Forge can't display floating items

[Rakinare]

Hello,

 

I am currently playing on a Vanilla Server that uses plugins for most of the stuff. There are plugins that include floating items (above a chest for example) which work completely fine on Vanilla Minecraft.

The problem is that those floating items are not shown when using a Forge client (latest version on 1.9 but probably not working on any Forge versions as I could find help requests from over a year ago) which is needed for mods like a minimap, NEI or other client side only stuff.

Since this problem only persists which a Forge client, it must be some error on Forge's end.

 

I'd appreciate if someone would take a look into this.

 

Sincerely,

Rakinare

[LexManos]

Yup, not a bug, working as intended.

[Rakinare]

How is this not a bug and why would you disable floating items without giving the option to enable them?

 

 

Edit: Sorry, I have just seen there already is a thread from february, which I didn't find on my google research, that's why I didn't search for it again in here. The thread doesn't provide a real solution though. Is there any way to work it out?

 

Edit2: This is what I have found how the items seem to be created. Can you see why Forge prevents that?

 

if(IPSignShop.getInstance().getConfig().getBoolean("use item display")) {
		System.out.println("Initiating item spawn...");
		spawnItem();
		System.out.println("\t>> Item should be spawned now");
	}
	System.out.println("\t>> Updating shop: " + getOwner() + " " + getItemName() + " done");
}

private void spawnItem() {
	System.out.println("Spawning item");
	displayItem = chestLocation.getWorld().dropItem(chestLocation.clone().add(0.5, 1, 0.5), getItem());
	displayItem.setVelocity(new Vector());
	displayItem.setPickupDelay(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
	displayItem.setTicksLived(20 * 60 * 5 - 40);
	// prevent picking up if you somehow managed to do it
	displayItem.getItemStack().setAmount(-1);
	System.out.println("\t>> World is: " + displayItem.getWorld().getName());
	System.out.println("\t>> Item spawned: " + displayItem.isValid() + " " + displayItem.getLocation().toVector());
}

[LexManos]

How the hell is a amount of -1 valid?

Thats the point. Any INVALID STACKS ARE REMOVED by Forge to prevent crashes.

If you want them to show up, make them > 0

Simple as this.

Not a bug, actually a bug fix.