[1.7.10]Connecting Blocks

[NEG2013]

I have tried messing with the onNeighborBlockChange method and a few other but failed. So the question is how do you have a block "see" what is next to it so it can update its texture so they  "connect"?

[Draco18s]

This should be done in the rendering side of things.  You manually check what blocks are next to the one being drawn in order to decide how to draw it.

 

Look at how the fence rendering code works.

 

(Also: update to 1.9)

[jeffryfisher]

1) Your block's neighbor might not reciprocate.

 

2) Depending on what you're really trying to do, you might want to adjust your block's bounding box also. See how walls do that.

[larsgerrits]

As you are still on 1.7.10 (why???), and I think you mean "connected textures", you can override one of the

getIcon

methods to return a texture based on surrounding blocks. There are a few tutorials on the internet for connected textures.