[1.8] Rendering distant objects

[DinnerBuffet]

Hi, I'm new to Minecraft modding. I am looking to add some distant terrain beyond the loaded chunks. Objects will be drawn with the tessellator from code. I need some advice on what the best way to do this would be. At first I thought I could create pieces of the terrain as Blocks and register it for rendering, but I felt it wouldn't provide any benefit (since I will be coding my own culling, probably coding my own lighting, not using JSON models), so I thought hooking directly to the renderer would be the best choice. It seems like the best way to do that would be to listen for the RenderTickEvent, but I was reading on this thread (http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php?topic=23500.0), that this event fires even in the menu before the world is loaded. It was suggested in that thread to hook directly into PlayerTickEvent, but I don't think that's the best choice for what I want to do. Before I dig deep into how to get this working, can I get some advice on what the best approach would be?

[Abastro]

You might use TickEvent with Type.Render

As I know, there is no way to render blocks in unloaded chunk without that.

[DinnerBuffet]

Perfect, thank you!

[DinnerBuffet]

Unfortunately, unless I'm not mistaken, RenderTickEvent seems to come after the scene is fully rendered. Therefore anything I add in the handler shows up in the foreground. Is this surely the only way to render a background?

[DinnerBuffet]

Ah that means I was drawing before and after. Thank you!

 

 

[DinnerBuffet]

It seems like the ability to render a 3D scene from RenderTickEvent is extremely limited. Most of the methods that would help to set up the FOV and camera translations are not accessible (getFOVModifier, setupCameraTransform, orientCamera). All of the little nuances that are handled in these methods (viewbob, FOV modifiers such as zoom, etc) would be impossible to imitate without access.

 

I think the only way to feasibly do this is to render after the camera translations have been applied. Are you certain there is no other way to render behind the loaded chunks? One solution I thought of was to wait until the first RenderWorldEvent.Pre before I draw, then ignore subsequent RenderWorldEvents until the next RenderTickEvent. Kind of hacky but I can't think of another way. Unfortunately according to this thread (http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php?topic=31141.0), it seems this event doesn't exist anymore.