Hey, I've looked at the BlockGrass file for a while now, and I'm trying to replicate the whole colour the block depending on the biome thing.

 

But I've ran into an issue, I'm making a "desire path"  where it's a dirt block trimmed with grass on the top side, (The grass has been worn away) and I'm using the grass_side texture for the sides obviously, but I'm trying to use the "getSideOverlay" method as well as trying to make a "getTopOverlay" method and I don't think either is working, the top and sides of the block are a sickly green.

 

Here's a pastebin of the class code, and a screenshot of the blocks

http://pastebin.com/tX2F6dSQ

http://i.imgur.com/q2Kmvob.png

 

I have both the top layer with dirt and an overlay layer based on the 'grass top' texture

Long story short: you're going to find this almost impossible.

I don't know how grass actually renders its sides (last I checked, it cheated), but the problem you're seeing has to do with the fact that the color multiplier applies to the whole texture.

Best guess, you could try a transparent overlay texture which has the grass portion and is color multiplied, and the dirt underlay portion which is not.  You'll have to look up two-pass rendering on your own.

Long story short: you're going to find this almost impossible.

I don't know how grass actually renders its sides (last I checked, it cheated), but the problem you're seeing has to do with the fact that the color multiplier applies to the whole texture.

Best guess, you could try a transparent overlay texture which has the grass portion and is color multiplied, and the dirt underlay portion which is not.  You'll have to look up two-pass rendering on your own.

 

Yeah, I tried to copy / change the BlockGrass class to meet my needs, but came out a sickly green, I do have an overlay image, and when I place that as the TOP image, it's transparent, but it's the same shade of green as the biome.

 

Thanks for the top of the two-pass rendering, I'll have a look at it a.s.a.p.

 

Thanks! The two pass rendering worked a treat! Not 100% what I was after, but I got it working at least, now I do have at least one major issue, and one slight annoyance.

 

http://i.imgur.com/r3sJtYj.png

As you can see the biome colouring works a treat, but the block / item rendering in my hotbar is messed up, and I don't know how to fix that, and finally the slight annoyance, is that the bottom of the block is still that sickly green.

 

Here is the renderer class, the desire path class and the registry class

 

Thank you again for pointing me in this direction!

You need to return

true

in

shouldRender3DInInventory

in your renderer, and actually do something in the

renderInventoryBlock

method.

As for the bottom: you need to not render the bottom in the second pass.