okay, so i am trying to animate my entity here, make the bees fly sporadically.

i did a few short animations to get a small grasp on it.

i am using MCanimator to acheive this.

however, this program is for 1.7.10. and it's giving me errors that (apparently) aren't supposed to come up.

 

can anyone lend a knowledgable eye?

 

@Override

public ModelRenderer addBox(String par1Str, float par2, float par3, float par4, int par5, int par6, int par7)

{

par1Str = this.boxName + "." + par1Str;

this.cubeList.add((new MCAModelBox(this, this.DDStextureOffsetX, this.DDStextureOffsetY, par2, par3, par4, par5, par6, par7, 0.0F)).func_78244_a(par1Str));

return this;

 

 

 

and this is the other one

 

* Compiles a GL display list for this model.

* EDITED VERSION BECAUSE OF THE PRIVATE FIELDS

*/

public void DDScompileDisplayList(float par1)

{

this.DDSdisplayList = GLAllocation.generateDisplayLists(1);

GL11.glNewList(this.DDSdisplayList, GL11.GL_COMPILE);

Tessellator tessellator = Tessellator.getInstance();

 

for (int i = 0; i < this.cubeList.size(); ++i)

{

((ModelBox)this.cubeList.get(i)).render(tessellator, par1);

}

 

GL11.glEndList();

this.DDScompiled = true;

}

}

 

 

as always.

 

thanks in advance

 

MCAnimator has given me so many problems I do not recommend it.

Its animations are not threadsafe, so even if you do solve this one you'll find that randomly the game will crash with a Concurrent Modification Exception.

dammit.

 

are there any programs that you would recommend?

or should i find a tutorial?

okay, so i am trying to animate my entity here, make the bees fly sporadically.

Making the bees fly sporadically is NOT the same as animating. Take a look at EntityBat's navigation code - that will give you a good start at getting your bees to move in the way you want.

 

As far as actual animation is concerned, I would recommend starting out by looking at the various types of code vanilla Minecraft uses to animate entities. That will give you a good starting point for basic animations such as walking, flapping of wings, etc.

 

If your animation needs to be tied to a specific action, such as an attack, then take a look at the Iron Golem Entity and Model classes for one way to send information to the client.

its nothing special.

 

just 7 little blocks hovering around a hive

 

 

and thanks. ill check it out

just 7 little blocks hovering around a hive

Oh, so they aren't actual bees? As in they aren't Entities flying around in the world that can sting you and be killed?

 

If that's the case, then what you want is a custom particle that you can spawn around your block via #randomDisplayTick or something like that.

Ohhhhh. Duh. That's what learning is I guess.

I plan on adding an actual swarm but the hive just will have...particles I guess.

Thanks.