Alright, so I've run into a problem while trying to spawn particles. I believe I'm using the spawnParticle method correctly, as it's mostly copy/pasted from the enderpearl source code, yet I don't see any particles when I run the code (yes, my video settings are set to 'All' for particles). This is being called in an onEntityItemUpdate(...) method in a custom item class I wrote (the item has its own custom entityItem). Any help solving this conundrum would be appreciated.

 

onEntityItemUpdate method:

 

 

private int cleanTime = -1;

@Override
public boolean onEntityItemUpdate(EntityItem entityItem) {
	if (entityItem instanceof EntityEmotionDust) {
		EntityEmotionDust entity = (EntityEmotionDust) entityItem;
		if (!entity.getEntityItem().getItem().equals(EmotionModItems.empathy_dust)) {
			if (entity.checkAreaForBlock(Blocks.dragon_egg, 2)) { //checkAreaForBlock is a method I wrote that works fine, it isn't the issue
				if (cleanTime == -1)
					cleanTime = 40;
				else if (cleanTime == 0) {
					if (!entity.worldObj.isRemote) {
						for (int i = 0; i < 32; ++i) {
							entity.worldObj.spawnParticle(EnumParticleTypes.PORTAL, entity.posX,
									entity.posY + entity.random.nextDouble() * 2.0D, entity.posZ,
									entity.random.nextGaussian(), 0.0D, entity.random.nextGaussian(), new int[0]);
				        }
					}
					entity.setEntityItemStack(new ItemStack(EmotionModItems.empathy_dust, entity.getEntityItem().stackSize));
				}

				cleanTime--;
			} else {
				cleanTime = -1;
			}
		}
	}

        return false;
    }

 

 

P.S I've tried the onEntityItemUpdate code both in that method and in the EntityItem's onUpdate method.

While editing ItemStack will happen on server, the particles can only spawn on client. Basically - particle is "special" (retarded) brother of normal entity and should be spawned on client, not on server.

Thanks! I spawned it on the client and it worked. I modified the code from Jabelar's particle tutorial for anyone who wants to know.