on item rightclick

[firstarchon]

I can't find any good tutorials on the onItemRightClick method. anyone know a good tutorial or can explain how to use this method?

these arguments aren't very clear and i''m having a hard time understanding them.

 

[Belpois]

ItemStack onItemRightClick(ItemStack itemStack, World world, EntityPlayer entityPlayer)

 

ItemStack: Is the stack of items the player right clicked with.

World: The world that the player is currently in.

EntityPlayer: The player that actually right clicked the ItemStack.

[firstarchon]

so if I do

ItemStack onItemRightClick(ItemStack itemStack, World world, EntityPlayer entityPlayer)

do I have to call this method somehow and pass it these arguments or do I just throw this in my item class and code what I want to happen when it is rightclickd? also how would I get the item to interact with the block in question? like trigger a red stone pulse?

[Belpois]

No, you do not have to call it yourself simply implement your logic inside and it will be called on its own.

 

As for Redstone look at some of the Redstone code in any redstone enabled block in vanilla, it should get you started.

[firstarchon]

I've tried that. the only problem is that vanilla code doesn't use descriptive names so you wind up with code that looks like

 public boolean onBlockActivated(World p_149727_1_, int p_149727_2_, int p_149727_3_, int p_149727_4_, EntityPlayer p_149727_5_, int p_149727_6_, float p_149727_7_, float p_149727_8_, float p_149727_9_)
    {
        int i1 = p_149727_1_.getBlockMetadata(p_149727_2_, p_149727_3_, p_149727_4_);
        int j1 = i1 & 7;
        int k1 = 8 - (i1 & ;

        if (k1 == 0)
        {
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            p_149727_1_.setBlockMetadataWithNotify(p_149727_2_, p_149727_3_, p_149727_4_, j1 + k1, 3);
            p_149727_1_.markBlockRangeForRenderUpdate(p_149727_2_, p_149727_3_, p_149727_4_, p_149727_2_, p_149727_3_, p_149727_4_);
            p_149727_1_.playSoundEffect((double)p_149727_2_ + 0.5D, (double)p_149727_3_ + 0.5D, (double)p_149727_4_ + 0.5D, "random.click", 0.3F, 0.6F);
            this.func_150042_a(p_149727_1_, p_149727_2_, p_149727_3_, p_149727_4_, j1);
            p_149727_1_.scheduleBlockUpdate(p_149727_2_, p_149727_3_, p_149727_4_, this, this.tickRate(p_149727_1_));
            return true;
        }
    }

and to my brain there is very little difference between this and binary code

[Belpois]

Well Redstone is a huge part of Minecraft, when I say huge i mean HUGE and in order to explain everything it would take time.

 

I urge you to try and understand how the BlockButton works under "package net.minecraft.block;" I know it may be hard to read though the obfuscated code but it the variable types are not obfuscated and you can probably track them down and understand. It takes time but it will teach how to read other peoples code and understand programming better.

 

Here is a list of overrides you might want to focus on:

int isProvidingWeakPower(IBlockAccess p_149709_1_, int p_149709_2_, int p_149709_3_, int p_149709_4_, int p_149709_5_);

int isProvidingStrongPower(IBlockAccess p_149748_1_, int p_149748_2_, int p_149748_3_, int p_149748_4_, int p_149748_5_);

boolean canProvidePower();

updateTick(World p_149674_1_, int p_149674_2_, int p_149674_3_, int p_149674_4_, Random p_149674_5_);

 

Also type redstone in the search field for these forums and see what people had asked for in the past, you might encounter something that solvea your problems

[firstarchon]

I have a general idea of what the code should do.

 

on right click

 

then some kind of code to tell that returns the some sort of unique identifier for the block that was clicked on

 

some kind of code that instructs that block to emit redstone.

 

do you have any suggestions to where I should look for details on the part where I tell the code to interact with the specific block that was clicked on?

 

[firstarchon]

if you have a button on a block and you right click it the button powers the block and the power propagates through the block to any redstone stuff behind it. my idea is to add a rightclick function to a tool so that when you rightclick a block with a tool it acts as if it is receiving a redstone signal from a button.

[Draco18s]

if you have a button on a block and you right click it the button powers the block and the power propagates through the block to any redstone stuff behind it. my idea is to add a rightclick function to a tool so that when you rightclick a block with a tool it acts as if it is receiving a redstone signal from a button.

 

The block the button is on is not emitting a redstone signal itself, but rather that the next space over (where the wire or torch or whatever is) is being indirectly powered by the button.

[firstarchon]

so could instead of powering an arbitrary block could it instead check adjacent blocks to see if they are powerable and if they are provide them with a redstone pulse? that again would take some way of interacting with blocks (I have to have some way to tell the blocks what block I'm looking to interact with and I'm not sure how to do that)

[Anon10W1z]

so could instead of powering an arbitrary block could it instead check adjacent blocks to see if they are powerable and if they are provide them with a redstone pulse? that again would take some way of interacting with blocks (I have to have some way to tell the blocks what block I'm looking to interact with and I'm not sure how to do that)

No! Again, you can't power blocks with an item.

[Belpois]

You could have an item that triggers a block to create a signal, like the RedPower remote control thingy...

 

Create the item and the block, link the item to the block and activate it.