So I've been trying to do something like this for a while on 1.8, but I have no idea where or how to start. I knew that in 1.7 you needed to Register Item Renderers but you need an itemID to use that but there is none in 1.8 so I'm totally lost. Any ideas on how to implement 3D items into Forge 1.8?

Hi

 

This link goes into quite some detail on it

http://greyminecraftcoder.blogspot.com.au/p/list-of-topics.html

(See the Blocks link and the Item link).

 

This example project shows how to make 3D blocks and corresponding items.  3D items are done in exactly the same way, i.e. you use a Block Model file with an "elements" section.

https://github.com/TheGreyGhost/MinecraftByExample

 

-TGG

 

Thanks, I'll check the links out.