Get item damage explanation

[Thebosscraft59]

Hello,

I learn to program a mod with the Sam's guide(Sam's teach yourself to mod development in 24h)

and i have seen 2 method but i dont unterstand what is it can you explain me please??

 

 

package com.wuppy.samsmod;

 

import java.util.List;

 

import net.minecraft.client.renderer.texture.IIconRegister;

import net.minecraft.creativetab.CreativeTabs;

import net.minecraft.item.Item;

import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;

import net.minecraft.util.IIcon;

import net.minecraft.util.MathHelper;

import cpw.mods.fml.relauncher.Side;

import cpw.mods.fml.relauncher.SideOnly;

 

public class ItemKey extends Item

{

    private String[] name = {"grey", "red"};

       

    @SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)

    private IIcon[] icons;

 

    public ItemKey()

    {

          setUnlocalizedName(SamsMod.MODID + "_" + "key");

          setHasSubtypes(true);

          setCreativeTab(CreativeTabs.tabMisc);

    }

       

    @Override

    public String getUnlocalizedName(ItemStack par1ItemStack)

    {

        int metadata = MathHelper.clamp_int(par1ItemStack.getItemDamage(), 0, 15);

        return super.getUnlocalizedName() + "." + name[metadata];

    }

       

    @SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)

    @Override

    public void registerIcons(IIconRegister par1IconRegister)

    {

              icons = new IIcon[name.length];

             

              for(int i = 0; i < icons.length; i++)

              {

                      icons = par1IconRegister.registerIcon(SamsMod.MODID + ":" + "key" + " " + name);

              }

    }

 

    @Override

    public IIcon getIconFromDamage(int par1)

    {

        return icons[par1];

    }

   

    @SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked", "rawtypes" })

    @SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)

    @Override

    public void getSubItems(Item par1, CreativeTabs par2CreativeTabs, List par3List)

    {

        for (int x = 0; x < name.length; x++)

        {

            par3List.add(new ItemStack(this, 1, x));

        }

    }

}

 

Thank you

[Draco18s]

Item metadata.

[Thebosscraft59]

Close please

[Draco18s]

To do what?  Those highlighted methods deal with the item's metadata value.  You wanted to know what they are for, they are for metadata.