I have been having trouble with items getting their texture from its model file and setting a custom creative tab. Does anyone have an example for both of these?

I would say google tutorials however what I am finding is that most do it the bulkiest and least efficient way possible. My other thread which is called [1.9] Forge API of some sort? [uNSOLVED + A few questions]. I actually just posted how I fixed my issues with item rendering and there are a lot of useful things in the post. So I would read that on how to render properly but otherwise look up tutorials and look at github.

https://github.com/TheGreyGhost/MinecraftByExample

 

This repo is still partially (mostly) valid.