I did this while registering some item in method that had IIcon reference in it. I simply put x number of IIcons into HashMap and then pulled them from there by name.

 

How can I have something like it in 1.8 (there are no IIcon methods that can be overriden).

 

Goal: My Items textures are pulled from NBT, let's take longsword:

blade: "name"

guard: "name"

grip: "name"

 

Normally those would be from my HashMap, now - I need ideas.

[Eternaldoom]

Currently, it doesn't look like this is possible without ASM (due to the new model stuff). You could register different models (that correspond to the textures) as metadata values of the item (you won't actually need metadata), and use ASM to transform some methods (one would be RenderItem.func_175049_a). Hopefully forge will have hooks for this in the future.

[Draco18s]

Hopefully forge will have hooks for this in the future.

 

Hopefully!  Otherwise my Artifacts mod won't be able to update to 1.8 (I use a ton of textures-by-NBT).