I'm working on making some armor similar to leather in that it can be colored with dyes.
So far, I have the Item side of things working, and the sprite gets colored properly.
How would I go about getting the armor to be colored as well? I don't know where to start even after looking at the vanilla code.
Also, would this change if I'm using a custom model for the armor?
Item Class:
public class ItemMask extends ItemArmor {
public static final int DEFAULT_COLOR = 11324652;

public ItemMask(){
	super(ArmorMaterial.LEATHER, 0, 0);
	//this.hasSubtypes = true;
	this.setMaxDamage(0);
	this.setCreativeTab(Bionicle.bioMaskTab);
}

@Override
public String getArmorTexture(ItemStack stack, Entity entity, int slot, String layer){
	return Bionicle.MODID + ":textures/models/masks/" + this.getUnlocalizedName().substring(13) + "_5.png";
}

/*@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
@Override
public ModelBiped getArmorModel(EntityLivingBase entityLiving, ItemStack itemStack, int armorSlot, ModelBiped _default){
	ModelBiped armorModel = null;
	if(itemStack != null){
		if(itemStack.getItem() instanceof ItemMataMask){
			if(this == Bionicle.maskMataAkaku){
				armorModel = Bionicle.proxy.getArmorModel(0);//Akaku Model
			}else armorModel = Bionicle.proxy.getArmorModel(-1);//Generic Model
		}
	}
	if(armorModel != null){
		armorModel.bipedHead.showModel = false;
		armorModel.bipedHeadwear.showModel = armorSlot == 0;
		armorModel.bipedBody.showModel  = false;
		armorModel.bipedRightArm.showModel  = false;
		armorModel.bipedLeftArm.showModel  = false;
		armorModel.bipedRightLeg.showModel  = false;
		armorModel.bipedLeftLeg.showModel  = false;

		armorModel.isSneak = entityLiving.isSneaking();
		armorModel.isRiding = entityLiving.isRiding();
		armorModel.isChild = entityLiving.isChild();
		armorModel.heldItemRight = entityLiving.getEquipmentInSlot(0) != null ? 1 :0;
		if(entityLiving instanceof EntityPlayer){
			armorModel.aimedBow =((EntityPlayer)entityLiving).getItemInUseDuration() > 2;
		}
		return armorModel;
	}
	return null;
}*/

@Override
public boolean hasColor(ItemStack stack){
	return !stack.hasTagCompound() ? false : (!stack.getTagCompound().hasKey("display", 10) ? false : stack.getTagCompound().getCompoundTag("display").hasKey("color", 3));
}

@Override
public int getColor(ItemStack stack){
	NBTTagCompound nbttagcompound = stack.getTagCompound();
	if (nbttagcompound != null){
		NBTTagCompound nbttagcompound1 = nbttagcompound.getCompoundTag("display");
		if (nbttagcompound1 != null && nbttagcompound1.hasKey("color", 3)){
			return nbttagcompound1.getInteger("color");
		}
	}
	return DEFAULT_COLOR;
}

public void removeColor(ItemStack stack){
	NBTTagCompound nbttagcompound = stack.getTagCompound();
	if (nbttagcompound != null){
		NBTTagCompound nbttagcompound1 = nbttagcompound.getCompoundTag("display");
		if (nbttagcompound1.hasKey("color")){
			nbttagcompound1.removeTag("color");
		}
	}
}

public void setColor(ItemStack stack, int color){
	NBTTagCompound nbttagcompound = stack.getTagCompound();
	if (nbttagcompound == null){
		nbttagcompound = new NBTTagCompound();
		stack.setTagCompound(nbttagcompound);
	}
	NBTTagCompound nbttagcompound1 = nbttagcompound.getCompoundTag("display");
	if (!nbttagcompound.hasKey("display", 10)){
		nbttagcompound.setTag("display", nbttagcompound1);
	}
	nbttagcompound1.setInteger("color", color);
}
}

 

Any *useful* help would be appreciated!

 

 

EDIT: Finally Figured it out!

After finding some very useful information from Draco18s on other threads, I found my problem. (Thanks indirectly)

I initially tried creating a texture that was completely transparent with "_overlay" in the name like leather armor has, but that didn't work.

HERES THE KEY TO GET THIS TO WORK EVERYBODY:

In your getArmorTexture() function if you always return the texture you're wanting to have colored, then it will also use that for the overlay texture, which doesn't get colored.

The way to avoid that is to add a null check on the String argument for the function. When rendering normally it passes in null, but for overlay it passes the string "overlay".

So don't do this:

@Override
public String getArmorTexture(ItemStack stack, Entity entity, int slot, String layer){
	return "MODID:some/path/to/your/colorized/texture.png";
}

DO THIS:

@Override
public String getArmorTexture(ItemStack stack, Entity entity, int slot, String layer){
	if(layer == null){
		return "MODID:some/path/to/your/colorized/texture.png";
	}else return "MODID:some/path/to/a/blank/texture.png";
}

 

I hope people find this and use it!!

I think this is the method you are looking for.

https://github.com/Draco18s/Artifacts/blob/master/main/java/com/draco18s/artifacts/item/ItemArtifactArmor.java#L549-L553

It apparently wasn't deobfed in 1.7.10, but it might give you a lead.

Sadly, I'm very sure that's just the "setColor" function.

Hmm, darn.  I remember having to struggle with that back in 1.7 when I originally added the armors.  I've forgotten what made it finally work, though.

I ended up solving it, you can see my solution on my original post. I had to tell it to use my blank texture for the overlay in getArmorTexture()

Ah, yes.  That bit

Ayo, finally found this thread and I'm glad I did. Hopefully it works in 1.18.x. Thanks.

Yep it works but now I've got other problems. Life of a modder, I suppose.