Cant get itemmodel of Block to render

[tubs]

As the title says I Cant get the Inventory model to render of my blocks. The block version i working.

 

I got this

http://pastebin.com/s9CXZk68

 

 

and i have registerd it in my client proxy

 

[diesieben07]

Use ModelLoader.setCustomModelResourceLocation instead of the ItemModelMesher stuff, do it in preInit.

Do not use the unlocalized name to determine the model of your block.

Your unlocalized name should include your ModID.

Show your json files.

[tubs]

After ModelLoader.setCustomModelResourceLocation and it was moved to preInit it worked. Thank you

[jeffryfisher]

Use ModelLoader.setCustomModelResourceLocation instead of the ItemModelMesher stuff, do it in preInit.

Aha, I've been seeing (frequently) the advice to use custom location, but not always the admonition "instead of mesher stuff". It's finally dawning on me that this choice is not just a personal preference. Is there an explanation somewhere of why the former is superior to the latter? (I searched, but the haystack of code excerpts swamped any hope of finding a comparison).

 

Having finally learned the mesher well enough to make it work in all of my mods, I'm feeling reluctant to dig them up and change them, but a good reason could persuade me to do so during my port to 1.9.

 

BTW, For grins, I just Googled Minecraft Forge 1.8 item model tutorial again. The top four tutorials all teach the deprecated mesher technique, so the parade of meshed up modders will continue   If there's a tut that teaches the model loader, I can't find it. I looked at Forge's docs, but the "Models & Rendering" section only mentions blocks, not items.

[diesieben07]

Yes, all those tutorials were made in the very early days of 1.8 or just copy from each other without actually doing some research.

I am not quite sure what exactly the reason was again (but it is valid, fry "the rendering guy" explained it to me once on IRC), I assume it has something to do with the fact that ItemModelMesher caches the baked models when you register, which might then cache the wrong thing if not registered at the exact correct time. If you use ModelLoader the registrations into the ItemModelMesher are batched and guaranteed to happen at the correct time.