[1.8]Creating Player Model Animations?

[Mecblader]

Hello, I was just wondering how complicated it would be to add new player model animations, or poses, whenever a certain event is triggered. If it is reasonable, in terms of effort, then how would i have to go about adding new player model animations?

[Abastro]

What kind of animation do you looking for? If it just uses vanilla player model parts, you can do it easily in RenderPlayerEvent, by modifying the model's rotation value.

[Mecblader]

I tried using that as an event a tried registering the event with both: MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS.register(new CLASSGOESHERE); & FMLCommonHandler.instance().bus().register(new CLASSGOESHERE());, but the event is not being called. I have worked with other events before, but am I using this one wrong?

[diesieben07]

The render events are no longer fired as of 1.8.

[Mecblader]

Then do you know of another way to create a player animation?

[diesieben07]

Entity rendering is based on so called "layers" (implementing LayerRenderer). You can register your own and also remove the vanilla ones. You will need some reflection, but it should be easy.

[Mecblader]

Where would i register this?

[diesieben07]

It depends on when you want the animation to happen.

[Mecblader]

I want it to happen whenever a player right clicks an item in my mod.

[diesieben07]

What kind of animation should it be? You probably have to remove the entire vanilla layer and overwrite it with your own.

[Mecblader]

Well basically I added a different fishing system into minecraft an I want to make the player bend over and render the item, being a fishing net, in the water.

[diesieben07]

Hrm, you might want to look into using the RenderPlayerAPI.

[Mecblader]

I would do that, but my mod is meant to be a a standalone mod, except forge of course.  My mod completely overhauls minecraft, meaning that is will not be and is not intended to be compatible with other mods and I wanted it be be a pickup and go kind of mod, meaning that I don't really want the user to have to download the api and then use it.

[diesieben07]

If you don't intend it to be compatible... just override the entire player renderer...

[Mecblader]

OK, so I have overridden the whole RenderPlayer class, via reflection during the the post init period in my client proxy class, with my new class that extends RenderPlayer, but none of the methods seem to be called, did I do it wrong.

 

My reflection code(keep in mind that I have not done reflection very often before, I know about it, but not much experience with it)

 

	
                Minecraft mc = Minecraft.getMinecraft();
	Field privateStringField = null;

	try {
		privateStringField = RenderManager.class.getDeclaredField("field_178637_m");
	} catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
	} catch (SecurityException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
	}

	privateStringField.setAccessible(true);

//Test Code
	try {
		Log.println("Before: " + privateStringField.get(mc.getRenderManager()));
	} catch (IllegalArgumentException e1) {
		e1.printStackTrace();
	} catch (IllegalAccessException e1) {
		e1.printStackTrace();
	}
//Test Code
	PlayerRender playerRender = new PlayerRender(mc.getRenderManager());
	Log.println("New: " + playerRender);
	try {
		privateStringField.set(mc.getRenderManager(), playerRender);
	} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
	} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
	}

//Test Code
	try {
		Log.println("After: " + privateStringField.get(mc.getRenderManager()));
	} catch (IllegalArgumentException e1) {
		e1.printStackTrace();
	} catch (IllegalAccessException e1) {
		e1.printStackTrace();
	}

	privateStringField.setAccessible(false);

 

 

My RenderPlayerClass(Don't really think you'll need it, but here is it anyway)

@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
public class PlayerRender extends RenderPlayer {

public PlayerRender(RenderManager renderManager) {
	this(renderManager, true);
}

public PlayerRender(RenderManager renderManager, boolean useSmallArms) {
	super(renderManager, useSmallArms);
}
}

 

[diesieben07]

You will also need to put your renderer into the Map stored in the "skinMap" field. It currently has 2 entries, "slim" and "default" for the 2 player models.