Source code can be found in my git repo: https://github.com/UntouchedWagons/PowerLines

 

My mod will add, among other things, a large power line like the ones you find outside. I've made a babby's first model using Tabula and have hacked together the rendering stuff using Mekanism as a point of reference. The large power line is supposed to look like this: http://i.imgur.com/na6ceWe.png but instead looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/qPOXbjC.png What did I do wrong? It's bound to be something stupidly simple.

 

I know I screwed up the texture size.

Okay so I've fixed the first two issues and the second half of the third (haven't pushed the changes yet) but I'm not sure how to implement the ISBRH, or where to put it (in the file structure that is).

Oh okay, you use an ISBRH if you want to give a basic block a custom model right? I may want to do that later.

 

I've pushed the changes I've made as per your recommendations, but the block is still rendering as invisible.

I just copied this from the client proxy of one of my mods PreInit method

 

GameTable.gameTableRenderID = RenderingRegistry.getNextAvailableRenderId();
RenderingRegistry.registerBlockHandler(GameTable.gameTableRenderID, new GameTableRenderer());
ClientRegistry.bindTileEntitySpecialRenderer(TileEntityGameTable.class, new TileEntityGameTableRenderer());

 

this registers a renderer to the block and one to the tileentity

 

hope this is of some help

 

First:

Use

GameRegistry.registerTileEntity

in your main class

 

Okay fixed that (not pushed yet), stupid me.

 

Then: you are always rendering your model at 0, 0, 0.

 

That's because I don't know what those arguments mean. According to IntelliJ, only the last float value is used.

There's six floats though.

X, y, z, rot, rot, partialTicks

that's six

Okay now it's rendering, but it's flickering and jumping around. I recorded what was happening with OBS but GFYCat doesn't give me a useful error message when uploading fails.

 

It works with YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-cXm0IlevM

Here are the changes I made in the latest commit: https://github.com/UntouchedWagons/PowerLines/commit/76fe68c404ac2bd323be240e3ad6401046381aca

So like this:

 

    public void renderTileEntityAt(TileEntityLargePowerLine te, double x, double y, double z, float partialTick) {
        GL11.glPushMatrix();
        //GL11.glTranslatef((float) x + 0.5F, (float) y + 1.5F, (float) z + 0.5F);

        bindTexture(new ResourceLocation("powerlines", "render/largePowerLine.png"));

        GL11.glRotatef(180, 0F, 0F, 1F);

        model.render(null, (float)x, (float)y, (float)z, 0, 0, partialTick);

        GL11.glPopMatrix();
    }

 

It doesn't seem right that I have to cast the doubles to floats, but what do I know? I'm basically a monkey at a keyboard when it comes to this rendering stuff.

I understand the stuff about chest rotation and checking for adjacent chests but I don't see what you want me to see. 

TileEntityChestRenderer

 

Yeah I found that. That's how I know about the chest rotation and checking for adjacent chests stuff. 

Uh huh.

Through the power of shotgun debugging and looking at what others have done I have finally got my model to render properly. This is what I have now to make it work:

 

    public void renderTileEntityAt(TileEntity te, double x, double y, double z, float partialTick) {
        GL11.glPushMatrix();
        GL11.glTranslatef((float) x + 0.5F, (float) y + 1.5F, (float) z + 0.5F);

        bindTexture(texture);

        GL11.glRotatef(180, 0F, 0F, 1F);

        model.render(null, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.0625F);

        GL11.glPopMatrix();
    }

 

The glTranslatef method allows you to moves the model around. The glRotatef method allows you to rotate the model which you'd want if you need to rotate your machine. The first parameter is the amount to rotate in degrees along the X axis, the second is the Y axis and the third is the Z axis. I don't know what the parameters for the render method do but in my model classes only the last parameter is ever used.