[1.8] Custom Layer Render Problem

[Jedispencer21]

I have a custom inventory and some extended properties and when I equip an item in the slot in the custom inventory, it renders an accessory onto the player like armor, but the only problem I have is that when on a server, it doesn't show the accessory to other players. I assume I will need packets.

[Jedispencer21]

So I taken a look at how vanilla does this with the armor, and I took a look at S04PacketEntityEquipment and NetHandlerPlayClient#handleEntityEquipment, now what I am wondering is how within my packet would I go about getting an entity from its ID, since it is handled client side?

[Ernio]

Nope.

 

Every entity has entityId. It is always the same on client and server (server sets client's entityId on spawn).

You need to send packet from server to client with: player.entityId, itemStack, slotId.

On client you read them, world.getEntityById(message.entityId) and then set player's client side inventory to received itemStack in some slotId.

[Jedispencer21]

I am aware that the id is the same on both sides, better wording would have been, where should I get the World from inside the packet.

[Choonster]

On the client there's only one

World

:

Minecraft#theWorld

.

[Jedispencer21]

So, upon trying, inside the packet:

EntityPlayer player = Minecraft.getMinecraft().theWorld.getEntityById(id);

and trying to use the variable in any way returns null.

[Ernio]

Are you getting "id" field from message passed to receive method?

 

Post full code.

[Jedispencer21]

After a bit of debugging, and looking at the code, I realized I missed the dumbest thing, I forgot to assign the entityId to the entityId in the packet in the constructor... so it was only returning 0, but fixed it, and it is now working.