[1.7.10] Using Fluid textures for a UV map

[M4thG33k]

Greetings! I have been dabbling with the TESR to create some interesting blocks and had an idea. Is it possible to use a fluid's texture (either flowing or still) as the UV map for the renderer? For a dumb example, if I wanted a cube to look like flowing water, is there a way for me to get that (animated) texture information into the ResourceLocation variable I'm using for my TESR? Thank you in advance! :-)

[M4thG33k]

I know how to grab a fluid's IIcon and use the Tessellator to render this in a GUI, but I can't find any way to bind this as the resource in the bindTexture() method...

[M4thG33k]

I saw that TextureMap.locationBlocksTexture returns a ResourceLocation (of course), but (correct me if I'm wrong), isn't this a giant map of all block textures in the game? How would I tell the renderer which portion of the map I would like to use to do the actual rendering? Thanks.

[M4thG33k]

I really don't see how IIcon is used in this way. I see that you can get the max/min U/V values from an IIcon, but I still don't understand how to use this in conjunction with the TextureMap in order to extract the specific texture desired. Is there a Vanilla class that does this sort of thing that I could look at for more information?

[M4thG33k]

I understand that much, I just can't figure out how to do that. I've been using .obj models for my TESR and using bindTexture(texture) method (where texture is a ResourceLocation). What you're saying is to use the TextureMap.locationsBlockTexture as the aforementioned texture, but then to (somehow) use the IIcon u/v info to limit the domain of the map which is being used correct? If so, I can't figure out how this is done. Is there any example I can learn from?

[M4thG33k]

Maybe I'm not completely clear as to what I'm trying to accomplish: I want my model to be textured with the fluid's texture. I know the fluid's texture is dynamic, but at this point I don't care about having it play its animation when rendered, I just want the entire model to look somewhat like the fluid.

 

As for "draw[ing] the fluid separate from the model", are you implying that I should use the Tessellator to do this? If so, then it's going to be very difficult for me to get my desired effect...

[M4thG33k]

Alright. Do you know of any other file types that could be used then? If you don't, that's fine; I'll just have to figure something else out...

[M4thG33k]

I was afraid of that...haha. My model has 482 vertices, so I think I'm going to have to simplify it a bit. Thanks for the help, though!

[M4thG33k]

Just thought I should post an update here: I simplified my model to have less than 200 vertices and created a Python script to create Tessellator code from the OBJ file. So, in short, I got what I wanted! I have my model that takes on the (animated) texture of any fluid I choose!