currently, other than spawning them, i havent really been messing around with particles yet. how would i go about making my particle render from further away from the player? is that possible? there are two alternatives i can think of at the moment (i dont know much about this)

1: make a new particle extending the one i use, but set to be rendered from further away (i have no idea how to do that, though, and if there is an easier way i'd prefer that),

2: use something i've only heard about, called tesselator (or something like that), which allows me to do rendering-related stuff.

 

is there another way? which is simplest? and how would i go about doing that?

What particles are you talking about?

 

If you are spawning  them using World.spawnParticle():

    @SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
    public void spawnParticle(EnumParticleTypes particleType, boolean p_175682_2_, double p_175682_3_, double p_175682_5_, double p_175682_7_, double p_175682_9_, double p_175682_11_, double p_175682_13_, int ... p_175682_15_)
    {
        this.spawnParticle(particleType.getParticleID(), particleType.func_179344_e() | p_175682_2_, p_175682_3_, p_175682_5_, p_175682_7_, p_175682_9_, p_175682_11_, p_175682_13_, p_175682_15_);
    }

The second parameter is a boolean, if you set it to true, it should spawn the effect regardless of how far away the player is.

 

(From RenderGlobal.spawnEntityFX(): 
    private EntityFX spawnEntityFX(int p_174974_1_, boolean p_174974_2_, double p_174974_3_, double p_174974_5_, double p_174974_7_, double p_174974_9_, double p_174974_11_, double p_174974_13_, int ... p_174974_15_)
    {
//....

            if (p_174974_2_)  {  // if force render
                return this.mc.effectRenderer.spawnEffectParticle(p_174974_1_, p_174974_3_, p_174974_5_, p_174974_7_, p_174974_9_, p_174974_11_, p_174974_13_, p_174974_15_);
            }  else  { // check distance d6 = delta X, d7  = delta y, d8 = delta z -> if distance is more than 16 (sq distance > 16*16 = 256), don't render
                double d9 = 16.0D;
                return d6 * d6 + d7 * d7 + d8 * d8 > 256.0D ? null : (k > 1 ? null : this.mc.effectRenderer.spawnEffectParticle(p_174974_1_, p_174974_3_, p_174974_5_, p_174974_7_, p_174974_9_, p_174974_11_, p_174974_13_, p_174974_15_));
            }

 

-TGG

thank you! i can't believe i didnt see that. fyi im spawning a redstone particle for a laserbeam that i made. it's pretty neat.